When I walked into this diner I knew that this town was different, the youngsters were self absorbed in their selves. This was the town, which taught me about the other side of town, the side that didnt want Asian Invasions. ... One such Skinhead has been quoted thus: Up to a point it's against Skinheads buts it's good publicity for our cause. ... (Foxman 1996) So is that the answer to getting the levels of Skinhead violence down in our society? ... Violence in our society will always be relevant. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the sleepy Southern town of Maycomb, in the 1930s. ... Atticus knows that he is going to lose everything, and so does everyone else in the town. ... After Scout realizes that most of the town doesn't approve of what Atticus is doing, she asks him why he's doing it. ... Miss Maudie demonstrates this as she states to Jem, "I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world that were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. ... When the entire town turned against him, and looked down on him, she was there, standing by...

• Word Count: 1682
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

What the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) believes • That the White Race is the irreplaceable hub of our nation, our faith and the high levels of western culture and technology. ... • That the family is the strength of our nation. ... They moved into every place imaginable, plantations, cities, towns and villages looking for ex-slaves. The ex-slaves, the Union League, and the militia roamed the streets, verbally and physically hurting and abusing all of the white southerners, especially the wives and daughters of the villages, towns and cities. ... They were emotionally down from what had ...

• Word Count: 1063
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• Grade Level: High School

Pudd'nhead Wilson, originally called David Wilson, is a young lawyer who comes into the small town named Dawson's Landing. As he isn't recognised as a lawyer in this town, he spends most of his time in scientific hobbies like fingerprinting. ... They are very popular in this small town because of their extravagant appearance and because of being the only foreigners in town. ... Further on Mark Twain says "All the negroes were friends of ours and with those of our own age we were comrades, and yet not comrades; color and condition interposed a subtle line which both parti...

• Word Count: 3258
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Prejudice towards children is something that happens in school, our homes, and in all other places. ... We should try our part to get rid of it because to do so would make us all better people. ... A good majority of the town suddenly dislikes Atticus because he did what he knew what was right, but contradicted the social laws of the time. ... These parties, however, are just an excuse to gossip about town's people or an event in Maycomb. ...

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As the novel progresses, this innocence and faith is tested by the hatred and prejudice issues of the town that emerge during the main event of the story, the trial of Tom Robinson. ... First of all is the message about how separated the white people are to the coloured people in the town. ... This is demonstrated again as a black woman at the church states to Cal " You ain't got no business bringin" white chillun here - they got their church, we got our"n. ... I believe however that there is evidence of hope that the town of Maycomb will eventually begin to understand issues like t...

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She did this to show the public what kind of mockery and injustices some of the stores in town are making of African Americans. ... Donleavy was in the middle of his speech when he started deciding what race got what heroes. " ..what school official in the white-goddom of Little Rock had the right to decide that those two men (Owens and Brown Bomber) must be our heroes?" ... "Blacks, deprived of jobs based on the color of our skin, are now told that we ought to find it demeaning to be hired, based on the color of our skin (Williams; pg.104)." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This critical lens applies to the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird ,by Harper Lee because we the "evil" is being represents as the prejudice of the town. ... The people create the prejudice in this town, and so this prejudice is the "evil", which Conrad speaks about, the evil which men create. ... Characterization is used to more improve our prospect on the evil or the savagery the come from the children of the island. ...

• Word Count: 850
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Due to segregation black people were not allowed to go to the white people part of town. When white people entered the store, they were rude and nasty, "People in stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn't buy vanilla ice cream, except on July Fourth". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hostile confrontation was rare between the races or cultures that I knew of around the town of Ft. ... Like how Ruth McBride was taunted or robbed when she would ride her bike through a bad part of town. ... Although we did play certain teams that had racist players, we still never let them bother us when they tried to antagonize our team. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Set in a small southern town in the 1960s, Carl Lee Hailie (Samuel L Jackson) awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter Tanya (Raeven Kelly). A young, idealistic lawyer Jake Brigantz (Matthew McConauhey) takes up Carl Lee's defense, and the case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. ... But ultimately, it makes us think carefully about how we ourselves treat our fellow man. ...

