His works inspired many new laws that fought against the ill treatment of natives and led the Europeans to see slavery in a new perspective. ... " He then describes the Spaniards as "beast, wolves, tigers or lions that have been starved for many days.... " De Las Casas states that not only did the Spaniards behave like "ravening beast" to conquer the land "for they have behaved in no other way in the past forty years" and they have continued "killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples" to the "present days....

• Word Count: 1046
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent poets of his era and his works are still read and studied today. ... Although the fight for belonging still goes on in America today, it was an almost insurmountable mountain in those days. ... They feel that the general consuming public will be indifferent to the love story of a Negro woman or Jewish woman and since they are in the publishing business to make money, they shy away from such works. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate