carolina dimanoff Composition II Essay # 1 The Analysis of "The Lesson" "The Lesson," by Toni Cade Bambara, is a short story in which Bambara refers to a group of kids who have been exposed to a number of social, economic, and political issues. ... Miss Moore's intention was to show them the society, and the economic system they were living in by taking them on a field trip. ... ( 112 ) Even though Sylvia was making this involuntary analysis and comparison about the money these people would spend in unnecessary goods, she still has not changed her way of thinking about Miss ...

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This could equally evidence the economic imperative of being able to gain slaves cheaply for lifelong servitude, or the racially motivated wish to enslave "inferior " Africans. ... However the elastic slave supply made shipment to the Americas merely a rational economic decision13. ... Analysis of these sources shows it may be more constructive to argue the economic motives predominance and the decision to increase African supply was more rational than racial, but was bolstered by prejudiced beliefs to codify the black position as unquestionably inferior....

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Using historical analysis to support their arguments, Wilson, Woodson, Bailey, Norton consider their ideas of the reconstruction because of their own racial opinions, and due to the socials at their time/era. ... Furthermore, Norton suggest that's "The most enduring failure of Reconstruction, however, was not political; it was social and economic. ...

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In comparison of the general plot, the analysis of the novel's origin, and in the examination of the character's actions, Yezierska's Bread Givers can be read as a similar journey through a more civilized path as Wright's Native Son. ... They were both born into a low economic status and are forced to try and climb their way out of the hole they were born into. ...

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