The stories of the internment camps are withheld from the normal history class because the history that we are taught was written by an educated, upper-middle class white man. ... The prostitutes in New York had evolved into an elite group of women selling sex. ... Some of these women would tell slaves that if he didn't have sex with her, she would tell her father that he tried to rape her. ... The woman of the South demanding sex from a black man and a woman in New York selling sex to "gentlemen- have huge differences. ... However, the women of the Victorian era in America were all exp...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Abolishment of slavery which was there in the amendments in the laws though could not amend the thoughts of Americans, which Faulkner has wonderfully displayed in this story. ... The situation is never like that both the sexes of blacks will be treated equally, just on the basis of racial prejudice but the situation for black woman was never meant to be good ,it is even bitter for her than black man. ... The actual murder scene is omitted from the story, the clear reason for it would be that racial and sexual violence were enough prevalent in the story that murder would have been possibly gues...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Eventually Chopin revealed that Armand was the one that carried the black genes that were passed on to the child, but because Desiree was constrained by the restrictions of her sex, she was blamed for the "unconscious injury she had brought upon Armand's home and his name" (Chopin). ... Just as in "Desiree's Baby", "The Story of an Hour" shows women as being weak. ... The story implied that Mrs. ... This story also shows how the views of a woman can change without restrictions. ... The "Story of an Hour" says, "She breathed a quick prayer ...

• Word Count: 1578
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It may be because of race, sex, sexual preference, rich, poor, ugly, or pretty. ... I found a lot of stories of police officers that did racially profile in their publications. There were many that showed proof of racial profiling, but all the stories seemed to be missing something, like it was only half of the story. ... As a police officer, some of these stories I found were hard to believe as they were told. The following is an example of a story from an ACLU publication that claims racial profiling: In New York, Collie Brown was driving from Albany to Bethlehem with his young daughter a...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Set in Paris, this novel tells the story of a love affair between a white American student and an Italian bartender. ... The short story "Sonny's Blues" is considered one of Baldwin's amazing works. ... Sonny is a main character in this story. ... And it won't be fixed until white people and black people tell their stories openly and honestly" (Manley 5). ... We can see "Baldwin as a key figure who opened up possibilities for African American writers in terms of love, desire, and sex" (Thorsson 628). ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The story unfolds in the aftermath of the Gulf War; burnout Special Forces Major Archie Gates (George Clooney) figures out from a reporter that the Iraqis have stashed Kuwaiti gold in a nearby village, and that there is a map showing the location of the village. ... Electronic Media, that "four myths are evident in..portrayals of Arabs: Arabs are fabulously wealthy; Arabs are barbaric and uncultured; Arabs are sex maniacs with a penchant for White slavery; and Arabs revel in terrorism."" ... The media in the United States has always had a roundabout way of recycling the same tired stories. ...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Walker's story is filled with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, physical abuse and verbal abuse, prejudice, the oppression of women, and hatred. ... Through both mediums, people realize that the sexual abuse Celie endures from her stepfather and husband represents how all women should break free from this cycle so that they can be seen as individuals and not sex objects. ... The female characters make the transition from page to screen largely unscathed, but by sacrificing the complexities of the male characters, the film makes them seem less human and robs the story o...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

Wright came to understand through writing this story, that words could be used as weapons. ... After Bigger's arrest he discovers that the media and public are using racial stereotypes to portray him as a sex criminal and brutal mass murderer. ... Almost throughout the novel, the reader sees the story through Bigger's eyes, and this is how Wright choose to show the story. ... Wright was also attracted to the horror and detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe. ... Perhaps this is way he titled his story Native Son. ...

• Word Count: 2344
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Her self-sufficient idea of sexuality meant that she only needed men for sex instead of love and familial obligations. ... What Lee does with the movie's outlying characters is what presents a deeper message in the story. ... Yet every other character in the movie has something negative to say about her and her sex life. ... All the men think there is something wrong with Nola for having sex with multiple men but see nothing wrong with seeing other girls. ...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

At a time when many rappers were stuck in the negating fashions of cliches like the hood life, Eminem pushed the limits of rap by abandoning the genre's familiar themes of sex, drugs, and money with more lyrical power and imagination than any of his contemporaries. ... Ever since Eminem broke out from the underground world of unknown musicians and into the mainstream of the music industry in 1999, he's amazed audiences and critics alike with his ability to tell stories through music and rapid-fire wordplay. ... He gets his listeners to think about what they would do if they were put ...

• Word Count: 1858
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. ... Throughout the first half, he tells his experiences with being judged as a "murderer, a rapist, or worse" (Staples 1) In between Staples sharing his stories, he begins to explain the making of a young thug. ... When this is said, it does not specify to only white men but includes all races and both sexes. ...

• Word Count: 1861
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There's always the story of the landing on Plymouth rock, and thus begins the spread of what sparks the debate of the idealism of what it means to be an American. ... He's the one thrashing against the cage, but the bars are perhaps people who are unwilling to listen to his story, his colleagues, to the story of his parents, his ancestors. ... We are given a peak into what they have gone through, and how white people have destroyed their lives and has made the mother into such a distraught and depressed woman, yet she still pushes and carries on for her daughter, just like any family...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. ... The two occasions resemble each other in that both the gay man and the bisexual woman arbitrarily label other people as insiders or outsiders according to their sex and sexual orientations. ... Additionally, both Du Bois and Delany make use of apocalyptic language and set stories in post-apocalyptic situations; however, their apocalyptic language is presented differently and used for different purposes. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After all it is these younger generations which were raised knowing that discrimination is wrong and everyone is equal no matter what their race or sex. ... The story of Coleman Watson, a 22-year-old student at Georgia Tech, is a promising one. ...

• Word Count: 1292
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It puts labels about how a person should act or live according to their sex, race, personality, and other facts. ... "we heard many stories of how people-from parents to teachers-were struggling to talk about race with their children". ...

• Word Count: 1377
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School