"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. ... Wells was not only willing to sacrifice for this cause, but also to die for it. ... In chapter two of WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER, the passage briefly describes how poorly records were kept and how flexible history was of manipulating the law to directly discriminate against African-Americans. ... CHAPTER 3 Chapter 3 discusses the prejudice that African-American women faced. ... CHAPTER 4 One of the more interesting paragraphs of Chapter 4 was how attempted "scientific studies" tried to s...

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The Colour Purple Chapter 1 The first few pages begin Walker's narrative of the life of Celie, a fourteen-year-old black girl who lives with her dying mother and her sister, Nettie. ... Soon Celie's mother dies, leaving her to tend to the family. ... Celie hides all this from her dying mother however, saying that God took the children. ... It's at this time when the reader realizes how much Shug cares for Celie. ... Chapter 5 In this section, Shug and Mr. __ begin flirting again. ...

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When she dies P98. ... When she is alive she is troubled and her face is always full of emotions but when she dies all that goes away from her. ... He also feels ashamed of how unhappy his wife is. ... In chapter 4 Crooks gets the chance to be horrible to some one else. ... The characters all speak in a 1930's American style, like in chapter one when George says to Lennie We ain't got any' and An' watta I got?'. ...

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Esther is out of her comfort zone when she goes to confront Barlo about her romantic feelings for him, when someone remarks 'so that's how the dictie niggers does it'.6 A dictie is defined as a black person who behaves as though they are white, is educated, or a black person who moves out of their racial or gender boundaries. ... Toomer continually struggled with his own identity 'I wrote a poem called "The First American", the idea of which was that here in America we are in the process of forming a new race, that I was one of the first conscious members of this race&#...

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The McTeer parents, who show us how, black parents govern. ... Instead of conventional chapters, The Bluest Eye is broken up into the four seasons. ... 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 while girl on it. ... Meaning there where no happy ending in 1941, the seeds of hope they themselves planted had shriveled and died, just like Pecola and Cholly's b...

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Life reverts back to almost how it was before slavery, with segregation and violence against blacks who step out of line. ... After Ned's death, Jane tells Cluveau that the chariot of hell will come for him and Cluveau later dies a fearful, painful death. ... In the final chapter of the book, Jane describes a boy named Jimmy Aaron, whom the whole plantation hopes will become the "one" who will save them all. ... In all cases, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman reminds us that we all hurt the in same ways "free and slaved, black or white, rich or poor. We all share this life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this case, in Chapter 6, the author tells about his past experiences going to Church with his family, and recalling his mother's true embrace of Christianity, her singing voice, the fact that she was the only white person there, and how odd and exaggerated Reverend Owen's sermons were whenever going to Whosoever Baptist Church. One afternoon at Church, Ruth McBride was weeping after hearing her favorite songs, like, "We've Come This Far by Faith," or, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus.... However, she didn't know how to drive, and was generally afraid to get...

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In the first chapter, the protagonist feels somewhat like a criminal in his secret. 3 This however was because of the codes set by society in 1912. ... The white children jeered at him and said, "Oh you"re a nigger, too"(p7), the black children admitted, "we knew he was colored". ... As a young child he was unable to comprehend how he could be black when he looked white. ... We also see the narrator's struggle with his identity as he meets a white woman he hopes to take for his wife. ... Shortly, after his wife died. ...

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Today we know this sand as the Sahara Desert. ... When Henry died in 1460, his sailors had only reached as far as the Canary Islands in West Africa. ... The educated Africans saw how the colonial rulers exploited their nations. ... When he died in 1873, most of his body was returned to England, but Livingstone's many friends buried his heart in Africa. ... Liberia's recent history is a sad chapter for a nation whose founding was steeped in freedom. ...

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He and his wife are childless, but adopt "Tom" when the judge's brother, Percy Driscoll, dies. ... Colonel Cecil Burleigh Essex dies the same year as Percy Driscoll. ... Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom...

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Before the story even begins, there is a page with only the words "Sixty Million and more": she is referring to the sixty million people who died as a result of slavery. This figure has been much speculated upon, and when questioned about it, Morrison says, "Some historians told me that two hundred million died. ... For twelve years, long before Grandma Baby had died, there had been no visitors of any sort and certainly no friends. ... "Here", she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. ...

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Before the story even begins, there is a page with only the words "Sixty Million and more": she is referring to the sixty million people who died as a result of slavery. This figure has been much speculated upon, and when questioned about it, Morrison says, "Some historians told me that two hundred million died. ... For twelve years, long before Grandma Baby had died, there had been no visitors of any sort and certainly no friends. ... "Here", she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. ...

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Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population then whites, so when the votes came about the blacks were voting for the republicans whom would be fighting for black people's rights, the ratio is said to be 4:1 blacks. ... Years later Pud would die in a car accident in 1924 leaving his wife Francis and their three boys Willie, Fred, James to fend for themselves and move to Augusta Georgia. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School