This film puts into real human emotions what the words in black and white on a page has never done. ... It made me realize - to love as He loved us - are huge shoes to fill and how could his disciples be so uncaring. ... I have seen many stories about Jesus but never has one touched me the way this movie did. ... I would like to see the life story of these men who beat so mercilessly and then come to the sudden realization that He is who He said He was. ... When I left the movie all I could do was to thank Him and praise Him for what He had to endure for me. ...

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The kinds of hungers that Richard experiences in Black Boy are not evident in the society where you and I reside. ... This efficacious autobiography, Black Boy, by Richard Wright manifests what it is like to desire such simple paraphernalia. ... "Once again I knew hunger, biting hunger, hunger that made my body aimlessly restless, hunger that kept me on edge, that made my temper flare, that made my temper flare, hunger that made hate leap out of my heart like the dart of a serpent's tongue, hunger that created in me odd cravings" (119). ... Another thing that contributes to Ri...

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I heard this song plenty of times but for that night it was like the first time. The music was sounding like what I was feeling. ... I remember when they used to clean the guns outside and I could smell black powder all the time and it used to make me sick at first but after awhile it didn't bother me. Now it doesn't matter where I am at or what I am doing when I smell black powder I think of my dad and the rest of the guys doing their re-enactment stuff. ... I thought it was so cool that I learned like that from someone that close to me. ...

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I would like to think that if I had been born anything other than black and other than a black American women, that I had done something wrong in a former life and God was making me pay for it." ... Or stanza four " Shoulder falling down like teardrops. weakened by my soulful cries." ... You may trod me in the very dirt but still like dust I rise." ... Written in stanza six, "You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I"ll rise." ... Shoulders falling down like teardrops. ...

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Through the experience of an eight-year-old boy Cullen illustrates some of the things black people encountered during that time period. ... This poem appealed to my emotions and moved me. ... It was common to hear of a black man experiencing that kind of discrimination and things far worse like lynching. ... The rhythm of the poem is almost like a nursery rhyme. ... I really liked this poem for many reasons. ...

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Crooks is the only black man in the novel and it is through attitudes towards his character that we are able to gain an understanding about the positions of blacks in America at that time. ... They do not however, set out to hurt him intentionally, but the usage of the term "nigger" tells us the reader that black men, like Crooks, were constantly degraded both verbally and physically by whites. ... Nobody got any right in here but me." ... Because because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, that's why." ... How"d you like not to talk to anybody?" ...

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The team works together, as we watch we see the struggles from both the white and black teammates dealing with school, life, and the team coming together as one; not the black side and the white side, but as one team. ... The integration of schools was a big culture shock for both black and white students. ... Having this movie in a different time area than the one I have been alive in kept me very interested. ... The team, which in the beginning of the movie, can't even be in the same room together without fighting, becomes so close that each one considers the other like a brother....

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I felt like I was stepping into an architect's mind. ... Everyone in the orchestra was dressed very professionally - the men in black and white tuxedos and the women in black dresses. ... Furthermore, the notable rhythm and quick tempos kept me interested until the very end - the piece never seemed to have a "down moment." ... They just didn't have that dramatic emotional affect like the first piece. ... It was very formal, professional and had a huge impact on me that I didn't realize until after I bought the keyboard and sat down in front of it. ...

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I feel the reason why I find this place so special is because I feel safe, just like my attic does. Although they both bring me a great sense of security, they both leave me with a different sense of safety. My attic gives me a cozy feeling like I am hidden from everyone and the world when I need it. ... After spending a day at Lake Mary I feel like I've re centered myself. ... Wether it is my black leathered couch or Lake Mary's freezing water, they have nurtured me into the woman I am today....

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Good afternoon, my name is Alex Wu and today, I would like to take the necessary time to praise the most deserving woman in my life, my mother, whose willpower and perseverance is like that of a tugboat, whose loyalty and support is like that of a faithful dog, and whose love is like that of the raging Niagara Falls. The willpower and perseverance my mother has reminds me of that of a tugboat. ... Whether it been swimming in pitch-black ocean water to hide from pirates, barely scraping by on small desolate islands for days until she and her siblings could be rescued. ... And despite my sadne...

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To me, I feel loneliness when it seems no one is around, no one calls upon me, or I feel as though I am in some sort of self-seclusion as a result of lack of feeling needed. ... She tells him of her feelings for Curley, how she doesn't like him. ... No black man was to enter a white person's house. ... Rarely would anyone, let alone a black man, offer their services to someone for free. ... "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. ...

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The central theme of the poem is clearly evident from the beginning lines: My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. ... In his first encounter with the Memorial, Komunyakaa immediately forges a connection between himself and the monument as his "black face fades, hiding inside the black granite" (2). ... Later he states: "I go down the 58,022 names, half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke" (14-16). ... The Memorial and his recollections began to consume him like a bird hunting for its next meal. ... At the end of the poem race is mentioned yet a...

