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

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
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• 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 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

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
• Approx Pages: 8
• 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
• Approx Pages: 7
• 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. ...

• Word Count: 1493
• Approx Pages: 6

Douglass begins by having his main protagonist, Washington Madison, state, "Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it", thus putting him in the context of the revolutionist Patrick Henry who stated, "Give me liberty or give me death". ... These slaves strongly desired their freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Often children do not consider the consequences of their actions; they act on instinct and desire. ... Unfortunately, Hughes died feeling as though his writing did not help his race, and that his legacy was to be forgotten. ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. In the book's foreword, Morrison explains her reasons for writing the novel. She states that the idea to write this novel c...

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Dee's desire to hang the quilts up shows that she respects them, but does not understand the true meaning of the quilts. ... When a family member never learns how to quilt, the tradition slowly dies out. ...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

More than 200,000 blacks fought for the Union and 38,000 died, the majority of disease (PBS). ... These sit-ins were very effective; they showed that blacks were willing to go to any lengths to prove their desire for equality. ...

• Word Count: 1622
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I. A Booming Economy A. The Automobile Drives Prosperity 1. Ford Pioneers Mass Production a. Ford did not originate the ideas of mass production b. Early in the century, only city dwellers could afford cars. c. Ransom Olds had introduced a less expensive car, the Oldsmobile in 1901. d. Ford hired...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Both leaders shared the same desires for their people but they approached situations in different ways. ... Also by saying, "Revolutions are based upon bloodshed" X predicts that many people will die during this revolution. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He speaks early on in his story about his first encounters with the racially split work force and the feelings that he got and still gets living each day in the "white world": I felt torn all loose inside, shriveled, paralysed, as if after a while I"d have to get up and die. ... Her actions illustrate the strong desire for whiteness that existed across the board of minorities at the time. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School