Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia in 1924, where he was raised on a farm with his family. ... Carter was very well trained in the upkeep and hard work that is involved in taking care of a farm. ... This gives you an idea of how wealthy Carter's family really was. ... This depiction of a child's life in the 30's and 40's, growing up on a farm, seems very interesting. ... All in all it is a great book that broadened my view of life on the farms during the depression....

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• Grade Level: High School

Frikkie likes working on his uncle's farm and playing around. ... During his spare time on the farm, he sculptured clay figures of animals, people, and plants. ... Furthermore, Tengo used to like farm works in his childhood, but then he liked learning better as the idea that learning gives him the power to change his family's status became stronger. ... On the farm, he used to play with a white boy named Frikkie at his age. The white boy was the farm owner's nephew. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Willalee was the son of the black family who helped work the farm. ... Jimmy Carter's youth consisted of living on a large farm in Georgia. ... On the farm he lived on he wondered why that a half century after the "War Between the States" (17) his families "could not forget that we had been conquered while most of our neighbors were black people whose grandparents had been liberated in the same conflict. ... Jim lived on a farm in North Carolina were he lived with his three uncles and his mother. They were a few black field hands who helped tend the farm. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One example was with her dad that decided to abandon her mom and the rest of the family for a yellow skinned female whose husband died in an accident on the farms they worked at. Then again when her and her family moved to a new town after her mom divorced her dad and her mom's new boyfriend was yellow and the rest of his family was yellow. ... The yellow people weren't as rich as the whites were but they had a little more money then moody and her family did. They owned their own house while moody and her family had to rent a shack type house from the whites and work on their farm...

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McIntyre seems sympathetic to the Guizac family and especially to Mr. ... Shortley's return, after their family had left the farm believing they were to be fired because of Guizac's efficiency, began his slow vengeance against Guizac. He told the town of his version of the events at the farm and stated "Revenge is mine, saith the Lord". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When her bondage ended, she bought a farm and two slaves, in Baltimore County, Maryland. ... They had several children, one of whom, Mary who also grew up and bought a farm, and bought a slave, Robert, whom she later freed and married. Mary and Robert lived on the family farm and bore Benjamin Bannaky along with several other children. ... He had an eighth grade education by the time he turned 15 and took over the operations of the family farm. From working on the farm he came up with several ideas to improve the operations of the family business and those ideas came to help many other farmers...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. ... The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." ...

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In the chant of Jimmy Blacksmith when Jimmy was a child he was taken to a white family, which was thought to be he right thing to do in the early 1800s. As a result of Jimmy going back to his own family and following their culture he was exposed to violence. ... He was being pushed into things he didn't want to do, being a black man Growing up in a white mans world was too hard for him to handle, he burst out and started killing everyone that turned his life around, starting with the women from the farm that he worked at. ...

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Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was one of 9 children born to Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green. Her actual name given to her by her parents was Aramita Ross and her nickname was Minty. Harriet Tubman was born a slave. Slavery is when you are forced to work for som...

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African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, inside homes, in the fields, and in manufacturing. ... Slaves married, had children, and worked hard to keep their families together. ... In some cases, young children of both races played together on farms and plantations. ...

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For example there were many women forced to give up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. ... Some of these women were young and just looking for some money and to get out of a family home. ... These women had responsibility to keep their babies and families fed and clothed. In their society, one family was part of a larger and more important group. ... European women certainly never farmed or did hard laboring tasks unless she was absolutely forced to due to economic despair. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... (Wood, pg.52) To ensure individual responsibility, the codes outlined apprenticeship and work regulations and the terms of contracts, marriages, and family relations. ... The laws were supposed to strengthen his sense of responsibility to both his family and his neighbors. ... "Racists found ways to circumvent the law and create other devices that made it difficult for the Freedman to vote or own farms of their own, devices such as Literacy tests, poll taxes, "grandfather clause", and eventual in...

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Born a slave on a small farm in Virginia, he recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. ... After emancipation, he moved with his family to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. ...

