However, such a fantasy could never be achieved without struggle, restrain, desire, dreaming, and bloodshed. ... McCain portrayed superlative patriotism by proving his willingness to die before divulging information to the enemy. McCain's desire for freedom is a direct link to the desires of the millions of the Americans he represented while fighting for this nation. ... Whether we die for our nation, suffer for our claims, or fall victim to the ridicule of millions for our decisions as a people, we all have a certain price to pay for our freedom. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I am white, and I bring with me not only a deep human desire to survive by any means necessary, but a deeply rooted investment in a system of white supremacy and domination. ... If whites resist the spiritual and social death that attends the self-divestment of white supremacy, if they refuse to submit to the surgical removal of their "psychopath racial personality,"" then they must die physically for the liberation of Black people throughout the world. ...

• Word Count: 953
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Clare's desire to return to her African American heritage is obvious. ... Irene feels that there is nothing sacrificial in Clare's idea of life, nothing beyond her own immediate desire. ... The desire to do this begins when she is young. Her African American father dies, and she is left with her white aunts. ... Clare tells Irene that she "nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery [her daughter] was born for fear that she might be dark" (168). ...

• Word Count: 949
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• Grade Level: High School

They are not talking about a superficial death but rather, a dying on the inside. ... The first two lines in the poem "Thou still unravish"d bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time" (1-2) suggests that the characters have died or are frozen in time. The lovers are separated on the urn, symbolizing that their desires will never materialize and the death of their love. ... Hughes is searching for a desired reaction to his words and has accomplished that. ... A part of them has died inside that they will never be able to replace....

• Word Count: 891
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• Grade Level: High School

When his stepfather dies in 1943, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village to pursue his literary dreams. ... Ross states that "Baldwin found in homosexuality a clear path of desire" (634). ... After Sonny gets out of jail, he desires change and finds a just choice to be a musician. ... We can see "Baldwin as a key figure who opened up possibilities for African American writers in terms of love, desire, and sex" (Thorsson 628). ... In 1987, Baldwin died of stomach cancer at age sixty three. ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

His stepfather died the summer of 1943. ... His move was not only the desire to distance himself from American prejudice, but to see himself and his writing beyond an African-American context. ... Also, he left the United States desiring to come to terms with his sexual uncertainty and leave the hopelessness that many young African American men like himself surrendered to in New York. ... James Arthur Baldwin died due to stomach cancer on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France. ...

• Word Count: 925
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After 37 years of pastoring, Reverend Williams died of a heart attack, passing the pastorship onto Martin Luther King, Sr. ... At first, King had no desire to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather by joining the ministry. ... Both him and Coretta had the desire to return to the South. ... King died, he had been arrested 14 times, had his home bombed three times, and received and average of at least one death threat per day. ...

• Word Count: 1484
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When Emma died, Katharine wrote to her spiritual director, Reverend James O"Conner, who in turn advised her to, "Think, pray, and wait." ... She desired to be in a cloistered order, but once when she visited the Pope to request missionaries, he suggested that she, herself become a missionary, and encouraged that she start an institution to further her mission. ... Katharine died twenty years later, on March 3, 1955. ...

• Word Count: 734
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• Grade Level: High School

Immediately after the crowd responded with near pandemonium, he said, "Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings, and he died because of that effort." This helped a lot because it brought many to the quick realization that Martin Luther King Jr. did not die in vain, but in fighting for a cause that was valuable to all of them. ... For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence their evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. ...

• Word Count: 858
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• Grade Level: High School

