Once or twice, we've worn prom dresses, tuxedos and even dressed in all blue for game days. ... Olive Wendell Holmes said, "A person's mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." ... Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, equality and freedom for their spirits. ... King's audacity. The future is waiting for us to build an environment of peace, understanding, and acceptance. ...

• Word Count: 674
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In The Green Mile, Stephen King depicts the racial prejudice as the theme encountered by the main character, John Coffey. ... Paul, the prison warden once told the sheriff who had accused John Coffey of murder, "Well at least there will be one less black man in the world, won't there? ... The sheriff once said, "John Coffey is a Negro, and in Trapingus County we"re awfully particular about giving new trials to Negroes,"(404). ... Martin Luther King once said during his famous speech, " we should judge a person not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". It can o...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Laws pertaining to affirmative action, and holidays such as Martin Luther King, Jr. day are honored and celebrated, but none of them, "fully honor at the bank", he says. ... In this passage aliens come to America at the start of the millennium offering gold , safe nuclear power and special chemicals that will restore the environment to its once pristine state in exchange for every African American male and female. ... He says: "We need leaders-neither saints nor sparkling television personalities-who can situate them- selves within a larger historical narrative of this country and...

• Word Count: 866
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

King was assassinated, the U.S. was in the latter part of the Vietnam War, and African Americans were fighting a war of their own for civil rights all history stuff, all stuff that has affected the world today. ... The very next year, Variety once again commended the show this time praising efforts in exposing the issues of prejudice. ... Julia paved a way for black shows in the future by sustaining through ridicule and a time where show experienced both positive and negative reception. ...

• Word Count: 726
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state, /I stand within her walls with not a shred/Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer." (8-10) Even though the speaker is bitter about the way that America has treated him, he does not harbor any malice or contempt. ... (11-14) These last lines show the speaker's feelings that America's attitude will not change in the future. As he looks "darkly" into the future it is clear that America has already wasted her potential to ethically be a great nation. ... Once he is strong, the white people can no longer ask him to eat in...

• Word Count: 1569
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He was considered a threat and named a "notorious Negro agitator " by the future first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. ... This apprenticeship not only established a base for his future involvements with newspapers, but it also taught him the means of delivering messages to masses of people. ... He wasted no time once back in Jamaica to start his own organization of which he planned to finally liberate his race through. ... Garvey settled in Harlem, New York once in the United States. ... "Where is his King and his kingdom?" ...

• Word Count: 2365
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Well Martin Luther King once said "White America wants us to pull ourselves up from our boot straps, but we don't have any boots". ... Past and future African American will continue to profit huge corporations and continue remain to be manipulated by Fortune 500 Corporations. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American dream is not only to accomplish your goals but to also feel comfortable and secure once they have been accomplished. ... This once again correlates to people having different American dreams based on their situations and struggles. ... Once again we see how our American dream can be affected by our race and were we come from. ... That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations - those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. ...

• Word Count: 2444
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Today, black defendants serve as much time in federal prison for drug offenses as white defendants serve for violent offenses-a result largely attributed to biases in federal statutory penalties for offenses involving crack versus powder cocaine (Mauer and King, 2007a). ... That is, racial differences persisted, and this persistence is difficult to understand especially once legally relevant sources of variation are addressed. ...

• Word Count: 2620
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This removal of their culture continued further once they were bought at a slave auction by an owner. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... For example, one may choose to go on an emotional journey in which they go back to their past and relive it in order to accept their future. ...

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. ... Many feel the system is administered almost exclusively by whites and designed to protect the white lives and property but provide minimal protection to the life and safety of minorities like Rodney King. ... Inequality has always existed in the United States legal system and continues to exist today; even though inequality presently in the system is not as blatant as what it once was, the system has come to depend on inequality. ...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Obama promised the black population change but as the musician Sam Cooke once sang, a "change is gonna come" but when he goes to his brother (the white man); Cooke continues to sing that he "winds up knocking me down, back down on my knees.... Eventually the black codes were overturned and the future looked brighter. ...

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• Approx Pages: 26

The United States was founded upon diversity. Racism in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. These slaves were not brought by will, but by force, and they faced great oppression while giving the dominant white race the blue collar resource that they so essentially needed in order to stake their claim in the new and soon to flourish United States of America. Plagued by hundreds of years of slavery, discrimination, segregation, hatred, and victimization, ...

• Word Count: 3113
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Once the North had defeated the South in the war, the slaves were freed from bondage, however, that did not mean that they would be free from the terrible prejudice that still permeated the country. ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

A view once skewed has become straighter. ... Martin Luther King Jr., telling the students wearing those shirts that Malcom and Martin had nothing in common, and to wear such attire was a disgrace to the glorious legacy of Dr. King. ... He meet gangsters and hustlers who would be key players in the future for him. ...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School