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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" 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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• Grade Level: High School

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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Although Joe had an easy time finding work that did not mean that his work was any easier. ... These three people did pretty well for themselves during that time. ... These people can be seen as lucky during that time. ... Mary she had two daughters. ... Her daughters in 1914 were twenty-one and twenty-four. ...

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Although Joe had an easy time finding work that did not mean that his work was any easier. ... These three people did pretty well for themselves during that time. ... These people can be seen as lucky during that time. ... Mary she had two daughters. ... Her daughters in 1914 were twenty-one and twenty-four. ...

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The Differences between "Rosie- and the Woman in "That Damned Fence- During the time of World War Two, there were hard working women taking over the jobs in industry that were usually held by men. ... During the same time, there were women who held no similarities with the working women of the 1940's. ... While working women were buy fur coats, these people were living off of what they could bring with them at the time of there evacuation. ... During the same time there was an issue in the south with young white women, usually the daughters of plantation owners, having sex with black m...

• Word Count: 1504
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Changes of Time: The Stereotypical Images of Blacks on Television Ever since television began in 1939, African Americans have been portrayed as maids, servants or clowns. ... Every time Lamont threatened to leave, Fred would do his famous act and fake a heart attack and start moaning to his late wife, I'm coming, Elizabeth, I'm coming. ... Good times was one of the most original shows on television its time. ... Also in the household was Kimberly, his 13-year-old daughter and the new, scatterbrained housekeeper, Mrs. ... Sondra, the oldest daughter was a senior at Princeton Univers...

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Mary Wollstonecraft recognized the dismal state with which women lived during her time. ... King recalls a time when he had to tell his daughter she couldn't go an amusement park because of the color of her skin (Jacobus 186). ... Wollstonecraft identifies with the struggles African Americans went through before kings time. ... Each writer depicted the hardships that people had to go through in their time. Why would we take the time to read these struggles? ...

• Word Count: 1281
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• Grade Level: High School

Time period in which she lived (1862-1931) A. ... Lived in a time of extreme prejudice and racism in the south. ... The time that Ida B. ... Ida was a very successful African American Women or in that case any women for her time. ... She had a daughter, named is Alfreda M. ...

• Word Count: 1282
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Their heritage belongs in a continent overseas and in a time a century has faded away. Paul Dunbar's "Sympathy" paints this metaphor between him and his race, the gap and loss of this time, and the brutality it leaves upon the souls generation after generation of black families whose ancestors were once slaves. Dunbar understands the pain of the caged bird, because his parents were former slaves, and he had to grow up learning to understand that his world was not the same as the pale kids that were his age (like an iconic photo of when Martin Luther King, Jr. had to explain to h...

• Word Count: 1871
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By the time Jackie Robinson broke the racial barrier in 1947, troy was past his ball playing prime. ... Baseball was his life, it came first, " During his time in the Negro leagues, the major players never received the substantial amount of glory and fame as the white plays until 1947. ... (Winson, 96) Rose's words, wise as they are, would have been ineffectual without the help of Raynell, Troy's illegitimate daughter, now seven years old, whom Cory meets for the first time. ...

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Moore's daughter, he and some other kids decided that they want to try to get the law against dancing removed and have a senior prom. ... The prom happens and everyone has a great time while dancing to "Footloose". ... During the time that African Americans were trying to gain equal rights they suffered a lot of violence. ...

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Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731 to the daughter of a former indentured slave, an African American woman named Molly Walsh, who emigrated from England and was in bondage for seven years. ... He had an eighth grade education by the time he turned 15 and took over the operations of the family farm. ... In Benjamin Banneker's studying of the stars, he was the first to notice and write about the Star of Sirius, being two stars instead of one, challenging the astronomers of his time. ... He was also the first scientist to study the relativity of time and space two centuries before Einstei...

• Word Count: 1655
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He has a dream but racial tension going on at the time and his family's opinion and interference does not help his dream come true. ... You can argue that Mama speaks these words not only to her daughter but to the reader and the audience. ...

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It is the second time since Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing. ... The next time it may be you, or your daughter, or mother. ... The time has come when you men is going to have to learn to be grown men or scared boys." ... By this time, members of the Montgomery's business community were becoming aggravated with the boycott. ... During this time blacks were still being intimidated while the ruling from the U.S. ...

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By the time of the Little Rock incident, the nation had already become aware of the heightened struggle in the South. ... During this short time in prison he wrote a lengthy letter in response to a public letter from a group of eight clergymen who opposed the non-violent demonstrations that King had lead. ... He insists that violence is not the ultimate solution, but he warns "There comes a time when the cop of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. ... In addition, Martin Luther King reminds the clergymen the real heroes of the ...

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Both of these groups were known to have been shouting racial slurs, present at the time . He was brought up during the worst time, being divided by not only racial segregation but the Great Depression during the 1930's ("Malcolm X.... "He becomes a hustler and spends his free time with pimps and thieves" ("Malcolm X.... They had six daughters, including twins. ...

• Word Count: 1558
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Others believe that the time has come to move on and consider racism and the residual effect of slavery as a thing of the past. ... During a time when it was easier to conform, rather than rebel, Rosa Park, chose the later. ... Oliver Brown, an African American railroad worker in Topeka, Kansas, sued the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his daughter, Linda Brown, attend Sumner Elementary School, an all white school near his home. ... In all honest, I believe that during my life, I will live to see an African American hold a distinguish position, such as the President of the United...

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King explains the Clergymen that he is serving as the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which at that time had over eighty-five affiliates that operated across every state in the south. ... The word "blasted" is a powerful word to be used in this text because at this point in time Birmingham there had been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches than in any other city in the south. ... King refers to his two children, he first speaks of his daughter who wants to go to the amusement park but is un able to due to the fact that she is not white. ... ...

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"When Mary was a child, many people thought that education was a waste of time for black children, [b]ut Mary wanted to go to school and her parents supported her" (qtd. in Hudson and Wesley 5). ... Sometimes, she would take Mary over to play with her employer's daughter, but one day something happened and it marked Mary's soul for the rest of her life. ... Bethune knew that her school was starting to grow with the population of students increasing, so a larger facility was right on time for her. ...

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One of the most famous African-American musicians of the time was Louis Armstrong. ... The painters of the time tried to capture the pain and suffering of the African-American race in their work. ... Many of these artists and sculptors are considered to be the greatest of our time. ... She was the ideal woman of her time and she is arguably one of the best sculptors in the twentieth century. ... Jean was an average child of his time but at age ten was faced with severe stomach ailments. ...

• Word Count: 2498
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• Grade Level: High School

The book follows the story of a mean and ignorant white man who falsely accuses an innocent black man of raping his daughter, purely to uphold his own family's values in the community as racists. ... As Atticus states in his closing argument, Mayella "committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it, is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with". ...

• Word Count: 1682
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• Grade Level: High School

Basketball is an ageless game thought and learned from generation to generation, from father to son, father to daughter, etc. ... The Romas, one of the greatest female ball clubs of all time, played against male and female teams, never lost a game for six years after World War 2 (1939-1945). Mignon Burns, Corrine Robinson, Lillian Ross, Lola Porter, Issadore Channels, and Virginia Wills were among the Romas best players of all time. ... Not knowing what the future holds, she went on to become one of the greatest women ball players of all time. ...

• Word Count: 2290
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate