In the case of this memoir, Dalton Conley's skin color proves a difficult life he must face in the racially tense climate of New York City in the 1970's and 80's. ... Conley begins to live two identities: he spent his school days with children of wealthy white families and came home in the afternoon to violence and crime in a minority neighborhood. ... When he transfers to the mostly white school, he realizes that everyone around him is much more intelligent than the students in his previous school. ... During their trip Dalton is exposed to a third world culture of extreme pove...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Native Americans, immigrants from all over the world, women...they are all able to stand up and be counted, but one group especially has had a great impact on American music: African-Americans. ... (Cooper, 569-573) (Kingsman, 150) Americanism and the need to perpetuate a uniquely American artistic perspective had been around almost since the founding of the country. ... Dvooak visited the United States for two years (1893-95) and he was the first to advise the American composers to look seriously at the music and cultures around them, especially the music and culture of the Negro. ... This c...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And, the discovery of diamonds in these newly founded colonies, around 1900, resulted in an English raids throughout South Africa during the early eighteenth century. ... The emergency lasted for 156 days, due to a strong opposition by the black citizens of Sharpeville, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded. ... The emergence of these so-called "freedom songs- showed South Africa and the world the strength of this suppressed majority and displayed a collective resistance against the continuation of apartheid. ... Music had always been a primary component of black South Africa'...

• Word Count: 3760
• Approx Pages: 15

In an instance that also serves to establish Jake Brigance's view on the world, Grisham tells the reader through a heterodiegetic narration that is somewhere between zero focalization and slight internal focalization of the character that "Clanton had three Coffeeshops – two for the whites and one for the blacks" (32). ...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate