After spending three years in prison for allegedly killing 3 black people one night, Derek is released and comes out as a new person. While in jail he had the worst days of his life and there was a time when he was brutally raped by his own gang members and the feeling and pain that he suffered, turned his life around. While in prison his brother Danny (Edward furlong), joins the white power movement in his hometown. ... When Derek meets Lamont, his coworker, while in prison. ...

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Soon after, two women emerged from the train and one claimed that she had been raped by these black men. ... The main reason that these two women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, claimed that they were raped was to obscure the fact that they were hobos as well as to avoid getting arrested. ... But I honestly understood why they would accuse these black men of rape. ... As the nine black men awaited a trial in Kilby Prison, the Communist party was rising and gaining support by blacks all around the world. ... Bates testified that Price told her to say that the black men raped her and that if she...

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When they verified what had happened, they informed the authorities and held Celia prison until she had a trial to evaluate the case. ... Until then, Celia remained in prison pregnant and waited the day of her execution. ... Later Celia would escape prison and be recaptured again after execution date. ... Raping of female slaves by their slaveholders occurred frequently in society since such rapes were not considered crimes. Recent historical documents demonstrate that female slaves were raped or at least threatened by rape once in their lives. ...

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Scout's father Atticus is asked to defend a black man in a rape trial, and he tries his best. Ultimately, Tom Robinson is convicted and sent to prison, all because of the color of his skin. ... Ewell's story that Mayella had been raped, except the testimony of Sheriff Tate. ... Ewell came in, very excited he was, and said get out to his house quick, some nigger"d raped his girl... But just because he was black, Tom Robinson was convicted for raping the girl. ...

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" ( Lee, 246) Mayella also feels compelled to accuse Tom Robinson of raping her. ... His generosity is not rewarded as he is falsely accused of raping Mayella. ... He is trying to escape from the prison. Obviously prisoners are forbidden from escaping the prison, but his desire to escape is understandable considering he is facing the death penalty for a crime he did not commit . The prison guards did not do their job properly. ...

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When Derek is released from prison his entire family comes to pick him up. ... Derek then explain s to Danny what happened to him in prison. While Derek was in prison he was the minority. ... Derek soon realized that in the prison things were a lot different then outside. ... He is jumped in the shower by the white gang he once was a part of and is raped. ...

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In the Scottsboro case the nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two white women. ... They kept getting reconvicted over and over until after 6 years of prison just though the court system, all were released except one who was later paroled and pardoned. ...

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"Prison sentences for black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years," according to an analysis done by the U.S. ... "Former Vanderbilt football player Cory Batey must serve a mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen to twenty-five years in prison for raping an unconscious woman, while Brock Turner will serve six months in jail for the same crime....

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The neo nazi gang punishes Derek by raping him in the shower. ... Derek's transition through prison is quite gradual but is some what accelerated by the incident that happened in the shower. ... The set of the prison was great because that it gave the impression of what Derek went through and how prison was a controversial place that the different races in the prison stuck to together for reason of security. ...

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The town of Maycomb was filled with racism, which is why Tom Robinson was convicted of rape. ... Earlier in the story, it was said that Boo Radley was supposed to go to prison but the sheriff did not have the heart to lock him up alongside of the negroes. ...

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You see, the "Greygoose" is a shuttle bus for inmates traveling between prisons, and my destination today is San Quentin State prison. I have just been sentenced to two years in state prison for committing armed robbery. ... And of all people to see on my first day in prison I see the ultimate killer, Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker. ... You see there are different rules inmates go by in prison. ... Well I was not going to go through the next two years of my life getting raped and being someone's slave, so I decided to prove myself. ...

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Malcom's grandmother was raped by a white man and his mother was the product of that rape, she passed onto Malcom the light coloring that he would resent later in his life. ... It was in Boston that Malcom began the life that would eventually land him in prison. ... Shorty would also go to prison with Malcom. ... His family tried to reach out to him while he was in prison, writing to him and visiting. ... Malcom began to participate in the debates at the prison and visited frequently with his family w...

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In a "recent year they were 56% of arrests for murder, 42% of arrests for rape, 61% of arrests for larceny and 40% of arrests for motor-vehicle theft. Also 46%of state prison inmates-i.e those actually convicted of crimes-were black" (Jackson). ...

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He is an enormous black man who faces execution after being convicted of raping and murdering twin sisters. ... Paul, one of the prison guards, explained John Coffey's abilities by saying, "Mr. ... 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? ...

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There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. You"ll also come across a very interesting interview that taught me a lot about the culture in America as compared to that of another country. Also, I"ll give my insight on what book and movie I feel can help someone understand the culture of the United States. ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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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. ... John Grisham himself claims that he was inspired to write the novel when he witnessed a rape trial in 1984 and was shocked by the young victims testimony. 2. ... "(Stasio) However, despite this presumed irrelevance in the 21st century, the book is still banned in a number of schools and prisons across the southern United States. There are different reaso...

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The novel is about a young black man bonded out of prison by a white landowner and placed under supervision. ... The sister had been raped. The brother is in prison for the murder and the mother was reduced to poverty. ...

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In the morning of August 14, 1908 the whites had found out that there were two black people arrested for raping a white lady. ... The sheriff, Henry Loper, who was concerned for his prisoners send them away to the safety of state prison. ...

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And the attendant self-consciousness and diminished self-image throb through her bodily prison until the bladder can do nothing but explode in a parody of release (freedom)- (Bloom3 5) Another struggle Maya faces in Caged Bird occurs when she is only seven years old and is raped by her mother's boyfriend. ...

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Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. The story is told through the life of a little girl, Scout Finch, and her relationship with the main characters her brother, Jem, fathe...

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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...

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"I do hold him responsible for exploiting the carnage and basking in the mayhem of urban America, where young girls are found raped and killed near their high schools, or where brothers are murdered standing outside their homes playing catch(1)." ...

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The texts of the records were very negligent (they used lax phrases such as "friendless boys and girls"), and very few of the crimes (rape, sexual exploits, beatings) in where African-Americans were victims were ever reported or recorded (2-33, W&W). ...

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History Coursework To What Extent Did The Key Political Ideas Directly Influence Change And Development In Your Chosen Period Of Study? Throughout the 19th and 20th century many political ideas have helped change and shape society, to what it is presently today. The list is endless for what each of these political ideas has achieved. These changes can be political or economic; however the change that is most conscious in the populations mind is that of social change. Equality was an important issue in many countries, especially Britain and America between the 1850's to 1950&...

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