They did so much for their country even when life was not fair to them. ... To weaken the rebel forces the British commander in chief offered freedom to all Blacks who could escape from the rebels and without the Blacks, the rebels would not be able to keep their plantations running. ... Hall was the one that fired the shot to open that wall around the city of Lucknow and because of his bravery he received, the highest British military award for braver and became the first Nova Scotian, the first Canadian and the first Black person to receive the Victoria Cross. ... Blacks were strivi...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sometimes running from and sometimes working with the police authorities, Jake Lo eventually comes to recognize the importance of the American presence in China through the figure of his dead father who had been working for the U. ... American narratives about crime and ethnicity have often dealt with the difficulties of finding the American dream of personal freedom, and the voice over opening for Vanishing Son's credit sequence summarizes this succinctly: Running from oppression, yearning for freedom, he came to America. ... Running from the law, Jian-Wa, like Lo and Caine, represent...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School