Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. ... Her situation of being with a black guy was pretty conflicting because blacks and whites didn't go together. ... She managed to have a house where they lived but barely had money to put food on the table. Even though her children would get out of hand, she still kept them under control. ... Struggling just to put a piece of bread on the table to feed all her children was another. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Once everyone sat down at the table for lunch mom and dad told us a little about the story. ... Mom leaned over the table as if about to share a secret with us. ... Dad helped himself to some potato chips from a large bowl on the table. ... The lawn was bathed in moonlight and the edge of the cliff stood out clearly against the blackness of the ocean beyond. ... "There!" ...

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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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She had pale skin, long black hair that framed her small face. ... The room was small, had old white walls, a bed and a dresser table, and also a huge teddy bear. ... Not because of what was down there but because of what went on down there. ... I never could get down there when the party was going on. ... I can still remember it, my brothers were down stairs causing some type of trouble, and my sister was in the kitchen watching Yolanda cook. ...

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In the foster home there were other kids, amongst them were a few babies and one seven year old little black boy named Harmon. ... As this happened Janie got to name her self and she named herself after her case worker's daughter, whom had also died, Leshaya, she did not only want this name because of who's name it was also because it was a black girl's name and she always wanted to be black she taught her self to talk slang so she sounded more black and also told everyone that her daddy was black even though her skin was so pale with blonde hair and blue eyes. ... While Les...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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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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I can still remember the nights that i would wake up cryin for my mother. ... I loved it there. ... The first day i met her she was wearing a bright yellow windbreaker with black spandex pants. i remember laughing to my dad about how she looked like a bumble bee. ... During my kinergarden year i had expierned a loss that still emotionally upsets me to this day. ... It was my dad, lisa and myself living there. ...

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• Grade Level: High School