Thoreau, the Transcendentalist author of Civil Disobedience, published in 1849 influenced a number of people that shared his views on social justice. ... "(14) Howard Zinn's rhetorical questions express how Thoreau's ideas reflect on himself, but he also explains in his writing how Thoreau's Civil Disobedience influenced many other people for example in the early 1850's many white people secretly helped African American slaves escape to freedom even if it was very illegal to do so. ...

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Since the time of slavery, African American women have endured many hardships. This group has suffered such injustices as racial prejudice, social and sexual discrimination. Women are constantly being placed under stereotypical microscopes. Black women have succeeded in the world today despit...

• Word Count: 1267
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are various types of people that live in today's society and each person has a unique aspect of their character to share with the society. ... He secretly longs for the comfort and privacy of his grandfather's mansion on the old family plantation, despite his avowed repudiation of his family's status as former slaveholders. ...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A relationship between Clarence, a white seaman, and Betsy, a black girl, is a secret one. ... They share a few drinks until the night is ruined when Betsy's "red-headed child" peeps his head into the room and is seen by Clarence. ...

• Word Count: 1559
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

By voluntarily signing and committing to contracts, both planters and Freedmen would develop the habits of a free labor economy and come to understand their fundamental shared interests. ... (Wood, pg.141) During this time there was a center of violence that was created by a secret society. ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Gradually, Sonny and his brother begin to communicate, to share all the pain that they've suffered as black men trying to make it in a bigoted America. ... For Sonny and his bandmates, jazz is a secret language, one that they can use to cry defiance without worrying about whether some white person might hear them and be offended. ...

• Word Count: 1543
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gradually, Sonny and his brother begin to communicate, to share all the pain that they've suffered as black men trying to make it in a bigoted America. ... For Sonny and his bandmates, jazz is a secret language, one that they can use to cry defiance without worrying about whether some white person might hear them and be offended. ...

• Word Count: 1543
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

We had got on badly, partly because we shared, in our different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride."" ... And yet, it is to my mother "and all our mothers who were not famous "that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated, but vibrant, creative spirit that the black woman has inherited, and that pops out in wild and unlikely places to this day. ...

• Word Count: 1418
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• Grade Level: High School

But Pecola cannon escape her loveless home anymore than she can hide from a community, which shuns her for inherited ugliness, even though she vainly tried: "Each night, without fail, she prays for blue eyes- (Morrison 40) She does however, disrupt her reverie long enough to wonder why she is shunned: "Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike."" ...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography