"Black Like Me"- the story of a white that chooses to alter his skin color in order to find out what it is like to be a black person. ... "Once again a "hate stare" drew my attention like a magnet. ... You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. ... I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?"" ... From the moment you read the first page you know basically what the story is going to be about. ...

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Because of this he felt that they had encouraged him to cross the color line and write Black Like Me. Plot: Black Like Me is the story of a man named John Howard Griffin, who underwent a series of medical treatments to change his skin color temporarily to black; a transformation that was complete when John Howard Griffin shaved off his hair, and looking in the mirror, saw a bald, middle-aged black man. ... A white person could be the nicest person to you at first if you are white, but the next they could hate you for being black if you are a black person. But not every white person is like t...

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Gaines' Short Story, "Just Like A Tree" "Ernest J. ... The narration of "Just like a Tree," shifts from one character to another. ... Bascom, you going. Ever"body getting tractors and horses and I"m still stuck with You. You going, brother...

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He has to find out what it is like to be a Negro; Griffin changes his skin color to that of a black. ... Black Like Me is a journal of Griffin's feelings, experiences, pains, and friends. ... He keeps pushing himself to finish the assignment because he wants the world to really know what it is like to be a black person and how they are treated. ... I think it describes it perfectly if you read the book. If you don't, the title may not be suitable because it is not interesting enough. (2) The style is colloquial because they use diction that is used in the setting and the slang the...

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In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... Donnell starts the essay with an immediate fishhook, "I"m cool like this:" (367) in order to firstly grab the reader's attention and secondly to make the initial point about just how cool he is. ... "I maintain like an ice cube in the remote part of the freezer," is another powerful image, expressing to the reader not just that he is cool, but also that in some way being cool is being separate from others, "remo...

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Two Approaches to Revolution: "Like Oil and Water" What would it be like to have separate drinking fountains and bathrooms depending on the color of your skin? ... His vivid speeches included words like: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ... His speeches were much more aggressive, including phrases like: "We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be th...

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Imagine how you would feel if someone disliked you because of the color of your skin. They"d judge you before they even got to know you. ... They weren't treated like her own children, but like slaves. Always doing what they were told, whether they liked it or not. Then when they were not needed, they were just thrown out like the garbage. ...

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There are many stereotypical people that think because you are of a certain descend, you are just like the rest. ... Racism can happen with anyone around you and you may never know who is and who isn't.      ... I have a part time job at Burger King just like many others my age. ... Just like in the movie, everyone was wrong about who they thought they were. ... Nowadays you might not think racism still goes on, but you don't know what happens behind closed doors. ...

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After reading the work of John Howard Griffin "Black like Me", I decided to write about how discrimination effects the people who's receiving it. Most of the people, who have never experienced discrimination, don't know how it feels like to be the victim of discrimination. ... We understand that in some areas like Mississippi white people are just trying to cause troubles with the Negroes. ... That shows how Negroes always are forced to look like they are poor, even if they are not. ... I"m after you there ain't no place you go I won't get you. ...

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Or like Michael Mooore states in the the book media to frighten the general public, not on purpose but violence, horror and bloodshed gets ratings and entertains the general american public, examples of this are shows like wildest police chases II, whree the whole point of the show is to show some black guy driving really fast and then crash into something. ... You don't have to run for president, that's somebody's graduation gift anyway, do something like whe Moore ran for the schoolboard. ... On a personal note I particularly liked that chapter, I've been desperatly seeki...

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Most people don't like to talk about social issues such as racism, and sexism because they are admitting that these issues still exist. ... She promised to stay true to her culture and beliefs so she taught courses like women studies and black women writing. ... My sociology teacher taught us that you don't have to follow authority; you can let your one voice be heard and make a difference, like the many people before you. ... I wish more teachers were more like my sociology professor. ... When you go against the normal way of doing things there are always people that reject you...

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In the south, where Altamaha was, the whites liked things the way they were. ... The Judge told John, "Now I like the colored people, and sympathize with all their reasonable aspirations; but you and I both know, John, that in this country the Negro must remain subordinate, and can never expect to be the equal of white men. ... Now, John, the question is, are you, with your education and Northern notions, going to accept the situation and teach the darkies to be faithful servants and laborers as your fathers were, - I knew your father, John, he belonged to my brother, and he was a good Nigge...

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They are treated like a lower race. They are treated like this just because of their colour. ... He liked it this way. ... This gives us a false sense of what these people are really like. ... There are many types of Prejudice that you effect you personally. ...

