By wanting to help everyone to remember their past, such as in the poem Children's Rhymes "Liberty and Justice For all?"... For James Baldwin a great writer of the beginning of the twentieth century Langston Hughes is always making "sermons, blues and prayers" (216) at the same time like in the poems Mother to son and The Negro Speaks of Rivers. ... With the same idea of sermons, blues and prayers the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers starts like if it was a sermon. I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancients as the world and older than the flow of human blood in huma...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

At the very beginning, Du Bois describes Jim as "he stand[s] a moment on the steps of the bank, watching the human river that swirl[s] down Broadway" (1). In this statement, "human river " represents the rest of society, and the image of this swirling human river signifies the unified and constant movement of other people towards a communal end. ... By presenting Jim in relation to the "human river,"" Du Bois vividly suggests his alienation from the rest of society, as he is only an observer, not an actor, in the movement of others towards a yet unknown future. ... For example, Jim and Julia...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Rummel 40) In other words, this may make people realize that in fact Hughes wanted to present to society these problems, and hopefully correct them in some way.During his career preparation Langston Hughes valued the teaching of children. Many of his poems are children's poems. ... His first published works were in a children's magazine during the 1920's. ... One of his particularly interesting poems was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"(Haskins 19-20) in which he talks about the African Americans bathing in the Euphrates, building huts by the Congo, and singing of the Mississippi....

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Data for 1995 indicated that only 33.1% of black children lived with both their parents, compared to 75.9% of white children and 66.3% of Hispanic children (U.S. ... Of children living with only one parent, the majority live with their mother; 52.0% of black children and 17.8% of white children live with their mother (U.S. ... Of children living in their grand parents home, 23% of white children and 26% of Hispanic children have both parents present; compared to only 2% of black children. Six out of 10 black children, 50% of white Diseducation 4 children, and 48% of Hispanic children who...

• Word Count: 2016
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There were fifteen different relocation camps that the Japanese people were sent to such as, Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, Poston and Gila River in Arizona, Minidoka in Idaho, Topaz in Utah, Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Amache in Colorado. and Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas. ... During this time the Jim Crow textbook law passed, it said books for black children could not contain information on voting, instructions on how to vote, matters of government, and civic responsibility. Books for black children are kept separate from white children's books because people are afraid of giving ...

• Word Count: 2342
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

When she runs to meet her friends her mother yells and Anne comments, "Mama kept telling us that we couldn't sit downstairs, we couldn't do this or that with white children. ... Anne's mother never explains to her why black children couldn't do the same things white children do, in fact her mother avoids these type of questions at all costs. ... Anne comments, "Up until his death, I had heard of Negroes found floating in a river or dead somewhere with their bodies riddled with bullets. ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Number of pages: 259 Type of Book: Fictional Autobiography Biography of Author: Ernest James Gaines was born in 1933 on River Lake Plantation in Louisiana. ... Until she is around nine, Jane works in the Big House caring for the white children. ... Ned soon moves back to where Jane is, and he brings his wife, Vivian, and three young children. ...

• Word Count: 1538
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

According to Byers, "The poem "A Negro Speaks of River", which marked this development, appeared in the Crisis in 1921" (18). ... Langston Hughes is not just a writer he is, "a poet, fiction writer, dramatist, anthologist, songwriter, autobiographer and biographer, author of children's books, librettist, translator, writer of radio and TV scripts- (Logan 332). ...

• Word Count: 1296
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Many older whites and blacks were against there children becoming friends. ... But when man was butchered or killed by man, in the case of Negroes by whites, they were left lying on a road or found floating in a river or something" (Moody 109). ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Idgie and George are the prime suspects for five years, when Frank's truck is found in the river Idgie and George are arrested. ... As many mothers find, having a child makes them approach everything with a utilitarian approach of doing whatever it takes to ensure the safety and happiness of your children. ...

• Word Count: 1880
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He [Jim] was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn't ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their"n. ... Jim could not risk his only true friend who helped him get lost and possibly drown somewhere in the river. ... The Duke and the King also proved to be bad characters because they tried to take away many from children who just experienced deaths of close related people. ...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School