Many of the people who play smaller roles in Atticus and Tom's life each do their part to help. ... White people in a black church are just as out of place as black people in a white church. By bring two white children with her, she is compromising her place in the black community, but does it anyway, out of respect and love for Atticus, Jem, and Scout. ... Even though many of the acts performed by supporting characters are small and seemingly irrelevant, they make a huge impact on Atticus, Jem, Scout, and Tom's life. The moral of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is that o...

• Word Count: 1682
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Emma Lou is carrying the prejudices instilled in her in the small town of Boise, Idaho where she was surrounded by fair skinned people and the faith of the blue veins in the idea of "Whiter and whiter with EVERY generation" (11). ... Harlem is represented as a place where black people of all color are supposed to be able to find freedom through segregation from the predominately white world, but even in these circumstances, Emma Lou cannot recognize the composite nationality of her people. ... Thurman is showing a common view of 1920's society in a small segregated town and giving the r...

• Word Count: 1573
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was a place where black actors, both men and women, could work, learn, and perfect their skills. ... New York was very excited to be the founding place of this big up and coming thing. ... No other place had a bigger spotlight on black entertainment. The Harlem Cotton Club is where most of the performances took place. ... Since then, Freedom has grown from a small community theatre to an award winning, nationally recognized regional theater. ...

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These workers that were living off of a very small income started to organize around these issues facing them. After violent responses from the low wage work force occurred, labor unions were put into place, which solved many issues causing the outbursts. ... Because many Americans blamed this on the economy being controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, the populist movement gained traction by promising to help mainstream Americans financially. ... We see changes first begin to occur in 1870 in the Wyoming Territory, the first place women are legally allowed to vote. ... There...

• Word Count: 2011
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All slaves were free and had to go find a new place to live and a new place to work. ... To blacks living within post- Reconstruction South, Washington offered industrial education as the means of escape from sharecropping and allowed blacks to become self-employed, while owning their own land, or small business. ... They settled in a very small house with many other black and very poor white neighbors. ...

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The farm land their grandparents owned in Pinelevel was very small, but it kept everyone fed. ... "It took place on December first when she got onto the bus, rather than walking home. ... When the bus filled up, the driver ordered her to move back so that a white man could take her place." ... This took place for 382 days. ... When the bus boycott took place this was quit! ...

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However, he had many smaller influences. ... Baldwin was involved in other small organizations, but he never participated in sit-ins or boycotts. ... It takes place on John's fourteenth birthday. ... The novel takes place in Paris; the main character, like Baldwin, goes to Paris to both escape and to find himself. ...

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"In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. ... We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one." ... Martin Luther Kings" speech was intended for a change to take place. ...

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It was compared to "waged slavery" because the women were working for a place to eat and sleep, both of which were supplied by the employer. This meant that women got up and worked everyday, and then at the week they gave their paycheck right back to their employer so they could live in a small apartment packed with six other people. ... He charged high prices and paid small wages. ...

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The book takes place in a large estate on a remote island. ... Willie enters the picture as a depersonalized, average-class black man who has just escaped work on a boat and needs a place to stay. ... They leave the island for Willie's home town in the southern United States, where he worked hard as a black man in a small black town with black history and heritage. ... In the small town, Jadine is faced with the reality that she had abandoned, and is plagued heavily by constant nightmares and visions of every true black woman she has ever encountered. ...

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Throughout the United States there was a reformation of class structure that was not just reserved for the newly freed black population: the aristocratic south was forced to redefine what their place was in society, the poor whites would be raised into a more equal position, and the black population would have to come to terms with their new freedoms. ... After the war Sutpen finds himself fallen from his thrown and reduced to owning a small shanty store and Wash elevated as his employee. ... The black people were now ousted in the community, thus nicely leaving a place for work for the po...

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In this essay I will discuss the long Civil Rights movement against discrimination that took place during WWII and continued into the 20th century. ... Philip Randolph pointed that the policies in place to supposedly protect blacks, allowed private employers, union and local officials to bar them (William). ...

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A triangle between work, the two small children and Anne going to school. ... Claiborne, "asked me to set up a place for myself", (Moody, page 39). ... She was intellectual and competitive in school work which allowed her to question morals and laws that was place in society. ...

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When Ren and his mother moved from Chicago to a small city in the west he was in culture shock. ... The parents had to approve the books the teenagers could read and the music they could listen to just as the whites had to chose what rules were going to be put in place as the Jim Crow laws. ...

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Langston Hughes" early life prepared him well to write about humanity, for as a child and young man he lived in different places and met many different kinds of people. ... The city opened a new world to the small town boy from Kansas. ...

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Nelson Mandela once said, "no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite" (Mandela). R...

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Even though the North during the Civil War helped them escape, they didn't want them in their neighborhoods, used rude language and slurs, and when they were offered jobs, the pay was horrible, not enough for a place to stay, food, or really any necessities. ... The second chapter gives us a look into the social life; how they communicate, educate each other, how stories are passed from one person to another, and just a small glimpse of rituals, gender roles, and how respect is given and received among the reservation. ...

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This conglomeration of ideals to form an authentic African-American spirituality with Christian and African overtones has been described as the "invisible institution"4, as even small, private gatherings for worship among slaves was forbidden. ... The children grinned, laughed, showed their white teeth, and evinced very plainly that none of them knew what that wonderful prayer meant, nor that they had a father in heavan.16 Though there were many prominent black Christians during this era such as Richard Allen, David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Daniel Payne, the notion that a mass conv...

• Word Count: 1954
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She speaks about, "Obama's failure of nerve on smaller but still significant issues-racial profiling, equal treatment of Muslims. " Finally, Kaplan voices her opinion on Obama's leadership and strength of conviction. ... He has earned a prominent place in the history of this country. ...

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Simba is told early on by his father, Mufasa, to never enter the "shadowy place" in which the hyenas live. ... I attended a small private school located in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood. ...

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The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was founded in 1997, but long before this era took place, black players had been charting their own course in basketball. ... Around this Era, blacks owned small businesses around the community; they were dependent on African Americans in the neighborhood for business success. ...

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Groups such as these ignored the many laws put into to place to prevent such violent discrimination and have an equal nation; Laws such as the Civil Rights Acts, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment. ... Great corporations continued to take over small ones. ...

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Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this ...

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Life And Times Of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920's that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in Harlem, New Y...

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Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this ...

• Word Count: 1930
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