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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. ... However, like his name in smoke, these recollections take on a strange value with uncontrolled images: "A white vet's image floats/closer to me, then his pale eyes/look through mine. ... The picture of the veteran appears lik...

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The play "Medea" reminds me a lot of two movies - "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman"" and "Waiting to Exhale. In the movie "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman", the main character was cheated on by her husband and then put her out of their home and she was left with nowhere to go. In the movie "Waiting to Exhale', another woman was also cheated on by her husband and also went through a deep depression just like Medea. ... One passage that particularly stood out to me was lines 200 -220 on pages 849 and 850. ... That line made me think about women who are or have been in domestically violent ...

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This image of isolation is further developed by Hardy's use of the simile "like spectral lyre swept by as spectral hand". ... "A car comes up It has nothing to do with me" The use of the word "nothing" shows that it's not his wife approaching meaning that Hardy is once again left alone awaiting her arrival. ... The stanza develops by using pathetic fallacy, "leaving a blacker", to reinforce his loneliness, "I stand again alone". The use of the word "blacker" symbolises misery as well reflecting Hardy's negative emotions...

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There was a single moment that made me rethink and get the basic idea of the play. For me that was a Moment of emotion. ... Since for me the main reason for Oya's broken dreams and melancholy status later on in the play was due to the decision she made early on in the play. ... The entire play was performed in a black box and was rather vibrant although it was dark. ... I would like to end by saying that the main reason this scene plays an important role and is a moment of emotion is because this is particular moment from which Oya's misery comes to take place one by one....

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The 4th of July is an overwhelming experience; it makes me feel proud to be an American. ... The ignition of a simple black powder creates a luminous sphere of fire. ... People like fireworks because they truly enlighten our senses. ...

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Her photographs are what inspired me to create my inspiration project. ... They tell you they like something or that they don't like it. ... I as well did my photographs in black and white to, to have the focus just on my daughter being photograph. ... She motivated me to accomplish what I was able to accomplish today. She continues to inspire me to be a creative photographic person. ...

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Me? ... On me anyway. Realizing how cold people are, and that even if one can try as hard as they do to make kindness and heart infectious like the black plague...they still fail. ... I search for things to hold on to, to keep me alive, or to keep faith in. ... Others become like stone. ...

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For any student, like Angelou, a graduation is meant to be an uplifting, proud, and significant moment in one's life. ... It is obvious to the readers that the citizens of Stamps, Arkansas viewed the graduation day less as a ceremony, and more like a holiday. ... Finally, Angelou personifies her excitement when she states, "I hoped the memory of that morning would never leave me. ... Angelou utilizes imagery when describing Reed as a "small, very black boy with hooded eyes, and long, broad nose and an oddly shaped head" (23). ... Angelou says, "the words of Patrick Hen...

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Frederick Douglass was a black man. ... Many questions reach me of the things he spoke of. ... It may require some maturity or taste to like the book. It seems to be very similarly formatted as other works like this. ... It is essential to know the type of reading that you like before choosing this book. ...

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One by one as she put the bullets in the black gun you started to see her face expressions. ... "He keeps me cocked and ready day after day after day" you can picture looking through the window or sitting out side doing nothing but looking at the garden hoping he will pop his head out so she can have shot. ... When she uses the word cocked not only is she telling you that her gun is ready at any time to kill him but she is also cocked, just like the gun. ... We all like to think of ourselves as civilized, ignoring our basic primal instincts of survival. ...

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It is not words that shakes me thus. ... Othello being black, has given him a sense of instability where he is living a "dream" and this dream could come to taters at any point in time, whence he will "be put back in his place" with the lower class. ... Act 3 Scene 3 line 265 "haply for I am black and, and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have ." ... Iago had plotted this very shrewdly and recklessly he knew that the only way around a man like Othello would be through him, and that's exactly how he played it; he mixed around with the moor's emotions an...

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" she responded "Yes, people tell me that I intimidate them; maybe because I'm outspoken, opinionated and say what I feel. ... It has taken me a long time to actually start to think about myself.... " She was then asked, "Does wearing it make you feel bright and pretty, like you mentioned the sweatshirt was?" Kim responded, "I don't mean to sound corny, but yeah kind of it makes me feel like I stand out!... In case any of you were wondering, that is why we do yoga classes in the black light with glowing colors. ...

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James Baldwin, having lived as a gay, black man in the time that he did, fully understands the meaning of discrimination and oppression. ... Words like smile and grin are only words. ... Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freightened with hidden meaning [...] ... It is like a drug that the reader longs for and the feeling of this drug is only achievable by continuing to read. ... This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had!...

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