Dubois, with his more do or die attitude toward the problem. ... Dubois on the other hand had a different approach on how to solve the racial injustices going on in the world. ... He emphasizes to his followers how important the whites of the south in favor of the his movement are and tries go get his audience to more embrace the white followers of his plan with statements such as "I have said we must differentiate between white people in the south. ... Dubois had a more do or die attitude, the term "do or die" is used because of his references to the historical abolitionist John Brown earl...

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They wrote stories about how Japanese Americans are responsible for Pearl Harbor. ... During this time the Jim Crow textbook law passed, it said books for black children could not contain information on voting, instructions on how to vote, matters of government, and civic responsibility. ... The best education we can give him is to use his hands because that's how he must earn his living. ... Why must I die for them? ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

These brave and honored soldiers learned how to accept each other and fought for the freedom of their country. ... "They"re little monkey children that don't know how to control themselves!" ... "White men dying for you, time has come and hidey up and fight like men. Men dying by the thousands, dying for you, fool!" ... "We"ll be ready sir, when do you want us?" ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fenton died shortly after the birth of their daughter, Mary in 1864. ... The Dying Mother was a poem that dealt with a slave mother who became terminally ill. ... Also, don't marry a man because of what he has and how he looks. ... Our hearts grew heavy with sorrow, Our eyes with tears were blind, And little Jamie was wondering, Why we were left behind. ... We said that our precious mother, Had gone to that land so fair, To dwell with beautiful angels, And to be forever there. ...

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And I would die, and die gladly, if that would make a better life for them."... In Europe he discovered something that would change his view on all whites and how not everyone is the same. ... All we wanted to be was ordinary citizens. We fought during the war for America, Mississippi included. Now, after the Germans and Japanese hadn't killed us, it looked as though the white Mississippians would.....We knew we weren't going to get by this mob." ...

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It is something that we created yet also it creates us whether we mean to or not and it can have the power to add or detract from the person who we are trying to be. ... These different traits help mold our view of what it is to be masculine and feminine as we grow up. ... This clearly showed how Walker felt about what being a black man was about. ... She cared enough about the man and still helped him to live because she had some nurturing qualities in her that would not let her allow a man to die no matter the circumstance. ... We can assume that her message was feminine in a way beca...

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The people of Africa have suffered through much worse than the people of Iraq and we are doing almost nothing about it. ... "Recently he told his fellow black scholars that they must learn how to solve black poverty in a way that doesn't falsify the reality of black achievement. ... Though I agree with Horowitz to an extent, would all those people have died during the Civil War if we didn't begin taking slaves? ... However, how he says this scares away white America and makes them get defensive towards African-Americans in general, although only one African-American said this. ... A...

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The McTeer parents, who show us how, black parents govern. ... We come to know Pocola's idealized consciousness, and significantly we learn of her object of desire and the symbolic perpetrator for the central conflict and incongruity in the novel (Peterson 100) "Frieda brought her four graham crackers on a saucer and some milk in a blue-and-white Shirley Temple cup. ... Frieda and Pecola had a loving conversation about how cu-ute Shirley Temple was."" (Morrison 19) That was an excerpt from the book The Bluest Eye and in that scene we see how Pecola adores the cup with the pretty little wh...

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The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact." ... In 1977 alone fourteen political prisoners died while in police custody. ...

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It triggered many to see what he had done and what he had accomplished, and how he gave his life up to bring truth to the world. ... "My black brothers and sisters - no one will know who we are ... until we know who we are! We never will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are.! ... As long as we stay in these conditions we will keep on begging him and he will control us. We never can win freedom and justice and equality until we are doing something for ourselves !" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Racism is still among us no matter how much a person tries to avoid or deny it. ... A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... We should be celebrating this.... According to Republicans, ever since Obama was elected president racism has died. ... In a perfect world we would not have racism because we woul...

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We see this main focus through the plays read this semester. ... In a way, that shows how they needed each other. ... "We practiced reading and writing and discussed the news sent to us by the abolitionists... ... She felt that her and Boy Willie's dad died for the piano and they owed it to his memory to keep it in the family. ... Troy not once gave Cory any kind of encouragement which is why Cory had such resentment towards him even after Troy died. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I know this because she tells Dill, Scout and Jem that "We"re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us." ... He also says "How could they do it, how could they." ... She is brave because she wants to die with no drugs in her system. She doesn't want her life dictated and ended with taking the drugs and although she is in a lot of pain, because she isn't taking the medication, she wants to die with dignity. ... They also put an honest man on trial, which just shows how pathetic they are. ...

