But they never got a chance to get into the promise land. ... In one of his speeches he told the world that subordinate groups would one day reach the promise land, just like Moses told the Israelites that one day they would make it to the promise land. The promise land was like equal rights for all mankind in the United States. ... Segregation in the United States changed history in both good and bad ways. The bad part about segregation was the powers that developed .The superiority over the ordinates and the Ku Klux Klan that was organized. ...

• Word Count: 1633
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• Grade Level: High School

King best described the Negroes place in society by saying, "America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked as "insufficient funds""(King 1). ... The former slaves and physical bearers of the nation have been isolated and left out to dry in the land that they can claim as their own (King 1). ... While wondering the day that America can possibly be a great nation, King mentions that, "This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, "tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers d...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She begs with him that a person from a good family wouldn't do anything bad to others. ... The Greenleaf boys had joined the military and made something of themselves: "The two of them were living now about two miles down the highway on a piece of land that the government had helped them to buy and in a brick duplex bungalow that the government had helped to build and pay for" (O"Connor 1445). ... Turpin and her husband Claud own land and are, therefore, above others. ... Turpin names the classes of people: On the bottom of the heap were most colored people, not the kind she would...

• Word Count: 1220
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Segregation was especially bad in the South, one incident included a young black boy who allegedly whistled at a white women, only 14 years old got lynched. ... It shows that America is not perfect and the land of the free all of the time, it shows our country has also had it's downfalls....

• Word Count: 516
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• Grade Level: High School

America was not always a land of opportunity, but a land where thousands were forever entrapped by their race, gender and education level. ... To add injury to insult, if theses conditions were not bad enough, instead of raises, wages were often slashed. ... America was not always a land of "opportunity," but more a land of "ignorance" we were forcing our own people into slavery and poverty. ...

• Word Count: 1689
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Radicals later realized that Johnson was just as bad as the Confederates. ... Blacks right to own land was restricted, they could not bear arms and they might be bound out in servitude for vagrancy and other offenses. ... Without food, land or money, most freedmen had to continue working for their white masters doing sharecropping work. ...

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While he could never change the fact that he was indeed African American, what he wanted basically was what all the other African Americans who trudged the land like him desired and that was a sense of belonging and respect in their person. ... It usually has to take something really great for the Anglo-Saxons to show any form of interest in the lives of these people who share the same land. ... As Jacobs said, "slavery is bad for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 1861). ...

• Word Count: 1560
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They believe that what is good for the White Race is of the highest value to the world and what is bad for the White Race is the ultimate sin. ... Practices The church hopes to expand the white race, to gain control of all the land, and crowd out the "mud races."" ... White race is the highest of all values and anything that is bad for the white race is considered the ultimate sin. 5. ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

No matter how bad he wants to escape the old life, it is always just around the corner. ... In "Negro Hero" we enter the story of Dorie Miller a black soldier who is struggling within himself to deal with the war that is going on in his home land against the black man that he is, a soldier fighting to save the people that more than likely want him dead. ...

• Word Count: 952
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• Grade Level: High School

However Janie living with her master's was a fixable thing, so Janie's grandmother was able to get her a house on their own, Another sacrifice made by Nanny for Janie, but her sacrifices would be washed away with one bad decision. ... Nanny sees Killicks as a prominent; land-owning man who can save Janie from becoming another heartbreak to her, as was her mother. ...

• Word Count: 1356
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• Grade Level: High School

Witchcraft is usually associated with evil and used to harm others, by causing accidents, illnesses, bad luck, and even death. ... In the town where Sawyer lived, any funny activity that happened to people, animals or even their land was looked at as an act of witch. ...

• Word Count: 1149
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the song The Roots repeat the lyrics, "Ain't gonna let nobody, turn me around, I just keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', Marching on to freedom land" and this relates to Moody because we see her fighting for what she believes in no matter how bad the circumstances get. ...

• Word Count: 1133
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the song The Roots repeat the lyrics, "Ain't gonna let nobody, turn me around, I just keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', Marching on to freedom land" and this relates to Moody because we see her fighting for what she believes in no matter how bad the circumstances get. ...

• Word Count: 1133
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• Grade Level: High School

What sharecropping did was essentially force families to work for a piece of land in which they were promised usually half of the revenue of all the crops they collected. ... Families like the Burroughs always worked hard and there are accounts of them even eliminating the debt after a successful year of farming, but with the good years also came the bad and often these families would often fall back into debt. ...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One hundred years later the negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land." ... Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given negro people bad check." ...

• Word Count: 1371
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• Grade Level: High School

They use guns to steal land in North America (during 1660 to 1880s) and force blacks to work on it as slaves. ... So they come up with a big lie: racism, that blacks are not as good as whites, that blacks are screwed up, that blacks are born bad. ...

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Religion is difficult to define. People have their own ways of definition religion. According to Karl Marx, religion is a drug or a force that pacifies the poor and the oppressed, enabling them to accept their lower status in this life and to hope for a better future in an afterlife, in heaven. Reli...

• Word Count: 2128
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And frankly, to even suggest that the working women had it bad after the war because they didn't have to weld anymore compared to the after affects of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans is a joke. ... European Women Native American Women were living on the land that is called North America today for thousands of years. ...

• Word Count: 1504
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• Grade Level: High School

The prejudices towards blacks throughout the north and south, forced them into a period of suffering and misery just as bad as slavery. ... There were restrictions in ownership of land, freedom of speech, and in employment. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It seems as though America has always been "The Land of Opportunity.... Think about it like this, people who have had bad experiences with African-Americans will automatically just associate that bad behavior with the entire group. ... Now a days, young kids will do anything for attention, whether it's good or bad. ...

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Even today, when this beautiful land was maliciously attacked by a religious extremist group, Americans followed the motto that "these colors don't run" and invaded Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of freedom. ... When someone describes America the first thing most would say is that it is the land of opportunity where all men are created equal and are endowed with unalienable rights. ... When the demand for more land for the settlers increased, the urgency to get rid of the Native Americans increased as well. ...

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African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality education, to escape from oppression, the right to self pride and an end to stereotyping. ... The decision from the Brown case placed the federal government on the side of those people who saw segregation as something bad and evil. ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. The people of society were classified in different ways and the differences between the classes defined the way that each saw ...

• Word Count: 2825
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This promised land" promised them a life in slavery and fear of torture and whippings. ... They lived in a world where, even their religion told them that everything white was good whereas everything black was bad or evil. ...

• Word Count: 3965
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• Grade Level: High School

Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate