The impact of the figures (the mother, grandmother and small boy) is amplified by the absense of detail in the background figures. ... He uses gestural black lines on the figures to give them definition without using great detail. ... It is not a portrait of particular people, but they are symbols of mankind. ... The figures are mostly painted in black (a symbol of mourning) and seem to merge together as one. ... Courbet has intentionally painted his black-clad figures in a manner that does not idealize their suffering. ...

• Word Count: 1655
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Oates uses symbols such as color imagery and music, and Connie's familiar world to illustrate how Connie is caught between two worlds: adolescence, understood to be innocence and adulthood, understood to be the consumption of her innocence. ... For example, when Arnold first appears at Connie's home, he talks about his car and how it has new paint, but just to illustrate how evil he his, Arnold's name appears on his car in "tar-like black letters"(11). This example is specific in its nature because evil is implied as being something physical, in this case it is Arnold Friend...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scout and Jem meet and befriend seven-year-old Dill Harris, a boy who has arrived in Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. ... Despite this, Atticus's defense of Tom is unpopular in the white community, and Scout and Jem find themselves taunted at school due to their father's defense of a black man. ... When the trial begins, Atticus tries to protect his children from the anger and prejudice they would hear; however, Scout, Jem, and Dill sneak into the courtroom and sit in the balcony with the black community. ... The central symbol of the novel, the mockingbird, further deve...

• Word Count: 2287
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the three sets of poems, "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "Nurse's Song", Blake explores the two disparate but connected perspectives of our human lives through vivid concrete imagery, powerful abstract symbols, and ingenious juxtaposition. ... In "The Chimney Sweeper" from Songs of Innocence, the narrator, a little boy who is in his innocence and youth, is unaware of how difficult his life is. ... In the first three lines, the narrator calls what he sees as a "little black thing among the snow" (...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gemmy is considered by the Europeans to be a black-white hybrid, and he, along with several other prominent characters, struggle with the symbolic fence that rests between the settlers and the Aborigines. ... Early in Gemmy's life, when he is still "willet's boy", Gemmy had no real understanding of destruction or even regret. ... This idea is established when Janet describes herself as "a charred stump, all crusted and black and bubbling; and she saw it through Gemmy's eyes." ... The motif of fire as symbol of renewal is perhaps most prominent at the scene of Gemmy's final ...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He's 37 now, but his music first hit at a time when the music industry was dominated by the first wave of millennial glitz and glamour: boy bands, meaningless rap lyrics, and bling. ... His music has done what no others have; he built an unbreakable bond between whites and blacks. ... This was never the case with any black rapper representing the art form and culture to white crowds, certainly not one like Tupac, who was at one point the black hip-hop artist of the counter-culture. ... He knows that as a white kid growing up with black heroes, black friends, and in a predominantly black...

• Word Count: 1858
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The swastika symbol has been around for thousands of years. It is an ancient symbol meaning many different things in many different cultures. ... The black, white and red colours were what Hitler called the revered colours of the old German Imperial flag and therefore for untold amounts of Germans and Austrian it would be spiritually striking, reminding them of Anschluss. ... Aryans were said to have superiority over everyone especially: Jews, Gypsies and black people. ... By just looking at these figures you can see that within 5 years over 5 million boys joined Hitler youth showing that Ar...

• Word Count: 2000
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"You're a traitor yelled the boy. ... "Newspeak- was the language of Oceania that suppressed words related to liberty and individualism, substituting them by words-symbols that injected negatively charged images whenever someone mentioned the enemies of the Party. ... Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. ...

• Word Count: 1697
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Nike swoosh is a commercial symbol that has come to stand for athletic excellence, hip authenticity, and playful self- awareness. ... "Life Magazine" published a photo of a 12 year old Pakistan boy, stitching a Nike football, highlight the fact the underage workers were employed by Nike contractors, and an editorial "Businessweek'' argued only few executives at Nike understood the value of sourcing of work from outside, the right way, and lampooned Nike's attitude of lacking in frankness, by claiming they are not responsible for the work done by contractors, ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate