"The Montgomery Bus Boycott," by Jo Ann Robinson is a compelling autobiography about how fifty thousand black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and high ranking political figures as well. ... For example, she was president of the Women's Political Counsel (WPC) college chapter, an organization of black women founded by Dr. ... Before the boycott, "[a]lmost daily some black man, women, or child had had an unpleasant experience on the bus" [20]...

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• Grade Level: High School

McLune attempts to present a convincing argument on how hip hop owes its success to the ideology of women hating but she should not be considered for the top prize for persuasive essays. ... This lack of credibility makes it appear as if McLune simply picks a song by Jay-Z that degrades women and slaps the lyrics in the article to use to prove her point. ... If the article itself doesn't persuade the reader of this then one can easily goggle Jennifer McLune, click images and a caramel skinned female with jet-black dreadlocks pops up. ... Powell's article is about hip hop and how bi...

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A Persecuted Name: Faulkner's Jesus and Jesus of Nazareth When thinking about history, most people can conjure up some knowledge about the history of Black Americans and Jesus of Nazareth. ... Keeping in mind that technology is needed for a thriving modern society, blacks were needed to smoothly run a household as well as carry out the grunt work that the white men and women were not willing to succumb to in most cases. ... By using the name of Jesus, there is some familiar insinuation that the reader may pick up on and use to compare the historical and biblical Jesus to Faulkner&#...

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• Grade Level: High School

In commercials and other types of ads, there is a major difference between how whites and minority groups are portrayed. ... "Asian Americans are strongly associated with technical know-how" (Farhi). ... It is hard for Asian American students to live up to the expectations that commercials and advertisements portray. ... In a more in-depth look at the commercial, one can pick out the stereotype of "unintelligent" because the young toddler cannot figure out the difference between the tub and the toilet. ... Though these ads can get someone to look at their product, at the ...

• Word Count: 1817
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He says, "I doubt that you would[ ]commend the policemen[ ]If you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls" (154). ... He builds on this by explaining how putting off justice will turn to the abandonment of that right. ... King later picks up the pace of his argument by reminding the clergy that they have never lived the painful and brutal lives that the Negro has. ... King has a eloquent way with his words in comparing the treatment of Negroes with how the clergy would react if the unjust treatment were directed towards them. ... What they should do, in King&...

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• Grade Level: High School

The feeling of being burdened and the annoyance that comes with it is brought up in other parts of the poem, in lines such as, "and I was embarrassed/by old men standing up to shake my hand/and tell me they were "sorry for my trouble."" ... The father seems to intend to open his son up to a new horizon and the possibility of other occupations. ... Then, just as gently as the father scoops up "new life" for his son, he places it in a safe spot for his son to choose in his own time. ... Yet again, the notion that society's expectations create hurdles to self-identity and personhood comes up...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fed up with the law, Afro-Americans are protesting for their rights. ... The whites feared freed blacks. 2,060 blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1903. 6,000 lynchings of black men and women were recorded between 1870 and 1960. ... After the game, he wanted to go pick up some girls. ... Who knows how many cases go unreported. ... How can America let police brutality continue, and keep sweeping these fatalities under the rug? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

How should nigger be defined? ... Nonetheless, no matter how the term is spelled or used it still embodies hundreds of years of physical dehumanizing and psychological torment against African-Americans. Nigga comes from the word niggardly, which means "insufficient to task," that is how the word developed. ... Plaskett stated, "You see, I"m a Southerner and the word offends me," she says, "Because when I was growing up it was a very hateful, very hurtful word. ... How they were belittle made to serve the white, pick cotton, black women being rape, blacks being murder, and dehumanized by the w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the time that the stories were set, which was around the 1960's, it was the era of campaigning for civil rights for black people, and equal rights for women. ... She protects him from other people picking on him, and tries to shield him form the real, harsh world in which they live. ... Fortunately, towards the end, she understands how trust can be used to form friendships and begins to gain trust in other people. ... Both of the girls refuse to be victims or discrimination, by acting how they rightfully should to stand up for their own race. ... Nonetheless, they are both standing up ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jose Vargas had to give up his American dream in order to live a decent life; he had to give up his family and his beliefs. ... If you can't put up the two months' rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying through the nose for a room by the week. ... Christina Boufis emphasized that the more educated a person is they seem to not pick up on the little things that lower class citizens would see. (98) This serves to show how different people have different American dreams because people have different concerns. ... What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face...

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• Grade Level: High School

The ways that their lives are brought together, and how they are able to live as a couple weave together as a complex tale about racial heritage, self-acceptance, and prejudice. ... The rest of the African-American population on the island are not even called by their real names by Sydney and Ondine, simply as "Yardman" or "Mary", no matter how many different people these characters actually were. ... Sydney and Ondine will never be able to know themselves through the eyes of a white woman because there is so much racism between them, and because of this, they cannot know themselves as well as...

• Word Count: 1878
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