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What girl or women would not want to look like them? ... Beauty is now related to being skinny and being skinny is related to being healthy and if you are fat or lets say an average weight, you are considered as ugly and unhealthy. ... Today sexy is only considered when you ar showing a lot of skin. If you are covered you are assumed to be out of style and out of fashion. ... Even though when you go to most parts of Toronto you will see mostly colored people around more tan white people. ...

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As a firm-non racist I agree with this but if you think about it , the story could have been told a completely different way. ... You cant tell yourself what your response is going to be. It is provoked by techniques like these which the authors of novels like "To Kill a Mockingbird" carefully employ. ... The key term that strikes you when reading this novel is the free range use of the term "nigger". ... Techniques like these either make or break the meaning of a book. ...

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As you all know the key theme is about the true nature of man and how dark our hearts really are. ... You remember the part where the blacks were being forced to blast away at this big rock. It was pointless, like firing into a continent. So at this point you could tell that my views on imperialism were starting to change. ... In many ways he was just like me entering the Congo. ...

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Nana had an idea that there always had to be competition with whites, "All those white folks down on that job and you get the promotion, and you tellin" me not to brag?" ... You are what you are, and being educated should not be labeled as being white. ... Clark was making it seem like everything African Americans did in life had to be a competition against whites, "We have to be twice as good as white children at everything they attempted in life, that way you got half a chance of making it."... I don't think that Bebe's grandmother ever saw through the hurt that she caused Bebe th...

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Have you ever wondered how certain companies get you to buy their products just through an advertisement? ... This meaning what the ad looks like as a visual component. ... They aim for this group because they are the athletes and they would like to be a great athlete like Cam Newton. This ad is saying to them if you use this product you will eventually be just like him and be a grade A athlete. On the total opposite side of this you have the second ad advertising Clavin Klein. ...

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Black on black crime is all you see on the news and the newspaper. ... Ron Wilkins explains "the gangs made me feel like I had an identity, sense of family and a sense of acceptance". ... Todd Boyd, "The LAPD was run like a military at war and their enemies was blacks" (Crips and Bloods, 2008). ... You take away the leaders and the movement and destroy any hope of gaining equality, and then you have hopelessness and rebellion. ... You need to look at their history and the violence that was brought upon their people. ...

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Many public places like schools and restaurants were segregated. ... As you could imagine the boy's feelings were hurt. ... The rhythm of the poem is almost like a nursery rhyme. ... Instead its almost like he wants you to imagine yourself in the boy's shoes and see how you would feel. ... I really liked this poem for many reasons. ...

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He believed and taught that merit is what counted, and as long as you could do something, and be a valuable asset to your community, then you"d be accepted as an integral part of your community by all people, black and white. ... Washington teaches that if you work hard and can learn the basic skills, and a useful task, then you will be set in your life. Washinton states that if you have the right education, you work hard and you help your race and community, then you would be on your way towards equality, because merit is the great equalizer. ... Courtney and his friends " people of mixed Eu...

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They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity "like yours " the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. ... Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you "you so remote from the night of first ages "could comprehend- (2030). ... A taint of imbecile rapacity blew...

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It was like one gigantic machine where you"d enter at birth and come out as a grown up almost completely like everyone else. ... You"d have more respect; you"d be accepted by society as a person. A white person would be treated as a human, not as a slave or "garbage" as black people were treated like at the time. ... If you were white and rich you"d be mostly accepted as compared to a poor black man who would be looked upon as "waste." ... One may have had and may have been treated with no respect, treated like an animal to the point where one might commit suicide. ...

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I know quite a few people who live there and they know their town is like this and they accept it because it is normal to them. ... He said that they had a girl that was his age and him and his friends were friends with her, but like after a week the family just moved. I don't understand how things like this can take place and not hear about it in the papers and everyone just seems to accept it. ... It just seems like it's understood that this town is like that and it is okay. ... If you ever see this you"ll know what I mean. ...

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The interesting aspect of this poem is how Hughes perceives and feels about this color difference and reflects on the difficulties in analyzing those differences, "It is not easy to know what is true for you or me- (16). ... I like to work, read, learn and understand life- (21-22). ... This is a simple and eloquent expression on his opinion of the commonalities of all peoples: "I guess being colored doesn't make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races- (25-26). ... "Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be part of me. Nor do I often want to be part...

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