He often visited King's home and held informal conversation with King about political issues, faith, and spirituality. ... Coretta, who was born in Marion, Alabama, had also ventured far from home. ... Nixon, who was an influential activist in the radical black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping care Porters and Maids, was the one who signed bail to get Rosa Parks out of jail. ... King died, he had been arrested 14 times, had his home bombed three times, and received and average of at least one death threat per day. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... African American roles: People at home. Lastly I want to examine few aspects of African Americans at home. During World War II, African Americans endure the dual tasks of fighting the axis and discrimination in Europe and at home in America. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Phillip Randolph (the president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters) organized and unified separate protests and directed to the national government. ... African American roles: People at home. Lastly I want to examine few aspects of African Americans at home. During World War II, African Americans endure the dual tasks of fighting the axis and discrimination in Europe and at home in America. ... The role of African Americans at home during World War II is similar if not parallel to any American at home during the war...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Back door man" is a phrase used in Southern culture to describe a man who sleeps with married women while their husbands are gone, then slips away, usually out the back door. In the song "Back Door Man" Howlin Wolf sings about how he is sneaks in mens' house when they aren't around: "Well the men don't know, but the women understand/ when everybody's tryin' to sleep/ I'm somewhere making my midnight creep." "I Get Around" is also a phrase about men (or women), who sleep with more than one person. ... Howlin Wolf does som...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

As a result, after school classmates would grab stones and tin cans from the ally and chase him home. ... James Presley notes "one summer in Chicago when he was a teen-ager Langston Hughes felt the American Dream explode in his face; a gang of white youths beat him up so badly that he went home with blacked eyes and a swollen jaw. He had been punished for cutting through a white neighborhood in the South Side on his way home from work. ... She forced him to go home with her where she ordered Roger to wash his face. ... It can be described as an area that there is nothing to do "except get dru...

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

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. ... Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ... He starts by owning up to the traditionally stereotypical traits of blacks, as attributed by society ("I like to eat, sleep, drink-) but his description soon begins to expand beyond the boundaries of stereotype to include several different cultural norms ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. ... Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ... He starts by owning up to the traditionally stereotypical traits of blacks, as attributed by society ("I like to eat, sleep, drink-) but his description soon begins to expand beyond the boundaries of stereotype to include several different cultural norms ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the last chapter of the novel, Nel finds herself surrounded by a new and changing world that she is not familiar with; it is a world that Sula, the consummate rebel, would be more at home in. ... This is why she is able to watch her mother burn without flinching, and does not realize that sleeping with her best friend's husband is wrong. ... Having taken what she needed from her (the ability to achieve self-actualization without the need for male validation), Sula removes Eva and sends her away to an old age home, then posits herself in Eva's old room as if it were a captured thro...

• Word Count: 2386
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Leadership The founder of the Church of the Creator, Ben Klassen, once a State Legislator from Florida, committed suicide in 1993, by taking four bottles of sleeping pills. ... He joined the "church- and maintained contact with the home chapter in Otto, North Carolina on a regular basis. ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They were taken from their homes, and what little family they had, and put on plantations and forced to work against their will. ... It was compared to "waged slavery" because the women were working for a place to eat and sleep, both of which were supplied by the employer. ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Moving to the United States was one of the biggest circumstances that influenced my American dream because I came with the idea that this was the land of opportunities but when we arrived to this country my family and I lacked so many resources; like money, clothes, and a stable home. ... I got used to having my mother home every time I arrived home from school but when we moved to this country she had to start working and my siblings and I would not see her as much. When we were in school she would be sleeping and when we were dismissed from school she was already on her way to work. ... When...

• Word Count: 2444
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This scene is highly indicative of the male power fantasy, and the way Nola reacts to it - by convincing herself she's in love with him and that she should stay with Jamie instead of continuing to sleep with other men - aligns with the male perspective of rape. ... The first time Sarah Jane runs away from home, the impetus is an assault from her white boyfriend because she lied to him. ...

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