Three-hundred and ninety six years later and here we stand as a country plagued by the same sickness of disease and hatred for someone because of their apparent differences. ... With the racial divide in our country widening in loom of current events between what seems to be a matter of blacks against whites, it leaves me asking myself if we are all human, what is it that makes us see each other as different, or unequal? ... That tendency, along with the nature of news and media, which determines much of how people view situations, keeps racism a prevailing factor in our Country. ... (freedom...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

As he waits, he looks at the house and visualizes his wife pruning prize-winning roses in the garden that is in front of the house, and his two boys playing in the sprinkler in the front yard on a hot summer day. ... Even though we live in a country that has been acclaimed by many "the best country in the world," we are still not the Leave it To Beaver dreamland that we often think that we are. ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... Douglass claim sounds like a case about a year ago in which a white Boston man claimed a black man had killed his wife and children. ...

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He and his wife are childless, but adopt "Tom" when the judge's brother, Percy Driscoll, dies. ... This is a stereotypical description of small towns of the South in those days: "Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave-worked grain and pork country back of it."" (6) The reader soon learns that this innocent image is just upon the surface and in the depth we find slavery and crime. ...

• Word Count: 3258
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Reflections from the Past A young and nave child is convinced by an older sibling to commit a rude and senseless act in the presence of his parents. After witnessing the act, the parents then become quite irritated, and they seek out to find the one responsible for informing the child of the wrongd...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School