When one of his young boarders gets in trouble with the police, Seth tells Bynum, "These niggers coming up here with that old backward country style of living. ... In a conversation with his wife, Seth tells her, "Look at him [ ] all that old mumbo jumbo nonsense. ... Loomis, a spiritually sick man, wanders the land searching for his wife who disappeared. ... As Patricia Gantt describes he is a wanderer, "who after seven years" of innocent entrapment on Joe Turner's Tennessee chain gang, wanders the country with Zonia, his daughter" (71). ... Loomis departs the Holly's house, rea...

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Simpson, and Rodney King are victims of racism and many others like them in this country are also victims of the same thing. ... Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. ... Simpson might have become depressed and continue being that way until he let out his feelings on his ex-wife and her friend. ... O.J.Simpson killed his ex-wife and her friend and was supported by the NAACP during some point in the case. ... It is still unfair for people who are still treated as outcasts in this great country of ours. ...

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At the age of fifty-eight, Steinbeck was brave because he refused to become a hindrance for his wife and a burden to society. ... Although I am not an American, I am beginning to realize the value of its culture, the vastness of the country's natural resources, and uniqueness of the American people. ...

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Aldridge gave no performance in Europe, which was not witnessed by one or more members of the royal family of the country he was in. ... His second wife was a Swedish baroness, by whom he had three children. ...

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Walker, familiar with newspaper promotion campaigns, helped develop a marketing plan, design advertisements, and organize a mail order business for his wife's products. However, C.J. was not as ambitious as his wife. ... Sarah continued to tour the country, promoting her business and hiring hairdressers and door-to-door sales representatives. ... At the time, the city was the country's largest inland manufacturing center because of its access to eight major railway systems. ... She soon had 5,000 agents throughout the country and her company was making $7000 per week. ...

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I think I am dating myself a little but a wife and mother staying home to take care of the house and the kids was not just common it was also expected and respected. ... My wife stays at home to take care of our home and our children. I have seen the look of disgust in people's eyes when I tell them that my wife is a housewife. ... I feel that our society has gotten too far away from the grounded values that used to make America a great country. ...

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In Lincoln's speech in the "Lincoln- Douglas Debate" in 1858, Lincoln states "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races I do not understand that because I do not want a Negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. ... I am now in my fifteenth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife" (Lincoln-Douglas Debate 1858). ... These examples would explain how the lives of Southerners would be ruined and that the ...

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Soon after that, he proceeded to live in New Bedford, Massachusetts with his wife Anna. ... He was taught by his master's wife, Sophia Auld to read. ... When Crockett decided to join the army, he wanted to show his bravery, be strong for his country, and keep people like his family safe. ...

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In the conversation in the Gridlestone's house, Gridlestone warned Jasper: "And remember that white man make the law in this country," "I have always treated the colored well, but I remember that my father, who own a thousand slave had callouses on his hand, from and he show me that was the only way to keep 'em in line'.... He thought this country was of white man, and they controlled it. ... Absolutely, the mob behaved terribly to the Landry's family, beat Jasper's wife, and took off her dress. ... He encouraged Sylvia to love her country, contribute...

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Ida Mae Gladney, the wife of a poor sharecropper and mother of three, was told by her husband George that they were leaving Mississippi after a cousin down the road was nearly beaten to death when he was falsely accused of stealing a few of a white man's turkeys. ... He traveled the country, and he eventually became Ray Charles personal doctor. ...

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Why does America have a higher killing rate than other countries in the world? Some of the other countries killing rates are in the teens, double digits, in the hundreds, maybe in the thousands. ... ______"s son Harpo, beats his wife Sofia after his father makes him realize that having Sofia around make him less of a man. ...

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Our country may still be the same if it was not for the works of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. ... The difference in their backgrounds caused the two men to act differently and approach the problem of racism in this country with different methods. ... As he states in his speech: But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you...

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Robeson was encouraged to do so by his wife, Eslanda Cardozo, an African American woman, who he met during law school at Rutgers University (Contemporary Black Biography). ... Finally, in 1958, Paul Robeson was granted a passport, and he immediately left for England where he resided for five years; there he was showered with appreciation and glory, and yet, Robeson still felt "like a man who had no country" (Dictionary of American Biography). ... Although in his final years he was despised by his country; Paul Robeson's legacy as an outstanding performer and defender for civi...

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There other immigrant is America, who is the wife Candido. ... America came to this country with nothing and was able to make money for her family. Even though Candido clearly said that he did not want her to work she ignored him insisting that "'Someone has to go.- (49) This was America's attitude towards staying strong in this country, whether it be man or woman. ...

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an eloquent black minister who dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality in America. Inspired by the conviction that nonviolence and peaceful protest could abolish social injustice, he fought hard to gain the freedoms every living person is entitl...

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Chesnutt and Douglass were men who played important roles in the history of African-Americans and the history of our country. ... In fact, during the year 1899, he wrote Frederick Douglass, Chesnutt published Two works with Houghton Mifflin, Boston: The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories. ...

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