She exclaims, "Lena – I'll work I'll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to – but we got to move! ... This dream of hers is similar to the American Dream at the time. ... Commenting on Ruth's statement about their not being black people living in Clybourne Park, Mama persists, "Well, I guess there's going to be some now (Hansberry 72). ... Please don't do it Man, not with that money oh God Don'...

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My American dream has been influenced by the problems, and circumstances that I have gone through in my life. ... I want to have a family, kids, and a husband. ... I came from having it all to having nothing. ... My American dream would have been different if I still lived in the Dominican Republic. ... Jose Vargas reminds me of when I came to this country and the dreams I had in his short story "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" because he shows how tough situations can lead us to have different dreams and aspirations. ...

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A Raisin in the Sun is a play about dreams and how an individual's dream can come into conflict with another individual's dream. ... Travis [will] have one of his own. And there's a yard where I could maybe get to grow me a few flowers"" (92). ... AND GOOD-BYE MISERY I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR UGLY FACE AGAIN!... His speech is softly modified into seemingly gentle ways to show how Northern whites deny racial discrimination, but the true intention is to protect the "hard-working, honest people who [have] a dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children...

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They are talking about a plan that he and his friend have to open a liquor store. ... Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. ... Man say: I got to take hold of this here world baby! ... Man say: I got to change my life I"m choking to death, baby! ... The plant also symbolizes her dream to own a house and more specifically to have a garden and a yard to tend to her plant and work on her gardening skills. ...

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That is one of the profound statements I read in the essay, "I Have a Dream," written in August 1963, by Baptist minister, civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. ... The first example is a famous saying, "I Have a Dream" (King 618). ... It tells of what he hopes his dream will be like when and if it becomes a reality, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of it's creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are treated equally"" (King 618). ... He shares in the essay a dream for his children, "I have a dream that my four ...

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Therefore we have to share his dream, share his goal, so you and I could share a world together. "I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. ... I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream tha...

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Martin Luther Kings" I Have A Dream speech made a great impact on the American culture. ... "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of creed. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the able of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice." By repeating I have a dream, martin Luther king mak...

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The dream of freedom that everyone wanted was still a question. ... But I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me-we two-you, me, talk on this page. (I hear New York, too) Me-who? ... Nor do I often want to be a part of you. ... Furthermore Hughes tried to focused on the egalitarianism in what the instructor have as much to teach to the student as the student to the instructor, and what a black could share with a white and a white with a black. ...

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I Have a Dream On August 28, 1963, when Martin Luther said the words "I Have a Dream" people listened, not just the blacks, but everyone. ... He is a very courageous man that stands up for what he believes in that is why I decided to pick his "I Have a Dream Speech" to write on. ... I have had three really good friends ever since I was real young. ... Things that still go on today would make King very unhappy and I am sure that there would have been many more speeches like the I Have a Dream speech if he would have stayed alive for longer. When Martin Luther King Jr. said ...

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Before his tragic death, he spoke one of the most important speeches in history, the I Have a Dream speech. ... He begins saying, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood even the state of Mississippi will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.... King's dream was every Negro's dream, to be free of the beatings, discriminating words, and to be able to call white men friends. "I have ...

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I"m like that old mule- Black-and don't give a damn! You go to take me Like I am. ... When is happens "They"ll see how beautiful I am/ And be ashamed-/ I, too, am America." ... "Thus the dream becomes not one man's dream alone, /But a community dream. /Not my dream alone, but our dream. / Not my world alone, / But your world and my world, / Belonging to all the hands who build." ...

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He dreamed of equality, he dreamed of peace, and most of all he dreamed of changes. ... In this poem, Langston Hughes emphasizes that African Americans have been dreaming for something that seems like it will never come. He also describes how important dreams are and to never let them vanish. ... "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro-and beautiful" (The Nation Magazine). ...

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Many people have tried to solve this problem in many ways. ... Addressing the protestors, Martin delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" oration. ... Even after the deaths of his family members he declared "I cannot hate any man."6 Some of the many statements Martin made have been listed below. ... I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. ...

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"I want to be a modern woman. I still have a nostalgic Afro, though it's stylishly short. ... Her status made her writing have a presence of loneliness, unfulfilled hopes and family issues. ... It's just that like most writers I think I think best when I"m not actually thinking about it, so I carry a book that allowed me to put either something I have thought up as being very clever or, most likely, something that someone else said that I would one day like to use. " (Giovanni, Let's Sweat from Sacred Cows and Other Edibles pg. 99) Sacred Cows and Other Edibles is one book t...

