Listening to his speeches sends chills up my spine and it is a shame that it took 15 years for me to hear of him. ... Frederick Douglas was uneducated, was never officially taught how to read, or given instructions and yet he had the God given gift to produce moving speeches and first-rate novels. ... Vocabulary The vocabulary used in this film about Frederick Douglas was first rate. ...
This is why there's problems such as a high death rate and neglected children. ... This movie showed me to stay proud and things will turn out the way they need to. In Sishos case this movie showed me that you must sometimes swallow your pride to get what you want. ...
The hood is portrayed as a place deep in crime, murders; police patrolling around constantly, single parent homes and a high traffic rate of drugs and criminals. ... Sex is normal for a lot of young people and the risks of having a sexual transmitted disease are at a high rate too. ... You want to look back on your life and say that this place didn't stop me from reaching the promise land. ...
In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he snatched the book from me and threw me on the floor' 'I never saw where the whip came from; never even saw the first blow coming. But it came like a hot iron across my back, burning into me through my light shirt, searing my skin" (106,107). ... Diseases such as malaria were spreaded rapidly around the plan...
A community filled with individuals with such a low education, is the foundation for very high crime rate. ... Also surprising to me was the extent of discrimination in the Henslin reading "Invisible Man". It is concerning to me that in the 1990's someone would be blatantly turned away solely based on race, despite qualified credentials. ...
During the 1930's, there was high rates of discrimination against the black race. ... Atticus states to his children one night, "There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance" (254). ... Of course, I'd rather she'd have said it to me than to either of you, but we can't always have our 'druthers" (121). ...
For example I can go back to the history of African American which will lead me back to Africa. ... Urban cities have the highest crimes rates and violence gangs robbing killings, and the most people that in live that type of environments is African American and Latinos. ...
