As more and more people migrated to America land for farming started to become scarce. ... The government started expanding the country by purchasing land from other countries. With all this new land, people started heading west to purchase their own. (Larkin 6) During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America, the New World collided and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ...

• Word Count: 3125
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Claude McKay illustrates the struggle of black people in a very racist environment in his poem "Enslaved," "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, for weary centuries despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West; and in the Black Land disinherited, robbed in the ancient country of its birth, my heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead, for this my race that has no home on earth. ... McKay shows that black people were forcefully taken from their home land of Africa and were turned into slaves for white people....

• Word Count: 2640
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26

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

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
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Out of these economic problems that play a big part in the novel, Carl Lee can only pay Jake $900 to take his case, and is unable to get a new mortgage on his land in order to pay for the remainder of the agreed fee. ...

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