The bank and the doll are both put into IM's briefcase, signifying IM's loss of identity and his inability to escape from the racial stereotypes inflicted on him by society. ... Clifton ends up controlling the Sambo doll, in hopes of escaping the lack of freedom that has been adversely effecting his character. ... The doll is later left unattended on the streets, signifying that IM is unable to escape from the past. ... IM's desire to escape from his past is also evident through the coin bank and the doll, which are both pieces of his culture that he continues to carry around....

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Victor saw it as an easy way for Arnold to escape from his problems. The question is to escape from what problem? ... The way Thomas escaped was when his mother threw him out the window in a desperate attempt to save him. ... They are going to see that there is no way of escaping stereotypes except to stay on the reservation in order to stay normal and not be persecuted. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He is unable to distinguish between the real world and the fairy tale world and thus feels he need to escape. He needs to escape the palace, not enter it. ... Nadine Gordimer, as a white native of South Africa, realizes the separate worlds created just as the little boy in the fairy tale, and she too feels the need to escape, which is shown through her story. ...

• Word Count: 1346
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• Grade Level: High School

However, even when Janie escapes this unsuccessful marriage in hopes of finding freedom and happiness, she ends up becoming slave to Jody's god-like aspirations. ... The trouble is that this "high chair" is the one thing Janie tries to escape. ... When Jody dies, Janie is officially free to abandon her high chair and escape with Tea Cake. ...

• Word Count: 1653
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• Grade Level: High School

He is trying to escape from the prison. Obviously prisoners are forbidden from escaping the prison, but his desire to escape is understandable considering he is facing the death penalty for a crime he did not commit . ...

• Word Count: 1484
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• Grade Level: High School

Noda can't seem to escape her race. ... Since Noda is a third generation Japanese-American she wants to be recognized as an American but due to stereotypes in our society she will not be able to escape her race. ...

• Word Count: 1348
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• Grade Level: High School

Her brother, who consistently tries to escape the mad house. ... But Pecola cannon escape her loveless home anymore than she can hide from a community, which shuns her for inherited ugliness, even though she vainly tried: "Each night, without fail, she prays for blue eyes- (Morrison 40) She does however, disrupt her reverie long enough to wonder why she is shunned: "Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike."" ...

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• Has Bibliography

James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. He was born in New York City's Harlem in 1924 (Smith 235). Due to his mother's inaccessibility and his stepfather's stern and remote manner, B...

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In order to escape from Fonso, she marries Mr. _______, who is an abusive husband that values her only as a sexual object and a caretaker for his children. ... Sofia also escapes her abuse by leaving Harpo. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As founder and leader of the blue veins, her grandmother teaches Emma Lou that she was not a part of the superior class, and her mother sees Emma Lou's birth as a tragic mistake she would never escape. ... Instead of dealing with her problem, Emma Lou takes her uncle's opinion that going to LA will be good for her, and she becomes sure that she can escape her troubles by running away to a new town. ...

• Word Count: 1573
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That Sam is a more naturally adept pupil than he is seems to have escaped Hally, although it has not escaped Sam; when Hally remarks that Sam has a phenomenal memory, Sam quips back that's why Hally started passing his exams -- "you tried to be better than me- (Fugard, 24). ...

• Word Count: 2048
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Slaves had no hope of escaping they were stuck between a industrialized north and rural agricultural south. ... They were also very subseptable to disease from Europeans killing off most of the population, they also knew the terrain of the land to well and could escape their captors easily. ...

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"American History X" is a movie that was made in the year of 1998. This film is starring Edward Norton who plays the lead role of Derek Vinyard. This movie takes place in Venice Beach, and Compton. It portrays the life Derek before during and after his involvement in a gang. The story is told th...

• Word Count: 1371
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• Grade Level: High School

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a few European nations ruled the Americas. They grew sugar, tobacco, coffee, ginger, cotton and indigo, which were all craved by the Europeans. Imprisoned in these exotic product plantations were about two and a half million black slaves. Fred D"Aguiar's b...

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Sherman Alexie's novel, "Reservation Blues," depicts the struggles of Native Americans living on a reservation. Although the story focuses on the lives of a group of teenagers in a rock band, the novel still shows the hardships and setbacks of all the people living on the reservation. Because of the...

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Escaping with children only made an already hazardous undertaking all the more risky. "Females," wrote William Still, the head of the Philadelphia Underground Railroad, "undertook three times the risk of failure [to escape] that males are liable to." ...

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Is it rational for a black man to attempt to "pass" himself off as a white person? "Passing" is defined as a detrimental intermediary preventing the narrator's ability to find his identity. The narrator is tossed between living as a black or white man. What causes people to struggle between two race...

• Word Count: 1633
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• Grade Level: High School

The bicycle is a symbol, representing Ruth McBride's outlet of being able to cope with her second husband's death by having it become an escape from reality, and yet negotiating what her reality has become as well. ...

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Du Bois, who claimed he "had not spoken out strongly enough for what they termed the 'rights' of the race" (454), an example that for someone who might find a way to immerse themselves into the American culture, can't find a way to escape what Du Bois would call the "two-ness" or "double consciousness" peopleof color have to face in American society or what Roosevelt essentially calls unassimilation or obstructions of the Old World. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Section 1: Question 2 Slave narratives such as The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl help readers try to experience and understand what life was like as a slave. These writings really get into specifics regarding the treatment of African-Americans in t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Face of Skinheads Webster's Dictionary defines skinheads, "as usually a white male belonging to any of various, sometimes violent, youth gangs whose members have close-shaven hair and often espouse white-supremacist beliefs." I had the pleasure, more like displeasure, of looking up information o...

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To blacks living within post- Reconstruction South, Washington offered industrial education as the means of escape from sharecropping and allowed blacks to become self-employed, while owning their own land, or small business. ...

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In 1914 Marcus Mosiah Garvey started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica. UNIA was started to help promote blacks in everyone's eyes so that they wouldn't have to be "at the mercy of white people."" (Kanet.org 7) Garvey wanted blacks to set up their own nation. In 1916, he ...

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One should fight for what they believe in, because if they do not, they will be fighting against themselves for all of eternity. However, fighting for what one believes is right is never easy. The book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the sleepy Southern town of Maycomb, in the 1930s. Maycomb acti...

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The Church of the Creator (the original name of the World Church of the Creator) was the invention of Ben Klassen. Klassen was born in Ukraine and raised in Canada. Klassen announced the formation of his "church- in 1973. Klassen wrote, "We completely reject the Judeo-democratic-Marxist values of...

• Word Count: 1899
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School