While Vincent and Anton were growing up Anton was becoming more and more distant from his older brother and improving his performance levels. ... An incident happened when Vincent wanted to become blood brothers with Anton by cutting themselves and sharing blood. ... Soon after the detective got a phone call stating the murderer has been found and had to go. ... The main detective was Vincent's brother Anton; he knew this all the time so that was why he was avoiding him a lot of the times. He found the courage in himself to go meet Anton. ...

• Word Count: 1532
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In 1923, two brothers from Chicago, Illinois, founded the Disney Brother's Cartoon Studio. Over the course of nine decades, this studio, founded by Walt Disney and older brother Roy, has evolved into one of the world's largest multinational mass media corporations. ... "A study conducted by Nicole Martins, an assistant professor of telecommunications in the IU College of Arts and Sciences, and Kristen Harrison, professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, found that TV could decrease the self-esteem in children, except for white boys. ...

• Word Count: 1585
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). ... She helped the founding of the NAACP and was an active crusader against lynching. ... At age sixteen her mother, father and some of her brothers and sisters died of a tragic yellow fever outbreak when she was in another town visiting relatives. At that young age she began to raise her remaining brothers and sisters and supported them by changing her appearance to look 18 and received a teaching job. ... With that happening she was even more determined to fight racial injustice where ever she fou...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Angela became an advocate for black political prisoners, and she openly spoke in defense of the inmates George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson, also known as the Soledad brothers. After guards at Soledad Prison killed George Jackson, his younger brother Jonathan, attempted to free another prisoner from a Marin County, California courthouse by taking hostages. ... From her childhood up unto her adulthood, she always exemplified the spirit of activism, and she always found a cause worth fighting for. ... Angela has found many forums to get her message across to the masses such as the Black Panther...

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Not only is he found guilty of violating the Immorality act, but he is also disowned by his father for violating society's ideal of racial purity. ... By comparison with her stern, unforgiving brother, she is more tolerant and compassionate; but, even with all these wonderful traits Sophie's understanding is limited in many respects. ... It is Sophie's brother Jakob who points out her biggest problem as the narrator. ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America's first Black character found manifestation as the aforementioned Uncle Tom in Edwin S. ... (Bogle, 7) The Pickaninny provided audiences with an amusing diversion, and soon found his way into the hearts of the mass audience. ... This character found its pinnacle of success in Rastus, a good-for-nothing Negro featured in a series of films released between 1910 and 1911. The final coon brother would emerge as the eager to please metaphoric cousin to the tom. ...

• Word Count: 1420
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This idea occurs within Kumalo's family and his brother, sister, and son all choose to move. His brother delights in the new life because he is "a man of some importance, of some influence" in the city. ... His new found love for the Native people has spurred him to offer to build a new church to Kumalo. ...

• Word Count: 1586
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Following in the footsteps of his father, who was very well educated himself, and his older brother, who went off to medical school, Paul was anxious to learn and it was shown through his grades. ... He later went on to be one of only 3 graduating blacks from College and still managed strive and surpass the level of educational excellency that his father and oldest brother had set for him. ... Through out the readings I found myself immensely interested in what I was learning about Paul Robeson. ...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jim, "Is a Frenchman a man?" " "Yes,"" replies Huckleberry. "Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan he talk like a man? You answer me dat!"" (80). Believing that all men are the same, Jim simply cannot seem to understand the fact that all men do not speak the same language. Thomas Jefferson's idea of "...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He also finds out that Frank Green was Daphne's half brother and that her real name was Ruby Hanks. ... For example, when Coretta spoke to Easy about Daphne and the next morning she had been found murdered with a blow to the head. ... I found out later on that it was because Terell was threatening him; that he was going to tell the world that he was engaged to a woman who was half black. ...

• Word Count: 1261
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin spent much of his time in libraries and found his passion for writing (236). ... Ross states that "Baldwin found in homosexuality a clear path of desire" (634). ... This is a story of how two African Americans brothers take their own path through life as they struggle to find meaning in their lives. ... According to Brenda Smith, "While Herb Boyd probes the ways in which Harlem influenced the thought that found expression in Baldwin writing, Randall Kenan traces the development of what he reveals as one of Baldwin's predominant belief from the beginning to the end o...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

While many people in the United States frowned upon both homosexuality and interracial dating, Baldwin found social freedom and privacy while in Europe. ... Many found it interesting that Baldwin chose a white person to portray himself. ... Charlie, in other works Baldwin wrote of integration as a loving means through which we would force our "brothers" to love one another. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The story is told through the life of a little girl, Scout Finch, and her relationship with the main characters her brother, Jem, father, Atticus, friend, Dill housekeeper, Calpurnia, and her dealings with the township people and events that happen in her town. ... Hauntingly close to the fictional Tom Robinson case is that of a 32-year-old black man that was found hanging from a tree outside of his grandmother's home on May 28, 2003 and it happened right here in our own back yard. Feraris "Ray" Golden was found hanging from a tree, and some reports say he was found with his hands bound...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This ideal stayed with him throughout the rest of his life but changed slightly as he found religion. ... He grows stronger and closer to his new found faith in Islam and its tenants and when his brother Reginald becomes estranged from it he stays with his newly found purpose. ...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I had the pleasure, more like displeasure, of looking up information on skinheads and found that they are not at all as the dictionary defined them as. ... He is not trying to shove it down the throats of young Americans, but just express the views of him and his "brothers." ...

• Word Count: 1468
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The third piece of the poem alludes to a time when the man will be treated as an equal brother of America. ... When you read "Freedom's Plow", it's almost as if you can hear America's founding father's reciting these famous lines. ...

• Word Count: 1522
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."" What is prejudice? Often people think that a prejudice is based solely on an individual's skin color, but that is not always true. Prejudice can be found between gender, religion, cultural and geographical background and ra...

• Word Count: 1603
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• Grade Level: High School

The boy was from an interracial show named Dif"rent Strokes. 8-year-old Arnold with his famous, "Whatchu talkin about Willis", and his 12-year-old brother Willis were two black kids from Harlem who found themselves suddenly in the lap of luxury. ...

• Word Count: 1691
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Racism People see racism everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing. What will the future br...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The image of the Jezebel painted black women as sexually uncontrollable deviants with the dangerous power to undermine the patriarchal notions on which Eurocentric culture was founded. ... "Black men in inner cities were no longer able to vent their rage against 'the man' because in all likelihood, 'the man' was a brother"(Anderson, 98). ...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography