The strength of this black family, immediate and now extended, is the foundation for positive images within the black community and thus the culture. ... At first Shantell dates one of the boy in the project but later, she finds a boy who lives in a house and who owns a car. ... The fact that Shantell becomes pregnant at age 17 is a negative factor on the black family. ... All things considered, Shantell and her baby's father is a model of a strong black family. ... In short, I would definitely recommend this movie to all black families. ...

• Word Count: 740
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Du Bois "The Souls of Black Folk", and Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" are works noted during Komunyakaa's period. ... In these lines the speaker repeats the word "black" twice, "My black face fades,hiding inside the black granite" (1-2), in connection both to his own skin tone and the memorial's color. ... He shares the blackness with memorial's granite, yet he can feel the effect of the connection whereas the granite cannot feel the agony it directly depicts. ... The author has lost his tranquility in a way that can never be undon...

• Word Count: 1172
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

"Andy saw that her mothers swimsuit top had come off, so that her breasts swayed free, her nipples looked like two black eyes. ... Andy reacts more like a little boy, because she didn't want to see that part of a woman's physique. ... Before the doe was spotted by Andy, Charlie heckled her, whether she was a boy or girl. ... A boy or girl?" ...

• Word Count: 704
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

- have two children, a boy and a girl, who definitely come after their mother, but this doesn't seem to bother anyone. ... In the meantime the life of the successful novelist fades to black. ... Generally speaking some parts are really unbelievable and the plot is far-fetched but this is it what makes the black comedy of this novel. ...

• Word Count: 610
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ... When the mother offered a little black boy a penny the mother of the boy took offence and shoved Julian's mother to the ground. ...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Colors changed from pink and purple to orange, red, black and dark blue. ... I noticed that all of the boys toys had dominant poses, angry faces and on the boxes of the toys I always found a picture of a young boy smiling and having fun playing with the toy so that the child can relate to the boy in the picture immediately. ...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sejour's parents were financially stable enough to send him to private school, where he became under the influence of a black journalist who wrote for the French newspaper in New Orleans. ... A few years later the lady had passed away and left him a small leather pouch which contained a portrait of the boy's father. ... Three years passed when Georges learned that Alfred had became a father of a baby boy. ...

• Word Count: 909
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"And it was a matter for joy to Wang Lung that this slave gave birth to a girl, for if it had been a boy she would have been proud and have claimed a place in the family." ... "It seemed now that none knew how to light the grass and keep it burning in the oven, and none knew how to turn fish in the cauldron without breaking it or burning one side black before the other side was cooked." ...

• Word Count: 1155
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School