To this day, racism does not just affect blacks, but also to many other races. ... The novel takes place in pre-Civil War America where slavery still exists, and it tells a story of a boy who goes on a quest to free Jim, a slave. During his quest, Huck, the boy, faces a series of events that force him into a position between two very different cultures. In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by reversing the black-white paradigm, Huck ultimately learns of the invalidity of the ideology behind slavery and racism that has governed his beliefs about whites and blacks his entire life. ... The s...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Apparently shorter than Ralph, Simon is described by Golding: --He was a small, skinny boy, his chin pointed, and his eyes so bright they had deceived Ralph into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked. The coarse mop of black hair was long and swung down, almost concealing a low, broad forehead... -- Simon is an introverted boy who cannot find it bearable to speak in front of the assembly. ...

• Word Count: 382
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

When I see a black person the first thing I think is "they're black". ... When I saw my new teacher, the first thought that entered my mind was that she is black. ... All I did was play with stuffed animals and my game boy. ...

• Word Count: 770
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• Grade Level: High School

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, a young troubled boy goes on an adventure with a runaway slave. The name of this boy is Huckleberry, who is usually just referred to as Huck, and the runaway slave whose name is Jim. ... Huck decides to go into town disguised as a girl to get supplies, but the house he goes to has a woman in it who after a while of talking realizes that Huck is a boy. ... Back in Huck's time most religious people would have thought that black people were made as a lesser race. ... They went along with slavery so easily because they would have thought t...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This is the same system that puts a white man's rights to his "property- "his slaves "over the welfare and freedom of a black man. ... Huck and Jim are both outsiders, Huck because he is a boy with a shiftless father and deceased mother, Jim because he is a black slave. ... While society differentiates between an abused runaway slave and an abused runaway boy, Huck does not. ...

• Word Count: 1201
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• Grade Level: High School

Yet he defies them all when he helps a black man escape from slavery and become his friend and confidante. ... Huck is his ticket to freedom, and although he sees him as more than that, it is Huck's main appeal to Jim because with out him, he is just a black man on a raft floating North to freedom. ... Yet in the way Twain portrays Huck as "humbling [himself] to a nigger*" (94), there is a sense that he understands that hurt he caused Jim, and that it is not right to make a fool of any person whether they are black or white. ... Huck would in no way have been encouraged or even though...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The story revolves around the deaths of three people, a small time drug dealer named Tino Zapatti, a hero cop who tries to bust Zapatti named Eddie Santos, and an innocent six year old boy accidentally hit by a stray bullet from the crossfire between the two. ... Also, he has worked as deputy mayor for only three years, therefore, he has not yet really experienced the gray areas so to speak, of the world of politics because for him, a decision is either black or white, that is, right or wrong. ... Upon discovering the mayor's involvement, he realizes that the world of politics is not ab...

• Word Count: 2445
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the Tom Robinson rape trial, Jem learns not to trust everyone after finding out that the jury only voted Tom guilty because he is black, which is morally wrong and unfair. ... After hearing the verdict of Tom and realizing that the jury voted him guilty only because he was black, Jem angrily reacts and wants the jury to be removed from the court. ... This life lesson learned not only affects Jem with realizing that the jury voted Tom guilty only because he was black, but also the reader, as it teaches them that not everyone can be trusted to do what they see as correct. ... In another quot...

• Word Count: 1044
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• Grade Level: High School

As the two struggle to maintain their freedom, Huck constantly challenges his morals with the way he was brought up, as a racist southern boy, and his own personal beliefs. ... This was the general accepted view of black people in this society. ... He is shown ranting and raving because they allowed a black man to vote. ... He is also forced to accept that being a black man makes him inferior to all white men, even to Huck who is many years younger. ... Because of his upbringing, Huck begins the story believing the slavery is a normal course of life for blacks. ...

• Word Count: 2378
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• Grade Level: High School

A good example of this is Eminem; a white boy from the slums of Detroit who has used his experiences and made it into the mainstream stream by using controversial lyrics. ... This is where Eminem is cashing in on the current moral panic with being a white man who is now representing black issues and black problems in the white mainstream. In Helmore's article he compares Eminem to Elvis for role that he has played by bring predominately black music into the white eye and like Elvis the white mainstream are buying it happily. ... However the media is still representing the artists as blac...

• Word Count: 1948
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But, as time progressed the boy's desire to return to civilization was replaced by the primal desire to seek, kill, and destroy, as seen when the boys chant, "Kill the beast! ... After a while, Ralph could no longer see the humanity within the boys.He gazed at the green and black mask before him, trying to remember what Jack looked like,?...

• Word Count: 920
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The officer tells the boy that his ship has come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle. ... They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. ...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School

This parallel is how each boy grows to understand either himself and/ or the society that he is living in and learns how to make decisions on his own. ... They see grown-ups in black and white; if they liked someone, that person was a hero, if they did not; he or she was a villain. ...

• Word Count: 1268
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• Grade Level: High School

Without say from the children's parents, the grandmother takes it upon herself to keep the peace between them, by telling them a story of a black child mistakenly eating her watermelon with initials from a suitor carved in it reading E.A.T. ... "If I were a little boy," said the grandmother, "I wouldn't talk about my native state that way. ...

• Word Count: 1416
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• Grade Level: High School

Without say from the children's parents, the grandmother takes it upon herself to keep the peace between them, by telling them a story of a black child mistakenly eating her watermelon with initials from a suitor carved in it reading E.A.T. ... "If I were a little boy," said the grandmother, "I wouldn't talk about my native state that way. ...

• Word Count: 1416
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• Grade Level: High School

De Waal also shows how the desire for revenge runs deep roots in one's heart with an example of a camel that kills a young boy who has been mistreating him (de Waal 657). ... Julius McGruder...testified on the basis of fifteen years working in elections that "no white candidate or white person has came out and supported no black"" (Guinier 341). ...

• Word Count: 952
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Tom is a middle-class boy who received religious teaching and was indoctrinated with social values. ... The society's belief that the black people should be enslaved because they are inferior subspecies of human permits him to question that belief during his adventures with Jim. ...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This parallel is how each boy grows to understand either himself and/ or the society that he is living in and learns how to make decisions on his own. ... They see grown-ups in black and white; if they liked someone, that person was a hero, if they did not; he or she was a villain. ...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School