The state workers felt Malcom was a delinquent child, and the state sent him to live in a home run by a white couple for wayward children. ... With his hopes and dreams shattered Malcom decided to move to Boston to live with his half sister Ella. ... He started out as a shoe shine boy, working at a dance hall for white dances and occasionally black dances when they were allowed. ... The white woman that he had an affair with until he went to prison, Sophia, he meet her in the dance hall where he shined shoes. ... After the shoe shine job outgrew Malcom, he went to work for the railroad d...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. ... After Interviewing Damion Anderson I now have a different perception of live it self. ... He had no choice other than to live a conservable life. ... We do not know how to live our lives without depending on society. ... One question I have always wanted answered is how could that individual live a sustainable life? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." Marlow and his shipmates, including the narrator whose descriptions of the scene fill the few breaks in Marlow's stories, loll on the deck waiting for the tides of the Thames River to change. To entertain his compatriots, Marlow begins to tal...

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• Grade Level: High School

The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. ... As portrayed by an Alabama farmer, "We have the power to pass stringent police laws to govern the Negroes; this is a blessing- for they must be controlled in some way or white people cannot live among them" (Alexander, 28). ...

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