At the kitchen table Cosmo replies, "A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing, and that's a bad, crazy day" (Gardenia, V. 1987). ... "Haven't spoken in five years" (Aiello,D. 1987) as he looks at his left and cringes; "there is some bad blood." As Loretta looks at Johnny's plane on the tarmac through the airport window, an old gray haired woman dressed in black tells Loretta she put a curse on Johnny's plane. ... Later that evening, when Cosmo walks into the house Rose confronts Cosmo and says, "I just want you to know that...

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• Grade Level: High School

She leans over to her table that sat on her side to pull out a disposable camera that she had placed there the week before. ... She stands in front of the bed and takes off her shirt exposing elongated purple black and blue welts that aligned her body from her neck to below her back. ... I remember sitting there for a good while but unsustain as to how long. ... I remember I sat there and stared at the ground not crying or thinking just feeling. ... She is a strong woman and still is to this day. ...

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What Granny never realized is regardless of whatever I would eat before a meal, I still loved everything she put on the table and I don't think it was ever possible to ruin my appetite. ... There was a living room, kitchen, one bathroom, and three bedrooms. ... We would watch television, but we only had three channels to pick from, and it was only in black and white. ... Our family celebrated every holiday, every birthday, and every Sunday dinner there. ... When the entire family got together, it was around 12 to 15 people if all the cousins were there. ...

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There were other shows on television that captured the love that African Americans had for their family members such as The Jefferson's or Good Times, however both sitcoms portrayed African Americans in stereotypical roles. ... I also like watching Holiday episodes of The Cosby Show, because it shows cultural differences that are in a way still the same. ... The family had a dish called chitterlings at the table. ... When The Cosby Show first aired in the late eighties, the show was hit, but it was not very popular in the African American community, because black people did not feel like...

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Realist Now, there are several ways to look at realism. ... They are essentially black sticks in the ground, equally spaced and odd looking. ... They are still growing, learning. ... If we were to find the film tied together with the mothers sitting around a table in China during the late 1940's imagining this whole scenario it wouldn't shock us a bit. ... There was a reason that character wore a ring. ...

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Rosa Lee`s parents were black rural share croppers from the South who moved to Washington D.C. in order to escape racial oppression, economic exploitation and segregation and to find a better life and work there. ... There were times when there were as many as seventeen adults and children living together in one apartment. ... That is an example for racism and colour consciousness within the black community. ... She worked at a table dance bar and would sell drugs to some of her costumers in order to earn extra money. ... He even started an opium business over there. ...

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Hamlet has been dressing only in black, and he has been mourning his dead father. ... Yet she turns the tables on her brother, and says that she hopes that he is taking his own advice. ... Ophelia also describes how there was "no hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle; pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other..." ... Ophelia may still have strong feelings for Hamlet, yet she has made the irreversible decision of suppressing them for her father's sake. ...

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Throughout the novel Moody shows discontent with her family and fellow black citizens for simply accepting the circumstances and the position in which they lived. ... Her emotions was still intact. ... I stood there looking at all of this and I thought of how many times I had drunk that milk. ... She was able to learn "what a balanced meal was and how to set a table and how to cook foods we never ate at home" ( Moody, page 38) Getting paid well around three dollars and was able to learn her way to woman hood. ...

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• Grade Level: High School