• Word Count: 759
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• Grade Level: High School

As a multicultural town including Japanese and an Aboriginal population, conflicting attitudes towards these races could be expected. ... "They were marked people now, aliens in our midst." ... The Sennosukes" names had to be changed because their original names seemed " too foreign to our ears." ...

• Word Count: 581
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Angelou begins her story by describing the pure excitement and anticipation that the town of Stamps, Arkansas felt surrounding the graduation. ... Moreover, Angelou lists a variety of examples that display how the town and her family were elated for the graduation. ... Angelou professes, "The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galilieos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Gaugins, and our boys (the girls weren't even in on it) would try to be Jesse Owenses and Joe Louises" (28). ... Angelou begins her narrative when describing the elation that the town Stamps, Arkans...

• Word Count: 1074
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For our final dramatic criticism, I chose the film, Monster's Ball. This film illustrates the joining of two races and cultures in a small segregated town. The plot revolves around a white racist police officer, Hank (Billy Bob Thorton), and a black, soon-to-be widow of a death row inmate, Laticia (...

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• Grade Level: High School

Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

• Word Count: 1567
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While Rich's essay is a commencement speech for graduates of Smith college for women, hooks' essay reflects on her personal experiences as a young black woman from a small town who was educated at a prestigious university. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1865, six men from a small town in Tennessee accidentally began what has grown to be the largest and most feared "hate group" in the country. ... They would drag the person to the center of the town and hang them in front of everyone. ... When we give honor to these ideals we give honor to our ancestors and our White Christian culture" (The World Book Encyclopedia, 310). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Wanting to spread our ideas that has changed over the years by cultures and the way the world is seen through times like slavery, poverty and expansion. ... While they had their mansions and lived comfortably, many Americans lived in a company town. Like in Statement from the Pullman Strikers, everything in their lives was controlled, "when we went to tell him our grievances, he said we were all his children.... Something that he said was, "The Senator from New York said yesterday that the whole world had abolished slavery the name, but not the thing...God only can do it our slaves ...

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Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. ... A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan returning to the area. As the situation escalates, the national guard is called into town, while everybody is awaiting the trial jury's decision. ... One example are the different coffee shops in town. ... When the klansmen ar...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To Kill A Mocking Bird.... The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee touches on many different issues. The book touches many different sensitive and negative issues that our world faces today. The issue of race is at the root of the novel. Morals come into play when Atticus Finch...

• Word Count: 595
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• Grade Level: High School

The Sennosukes" names had to be changed because their original names seemed " too foreign to our ears." ... Some might argue that Hart is only caring about his love but when Hart secretly follows Mitsy around town the reader recognises Hart's personality of distrust. ...

• Word Count: 540
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• Grade Level: High School

This brings him to the day where he gives a speech to leading white community in his town so that he may be recognized. ... As if it weren't obvious enough, Ellison adds in that she also has a tattoo right above the split in her legs to throw the fact that she represents America in our faces. ... His history as an African American and the racism we know in our country are both examples of this story, and the symbolism helps you see that....

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We also get a sense of just how diverse our world really is. ... They soon became very good friends and one day mom bought Gemma to our house for us to meet her. ... She also said that in her town in Poland it was very common for girls my age to get married. ... Intolerance is one of the most atrocious things we deal with constantly in our world. ... Regardless of where we are from, our skin color, our language our heritage we are in many ways very alike. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The "problem with the color-line" is one of the many things that Du Bois brings to our attention in these essays. ... John is even told flat out by the Judge of the town that blacks are lesser beings than whites. ... John was under the impression, one that he got when he was studying at Princeton, that he could return home and make a difference for the other African Americans in his town. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After Walter Younger's business "partner" skipped town with a portion of the family's $10,000 inheritance money, the news is broken infront of his family that their hopes for the future have been stolen and their dreams for a better life were destroyed. ... As soon as he invested the money, his so-called friend skips town with it. ... But the fact is-that we called you over here to tell you that-this is my son, and he makes like the sixth generation of folks in this country, and we have all though about your offer and I have decided that we are going to move into our new house and...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School