This passage goes on to note how black people laughed and tormented him. ... Faulkner displays this collision in Mountain Victory. ... Weddel almost goes as far as shoving a glass of liquor down the black boys throat. ... This was preempted pages earlier when Vatche's daughter tells the family the "Vatch says he is a nigra" (Mountain Victory 756). ... I am not a Negro" (Mountain Victory 758). ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin had his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," published in 1953. ... Set in Paris, this novel tells the story of a love affair between a white American student and an Italian bartender. ... And it won't be fixed until white people and black people tell their stories openly and honestly" (Manley 5). ... Baldwin tells the story of a Jazz musician who is deeply hurt by racism and thus unable to trust anyone and so unable to give or accept love. ...

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

In 1953 he finished the partially autobiographical account of his youth, Go Tell It on the Mountain. ... First, in 1968, he published Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as a bitter account of American racism. ...

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

Ever since Eminem broke out from the underground world of unknown musicians and into the mainstream of the music industry in 1999, he's amazed audiences and critics alike with his ability to tell stories through music and rapid-fire wordplay. ... " that gives him the credibility to put together an anthem that tells us to seize the day and live in the moment while using such specific examples from his lives, both real and imagined. He gets his listeners to think about what they would do if they were put in his shoes; it tells us a story from his point of view. ... Whether you are a fa...

• Word Count: 1858
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Personally I hate the Japanese and that goes for all of them "(John Tateishi pg. xvi). ... There were fifteen different relocation camps that the Japanese people were sent to such as, Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, Poston and Gila River in Arizona, Minidoka in Idaho, Topaz in Utah, Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Amache in Colorado. and Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas. ... You Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Jack Garner, tell us why we must go and shed our blood for something we have never had" (C.L.R. ...

• Word Count: 2342
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School