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The atrocities committed during the colonization times makes us realize how much we have changed and how civilized we are today. ... We know it is there and we know that it is affecting our society, but we ignore it by giving dull excuses. ... Those slaves traveled long journeys through the Atlantic, and the conditions in which they traveled makes us realize how horrible they were treated. Some of them died in the middle of the trip and were thrown to the sea as food for the sharks. ... We know we need them to do the jobs we would not do, but we do not recognize them as part of our country. ...

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Everyday individuals such as you and I are faced with basic choices such as what to wear, when we eat, and whom we befriend. ... A decision so difficult that it has more than one right answer and how it is tackled is definitive of who we are. ... These passages provide a look at how two men feel disconnected from the norms of society due to circumstances beyond their control. ... After all what more do we have here on earth after we die, certainly not fancy cars or big houses. What we do have left however is the morals we upheld and the legacy in which we left on this earth. ...

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This is how any father would think. ... For instance when --------- is telling Jake how to win, he states," Yeah, and one that would be half black" In order to win they say you need a jury that will be black, now since when did winning a case be possible by which color we choose. ... It's your mentality and how you use it. We are normally judged by what we see and not by what we hold inside us. ... Threats began about blowing up his house and slowly innocent people were dying or seriously hurt. ...

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Now if you think 5,000 is small imagine how many of those inhabitants were black. ... With such a small population of blacks how do you think DuBois felt? ... THE MAN AND THE MYTH When it comes to his personal life, there is no one alive that knows the facts, therefore, we can only go by written documents left by himself and people close to him. ... DUBIOS died happy and free yet he died on the eve of the march on Washington it's a shame he wasn't able to see it. He died at the ripe old age of 93 on august 27, 1963. ...

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But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more" (J.R.R. ... "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.... Here, she explains how "He" is compared to a woman's master when married. ... Is it because we are said to be weak, educationally impaired or is it because of the difference in body parts? ... King died trying to ...

• Word Count: 1861
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"Killing Rage" by Bell Hooks is a good representation of how racism, stereotypes, and the mass media all contribute to African Americans place in society. ... If they were aliens then we would know nothing about them, and well that is not true. ... When it comes to what we say and the way we act, you would think that we have no concept of the real difference. We all require the same necessities for life, we all have feelings, and we can all die. ... How often do you see something in the news paper about a black person doing something good for someone else? ...

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My siblings and I would go out and play in the street, because we didn't have the luxury of a backyard. We would sit on the stoop or just lean out of the window to watch out one another. Although we didn't have much we were happy. ... I remember him saying how much his life has changed for the better since he moved to New York. ...

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Men fell all around me How I got out of that fight alive I cannot tell but I am here. ... Remember if I die, I die in a good cause" (Pg.112). ... " On the contrary, in the same document, the women wrote to the mayor of the city stating, "We have agreed and are willing to pay $25 or $50 for licenses as protection, so we can control the washing for the city. We can afford to pay these licenses, and will do it before we will be defeated, and then we will have full control of the city's washing at our own prices as the cities have control of our husbands' work at their pri...

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According to this historical context, we can know that the national pride of blacks grew in this era. ... Many people may think there only the negative responses of whites in the Harlem Renaissance because according to Claude Mckay who was one of the most important poets and writers in the Harlem Renaissance, his poems If We Must Die and America both illustrated the negatives responses and whites in that time. ... So how whites got attentions for the Harlem Renaissance? ... So we can see white patronages had a significant role in the Harlem renaissance. ... As we can see, Whites wrote two nove...

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When his stepfather dies in 1943, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village to pursue his literary dreams. ... This is a story of how two African Americans brothers take their own path through life as they struggle to find meaning in their lives. ... Brenda Smith mentioned that "America has not realized Baldwin's vision; however, given the election of Barack Obama, perhaps we are closer to this kind of change than we were in 1961" (Smith 240). ... We can see "Baldwin as a key figure who opened up possibilities for African American writers in terms of love, desire, and sex" (...

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We are stopped by the officer and again we have roll call, but this time after our name is called we are told what tier we will be on and when our shower day is. ... As I am being escorted to my cell I notice as we walk by how small they are. ... I wonder how this will work. ... There is yelling, screaming, people playing chess, and my celly babbling on and on about how people are after him and that he is going to hell. ... Man I was dying for one. ...

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First, in 1968, he published Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as a bitter account of American racism. ... Sadly, he died of stomach cancer in December 1987, at his home in St. ... James Baldwin died, a man loved and respected by many. ... His open expression of hatred towards whites, we learn, leads to his death. ... Charlie, in other works Baldwin wrote of integration as a loving means through which we would force our "brothers" to love one another. ...

• Word Count: 1677
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• Grade Level: High School