Additionally, a stereotype, in one of the major themes of Crash, dominates all the sub-stories that are somehow connected to each other. Moreover, as the stories go on and events develop, it becomes possible to see how characters start to have changes in their perspective and attitude towards each other; either in a positive or negative manner. ... Until the scene with the hitchhiker, he portrayed of a wise, young man who defended justice and wanted to treat people as equals, regardless of their sex or race. ... He demonstrates in all of the sub-stories how the world can be judgmental by the e...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. ... One of the most critical aspects of these stories and poetic words is in fact the indication of struggle. ... Subject matter can include but is not limited to racism, sex, drugs, murder, history, politics, and countless other subjects that tend to make audiences a little uncomfortable if not delivered strategically or in this case rhythmically. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There's always the story of the landing on Plymouth rock, and thus begins the spread of what sparks the debate of the idealism of what it means to be an American. ... He's the one thrashing against the cage, but the bars are perhaps people who are unwilling to listen to his story, his colleagues, to the story of his parents, his ancestors. ... We are given a peak into what they have gone through, and how white people have destroyed their lives and has made the mother into such a distraught and depressed woman, yet she still pushes and carries on for her daughter, just like any family...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. ... The two occasions resemble each other in that both the gay man and the bisexual woman arbitrarily label other people as insiders or outsiders according to their sex and sexual orientations. ... Additionally, both Du Bois and Delany make use of apocalyptic language and set stories in post-apocalyptic situations; however, their apocalyptic language is presented differently and used for different purposes. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mandela's story proves to people that even barriers from society can prevent individuals from belonging, they still have the choice to overwhelm these obstacles in order to live a better life. ... Last month, the government of United States of America has just legalised same-sex marriage throughout the country. ...

• Word Count: 903
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of language and power of thought- they were utterly at loss to devise"2. ... A header in Douglass" newspaper once read, "Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color."7 Frederick Douglass broke free from the shackles of slavery, and with his relatively small amount of Freedom ac...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black women were viewed as sex symbols; they were believed to promote promiscuity and were forced to sexually please their owners. ... If I got mad over a story and was disgusted by our government's fictional actions I can definitely understand how racism is still evident in today's society and why African Americans feel the need to fight the "white power". ...

• Word Count: 2862
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hip-hop's multi-dimensional range of subjects, including politics, religion, comedy, social commentary, urban story telling, and social critique became underrepresented in mass media. ... The record label executives also felt that this white audience was mostly attracted to hip-hop music that is produced in its one-dimensional form of gangster rap that promotes patriarchy, violence, and unemotional sex acts. ... (Rose 2008) Although stories of street life were familiar, the tales of drug dealing, gang activity, violence, and misogyny in this new form of hip hop music became the definition...

• Word Count: 2443
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If the original Kung Fu rode to prominence on the coattails of Bruce Lee and the "kung fu craze- of the early 1970s, then, the revamped series also reflected a new commercial interest in martial arts film represented by the Brandon Lee vehicle Rapid Fire (1992) and a biography of his father, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993). ...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate