She believes having bright, beautiful, blue eyes will make people love and care for her. ... In this story, postwar middle-American black communities use the image of Shirley Temple in the same way southern creoles created the infamous "paper bag test- to exclude darker skinned blacks from the higher tiers of African American society. ... Bobby loves Pecola!' ... She loved taking care of their daughter. ... Pecola's belief that her parents would love her if she had blue eyes is strengthened even more. ...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It took the American democracy several years to enforce equality among whites and blacks. Several authors such as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen confronted this situation of the incomplete American dream with literature that proposed the irony of its society. These works focuse...

• Word Count: 548
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Gaines loved to tell and listen to stories. ... He believed that everyone should love one another, begin to love each other, and to survive with one another. ... The novel portrays numerous clashes between her and father love. ... Catherine was torn between her love for her boyfriend and the love for her father. ... They are faced with struggles that test the conviction of personal beliefs. ...

• Word Count: 1754
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Though he loved Mexico, he hated his father, a mercenary that had no time to enjoy life. ... Thirty-one years at the time, Hughes had reluctantly accepted the fact that he was homosexual; he was surprised himself to find himself in love with a woman. He had a love affair. ... Tests indicated he had a swollen prostate gland, and his physician recommended surgery. ... In the United States Hughes was both loved and hated for his lifelong stand against racism. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

If one is to discuss and problem solve an issue, he or she must first know what the issue is truly about. Affirmative action is defined as the equal opportunities given to women, minorities, and small groups so they will have the same tools, education, and allotment to achieve their goals in life. S...

• Word Count: 4281
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

She is clearly loved by the family but by no means is she their equal. ... There were also extensive literacy tests that had to be passed. ... He pretended to be a drunk so he didn't have to explain the fact that he was simply in love with a black woman. ...

• Word Count: 1427
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

That same year, Hurston set aside time to more deeply explore her love for anthropology. ... Hurston offered to take a lie detector test to prove her innocence, but the police did not pursue this (Grade Saver; Zora Neale Hurston). ... "God does love black people, doesn't He?" ...

• Word Count: 1464
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Under the impression that both more freedom and dignity in his sporting profession lay overseas, he would travel to Ireland and England to attempt to test his skills and money-making opportunities at the still-tender age of twenty-six. ... Unfortunately, the public's love for Cribb, and the "atrocity" of a man of color taking away the title from such a beloved figure, would prove disastrous for Tom Molineaux. ...

• Word Count: 1065
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

It was a philosophy with broad appeal, which is why it stood the test of time and now, fifty years later, after Hitler had died, his legacy was the hate in Bryan Freeman's heart, hate that was born from rigid, unloving parents, hate born from a religion that demanded he stay an outsider, hate born from kids looking at him funny because he didn't have a birthday or Christmas dinner, hate born from too many tears and too little love. ...

• Word Count: 1188
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

King, putting Gandhis techniques of nonviolent protest to the test, supported and participated in a sit-in demonstration organized by Atlanta college students. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was and always will be loved by people all over the world. ...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Definition of America as seen in the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay America is a place that many people associate with equality, opportunity and the promise of a good life. This idea has existed for centuries and continues to be prevalent even today. When many people think...

• Word Count: 1569
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• Grade Level: High School

Symbolism in Ralph Ellison "Battle Royal". "Battle Royal," by Ralph Ellison was a very difficult piece of literature for me to understand since I didn't grow up in the african american society. One boy is invited to speak at local men's club where he will deliver his graduation spee...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She should love her blackness and embrace her sexuality rather than hide from it and ignore its existence. Bennett writes the poem surrounding the woman's blackness by starting off with, "I love you for your brownness " signifying that her beauty lies within her skin color (line 1). ... Although opposing Bennett's idea that slavery is not empowering, Claude McKay sees slavery as a source of power in his sexual poem, "America. " With the opening of the poem, McKay makes it clear that the America he visualizes is a woman as he writes, "Although she feeds me bread of bitterness/And sink...

• Word Count: 2535
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

Walker's collection of composing is described by particular intermittent themes, of which the most clear is Walker's regard for the Black woman as a creator and how her endeavor to become whole relates with the community as a whole as can be seen in her novel as the primary subject; an alternate theme that is seen is her requirement on examining the relationship in the middle of battle and change, a testing that incorporates the torment of black peoples' lives. ...

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality education, to escape from oppression, the right to self pride and an end to stereotyping. Blacks everywhere got fed up with being treated as if they were inferior and slaves, so they banded together to form a movement. Not just any kind of movement, but a movement that would see victories as well as viole...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

King told that through the power of love, blacks would win the hearts and consciences of their oppressors. Nonviolence was the path to a "Beloved Community-, the actualization of the "Kingdom of God-, a society "in which men and women live as children of God should live a kingdom controlled by the law of love-. ...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School