If the same scenario occurred involving a white individual in place of a Middle Eastern man, it would be virtually impossible to say racial/ethnic profiling played any role in the event. ... Since history shows that young adult Middle Eastern all played major roles in the 9/11 tragedy, than it makes sense for airline officials, and those in charge of searching people, to keep a slightly closer eye on those that fit that description. ... While almost everyone is capable of committing virtually any crime, certain ethnicities have tendencies to be responsible for certain crimes and offences tha...

• Word Count: 577
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan returning to the area. As the situation escalates, the national guard is called into town, while everybody is awaiting the trial jury's decision. ... Similar criticism came forward in 2013, when the novel was adapted again, this time to become a Broadway theater play. ... One example are the different coffee shops in town. ... Out of these economic problems that play a big part in the novel, Carl Lee can only pay Jake $900 to take his case, and is unable to g...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pieter's father is chairman of the local National Party and reportedly wields considerable influence in the Parliament at Cape Town. An outspoken enemy of Smuts and all things English, he stands "like a chained lion" when God Save the King is played in the cinema (101). ... She speaks casually of the reserve "which our forefathers gave to Maduna when he yielded to them, a hundred years ago" (56), without questioning the precise nature of the giving and taking involved in the Afrikaner seizure of land. ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ... Previously most of the characters of the Coon and Jim Crow were played by white men in black face in addition the up and coming black entertainers found that as the characters had been exaggerated in the past they too had to exaggerate the...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate