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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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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After the dream, he was courageous and willing to go fight the barbarians. The deep spiritual significance of the dream came to him when he was older and wiser. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... Black Elk realized that it was all a beautiful dream and it was over. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely ridiculous, because they were not the ones who invaded. ...

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After the dream, he was courageous and willing to go fight the barbarians. The deep spiritual significance of the dream came to him when he was older and wiser. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... Black Elk realized that it was all a beautiful dream and it was over. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely ridiculous, because they were not the ones who invaded. ...

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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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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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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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Where he will find his calling as a writer which will lead him to the north wear he will follow his dream. ... At an early age Richard was faced with having to defend himself. ... He is afraid to follow his dreams of moving up north so he can pursue his writing. ... He realizes the incredible power his words will eventually have. ... But once I got into it, I just couldn't seem to put it down. ...

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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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I have decided to focus on these five people to show you how terrible these white supremacist groups are. ... (resist.com) His comments on the United States have a very racist tone. ... I think that Hitler believed he was God. ... His dream was to make San Diego, "The most racist city in America."... He is much like Tom Metzger in his ideas, another racist bigot trying to change the world to Hitler's dream. ...

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People have their own ways of definition religion. ... The Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in his yard, white people burned his house and may have killed his father. ... " It was this devil who had burned his home, killed his father, institutionalized his mother, separated his family, encouraged him to abandon his dreams, and ultimately thrown him in prison. ... While Malcolm X's early messages called African American to reject discrimination and subjugation using all means necessary, including violence, he actually ended most of his meetings saying: "Do nothing unto anyone that you...

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After being through so much like going to Seattle for a dream, drinking, and chasing white women, Victor could only have the feeling of being alone. ... I wanted to be dead. ... No more Because when I closed my eyes like Thomas, I didn"t see a damn thing. ... I have to admit that I know some stereotypes of Native Americans of my own and believed them when I was younger. Not as severe as some but I still know some. ...

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I have no problem up to now. ... Blacks have also been shown to have higher crime rates than whites. ... Any crime committed by a white, is like a dream come true for the media. ... I doubt if this had been a black cop, punching a white criminal this would have received any media coverage or condemnation from blacks. ... I wonder why? ...

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King had a dream that little black boys and girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and girls. His dream came true. ... I don't know. ... I have friends that act this way. ... A better world, but a worse world is what I see. ...

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He has experienced the trials and tribulations that come along with having that distinction. ... While I agree he faced many of the same difficulties because of his race, I think he may have faced another kind of racism had he grew up in a more typical black urban setting like South Central. ... I believe if his blackness was truly an issue they would not have voted for him. ... Instead what they got was another politician who sold them dreams and made promises he couldn't deliver. ... They could have of course voted for the other guy. ...

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" The character has doubts of what is asked of him, feeling what his, "truth," is will not be accepted, having grown a man with different background. ... "I am the only colored student in my class.... (I hear New York too.) ... will I be plagued by my skin color for life? with everything I do? ...

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Literacy, in its turn, was denied from slaves because it would have given them access to perspectives on their condition and the ability to articulate and spread them among the reading public of the North. ... While Jacobs didn't consider herself to be a slave - "I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise"(Jacobs 3), Frederick Douglass had to re-learn to think of himself as a human being and a free man, rather than a property of someone or a slave. ... Jacobs's action goes against the appropriate moral codes of "The Cult of True Womanhood," but she writes - "I knew what I did, and...

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Words have the power to influence the world. When one chooses their words accordingly, they have the power to effect society and make prominent changes. ... He always followed his own dreams and never faltered, even when his own people didn't always agree with him. ... Through my research, I have found Hughes" younger years the most influential for his life works. ... "I am the darker brother. ...

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Through modernism, many of today's innovative ideas have developed. ... Other countries in the world have grown to accept African Americans as they have other ethnicities in the world. ... I built great castles in Spain and lived therein. I dreamed and loved and wandered and sang; then, after two long years, I dropped suddenly back into "nigger"-hating America! ... I know, too well, that the curse of God lies heavy on you. ...

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