After fighting in World War II from 1941 until 1944, Jackie played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues from 1944 until 1946. ... The movie "42" that told the story of Jackie Robinson and his journey, "painted [him] as a real-life superhero while avoiding melodrama." This movie let the audience know that in this story, baseball speaks much louder than words. ... This represents his true resilience as a person and fighting through just one of many obstacles to become accept in Major League Baseball. ... " This tells us something about Jackie, he wants to s...

• Word Count: 2830
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

But seeing how we are in 2015 is it really appropriate to ask if a change has actually come. ... Irwin's book seeks to examine how America has used its jail system as a new, under examined form of social control. ... Similarly, in The New Jim Crow, Alexander examined the racial differences during the period in American history often titled as the war on drugs. Each section in these two powerful pieces of work provided an extraordinary point of view on just how the justice system works and also showed how the system that we are taught to believe is fair and equal may not be the case for al...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26

Winona LaDuke tells of more than 1,000 tailings and slag piles from uranium mines dumped in Native American Din land (3). ... At the end of the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery (Boyer, et al. 502). ... However, with questions such as "How high is up?" ... Abraham Lincoln brought the nation out of civil war; Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute and theorized how African-Americans could reach political equality; "Sojourner Truth proved [an] excellent [lecturer] against slavery (Boyer et al. 324)"; Thurgood Marshall headed the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of t...

• Word Count: 3013
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In literature, African American writers have been telling the story of their multifaceted experience and history. ... Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American experience, and especially African American women's experience and their search for identity in the American mainstream society. ... Despite being situated up in the hills, it is called the Bottom and it started to be called this way as a "nigger joke...The kind white folks tell....... The novel Sula illustrates how important the role of a mother is and can be. ... At this moment, Nel is...

• Word Count: 5084
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate