His racist views are untaught when he has to spends three years in prison. ... Lamont is in prison because he stole a television set, trippes and accidentally drop's the tv on a cops foot, so the officers charge Lamont with assault. ... Derek sees Lamont's point more clearly when Derek is raped in the shower for betraying the same skin head group he once trusted. In prison Derek realizes all of his mistakes of joining a racist organization when he is asked "Has anything you"ve done made your life better?"...... ...

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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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Derek is let out of prison after three years for killing two black people because they were breaking in his truck. ... After Derek is let out of prison, Danny is assigned to write a paper about him and the paper is titled American History X, probably because how Derek used to be is now history and he has changed over the years he was in prison. ... The only part of the movie I didn't like was the rape scene in the prison. ...

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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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 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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Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial "melting pot" and it has become a force with which to be reckoned. Today, American music represents people who would have never dreamed of being heard or taken seriously even as little fifty or sixty years ago. ...

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