Hughes says in his response: Let the blare of Negro jazz bands and the bellowing voice of Bessie Smith singing Blues penetrate the close ears of the colored near-intellectuals until they listen and perhaps understand Let the smug Negro middle class to turn from their white, respectable, ordinary books and papers to catch a glimmer of their own beauty. ... The black writer faces many difficulties, more so than a white writer, for he is torn between writing for audiences and critics of both races, a catch-22 of sorts. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Griffin is a white reporter who temporarily colors his skin black so that he may understand the life of a southern Negro. For about six weeks the author, who is from Texas, hitchhikes, walks, or takes a bus to four Southern states: Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia. In these four states,...

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• Grade Level: High School

Introduction As quoted by Emile Durkheim, a society without crime is impossible.1 Even if the standard of determining criminal acts is set high, less severe acts will still be considered as crime. As there is no chance of eliminating crime out of society, punishment is an essential tool to create a ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The officer also informs us that we will be in lockdown for 22 hours a day except for meals and the one day a week we get yard time. ... And here is the catch: we were told not to sleep with our heads near the bars for reasons I can only imagine but my only other option is to sleep by the toilet. ...

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• Grade Level: High School