The story of Langston Hughes" life is one of great success. ... Langston has been quoted by saying, "So I learned early not to hate all white people" (Rummel 22.) ... At night they would read him stories from such works from popular black authors such as W.E.B. ... Just by this quote from him you can see he has a talent with words, and that he strongly disagrees with being held back from what he truly wants to do. ... He went on to write many more poems, short stories, and plays. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another quote that was important from Washington's speech was "Be careful not to assist in lighting a fire which you will have no ability to put out... Dubois had a more do or die attitude, the term "do or die" is used because of his references to the historical abolitionist John Brown early in his speech in which he told John Brown's story and how he died for his cause. ... He uses words in this quote such as justice, hatred and sacrifice which are very strong words. ... "(18) In this quote he also uses words to describe whites such as naked nastiness, fear, and cowardice. ... Also,...

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The main thesis of Gates's essay deals with the idea that a book or story can talk to its reader. ... Douglass, in the "Heroic Slave", displays keen logic and planning throughout the story. ... Listwell, a white man who will guide the reader through much of the story. ... However, this is a politically volatile story, dealing with and defending a slave revolt on a slave trade ship. ... Although the author of the story is black, this quote forces the notion that a good many white people disfavor the institution of slavery. ...

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• Has Bibliography

Chopin does a very nice job of making a point and telling an interesting story. The descriptive language was beautiful and it helped to improve the story. ... The details also made the story more interesting to read because they add depth to story. ... Chopin addresses social issues with regards to race and gender in this story. ... Armand was quoted as hearing the baby crying from "as far away as La Blanch's cabin-(2), the reason he was at the cabin could be he was using La Blanch sexually. ...

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The story is told through the narration of his younger brother Danny. ... His little brother Danny runs into Derek's room and tells him and Derek runs outside and kills two of them with a gun, and from there the story begins. ... After his tells his story to Danny understands and they both go home and take down all the nazi and gang related things off the wall. ... He had ended his paper with a quote by Martin Luther King saying that we are all equal. ...

• Word Count: 1371
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• 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. ... 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 of some of its depth. ... One Black woman who had seen the film was quoted in the New York Times as saying that she knew many Cities when she was growing up in Sunflower County, Mississippi. ... Alice Walker sold the rights to her...

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Along with its mark of economic growth in regards to an increase of manufacturing and home construction, it is not a question why former British Prime Minister Winston Churchhill quoted that, "America at this moment, stands at the summit of the world.... The protagonist in his attempt to pinpoint the one name he seeks for quotes, I tried, thinking vainly of many names, but none seemed to fit, and yet it was as though I was somehow a part of all of them, had become submerged within them and lost. ... As the story develops and he finds out that a man he trusted the most, Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1723
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Wright came to understand through writing this story, that words could be used as weapons. ... 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. ... Wright portrays Bigger's brutality in such gory detail, as this quote shows, that the reader may well feel that he is trying to turn you against him. ... Perhaps this is way he titled his story Native Son. ...

• Word Count: 2344
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• Grade Level: High School

People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. By the speaker's reaction to the dancers few actions, I think that there is a larger story behind the breif scenario presented in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. By the speaker's reaction to the dancers few actions, I think that there is a larger story behind the breif scenario presented in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1634
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

What one feels is that he is not the hero of his own story, that in fact the hero exists in the personified form of a principle - a principle called "Freedom", defined by Washington, temporarily exemplified by him throughout the course of the story. ... This is Washington's story; he is driven by the "responsibility of freedom" and thus takes a back seat in his own narrative. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, DuBois becomes more psychoanalytical and chooses to investigate at more length (and with more artistic and personal freedom in his wri...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist and narrotor within the narrative, Marlow, expresses various opinions towards people that he encounters. This is illustrated in his impressions of whites, blacks and of Kurtz. Marlow feels compassion towards the black people because of their situat...

• Word Count: 1278
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• Grade Level: High School

You deserve it all, and more too."" (9) This quote is from a passage in which a young slave girl is dying soon after giving birth to a child that is nearly white. ... "Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. ...

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About half of the pictures were "Memes", which were popular quotes, images, and real people, which are copied, imitated, and spread all over the internet. ... "we heard many stories of how people-from parents to teachers-were struggling to talk about race with their children". ...

• Word Count: 1377
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Thus, as part of an anti-war agenda, news producers and journalists purposely selected stories that portrayed the war as uncontrollable. ... The story describes a group of people chained inside of a cave all of their lives, facing a plain, stone wall. ... As the story continues Socrates explains that the philosopher is like a prisoner as well. ... This quote is trying to say that mankind should think beyond the set norms and question things around them. ...

• Word Count: 2053
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• Grade Level: High School

A quote I enjoyed from the article is as follows: "The work they so bravely wrought has been destroyed and the gigantic power for evil is now advancing step by step in its lawless march to victory." ... The article explains the story of General Longstreet. ...

• Word Count: 2362
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• Grade Level: High School

De Bow's review on Slavery and Bible, written by anonymous, was one of the most important journals against anti-slavery in the south due to the fact that they stated quotes straight out of the holy bible. ... " However, Abraham is not the only key piece of evidence the article states, but also includes the story of Moses, Israelites, Paul and Timothy from New testament. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Captivity, bondage, restraint, subjugation, and slavery. These words all mean one thing, enslaving someone against their will. Slavery was an episode in history, which scarred many African men, women, and children. Slavery has appeared almost universally throughout history among peoples of every lev...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. ... One of the most critical aspects of these stori...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The above stories both had an effect on Wright, but the experience which affected him the most took place when he was much younger. ... At the end of each segment of his essay, he includes quotes from all of his various Jim Crow-enhancing experiences. ... Of the eight stories he tells, the idea of being grateful to the whites is written five different times. ...

• Word Count: 1958
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the article, Robinson talks about Alice Randall's book, The Wind Done Gone, and tells about the gruesome story of how a Mammy had to neglect her own child to give her full attention to the master's children which later resulted in the death of the child (63). ... In Robinson's article, he quotes Randall's book again, "She who ain't free not to love, ain't free to love" (66). ... Her story of love and devotion to the white children are all that people are told about. ...

• Word Count: 2170
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Declaration of Independence of the United States states " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain enaliable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." So why then are people of a di...

• Word Count: 2342
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• Grade Level: High School

Through the eyes of the child in the midst of growing up, Moody told stories about what it meant to be growing up as Black girl in a world dominated by whites In an earlier paper, I had mentioned the notion that "once a child is born, it has no control or say about the world that it inherits and that is why it is important to realize that the dimensions which shape and define that world are rooted in the social reality of the environment that surrounds them. ...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate