DuBois reflected on his life in his personal memories and he remembered time and time again where white kids as well as blacks poked fun at his skin color because he was lighter then most blacks but darker then whites. DuBois was often mistaken for Italian and a lot of other dark European types, but he was raised by parents who insisted that he didn't try to pass. ... DuBois was known in his senior year of high school and he had to de3al with some devastating news, the death of his mother. ... Literary notes and references During his long life he wrote many great books and informative ...

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Aranda is the leader that they would follow in death, yet Babo is the master of their lives and the ship. ... One founded and the other perpetuated the institution of African slavery, resulting in generations of cruelty and savagery that had caused the deaths of thousands. Their designation as death also foretells the demise of the Spanish Empire, which Melville hints at from the beginning descriptions of the San Dominick as a dilapidated chateau (Melville 200). ... Death in the most horrible sense is a result of the institution slavery, which makes man capable of the worst inhumanities after ...

• Word Count: 1921
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• Grade Level: High School

Amid the decades prior to the Civil War, slaves developed cotton represented a large portion of the estimation of all united States trades, and gave for all intents and purpose the greater part of the cotton utilized as a part of the northen material industry and 70 percent of the cotton utilized as a part of British mills Slave codes showed lawful authorizes over the dark populace, for the most part setting cruel limitations on slaves' opportunity and giving slave-managers total control over their slaves(Slave Codes). ... Most passed dark codes to utmost the privilege of African American...

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Similarly, although it was the death of her masters that lead to her eventual freedom, the Wheatley's recognized this same impressive literary talent, and helped her to become educated and to pursue her dream of writing. ... Before God, her soul was "benighted" because she lived in darkness. ... God illuminated her soul and saved her from the darkness she had always known. ... 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." ...

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Chopin related L'Abri with darkness when she described it as melancholy and the buildings "black like a cowl" and Desiree "shuddered at the sight of it" (Chopin). ... She did not even stand up to Armand to understand the meaning of his darker skin. ... Mallard viewed time differently after the death of her husband. ... Her husband's death gave her a new view on life in her future. ...

• Word Count: 1578
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King led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. Before his tragic death, he spoke one of the most important speeches in history, the I Have a Dream speech. ... Parents taught their children to hate those with darker skin color and, children are extremely sensitive when young and they only want to get along with everybody but when you have peers tearing you down, it hurts your self-esteem and state of mind. ... Sadly, when your skin is darker than the white man's, you are automatically looked at with a suspicious eye. ......

• Word Count: 1861
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This is the very unfortunate result of urban decline, and if America doesn't act quickly and efficiently, then more cities are at risk of being next on this slow, economic death march. ... Racism isn't born, it's taught, and if we want to save this country from a dark and desolate path, we need to be teaching acceptance, tolerance, and open-mindedness instead of hate, racism, and bigotry. ... The drug trade is infamous not by the selling of drugs, but by the violence and the death that follows those drugs. ...

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It is so much easier dating someone who is African-American because whether you're a light-skin or dark-skin African-American, you still get the same treatment from everyone else who are against interracial relationships. ... Dealing with her boyfriend's family wasn't easy after his death and they wanted nothing to do with her or the baby. ... Its crazy because some of them were dark-skinned, they didn't want us there just because I'm African American.... The women says, "I'm pretty dark-complected. ...

• Word Count: 1895
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This was also another way of dealing with wrongdoers in society, instead of implementing severe punishment- one could be sent out to the "dark continent." as most Europeans tended to see Africa. 2 The three reasons mentioned earlier are not the only definite reasons; these reasons are like the others that happen to be interrelated. ... Racist Ideas In the past, the English had equated blackness with death and evil with their interactions of diseases and biblical writings. The first reaction towards people with dark skin was to assume that all dark skinned people inherently are evil or are ...

• Word Count: 2491
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The narrator tells us, in the novel's only concrete description of Pecola's facial features, that "her teeth are good, and at least her nose is not big and flat like some of those who were thought so cute-(Morrison 40) And then we see or inferred that it is because of her deep dark black skin tone that is the obvious nature of her ugliness, that along with her own conviction that she is ugly. ...

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An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room. ... Because religion emphasizes how pleasant life will be after death, Bigger believes that religion allows black society to escape the horrible reality of the oppressed life they are living. ... All of the characters that Bigger says are blind are living in darkness because the light is too painful. ...

• Word Count: 1690
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"On a Sabbath morning, within hearing of the solemn peals of the church bells at a distant village a Northern traveler through the State of Virginia drew up his horse to drink at a sparkling brook, near the edge of a dark pine forest". ... 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". ...

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Although while listening to this song no thought of a meeting would come to mind but instead the slave masters were led to think that the slaves were singing about death. ... Ooooh, I can't let this dark cloud catch me here. ...

• Word Count: 1424
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Langston Hughes is considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. He is described as the adored author of poems steeped in the richness of African American culture; poems that display Hughes affection for black Americans across all divisions of region, cl...

• Word Count: 1313
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In the short story, the author uses the images of light and darkness to illustrate the theme of man's painful quest for an identity (Murray 354). ... Baldwin realizes that "love is what life should be about," "love which is all the more poignant because involved with pain, separation, and death" (357). ...

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As a result, people said she was lucky to be alive, and since it was evident from the marks around her neck, it was definite that the two men virtually put her near death. ... What I mean by craziness is such an innocent moral man drawn into darkness by two white men. ...

• Word Count: 1604
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Words have the power to influence the world. When one chooses their words accordingly, they have the power to effect society and make prominent changes. Being blessed with the ability to speak to the very souls of the general population isn't an easy feat to accomplish. One significant author nam...

• Word Count: 1483
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• Grade Level: High School

She associates dark with words like "defilement," "foolishness," and "desecrators" (216). ... At the end of Janie's trial for Tea Cake's death, it is the black community that continues to reject her. ...

• Word Count: 1653
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Their desire to strip their art of every black experience contributed to the death of the Harlem Renaissance. ... If these narratives proved anything it showed these narrators delving back into the dark world of slavery and how they were bound by it. ...

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Langston Hughes' Role in the Harlem Renaissance? Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri and educated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He published his first poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers,"" in Crisis magazine in 1921 and studied at Columbia University from 1921 to 1922...

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There were some whites in Louisiana who was not racist but they would still have to follow a strict code of segregation and social guidelines or risk social or bodily death. ... The death of his mother while living in France when he was eight years old may have had a precarious effect on his character. ... Desiree compares her skin color to that of Armand who is much darker than she is but he is not bothered by this inconsistency in his reasoning. ...

• Word Count: 1926
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I. Introduction As a native New Yorker, I can remember growing up in Harlem on 112th street and St. Nicholas Ave. On this block everyone was treated like a family. My siblings and I would go out and play in the street, because we didn't have the luxury of a backyard. ...

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Rita Frances Dove was born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio (Biographical Information-Rita Dove 1). Little did she know that as she grew up, she would become a nationally recognized poet. As a child Dove was always interested in literature, "...the young Dove had a particular fondness and passion fo...

• Word Count: 1934
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