He was very non-athletic, skinny, and clumsy as a boy. ... When Rockwell was just eighteen he began to do illustrations for a Boy Scouts magazine named Boys" Life. ... The Problem We All Live With is one of Rockwell's most famous illustrations concerning civil rights; it embodies the hardships that black children went through during the period of desegregation in schools. He shows a young, black girl walking to school surrounded by U.S. marshals, and a tomato is smashed on the wall behind her. ... Illustrating a mixture of people off all different ages, races, religions, and cultures ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Filmed in black and white, with deliberate lack of Hollywood' gloss, it earned Spielberg the greatest accolades of his career. ... However, black people were not represented. On both occasions Spielberg took a realistic approach by not using black soldiers because during the 1940's, American society segregated black people and so there were few mixed regiments, if not any. Nevertheless, black soldiers were an important source of man power for the armed forces in World War II but were all put into all black regiments. ... Well in this case realism is extremely important to th...

• Word Count: 1821
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing but earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation - This quote shows Conrad's sympathy for those who are being exploited for the benefit of others. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hemingway witnessed a man and a boy in a small boat being dragged by a fish that the man had hooked. ... Hemingway watched the struggle for half the day, finally pulling his own boat close enough to throw some provisions into the boat of the embattled fisherman and boy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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