Title: A view of Racism Film: "A Time to Kill" Thesis: The movie A Time to Kill depicts the racism that African Americans have endured from the white society. ... In John Grisham's novel rape, racism, and justice all prevail throughout the story A Time to Kill. Carl Lee Hailey, the father of the ten-year-old child takes justice into his own hands by murdering his daughters assailants. ... "That nigger Hailey-- his daughter." ... The KKK has been torturing, raping, and murdering the black community for a long time. ...

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A Time To Kill is a powerful and meaningful movie, with a plot full of judgment and hateful racial slurs. ... Set in a small southern town in the 1960s, Carl Lee Hailie (Samuel L Jackson) awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter Tanya (Raeven Kelly). ... The two yobbo's image of no respect for opposite races is enhanced when Nikky Katt, A Time To Kill, (1996) offers these racial comments: "Sorry sir, we don't allow no African-American's in here." and "You go to hell nigger." ... Raeven Kelly, A Time To Kill (1996).Also when Tanya p...

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There is more of an effect on the reader in the daughter's case than in the case of the mother because the daughter is repeatedly referred to as "baby". ... Any other time in the story the daughter is referred to as "she" or "child". ... This shows how much the mother cares about her daughter. ... The article explained how African Americans during this time period anticipated a change. ... This struggle between the mother and the daughter is resolved when the mother allows her daughter to go "to church instead/ And sing in the children's choir" (Lines 15-16). ...

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African Americans needed to find a new identity in the New World and were considered an underclass for a long time. ... The mission to find their own voice was even more difficult for African American women who became targets of numerous insults, both during and after slavery, and were forced to be silent and to stand in the shadows for a long time. ... The ways in which Helene shows her affection for her daughter are not exactly motherly in 'the sense that Helene critiques Nels' appearance or does not allow her daughter to behave like a child. ... Instead of Helene helping Nel to i...

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In Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege, Kent Anderson Leslie tells the true story of a woman, Amanda America Dickson, whose life shows how these definitions were crucial to an African American woman's life, and how, with tenacity and determination, one woman defined herself. ... From the day of her birth she was raised in the main house, in his mother's room and declared, "that he believed it was his duty to care for his daughter and he wanted her to be with him." ... Dickson doted on his daughter and it is believed that he gave Amanda Dickson her earliest education in reading...

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In Judgment Day, Tanner is an elderly man who lives with his daughter. His daughter lives in New York, but Tanner wants to move back to Georgia. ... Because Tanner was residing with a black employee, his daughter makes him move in with her. Tanner and his daughter live in an apartment building. ... Tanner attempts to talk to his new neighbor, but every time he does, he insults the man. ...

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When Ryan rescues Christine Thayer, Ryan remains knelt down looking at Christine walk away, at that point for the first time as his Officer role, Officer Ryan is not carrying a gun. ... Officer Ryan keeps reaching for the gun every time Christine Thayer insults him. ... The touching scene in the film was Daniel's daughter's fear towards guns. ... Daniel protects his daughter by giving her hope in the form of an inside bullet-proof cloak. Daniel's daughter was the bravest of all, despite her age and past experiences, she was no longer afraid of guns. ...

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During this time period, many African-Americans are struggling to find their identities and cultural roots. ... "Everyday Use," speaks from Mama's perspective which helps reveal how she feels about herself, as well as her two daughters Dee and Maggie. ... Maggie, the younger daughter, is a rather shy and unattractive girl, bearing the scars on her body as a result of their house burning down ten or twelve years prior. ... For the first time Maggie speaks out when Dee threatens to take the quilts she responds, "she can have them, Mama," (303). ... Mama's older dau...

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Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... At some fixed point in time and space he senses that he need not waste the effort of a glance .She looks up at him and sees the vacuum where curiosity ought to lodge. ... She loved taking care of their daughter. ... Pauline beats her daughter and kicks her out for this simple mistake. The mother coddles and protects the little Fisher girl, protecting her from her ugly dark skinned...

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Her housebound left her and their two daughters a long time ago, and now she lives with her youngest daughter Maggie, in a primitive house in a poor corner of the city. ... The oldest daughter Dee, on the other hand, is the total opposite of her sister. ... Inspite of this, the mom considers Dee the most perfect daughter and dreams of being in one of those TV shows, where the child who has "made it" is confronted by her own parents, as a surprise, and everyone embraces and smiles to each other. ... The author describe and criticise how many young black Americans try to adapt a white way ...

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Mama has a very difficult path to walk in the play; one of those hardships on the path is living in a crowded apartment with her children, daughter-in-law, and grandson. ... Beneatha, Mama's daughter, wants to be a doctor and does not agree with Mama on many things, such as God. ... Mama's daughter-in-law, Beneatha has, as it seems, a much tougher path ahead of her. ... I believe the generalization the dramatist is making is that it was a very tough time period that all colored people lived in during segregation. ...

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Although written quite differently, "In Search of Our Mothers" Gardens" by Alice Walker and "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto are quite similar in the messages that they convey about women and keeping culture alive that is passed down to their daughters. ... She describes how slave women were forced to work for unappreciative white overseers when they would much rather have spent their time painting (57). How, she questions, if these women were unable to express their creative spirit, was it passed down from generation to generation from mother to daughter. ... She would write poems...

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For the next 17 years, Walker supported herself and her daughter as a washerwoman. ... She saved her money and before long she quit her job and, taking in laundry two days a week to pay her rent, spent the rest of her time mixing hair products and selling them door to door. ... At the time, the city was the country's largest inland manufacturing center because of its access to eight major railway systems. ... In 1913, her daughter persuaded Madame Walker to buy a house in Harlem as the New York base of the business. ... Madam Walker's business was carried on by her daughter and...

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Sethe takes a drastic measure and slays her two sons, harms her daughter Beloved, while her other daughter goes untouched. ... It is this time with Sethe's mother-in-law, does she realize the real meaning of freedom. ... Her decision to focus only on her two daughters makes her more of an outcast with the community of African Americans. ... Something so simple to comprehend, but we act like we don't have the time or were just to afraid to ask. ... The story leaves out attitudes of the slave owners and what the slaves felt at the time. ...

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Despite sharing a similar fate, the protagonists' unique approach to racism demonstrates the changing values of contexts across time and culture. ... Under a different time period, Desi is granted much more power and rights than Desdemona as a woman. ... The dehumanizing statements such as "she is stolen from me" and "I won her daughter" further evokes the Elizabethan paradigm. ... Empowerment of woman individuality and rising concerns towards racism are beneficial values which ascended through time. ... Despite her father's strong denial against her relationship,...

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" I remember one of my favorite episodes was when Heathcliff and Clair's daughter Sandra moved out with her daughter and husband to a new home. ... The Cosby show challenged the typical stereotyping of television and challenged the dominant social values of its time period. ... Sondra, the eldest daughter, was a level-headed, hard-working student that ended up attending Princeton University. ... The show won an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and ten other awards during its time. ... Every time I watch this episode I laugh. ...

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"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the 1930's in the little rural county of Maycomb where Atticus Finch and his two children, Jem and Scout live, during a time of racial discrimination. ... Robinson is falsely accused of having raped a white man's daughter. ... Although, the racial discrimination mainly towards the blacks is the most prominent occurrence of injustice at the time, there are other forms of prejudice that portray the unfavorable effects that were endured by innocent characters. ... White women were not supposed to have anything to do with black men and Bob is so shocked ...

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Her gift of writing poetry was encouraged by her owners and their daughter, Mary; they taught Phillis to read and write, with her first poem being published at the age of twelve, "On Messrs. ... Smith, became a Mormon convert in 1847, Mason and her three daughters joined his family on a 2,000-mile trek to the Utah Territory during which Mason was responsible for herding the cattle, preparing the meals and serving as midwife. ... California being a free state, Mason and her daughters petitioned the court for their freedom, which was granted in 1856. ... He supported her at Oberlin College in O...

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They believe that a novel is evaluated by the quality of its plot, and that any language enhances the understanding of the time and social period in which the novel takes place (Hartford 1-4). ... The committee of the library at the time, who were very well educated, and had a somewhat high social status, had various reasons for banning the novel. ... In a court case, a student's mother, Kathy Monteiro, an African American, unsuccessfully attempted to sue her daughter's high school, McClintock High School, because The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a required reading in her child...

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For the first time, African Americans were being told that it was ok to be proud of who they were. ... Clare tells her childhood friend Irene Redfield that "she can't know how in this pale life of [Clare's] all the time seeing the bright pictures of that other that [Clare] once thought [Clare] was glad to be free of It's like an ache, a pain that never ceases" (145). ... Clare tells Irene that she "nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery [her daughter] was born for fear that she might be dark" (168). ... In reality, Clare's ultimate "loss of soul" is real...

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The story opens as the narrator, Mama, and her youngest daughter, Maggie, await a visit from Dee, the oldest daughter, and a man who may be Dee's husband. ... The political climate of the story reveals a more respectful Dee in light of acceptance of hardships of African-Americans in the period of time the tale takes place. Everyday Use is set in the late sixties, a time when African-Americans were struggling to define their personal identities in cultural terms. ...

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Such as when her husband Troy tells his exaggerated near death experience, Rose responds by saying "Every time troy tells a story he finds a different way of telling it"(p. 683). ... Rose decides to raise and love Troy's daughter as her own. She even remains living with troy while cooking his dinner and looking for him to come home on time. ...

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During this time in history racism was acceptable. ... It was also obvious that he was abusive to his daughter, Mayella, and he was the one who violated her, not Tom Robinson, because what the evidence showed. ...

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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Junior stepped up to the podium in Washington D. C. to deliver one of the most famous and influential speeches of our time. The crowd of over 200,000 listened to his I Have a Dream speech, in which King attempted to convince people to live together in peace and...

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Gates and her enmity towards the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, while at the same time she hated blacks, and the prejudice of the American court system in the 1930's by saying they stand for justice but not accepting the statement themselves. ... The white jury knew that Bob Ewell had beaten his daughter Mayaella Ewell and that Tom was innocent. ...

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