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

Du Bois "The Souls of Black Folk", and Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" are works noted during Komunyakaa's period. ... In these lines the speaker repeats the word "black" twice, "My black face fades,hiding inside the black granite" (1-2), in connection both to his own skin tone and the memorial's color. ... He shares the blackness with memorial's granite, yet he can feel the effect of the connection whereas the granite cannot feel the agony it directly depicts. ... The author has lost his tranquility in a way that can never be undon...

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"How about rounding us up some firewood, Mac?" ... "Andy saw that her mothers swimsuit top had come off, so that her breasts swayed free, her nipples looked like two black eyes. ... Andy reacts more like a little boy, because she didn't want to see that part of a woman's physique. ... Before the doe was spotted by Andy, Charlie heckled her, whether she was a boy or girl. ... A boy or girl?" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

- have two children, a boy and a girl, who definitely come after their mother, but this doesn't seem to bother anyone. ... In the meantime the life of the successful novelist fades to black. ... These depressions make Mary worry about her future and she is not longer that nave woman who is able to write slushy love stories and so her career takes an end. ... Generally speaking some parts are really unbelievable and the plot is far-fetched but this is it what makes the black comedy of this novel. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When someone finally stopped to help, the grandmother went on and on about how familiar he looked. ... For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ... When the mother offered a little black boy a penny the mother of the boy took offence and shoved Julian's mother to the ground. ... I can see how the southern influences are brought about in the story. ... She had strong religious beliefs and was passionate about the stories she wrote. ...

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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
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Technically Barbie is all about body image, make up sets "the real you!"... The most astonishing part about this toy is that its age limit starts from 3 years old which I think is incredibly young. ... The Colors changed from pink and purple to orange, red, black and dark blue. ... I noticed that all of the boys toys had dominant poses, angry faces and on the boxes of the toys I always found a picture of a young boy smiling and having fun playing with the toy so that the child can relate to the boy in the picture immediately. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"And it was a matter for joy to Wang Lung that this slave gave birth to a girl, for if it had been a boy she would have been proud and have claimed a place in the family." ... "It seemed now that none knew how to light the grass and keep it burning in the oven, and none knew how to turn fish in the cauldron without breaking it or burning one side black before the other side was cooked." ... Society had fixed thoughts about women. ... The process of foot binding started at about the age of 5-6 and attempted to shorten the length of their feet. ... The feet were called lotus of gold if they ...

• Word Count: 1155
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School