"I Have A Dream" is a famous speech that approached every desire and ideal he sought for through the civil rights movement. ... This history of American demonstrates that the nation was built on the desire of freedom and rights. ... When all of the desires and needs are met, the man who asks, "When will you be satisfied" will know without having to say a word. ... Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring"" (King 3). ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In one of her most popular poems, "On Beings Brought from Africa to America," Wheatley writes 'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught me benighted soul to understand That there's a god, that there's a savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their color is a diabolic die." ... She recognizes that many whites believed Africans' dark skin color was representative of the devil, as she refers to what many whites see as "diabolic die." Here, die is another spelling for what we now call dye. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Another son born two years earlier had died. ... When Langston was twelve years old his grandmother died, and he went to live with some family and friends. ... His desire to make money separated Hughes from radical politics. ... On Smith 6 May 22, 1967, Hughes died at the age of sixty-five. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This theme is represented all throughout the novel being the main rationale for Pecola Breedlove desire to have the bluest eyes. ... The thing she desires most to have is the Bluest eyes of all, which she believes will make her beautiful. ... We come to know Pocola's idealized consciousness, and significantly we learn of her object of desire and the symbolic perpetrator for the central conflict and incongruity in the novel (Peterson 100) "Frieda brought her four graham crackers on a saucer and some milk in a blue-and-white Shirley Temple cup. ... Meaning there where no happy ending in 194...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

When he has the desire to return to the South and live as a black man again, the millionaire shuns the black culture. ... Shortly, after his wife died. ... "My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise". (p100) He misses his black heritage, but for the sake of his children he will hoard those feelings of nostalgia and keep them in a burrow, tucked away where he can be free the desire to go 5 back. ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This notion of him makes him desire to buy a gun from Joe with money he gained in the fields. ... After Dave's failure to shot the gun properly, he realizes that the power he desires gets him lots of trouble with it but it is too late for coming back. ... Now his past is dead, it died in the wilderness with Jenny. ...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His condescending "enlightened" white manner shines through when he secretly desires to talk to only the "well dressed Negro" that "carried a briefcase" about "art or politics or any subject that would be above the comprehension of those around them." ... Julian loses his sense of supremacy over his mother and his feelings of separation as he watches her die. ...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Nella Larsen's book, "Passing", it tells a story of two very similar African-American women who have two different experiences in dealing with their race. Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield were both brought up as African-American women in a time where race was a social issue and of confusion. In ...

• Word Count: 849
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• Grade Level: High School

The beginning of the story is a systematic preconception for me, as the reader emphasizes his feelings based on his historical background and question myself if he is going through a hard moment, since he feels guilt and confused about what his grandfather told his father while dying in bed. ... His strength is in the speech and intellectual capacity for the desire for a better living. ...

• Word Count: 751
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This poem centers around the struggle of one African American man to overcome racial diversity and hatred in a home he works in, and it details his inner thoughts and desires to be accepted for who he is. ... Further into the poem, the narrator expresses his desire to sit at the table and be treated as equal, and the reader knows that this will happen for him one day, as his spirit and identity is strong amidst a world of hatred. ...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the age of twelve, his grandmother died and he went to live with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, where he attended high school. ... After leaving college, he greatly desired to travel. ... Langston Hughes died on May 22, 1967. ...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the document entitled Seeking the Right to Fight, 1861, Jacob Dodson, wrote a letter to the Secretary of War stating, "I desire to inform you that I know of some three hundred reliable colored free citizens of this City, who desire to enter the service for the defense of this city.... Remember if I die, I die in a good cause" (Pg.112). ...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Ignorance is one of several things in life that is very damaging. Many people have heard the saying "ignorance is bliss;" this is the same as saying "boys are stronger than girls." Both sayings are said on a regular basis, but are misleading. Ignorance is the farthest thing from being bliss. It is a...

• Word Count: 2053
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• Grade Level: High School

As Janie begins her story, she sits aside her dying Nanny, as she is presented with the challenge of never being a "spit cup" (37)* for any man, black or white, and of sitting in that high chair that her Nanny never was never allowed to sit in. ... Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... When Jody dies, Janie is officially free to abandon her ...

• Word Count: 1653
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• Grade Level: High School

I got to die ... Native Son leaves the reader feeling sympathetic for Bigger during his final predicament; Bigger has finally gained self-acceptance and has learned to believe in himself, yet in spite of everything he has recently accomplished, he will die. ... Although this may lead the reader to think of Bigger as an immoral man, his consistent desire and eventual denial to be in control of his own destiny evokes great emotion from the reader, which ultimately causes the reader to empathize with Bigger. ...

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Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. ... The major theme of the Harlem Renaissance was the roots of the African American experience in Africa and the American South mixed with a strong sense of racial pride and desire for social and political equality (Collier, 1985). ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate