This is we first get a glimpse of how important reading and writing are to Richard. ... He is afraid to follow his dreams of moving up north so he can pursue his writing. ... At the end of the book, Richard is joined a Communist Black Party, where he writes in there journal, stories, and events that are taking place. Richard is looked up to at first for his writing, but then members of the Communist Black Party, make him out to be a traitor, because of his strong feelings that he conveys in his writings. ... It was written in a way that it was told almost as a story then an autobiographica...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Later on in her writing career, her areas of writing spread to politics and children's books, allowing a greater audience to relate to what she had to say. ... The Ladies" Home Journal magazine gave her an award at age thirty, "some black leaders said Giovanni should not have accepted an award from a mainly white organization. ... Her writing hit and influenced the lives of many people. ... As times changed, Nikki changed in her areas of writing. ... Her life as a singly mother also affected her writing. ...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I became interested in this subject when writing a paper on reverse discrimination, when writing this paper I noticed that many cases of affirmative action have turned out helping other people and at the same time upset people. ... I spent approximately one days writing the questions, two days finding the people to give the surveys to and one day recording all my data. I collected data from four main sources books, Internet, journals, and surveys. ... Using books and journals definitely helped in my research. 4. ...

• Word Count: 2239
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

While there he nurtured his writing skills by having a large involvement in the school newspaper. ... He kept journal to keep track of his thoughts and practice his writing skills. ... Baraka commented on the books in a interview with Kimberly Benston, published in Boundary 2: "I was really writing defensively. ... And saw the revolution that was going down there and the many intellectuals who where making stride trough their writing to show their feelings about "Cuba Libre." ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black litera...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Claire Oberon Garcia of the International Journal of Francophone Studies stated, "The presence of this middle-aged black woman in this venerable public arena was itself a living challenge or negation of contemporary constructions of race and gender in that it instantiated a black woman's determination to inscribe her own historical agency.... According to Ravenscroft, "Where once modernism was celebrated for carrying the past forward, it now tends to be seen as writing against the narratives of Western history; where once modernism upheld the value of traditions, now it critique...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School