The mercantile obsession of Selig is not only focused on the sales of products made by Seth, but he is known as the "People Finder" (Wilson 2042). ... His great-grandfather transported slaves for their owners, and Selig himself locates displaced people for a fee. ... In his effort to discover his song, Bynum selects one that differs from his father's, but one that, nevertheless, promotes goodwill toward people. ... While Loomis is staying there, Bynum talks of a man who finds people for a fee. ... All four men, be it spiritual or economic happiness, have found peace within their lives...

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With all of these people moving into Chicago there had to be more housing, and there were many houses built to accommodate all the people. ... Lindner's proposal to not move into Clybourne. ... Chicago boomed with people and it was hard for some people to find housing. ... It was wrong and unconstitutional what people did to African Americans just so they wouldn't move into their subdivision. Today all people are free to move and live wherever they want to be. ...

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Richard had many reasons on why he wanted to move to Chicago. However, he also had motives that caused him to move. ... With this job, Richard experiences total demoralization and feels very violated by the white people that he becomes ashamed. ... Eventually they become reunited and move to Jackson. ... Richard knows that he must tell people a lie about moving to Chicago because the Southern white people do not like when blacks move to the North because it implies that the blacks do not like the way they are treated in the South. ...

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Black people were not allowed to live in white neighborhoods, children had to go to different schools and they were not allowed to use the same public facilities as the white people such as, bathrooms, public transportation, water fountains, and some public places. ... When the Youngers moved to Clybourn Park nothing happened to them. She did not show all the bad things that happened to her or to her family when she moved with only one purpose. ... She wants black people, as her father, to keep fighting to end segregation. She does not want black people to lose their hope to ever get equality...

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They were afraid that presence of the black person in the neighborhood would drive the prices of homes down and that more black people may move in to neighborhood. ... Toward the end of the movie she takes the kids and moves in with her mother to Indiana. George comes to grips with his blackness so he moves into black neighborhood and opens up his own insurance agency. Overall this movie paints a good picture of society and the way people deal with race. ... People thought that his penis size is bigger, kid in the store thought that he was there to rob him. ...

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In the movie Native Son Thomas Bigger speaks of talking back and fight for his rights against white people, but Bigger keeps all his thoughts and actions to himself while around white people. ... However, unlike Bigger Thomas Richard Wright shows his hate more openly and talks in a normal tone of voice to a white people when black people are expected to talk in a lower softer weaker voice that that of the white people. ... Bigger Thomas never met his Father and couldn't afford to go to school or to move to a different and better place, he was forced to work to feed himself as well as hi...

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Middle-aged Karl Lindner acts as the spokesman for the white community into which they plan to move. ... Since the whites think blacks as people who cause trouble, Karl thought he could get Walter to sell-out his race. During this era, it was an understood norm that poor blacks do not move into white neighborhoods. ... Lindner states that people are happier when they are segregated, how Linder expresses it shows that the community views blacks as trouble. White families had the fear that if they allowed the Youngers to move into their community, slowly more and more blacks would start to move ...

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It is about the same size and it is the same in every aspect except one, there are no black people who live there. ... I can't understand how people can believe that there are such huge differences between them. One of my friends told me about a black family that moved into the town once. He said that they had a girl that was his age and him and his friends were friends with her, but like after a week the family just moved. ... All the towns around Chapmanville have quite a few people of different races and they don't seem to care either. ...

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Like a turtle, I was somewhat hard on the outside, moved at a slower pace, and was afraid to be myself. ... Most turtles move at a much slower pace than other animals. I moved at a much slower pace than other people. ... I am now competing confidently in Pageants on stage in front of hundreds of people. ... We both had hard shells but soft insides, moved slowly, but didn't let it stop us, and were afraid to be who we really were. ...

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I realized this when my family moved from southern California to Oklahoma in the summer of 1989. ... Yet when I moved to Oklahoma I discovered that many of the small towns around me were segregated. ... He said that keeping people around me that were trouble meant that people would look at me as being trouble. ... People like what, I thought. ... My husband had a crippling wreck and we were forced to move into public housing. ...

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In the end though, a better life will prevail due to hard work and determination, overthrowing the negative association colored people have to face. ... "And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father-he earned it for us brick by brick." The Younger family ignored the negativity of one white man and moved from an old and small apartment to a large, nice house. ... "My son said we was going to move and there ain't nothing left for me to say." ...

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As she would be fresh and ready in the morning and he would be still in bed trying to get the courage to move his legs. ... "( 221) Johnson refused to move since he had been too tired and could not muster enough energy to move his legs. ... He finally got up end moved saying I'm better of living on the subway there is more space for me there. ... The violent behavior is only seen in people when they cannot control their urges. ...