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During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and paid really high prices for wheat and other grains. The federal government had told farmers to buy more land, to modernize their methods with the latest in farm technology, and to produce more food. ... The second-tier in Maycomb is shown by the Cunningham family, who are struggling but they did their best and were proud. ... She has worked for the Finch family for all her life. ... It came down to the word of the "poor-white trash" Ewell family against an upstanding black citizen. ...

• Word Count: 1892
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• Grade Level: High School

In the 1930s, people of low income were looked down upon; in the novel, there are many examples of poor families who were treated unjustly. In this specific instance the Cunninghams, a poor, yet honest family living on a farm, were crudely pointed out and discriminated against just for being poor. ...

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On farms where there was no central place for the children, women had to take their children to the fields with them and either work with them on their backs or put them down somewhere. ... Slaveholders usually chose their male slaves to assist in the transportation of crops to market and the transport of supplies and other materials to the farm or plantation. ... Therefore women, more than men, were tied to the immediate environment of the plantation or farm. ...

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They went through somewhat parallel struggles including the amount of servitude they provided, their family situations, and political rank in the government. ... Crockett who had family was in fact not as close to them as he would have liked to have been. During a good portion of his childhood, his father was poor so he would send Davy to work on different farms, so he could provide money for their family. ... "The joy of my sisters and my mother, and, indeed, of all the family, was such that it humbled me, and made me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred whippings..."... When C...

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Curley's Wife You never learn the name of Curley's wife, which shows how she is thought of in the farm. ... She mostly wears sexy clothes, which attracts the farm workers. ... As Lennie describes his dream farm Crooks is very cynical about it and he doesnt believe it will happen. ... Curley's wife was killed essentially by loneliness v/s it was that that made her talk to the farm workers and Lennie this lead to her death. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They were nomadic herders and unlike the English, who farmed the land, they hunted for their food. Their large families "seemed to indicate a lack of self-control" which was the colonists" form of birth control. ... Little did they know that they had many common experiences with the black race: Practically every accusation that has been made against the American blacks was also made against the Irish: Their family life was inferior, they had no ambition, they did not keep up their homes, they drank too much, they were not responsible, they had no morals, it was not safe to walk thro...

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Clarence got treated better just because of his race, even though he was very rude to the child and the family he visited. ... He works on a farm and has always wanted a gun. He sees himself as restricted because he can't get what he wants partly because of his family and his race. ...

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DuBois was born on February 23, 1968 to a prominent black family. ... Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in a slave hut, but after emancipation he moved with his family to Malden, West Virginia. ... Washington urged fellow blacks, most who were poor, illiterate farm laborers whom he could relate to based on his background, to abandon their efforts to gain full civil rights and political power as DuBois's plan of action called for. ... Ranging from inferior sidewalks to inferior police protection, Washington recognized that such conditions created by Jim Crow made established neighbor...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Robinson's father, a sharecropper, left the family when Robinson was only about 2 years old. ... Not long after the family moved to Pasadena, California Robinson's mother enrolled him into Pasadena Junior College. ... The first team he played for was the Montreal Royals; the Dodgers' farm team (James 114). ... While Robinson was still frustrated and not satisfied with the way things were going he went home to spend some time with his family (James 232). ... Many of Robinson's friends and family members had died including, John F. ...

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His grandmother, for instance, is a gardener for a rich white family. ... She finally found one as the housekeeper of an Indian family. ... Passbooks were almost impossible to keep in order and if you were caught with it out of order you could be arrested and put in jail, or sent to farms to work as a slave laborer. ... He also helped them keep in touch with their families by writing and reading letters for them. ...

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He was chosen for several reasons; he was too new in town to have made any enemies, he was young as well as skilled, he was respected, and if the boycott should fail, his family and professional connections would enable him to find another pastorate somewhere else. ... Although the charges were dropped, King was sent to Reidsville State Prison Farm on the vindication that he violated his probation on a petty traffic offense. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Owners of big businesses, such as Carnegie, thought that the increasing size and power was benefiting the entire society and economy because owners saw it as opportunities for unskilled workers to get jobs and make money for their families. ... The labor workers were not benefiting from the increase in working demand in any way at all, as a result of the dramatic increase in production the workers and their families were suffering financially. ... Such as Kracha and his friends in Out of this Furnace, the workers were being worked to death and they were forced to work an enormous amount of h...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate