(1-4) The first three lines describe the life stealing heaviness that America places on the speaker. ... Lines 5 and 6 depict the speaker's will to rise above America's oppression. ... These lines illustrate the idea that the speaker will continue to live in spite of America's wish to kill him. ... Lines 8-10 express this idea. "Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state, /I stand within her walls with not a shred/Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer." (8-10) Even though the speaker is bitter about the way that America has treated him, he does not harbor any malice or conte...

• Word Count: 1569
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In Susan Farrell's "Vonnegut and Postmodernism", Farrell explains the postmodernism period as an era that is characterized by de-canonization; blur lines between high and low art., irony, indeterminacy, and metafictional; self-reflexivity. ... In these lines the speaker repeats the word "black" twice, "My black face fades,hiding inside the black granite" (1-2), in connection both to his own skin tone and the memorial's color. ... It is the deeper meaning that motivates his passionate response in the next lines: "I said I wouldn't/dammit: No tea...

• Word Count: 1172
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Celia put in front of a judge and after months of trial found guilty of the murder of Robert Newsom. ... There were no clear lines of a power struggle because Newsom was held it all but Celia was definitely more privileged than the other slaves. ...

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He take the lines and I jump down on the ground to open The old beat-up gate. ... Once she reaches Aunt Fe, she kneels down in front of her and weeps. ... The house appears in front of me, and as I come into the yard, I can hear the people laughing and talking. ...

• Word Count: 1382
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The way he ran the boycott was that the blacks never rode the bus until the bus lines would desegregate. ... Another act of segregation was the bus lines. Blacks would have to sit in the back of the bus while whites got to sit in the front of the bus. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Divided We Fall John Davis, a 28 year old African-American software engineer who has an annual income of $110,000, waits for a real estate agent in front of a beautiful two-story house in Kirkwood. ... As he waits, he looks at the house and visualizes his wife pruning prize-winning roses in the garden that is in front of the house, and his two boys playing in the sprinkler in the front yard on a hot summer day. ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Often black passengers had to pay at the front of the bus then get off and wait for the driver to let them in from the back. ... Totten the national vice president of transit bus lines, and Mayor Gayle to protest the buss companies request to the City Commission to raise the buss fare. ... The WPC wanted: bus driver to be courteous, black passengers to be able to board from the front of the bus, more seats and for buses to stop at every block in black neighborhoods just as it did in white ones. ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

With pastels, the harshness of the lines is softened, giving the painting a more inviting feel. ... The people in the painting have their ordinary, everyday life on display to everyone that walks past their front yard. ...

• Word Count: 992
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract Hip-Hop has long been demonized for its militant language and outlawed narrative as a part of American society. But, despite its controversy it has remained a source of encouragement to many as its influence spreads across the globe. Hip-hop's origins are undoubtedly African-American, this being a key reason why its message resonates specifically in black youths, an increasingly ostracized sect of society. Uses of hip-hop for empowerment of black youths through racial authenticity, and positive racial socialization are observed. Therapeutic and educational implications with these...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When we start to believe in a hierarchy of races and decide to set ourselves at the top of that pyramid we are only strengthening the color lines that separate us and hinder our ability to function together in a democracy that values all people of different backgrounds. ... I was unaware of the racial tensions that occur in front of me on a day to day basis. ...

• Word Count: 2862
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, t...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the late twentieth century, South Africa was a country devoid of many of the freedoms that we in the United States take for granted. In 1948 South Africa instituted one of the most morally repulsive policies in international history. Apartheid, as it was called, ignored the human rights of more than half of the country's population. It ordered a strict and conformist code of separation on its black citizens. The black community in South Africa could no longer live, work, or enjoy innumerable parts of South Africa. ...

• Word Count: 3760
• Approx Pages: 15