After reading the book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" I thought a lot about what the book was trying to explain. Throughout the awful events of the black girl, Maya's life, she stayed patient and strong. ... She became the first black woman to work on the Market Street Railway Company. ... She offered to have sex with a random boy and became pregnant. ... After everything she went through she was still thankful to have such a wonderful baby boy come into her life. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Battle for the Little Boy In November of 1997, my brother's wife, Angie, gave birth to a baby boy. ... She told my mom, "Tell Troy I will come by later and talk to him about this, I don't have time right now." ... She realized life was more fun when you didn't have to worry about anyone else. ... Once they turned about three, she wasn't interested in them anymore. ... We got to see a disturbing picture of him and saw he had a black eye and a patch of hair literally yanked out from his fragile head. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Just Another Girl On the IRT is a film about the strength and determination of one young girl and a black family. ... The strength of this black family, immediate and now extended, is the foundation for positive images within the black community and thus the culture. ... At first Shantell dates one of the boy in the project but later, she finds a boy who lives in a house and who owns a car. ... All things considered, Shantell and her baby's father is a model of a strong black family. ... In short, I would definitely recommend this movie to all black families. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She feels very misunderstood and she hates being black. ... Frightened telling her mother about it, she feels alone and suffocating in the pregnancy nightmare. ... She realize that she have to learn to think not just in terms of black and white. But she remains insecure, especially about her sexuality and her appearance. But in the end she learns to trust her own abilities, like in the end of the book when she realizes that she will be able to care for her newborn baby boy. ...

• Word Count: 518
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• Grade Level: High School

Although Joy Moore inflicts pain on her boy to instill her beliefs into him, it stuck with Wes Moore through life and he learned his lesson to never abuse a girl. ... It is not unusual to witness a black family living in a bad area lacking of a fatherly figure in a household. Studies state that 64% of black children are raised in a home with the birth father being absent2. ... The men are also believed to mistreat and leave women they impregnate as roughly 7 in 10 black babies are born fatherless4. ... Now the other Wes Moore didn't meet his father until he was a teenager, due to that a...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There are many themes in the novel "Secret Life of Bees" like Female Power/Black Mary, Mothers and many others. ... In chapter five when Lily overhears August and June talk about her, she is offended when June says "But she's white.... In chapter seven, Lily meets Zach, a negro teenage boy who works for August. He wants to become a Lawyer and changes how Lily sees the world when she tells him she never heard a black lawyer before. ... Lily always watching news about their color getting beaten by her color makes her sad for them. ...

• Word Count: 768
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• Grade Level: High School

He would cheat on the blacks to the limit. ... She talks about her life with Dennis. ... Dennis is black who loves Ruth but they both are in a situation where its wrong for them to be together because of there race. Ruth was even punch in the face by a white lady for being white and being married to a black man. ... He was a young boy when his father died. ...

• Word Count: 959
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• Grade Level: High School

Sejour's parents were financially stable enough to send him to private school, where he became under the influence of a black journalist who wrote for the French newspaper in New Orleans. ... The Mulatto begins with a man telling a story about his friend Georges. ... A few years later the lady had passed away and left him a small leather pouch which contained a portrait of the boy's father. ... The escaped welcomed Georges and told him about a mulatto women being hung and body being put in a pine coffin. Three years passed when Georges learned that Alfred had became a father...

• Word Count: 909
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They say that a boy's best friend is his mother. ... There is a certain charm to the room that bars my inner curiosity about the jungle outside and bars me from disobeying Mother. ... I don't want my boy to be hounded by those women; I safely keep him in the house, away from any possible danger with hefty draperies drawn across the glass windows to forbid any possible view of one and any possible attraction to one. ... Black and brown mould, dots the ceiling in clusters, evident of rain seeping through the roof. ...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Ha"penny" "Ha"penny, a short story written by Alan Paton, is about a young orphan who wants to be taken in by a family. ... Ha"penny is a mosuto, which is a member of the Black South African people. ... All in all, the author uses his background, actions, and motivations to reveal to the reader just how life is like for a young twelve-year old orphan boy. ...

• Word Count: 645
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I lived in Juarez until I was ten years old and kids on my block didn't have a TV or a phone, game boy, etc.., but what they did have where bicycles and bikes where how kids have fun until the moment they wake up until they have to go back home, so having a bike was mandatory. I was a quick learner and my dad decided to buy me a bike when I was four years old, the bike my dad got me was a mean glossy black bike with a horn that could be heard miles away. ... After about fifty bruises on my body , lots of blood loss and tears I finally was able to balance and ride all by myself! ...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School