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She then saw racial differences between blacks and yellow skinned people. ... Then again when her and her family moved to a new town after her mom divorced her dad and her mom's new boyfriend was yellow and the rest of his family was yellow. The yellow people didn't like her mom just because she was black and was going out with a yellow skinned male. ... Like when she moved after her mom divorced her dad the white kids had roller skates to play with as she only had her siblings to play with and make up games for her and her brother and sister to play. ... Then the dark skinned pe...

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People come to the United States because of the opportunities that exist; we are called the Land of Opportunities. ... Minorities that want to move into neighborhoods or live in apartments receive special privileges known as section 8 or government financing. ... More jealousy arises from American's when a minority moves into a middle class neighborhoods the neighbors feeling that they will ruin their development by doing things like having loud parties, not taking care of their property, and bringing "un-wanted" guests into the neighborhood. ... This is also another from of discriminatio...

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From 1948 when her family moved out of the projects and into the large wooden house on Center Street she is driven into the world of white hostility. Her family was the first black family to move into the area soon to be dubbed "Dynamite Hill" due to upcoming racially motivated hate bombings. ... Angela speaks of her mother, "through her own political work, she had learned that it was possible for white people to walk out of their skin and respond with the integrity of human beings. She tried so hard to make her little girl see white people not so much as what they were as in terms of their po...

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I moved from place to place a lot when I was a kid, and when I was thirteen, my parents decided to have me pack up again and move to South Korea to study for a year. ... The first semester of school, I didn't have any friends; it was tough for me to take the steps necessary to meet new people - especially my peers. ... I became very timid and insecure, and afraid to communicate with other people. ...

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Some African-American people will never forget the way they and their ancestors were treated by the "white" people. ... Some white people still think that black people are no good for anything but being slaves. ... One of these people who said that it was a racist crime is part of an African American organization and he says that there is an imaginary line in Staten Island where on one side are the white people and on the other are the black people. ... Where she moved to were only some Asians and Spanish people. I was kind of surprised to see the way she occasionally glanced at them with a ba...

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In early Americas black people were not considered people but animals. ... In theory, people are equal in the eyes of law but it is not real in society. ... Sometimes people are racists because they are ignorant of change. ... So they only have the belief like the majority of the people. ... But if we move to a more civilized society, we can gradually decrease racism and prejudice. ...

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In early Americas black people were not considered people but animals. ... In theory, people are equal in the eyes of law but it is not real in society. ... Sometimes people are racists because they are ignorant of change. ... So they only have the belief like the majority of the people. ... But if we move to a more civilized society, we can gradually decrease racism and prejudice. ...

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Above she and Claud were people with a lot of money and much bigger houses and much more land. ... His daughter lives in New York, but Tanner wants to move back to Georgia. ... Because Tanner was residing with a black employee, his daughter makes him move in with her. ... Across the hall, a young black couple moves in. ... These stories show that no matter one's position in society or race, people are just people. ...

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That change was bringing jazz to the attention of white people and the mainstream. ... One of the other changes for the African Americans in the 1920's was that they were starting to move out of the rural southern part of the country and into the north and the big cities. ... Some of the main cities that the blacks moved to were Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Cleveland. ... One of the ways that the white people tried to keep blacks from buying the houses was by making "residential segregation ordinances", which were bills that said that black people couldn't come into all-white n...

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He had a great impact on people whose lives were touched by his. ... People took his dream to be their dream and different people from all walks of life saw this dreamer (King) as the conscience of the whole nation. ... This phrase serves as an exclamation point on an emotional speech that is sure to deeply move the reader. ... King's speech had to be on a level for the common people to completely understand it. ... Overall his argument moves the reader; it makes them feel really human. ...

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Few white people had remorse at all for all of this bloodshed. ... Blacks were not allowed anywhere where they would interact with white people. ... Manufacturing quadrupled from 1865-1900, and more and more people moved to big cities. Serious overcrowded cities developed, and middle and upper class city-dwellers moved into suburbs. ... As big business grew and started developing monopolies, many people started to respond against it on an economic and social level. ...

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Walter is also constantly talking about how the white people are always trying to keep the black man down. ... The prejudice of the white people in the story is widely seen in one incident. ... Johnson also talks about the fire bombings of Black Americans that moved into "white neighborhoods". The Prejudice white people were the modern Gestapo of America. ... If the white people would try to understand the black population and if the Black Americans would understand each other and the white people, we would have a utopia. ...

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The theme of the story is that of the plague of social bigotry of the people of the South in the time of desegregation. O"Connor suggests to us, not only in the title but, throughout this short story that people often resist to growing away from egoism towards self-awareness and love for all humankind that is so necessary for life to converge in equality. ... He takes refuge in dreaming of his grandfather's magnificent old plantation house because "all the neighborhoods they had lived in had been a torment to him-" He gloomily proclaims, "Some day I"ll start making money", even though h...

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