During our viewings the issue regarding conflict in color, light skin and dark skin, did not strike me in any of the two movies. ... In "Within our Gates," the alcoholic character was portrayed a darker skinned man. ... "Within Our Gates" not only confronts the race problem but also displays the lifestyle and attitudes of the black middle class. ... After Gridlestone was shot and killed by a white farmer Efram was the one to run around town to accuse Jasper in order to gain favor of the white men who would be looking to avenge his death. ... History plays a large role in the film and the flas...

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• Grade Level: High School

Fear and hate go hand-in-hand, resulting in a display of social injustice and prejudice in our society. ... Her father beats and abuses her for no reason, to pass the blame he ridicules her in front of the town. ... In the town of Maycomb if a black man is accused, he is guilty. ... Like Atticus, Dolphus Raymond does not care what the rest of the town thinks of him because he knows his ways are correct. ... To cover up for his actions, he plays the "town drunk", he pretends to drink alcohol from a brown paper bag, but Scout discovers it is nothing more than Coca-Cola. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel touches upon many subjects and gives the reader a vivid image of the attitudes and actions of people living in a typical southern town during the 1930s. ... What Atticus Finch calls "the evil assumption that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women" (Lee, 204) basically summarizes the attitude of the citizens of Maycomb toward a race they consider far beneath them. ... In a town where most children "had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk," (Lee, 16) Scout and Jem value li...

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Racism in "A Lesson Before Dying" plays a key role in the development of the story. ... It also shows in how the blacks are treated by whites in the town. ... He also wanted to run because he believed he was nothing and meant nothing to the town. Grant even says, " We black men have failed to protect our women since the time of slavery," (166). ...

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In the beginning of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice and racism. ... It seemed like Atticus had almost encouraged them to find their own way, despite the disapproval of many in town; overalls were allowed for Scout, a female, and they had free run of the surrounding few houses during the day. ... Another way Aunt Alexandra introduced Jem and Scout to social prejudice was how she wouldn't let Scout play with Walter Cunningham. Because the Cunninghams were farmers that lived out of town, Aunt Alexandra regarded...

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• 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. ... Merriweather played her voice like an organ; every word she said received its full measure: 'The poverty the darkness the immortality "...

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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. ... There wasn't a better way to wrap up a year of great plays and films. ...

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If the same scenario occurred involving a white individual in place of a Middle Eastern man, it would be virtually impossible to say racial/ethnic profiling played any role in the event. ... Since history shows that young adult Middle Eastern all played major roles in the 9/11 tragedy, than it makes sense for airline officials, and those in charge of searching people, to keep a slightly closer eye on those that fit that description. ... While almost everyone is capable of committing virtually any crime, certain ethnicities have tendencies to be responsible for certain crimes and offences tha...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book touches many different sensitive and negative issues that our world faces today. ... Morals come into play when Atticus Finch takes the case of a black man accused of rape. ... I personally felt that the racial issue plays the most significant part in the trial. A black man being tried by white people of a segregated town seems very unfair. ...

• Word Count: 595
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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. ... Many of the people who play smaller roles in Atticus and Tom's life each do their part to help. ... 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 job...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

Issues such as racism, the coexistence of good and evil, the development of conscience and the transition from childhood to adulthood, are present in the novel and play a big part in expanding my understanding. ... 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&#...

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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. ... This huge symbol plays a huge in role in how the power is structured between the races in history, and who controls it. ... The fact that the ring was portable plays a very important role when relating to the rest of the story. ... His history as an African American and the racism we know in our...

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He also won the Guggenheim Fellowship for his play, The Amen Corner (1954). ... Charlie is a story/play loosely based on the murder of the black youth, Emmett Till, in a small town in Mississippi in 1955. ... The play, Blues for Mr. ... Mainly his plays are thesis plays-talky, over-written and cliché dialogue and some stereotypes, preachy and argumentative. ... Charlie, in other works Baldwin wrote of integration as a loving means through which we would force our "brothers" to love one another. ...

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What Are People Really in Search Of In his play, Joe Turner's Come and Gone August Wilson dramatizes the introduction of African Americans into the industrial economy of the twentieth century. Wilson's play takes place in a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911. ... Recognizing that all characters in this play are on a search for self-actualization, the search by the characters Seth Holly, Rutherford Selig, Bynum Walker, and Herald Loomis is not motivated by practical consideration, but rather economic opportunities and spiritual renewal. ... He travels from town to town selling hi...

• Word Count: 1250
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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. ... The play opens with Lena Younger awaiting the coming of a $10,000 insurance check from the death of her husband. ... 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 c...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Near six o"clock on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grady County in southern Georgia" (Rampersad 10). ... From there, Robinson went on to play in the Negro Leagues. Robinson played with players such as Josh Gibson, Sam Bankhead, and Satchel Paige. ... Race will not just be a huge factor in sports, but in every aspect of our society. ... Are our beliefs in twenty-first century America still so archaic that we cannot hire a person with a skin tone other than white or someone other than European descent to coach our profes...

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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. ... Similar criticism came forward in 2013, when the novel was adapted again, this time to become a Broadway theater play. ... One example are the different coffee shops in town. ... Out of these economic problems that play a big part in the novel, Carl Lee can only pay Jake $900 to take his case, and is unable to g...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It's hard to believe, but this little old lady has such a big influence on our culture. ... The biggest part of our culture is food, and everyone loved being at grandma's house for Sunday's or holidays. ... We had to speak with proper English and no cursing, we also had to have our clothes ironed before we could leave the house, as well as our shirts tucked in. ... We do not know how to live our lives without depending on society. ...

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Black Boy Throughout life, our memories are full of senses that keep us linked to our past. Due to familiar senses, we can look back in our head and see images we once knew. ... These images are captured through our five senses and we can remember our past. ... "There was the great joke that I felt God played on cats and dogs by making them lap their milk and water with their tongue" (Wright 1944). ... In the line, "There was the bitter amusement of going into town with Grann...

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Yet when I moved to Oklahoma I discovered that many of the small towns around me were segregated. ... Carrie later explained to me that most people think if you are black that you are trouble, just our traits I guess. ... So as you can see from my experiences with people race does play a part in people's initial reaction to one another. ...

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Another concern Mayella has is being ostracized by the whole town of Maycomb. ... Atticus elaborates on this idea during his closing argument at the trial saying: "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with...she tried to put the evidence away from her.... Boo was filled with despair looking out of the window, seeing kids playing and having fun. ... Tom Robinson is an innocent man who loses his life simply because he is black in a town with immense ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To succeed, we need to learn from our own mistakes, and live with the weight of our decisions. ... Being a leading lady in the town, she didn't like being in authority. ... "Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwning grins over his shoulder. ... She didn't need to be with him for protection, or she didn't need to be the leading lady of a town or a mayor's wife, she just needed the right kind of love and affection to bring out what was best in her. ...

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As known, police and the law should play justice and equality in the society, but even they're being injustice to African/American people, by not treating them equally and providing them with security as provided to others. ... The fear and shame that Akinsiku had felt when he passes by a police officer, and secure his status as one of the good ones by a plastic ID card, is also a form of bullying.For example, there was a girl named Rebecca back in my town in England, who was bullied every single day, that she feared going to school. ... Humans are visual animals, meaning that our first ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. ... Slavery played an enormous role in the formation of Canada. ... Among black loyalist communities, the largest was called Birch town, which had a population of over 1500 Blacks, it was located in the southern tip of Nova Scotia. ... Many other Black support groups were also formed and this was good because it helped raise racial and political awareness and the Federal Government was forced to r...

• Word Count: 2905
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• Grade Level: High School