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My wound went deep; I felt that I had been slapped out of the human race." ... From this scene in the novel, I learned that if you want to do something in life you have to believe in yourself, stick with it throughout your life, and you have to believe in what you are doing from the first day you start it, instead of giving up. ... Whites were humbled by the revelation that they were just normal, not the heroes of their dreams. ... I have to say that he is very courageous to write about himself. ... I think that to overcome and achieve what he had achieved requires control of emotio...

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"I have a dream- are the famous words stated by Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28th, 1963 in civil rights movement speech (King). Although King expressed his feelings on that summer day in 1963, his ideas directly reflect his life previous to the speech and have a huge impact on many people even today. ... King made his "I have a Dream" speech to all the people present, and millions watching on TV (Moritz, 220). ... After gaining the knowledge of King's amazing triumph over the white racists and previous laws, people were more willing to dream and establish their own goals. ... King...

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As I go on, I will discuss the nature of the short story and how it affected me. ... What faces him is something that he never would have imagined. ... I think that this scene humiliates the author. ... He then had a dream that night. He dreamed about what his grandfather had said earlier. ...

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"I Have A Dream" is a famous speech that approached every desire and ideal he sought for through the civil rights movement. ... This abandonment of the Negro people has shown that the Constitution and Declaration of Independence have now been proven faulty and dishonest. ... King's central idea of the "I Have A Dream" speech is not to gain sympathy and pity from fellow citizens through references to the past, but to solely seek equal treatment that the Negroes of America have so desperately needed. ... When all of the desires and needs are met, the man who asks, "When will you be satis...

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Malcolm-X Term Paper They were black men who had a dream, but never lived to see it fulfilled. One was a man who spoke out to all humanity, but the world was not yet ready for his peaceful words," I have a dream, a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of it's creed that all men are created equal." ... I never have figured out why I told him, "Well, yes, sir, I've been thinking I'd like to be a lawyer.". ... We have a common enemy. ... One of the major troubles that I was having in building the organization that I wanted-a...

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I came to the conclusion of Mary McLeod Bethune. I thought that I should be the one to analyze such a great educator and leader, and find what she did for the African Americans as far as education was concerned and how she established her own school. ... If it were not for Mary being sent to Sumter, South Carolina, she would have never met her husband. ... That did not stop Bethune from fulfilling her dream. ... Bethune had a dream and she would not rest until the dream was fulfilled. ...

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The protagonist holds tight to the American dream, which is sought by all men, and of all races. ... I infer that if he had known the result of him revealing his true race would make her run, he would have "passed" once more. ... "My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise". ... Sometimes it seems to me that I have never really been a Negro, that I have been only a privileged spectator of their inner life; at other times I feel that I have been a coward, a deserter, and I am possessed by a strange longing for my mother's people". ...

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But, what do people do if they do not have "others"; what if they are lonely? ... Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. ... I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind"(56).Margarite understands from her uncle's speech that she is smart and has a good mind to create her future and begin to believe in herself. ... From the youngest age she has a dream "To look like one of the sweet little girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with the world" (1). But Margarite's uncle brakes her dream and tells her that she has a mind and that cost...

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If it had not been for the lack in support from a few other notable African Americans of the time, there is no telling what Garvey could have done or who his dreams would have inspired. ... Just as it had been done against Germany during World War I by America, England, and France all together, allowing these countries to have the peace they had already individually gained. ... I asked, "Where is the black man's Government?" ... I could not find them, and then I declared, "I will help to make them." ... "The idea comes to Garvey that black people need a shipping line, and he bases his id...

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Troy doesn't believe that his son, Cory can be successful in his dream, football, because of his perception that it is exclusively a white man's sport. ... I done seen him. ... Troy states, "I got to thinking that if I tried I just might be able to steal second-. (2.1.1501) Troy emphasizes to his son, Cory, the boundaries that are about to be exceeded in Troy's threshold of tolerance for him. ... It may be age, which limits a person's ability to pursue dreams best sought at a young age. ... Some people have problems or circumstances to contend with out of no fault of t...

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He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...... (Life of Langston Hughes: I, Too, Sing America) At this same time, Hughes accepted a job with Dr. ... (www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm) Among his many poems, The Negro Mother (1931), The Dream Keeper (1932), and Montage Of A Dream Deferred (1951) argue passionately a belief in human equality, a wish for color-blind brotherhood, and a growing disillusionment with the American dream. ... Critics have mistaken the simple form of language of Hughes's poetry for shortage of meaning. His real meanings a...

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