Does Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness suggest that he is a member of this definition's description? ... In his book, Conrad expresses that he is against what the Englishmen are doing in taking over the African's land. ... Conrad is not racist, and his book should not be regarded as so. ... He heard the natives speak in this manner, and that is how he wrote it in his book. ... Conrad's book is not racist, and neither is he. ...

• Word Count: 635
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The author expresses this by writing this book. ... During his experiences, Griffin keeps a journal and that is what this book is. ... I think it describes it perfectly if you read the book. ... He describes everything from the sound and smell to what the boys across the street is doing. (5) I think that the story accomplishes a lot. This was a big book that described the struggles in the mid 1900's. ...

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The setting is an essential aspect of this book because it lays the groundwork for the entire plot. ... The book deals with major themes including, race, class, and gender. ... The book addresses gender and Charlotte challenges gender norms. ... The writing style of the book fits the context of the 19th century, which even though it is not completely modern sounding, it is still an adventurous and lively read. ... Although Maniac Magee does have qualities that meet the criteria for being a distinguished book, Spinelli could have avoided over-simplifying the theme of race as well as reproducing...

• Word Count: 1229
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Johoda makes all Indians sound like defenseless children. ... This book educates the audience on how there were brave Indians. ... The Trail Of Tears is an interesting book and a little boring at the same time. The audience would have liked this book more if Jahoda put a little action in to it. If Jahoda would have gotten into details about the deaths and adventures I would've been more interested in this book. ...

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Reading Richter's book and analyzing different situations from the story, myself as a recent immigrant can feel what they were about. ... It is a very controlling phrase and even though from previous education I know that Immigrants tried to control Indians as much as they could it sounds very unfair and brutal to give native people such choice. ... Reading Richter's book cleared some of my knowledge about Indian -European Immigrants relations. ...

• Word Count: 544
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The book has a character named Jim who is a slave. ... Twain shows in the book how people are racist towards him and how they mistreat him. It is not a racist book because in the time era that the book was set it was a way of life. ... Even though that description of Jim sounds bad it is important to remember that it was probably true. ... Huck realizes that this man is not property but his friend and a human being through the book. ...

• Word Count: 1091
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

To be a womanist is to have or express a belief in, or have a respect for women and their talents and abilities beyond the boundaries of race and class. A womanist should not be confused with the term feminist. A feminist is a belief in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes and in ...

• Word Count: 910
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... view of the damage that racial prejudice inflicts on both whites and blacks" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). ... Baldwin finished his long-awaited first book, Go Tell It On The Mountain, during a stay in his companio...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although written in 1847, Jane was born in about 1815 (if we analyse when she says she was married and assume the book finishes in Bronte's present) therefore slavery would be ongoing in this period. ... Therefore we can assume that, unlike Wide Sargasso Sea, the book is set a vaguely-defined recent past which is interesting in considering the different histories represented: is it a stable society where ten years here or there doesn't make a difference? ... Before the reader meets Bertha in the flesh, we are given description of the sounds she makes. ... Here is a woman who does not...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book states, "He watched her walk down the hall toward the kitchen, watched the rhythmic motion of her legs, her arms, and thought, yes if I'd married Mrs. ... This color scheme is even used to describe the town whereas the monochromatic descriptions in the book are used solely in Abbie and Bill's presence (both characters who prefer one race over the other and oppose their co-existence.). ... This line refers to the male's reaction when the female protagonist in the story turns off the light to the couple's bedroom after they had an intense argument: "The sounds of som...

• Word Count: 1612
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The passage begins with aural sounds from noises heard outside of Mary's house, causing IM to suddenly feel upset. ... Although black is said to have good and positive attributes, rust represents the negative perception of their character and is reinforced numerous times throughout the book. ... Later in the book IM says, "If only I knew who it was.... " Since the beginning of the book, IM wishes not to relive the past because he is ashamed, yet Wheatstraw indirectly lets him know that his black roots will always be apart of him. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8

Iago is the most racist character in the book though, as he has it in for Othello right from the start. ... The reason for Roderigo's alliance to Iago is because of the way Iago can twist a situation around to make it sound as if Roderigo would get something good from it, but in the end Iago is the one who always makes out. ...

• Word Count: 1144
• Approx Pages: 5

"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... John De Crevecoeur takes on an interesting outlook on the American Identity Crisis in his book The Language of Literature: American Literature; "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. ...

• Word Count: 1077
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I was working in the auto sales industry for a time and I watched as many young couples and families sat in the finance manager's office and actually reworked their home/family budget just to get a nicer sound system in a car that was already costing them twenty percent or more of the monthly income for payments. ... (p. 998) Let's look at two other definitions of the term "ethnic": an ethnic group is a collective within a larger society having real or putative common ancestry, memories of a shared historical past, and a cultural focus on one or more symbolic elements defined a...

• Word Count: 3593
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As exhilarating as this may sound the mountain they had to climb to receive acceptance the way they were was a very steep one. ... The author of Scarlet Sister Mary said her neighbor didn't take well to the book because she portrayed her characters falsely as "everyone knows niggas don't think....

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is outlined in the Code of Virginia, and it states that they are "To promote the development of an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated system of higher education in Virginia"(SCHEV, p4-5). ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading and math tests, as well as on tests such as the SAT I. ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne Moody discusses the hardships that blacks endured and the salvation that blacks achieved in order to become not "separate, but equal." ... It may sound extremely wrong, but it occurred very often. ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...

• Word Count: 3584
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate