The train to Leuk had come in from Visp, the train from Visp had come from Bern, and the train before that was from Zurich, from which I had started out in the afternoon. ... He wrote something else, too, an essay called "Stranger in the Village"; it was this essay, even more than the novel, that brought me to Leukerbad. ... The part of the essay that focuses on the Swiss village is both bemused and sorrowful. ... But, later in the essay, when he writes about race in America, he is not at all bemused. ... The music you travel with helps you to create your own internal weather. ...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Essayist and Journalist, Erin Aubry Kaplan, discusses both topics in her essay, Barack Obama: Miles Traveled, Miles to Go. Reading her essay has inspired my feelings and thought on his candidacy and presidency as well. ... I think this dynamic helped him in winning the election. ... Starting now. " Again, I agree with what Kaplan is saying, Again I disagree with her suggestion that this has anything to do with those supporters being white. ... Toward the end of her essay, Kaplan switches gears a bit as she talks about Obama and his characteristics and temperament as The President. ...

• Word Count: 1503
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• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will examine the problem and Americans solution and the real solution. ... In this essay I will explain how the movie "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" shows that America is to blame for the destruction of the black community and the cause of the violence. ... So according to Bird "they started their own clubs (Crips and Bloods, 2008). ... In 1965 a routine police harassment traffic stop was the accelerator for the explosion that started the Watt riot. ... The system will never help the black man; the black men will have to build their America and learn to st...

• Word Count: 1355
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin first started writing around age fourteen as a way of seeking the love which he was missing from his family life. ... It was at this time that Baldwin published his first essay, "The Harlem Ghetto". ... dwin's essays come off as being bitter, he should not be looked upon as a bitter man. ... Baldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in the later years of his life. ... Later, the pastor, Meridian, Richard's father and civil rights leader, expresses his faith in Parnell, a friend and white liberal, to help. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

King's ways gave rise to black pride for many and clubs were started, one of which Nikki joined. ... Nikki, like many other women of her time started to speak out against the many wars and customs of the U.S., such as the Vietnam War. ... This helped her gain a wide audience, not just an audience of blacks or whites, or of educated people only. ... Nikki also wrote essays. One of her most famous collection of essays is bound into one book entitled Sacred Cows and other Edibles. ...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Setting out to write about black Americans, Hughes created a body of work-poetry, fiction, journalism, essays, plays, and song lyrics. ... Academically and socially, Langston did well in Lincoln, The summer before he started high school, Langston and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. ... Langston wanted to go to college, and he needed financial help to do so. ... Seeing his son's determination, Langston's father finally relented and agreed to Smith 4 help pay his tuition and living expenses at Columbia. ... In 1927, he wrote one of his best-known Smith 5 essays, "The Neg...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There were many people who helped shape him into the great writer he turned out to be. ... It was time for him to start school. ... She was successful and Hughes started to attend school there. ... Finally, this was the starting point of Hughes" career. ... He's a true success story because the power of his own life helped make the world a better place....

• Word Count: 1483
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Now in high school DuBois really started to develop a knack for race relations. ... This tore him apart, and his grades started to slip. Luckily he had his family and friends to help him get back together. ... From more help from his family and friends and a scholarship he was able to attend Fisk College (now known as university). ... Literary notes and references During his long life he wrote many great books and informative essays, some of them are Dusk of Dawn, The Philadelphia Negro, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, Soul of Black Folks, John Brown, Quest of the Silver Fl...

• Word Count: 1586
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin's and Walker's styles of writing help to contribute to the diversity in their writings. ... This helps him to gain an understanding for his father and let go of the feeling which he thought was hate, for this man and personally grow and become a better person, by not allowing himself to be consumed by the hatred. ... Baldwin's mother is mentioned in little doses here and there to help keep up with the events of the story. ... For example, on page 744 of Ways of Reading 6th ed In Walkers essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens- Walker is talking about her mother, an...

• Word Count: 1418
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During that time many African Americans started showing their different talents. ... (Gayle 2) He started to look for a job, however; employers were looking for white people only. ... Langston Hughes helped this society little by little with every poem he wrote. ... In his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," (The Nation Magazine) a young "Negro" poet said, "I want to be a poet-not a Negro poet." ... Langston Hughes helped many young writers develop their writing and their interest for poetry. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In my essay I will be focusing on two of the magazines, one being my favorite Cosmopolitan and the other Glow. In this essay i will show how the body and image of women have been portrayed in these magazines and how sex, race and class are interconnected in these magazines. I will first start by talking about the body image of the women in these two or lets say in all magazine. ... The other thing that i notice in both the magazines was the way sexuality was shown with the help of women. ...

• Word Count: 2019
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will answer the question that "To Kill A Mockingbird has been described as being extremely negative and pessimistic" Is this comment really fair? ... The children reading to her helps her to take her mind off the pain. ... This helps to show that there are in fact some positives in this novel. ... I know this because Walter (Mr Cunningham's son) never passed 1st grade as he stays out every spring to help his father with the chopping. ... Some help by throwing buckets of water and Boo Radley helps by putting a blanket over the children, although they do not notice him do...

• Word Count: 2069
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The black artists and writers started to be creative and reflect from their culture into their work. ... The book offended some members of the black community; however it helped a Negro statues bringing attention of many sophisticated New Yorkers black and white to Harlem exotic and exciting night life. ... He published an essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," where he introduced to the people black literary identity. ... When blacks started to write it was at hard to be accepted in society. ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although "he [hates] his family, [it is] because he knows that they are suffering and that he is powerless to help them," (13) his pride in his own self worth, is never more present then when he is around his family. ... His friends would try to understand by telling him not to think about it anymore for the more one thinks the more one starts to realize the injustices and mistakes that have occurred. ... Bigger feels this way when Jan was offering help to Bigger while in jail (268). ...

• Word Count: 1638
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... But, when the war ended, the U.S. unexpectedly stopped its policies to help farmers. ... The Cunninghams send their children to school, as apposed to keeping them home to work in the field, and refuse to accept welfare or help from the town. ... I think I may be able to understand why some urban groups have started to refer to themselves as niggers. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The essay will examine an article titled: The Voice of the Carpet bagger Pub. ... I cannot help but think that either the author is over exaggerating or is a bit on the paranoid side. I"m sure these events took place, but I cannot help but doubt that they took on such a closely guarded secret society form, I would imagine that these sentiments were much shared openly among many southerners. ... The incident started after a series of black men got beat by an unknown group of white men. ...

• Word Count: 2362
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

While in jail, King wrote his acclaimed essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail", urging the white population of America to put a stop to segregation, asking them to see how truly unjust the punishment of African-Americans was and that African-Americans were people who only wanted to gain their full civil rights one hundred years after they became citizens of the US. ... He went to help lead sanitation workers in objection to low wages and intolerable conditions. ...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Setting a fixed standard and guideline of punishment aims to convince potential criminals that the crime is not worth the time (general deterrence), to equally and fairly distribute punishment among similar illegal acts (retribution), to help and not just punish the criminals in order to remove further threat to society (rehabilitation), and to detain criminals to eliminate risk of a repeated offence (incapacitation).2 According to UN declaration article 7, the United Nations, all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. ... Current ...

• Word Count: 2471
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate