It turns out the whole time, Portia was one the men's step daughter, and it was all a set up. ... Huck's father steals Huck when he found out that Mrs. ... Eventually Huck gets tired of his father and plans an escape route. ... It was Huck's father, but Jim didn't tell Huck. ... Huck starts to worry about his father and Jim eventually told him that his father was the dead man on the house. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The story of female slavery is the story of survival of Black women and their construction of a definition of womanhood that made sense to them. In some ways it is the story of the phoenix. Faced with misery and suffering that many succumbed to, African American women as a group proved resilient eno...

• Word Count: 2427
• Approx Pages: 10

This is quickly displayed in the story when the Duke seeks Othello's council immediately after hearing news of an impending attack by the Turks. ... This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This is quickly displayed in the story when the Duke seeks Othello's council immediately after hearing news of an impending attack by the Turks. ... This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

• Word Count: 1882
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Slave narratives are testimonies of representatives who speak for those still enslaved and cannot tell his or her own stories. ... Douglass however lacks this kind of information, he is not sure who his father was (he only knows that he was white), and his memories of his mother are vague. ... Jacobs starts her story and states in the preface that she wants to "arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered"(Jacobs XIV). ... Even if the father was white, by the "one drop rule" the child was cons...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In examining these truths, of some historical events, his contributions were not mentioned along with our Founding Fathers, yet he was present. ... Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731 to the daughter of a former indentured slave, an African American woman named Molly Walsh, who emigrated from England and was in bondage for seven years. ... Many of our Founding Fathers knew about his accomplishments but did nothing to showcase his talents. ... In writing this paper, I hope to have helped to shed some light on an unsung hero in our history whose story was never really told in a timely fashion. ....

• Word Count: 1655
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It makes white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched... "Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. ...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Historians have pieced together that she was born in Kent in 1640, and she was the second daughter of a barber, Bartholomew Johnson, and a wet nurse, Elizabeth Denham [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... In her teenage years, Behn and her family allegedly journeyed from England to the British colony of Surinam because of her father's transferal there due to a military appointment [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... Oroonoko claims to be a true story based on Behn's experiences in Surinam. She begins the novel by stating that she is an "eye-witness" and that the story is not a work of ...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate