""Tis a sin- Atticus, a character in the story would say. ... I think how this book effectively exposes the cruelty of racial (and other) injustice is a big part of what makes this such a powerful story. The themes that make this work disputed, for me, only intensified my passion for what I was reading. ... -These racial themes just made me more ardent against racial discrimination. ... Should the parents inform their offspring all about sex and what it involves, who will then go out into society well educated on the issue, giving it all the respect and reverence that should accompany it? ...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The content of these sermons was often consistent with themes from the Old Testament concentrating on deliverance, such as Moses and Joshua, which were the same stories that the white slaveholders wanted to shield from the minds of their slaves. ... However, in the minds of blacks, America took on the role of Egypt in the Exodus story and is well illustrated the words of Maria Stewart, a free black reform activist: America, America, foul and indelible is thy stain! ... The slaves, to prove to them that freedom was a promise of God, used the stories of Exodus, the Promised Land, and Canaan. ...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What often makes his stories interesting, and sometimes fascinating, is that the characters are capable of being surprised and overwhelmed by something they learn in the course of the story. ... Don't ask me why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now."" ... In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage, Walker articulates what has since become two central themes in her writing: the importance of the quilt in her work and the creation of African American Southern women as subjects in their own right. "I did somethi...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Not one shop was even interested in meeting me let alone hiring me as their apprentice. ... He told me that giving up should never be an option for something thats deep in my heart, and said if I wanted to learn, that he would teach me. ... As someone who not only has tattoos, but gives them to people, what are your feeling and thoughts towards tattoos in general? ... It requires the skill and creativity to tell their stories in a very permanent and beautiful way. ... Hearing the stories behind the tattoos and being a part of that story is the part that's the real fun for me." ...

• Word Count: 3371
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The contrasting identities in the public sphere of society and the private realm of family is evident in each of these pieces of literature; this theme is significant because it epitomizes the influence that American stereotypes and culture have on foreign migrators. Throughout Jhumpa Lahiri's short story, "When Mr. ... She wishes to be like the blonde-haired, blue eyed, strict Catholics that she befriends, so whenever "the girls at recess talked about things that they had eaten the night before I [she] would simply chime in 'Me, too'" (Nguyen 85). ... Furthe...

• Word Count: 778
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A photograph of the United States of America is equal to me as a photo of a person, each photo unique to its moment in time and story told. ... Giving the chance to realize the little things we have and understand what people have done to have that freedom is something commonly over looked. Through the photographers perspective and intent of portraying the land we call home gives the individual the opportunity to feel and experience what they get from the photos whether its intended or not. ... Because he was traveling during the period of time he took the photographs, his work gives off the v...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Richards relates the story of how, when she was young, she always said she wanted to talk to God. Because of this, she claims that "when things started coming to me, they came to me as voices. ... A dominant theme in this series is "the belief in the supernatural [as being] part of the human soul..."24 These books are romantic, realistic, and supposedly written by various vampires to the mortal world. ... King's readers are fascinated by the mind that can produce such horrifying stories, and they see him as a sort of preternatural being. ... She is also another unnatural link to...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Casablanca was a story of political and romantic espionage. ... The movie focused on the themes of lost love, honor and duty, self-sacrifice and romance within a World of war and chaos. ... "Sally Don't You Grieve" was written in 1944 by Guthrie and was for the women who had men at war: "I'm a-gonna cross that ocean wide Army rifle by my side When Hitler's beat you can be my bride But I told her not to grieve after me." ... Because Americans were working longer hours the President also said "I hope that night games can be extended because it gives an opportunity to the d...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Students waving American flags, chanting, and pulsing together, occupied every table, grill, and second story window. ... By demonizing terrorists, we give ourselves permission to dismiss their perspective completely. ...

• Word Count: 4939
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This paper analyses its disadvantages and gives some suggestions and measures from different aspects. ... This part gives the description of the current way of teaching reading and how it affects the students' reading ability from different aspects. 2.1.1. ... Reading Quality 2.1.3 .Reading Thought 2.2 .The available approaches to improve the students' reading ability while teaching reading .In view of the primary factors , this part gives some effective measures and suggestions that can help to improve the students' reading ability. 2.2.1. ... Therefore, it is necessary fo...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

And what kills me, what people don't know, is that breakin' died in 78' in the Bronx. ... That's how it happened with me. ... He went on to explain to me how Lee went on to learn how to break real good, and ended up battling and getting served by Crazy Legs, approximately two years afterBeat Street came out. ... Wiggles schooled me on the what went on behind the scenes, that resulted in the evolution of the B-boy culture on both coasts. ... The director would give his cameraman a cue, letting him know to start rolling the film. ...

• Word Count: 4679
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

Very few exceptionally tall buildings are located in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick buildings with a longer east to west diameter than north to south, making each storefront quite narrow and seem as though one is intimately connected to the other. ... As I am enjoying this beautiful spring day in 2014, it is very hard for me to imagine what life was like for the people who lived in this area in the 1800's. ...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate