This is a quote by Julius Lester, from his essay Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is reminded of this particular quote by his father in the year 1973, after having been denied several motel rooms, speculating that the judgment of the motel staff upon his race was the cause of such misfortune, which is likely, given the year (consider that civil rights leader Dr. ... The first real interaction between Huck and Jim in the story happens after Huck describes Jim's belief in superstitions, and he describes Jim's mystical "hairball ". ... In conclusion, my take on "The Adven...

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This particular phrase was placed at the front of his story, followed almost immediately by, "I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave-owners" (240). ... After he finished telling his story, he states his belief that it is his past that makes him a worthy candidate, and finishes with "out of many we are truly one" (240), which is an allusion to the motto carried by the American bald eagle: E Pluribus Unum. ... We can see in this quote the ease with which Obama is able to describe ideas and balance them out using antithesis, just...

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The effect of using "I" and "cool" so many times and right next to each other gives the reader a sense of the reader's tone, mainly an air of deserved superiority that may initially seem pompous of the author but provokes the reader into continuing the story in order to ascertain if these claims can be proven true. ... Other repetition in this essay includes the time and time again use of, "making a dollar out of fifteen cents." (368) The repetition of this quote is important because it gives the reader a physical image of the " inclination to make something out of nothing- (368) in orde...

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What one feels is that he is not the hero of his own story, that in fact the hero exists in the personified form of a principle - a principle called "Freedom", defined by Washington, temporarily exemplified by him throughout the course of the story. ... This is Washington's story; he is driven by the "responsibility of freedom" and thus takes a back seat in his own narrative. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, DuBois becomes more psychoanalytical and chooses to investigate at more length (and with more artistic and personal freedom in his wri...

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Either choice is acceptable; however, the stories covered in this article tend to lean on the side of double-consciousness. ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel such as "A Raisin in the Sun" or "The Souls of Black Folks", you cannot immediately assume that this story represents every single African American family across the United States. ...

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The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... 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 stori...

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