The two literary works are alike in the sense that they both give advice to young people. ... Then rest at cool evening beneath a tall tree-. ... He celebrates in the sun, and rests beneath the comfort of a tree. ... For her, the image of this tree brings anguish to the soul: Way Down South in Dixie (break the heart of me) they hung my black young lover to a crossroads tree. The tree is the object on which this girl's lover was hung. ...

• Word Count: 1518
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Janie begins this search when she was just a young girl sitting under a pear tree in her backyard beginning her long walk into adulthood and feeling the emotions that come along in everyone's life when they reach that certain age. To Janie this pear tree symbolized love. ... Janie felt that, "Joe was the bee for her bloom," a reference to the earlier mentioned pear tree. ... Starks gives Janie the very best that money could buy but once again Janie is starved for emotional support and affection. ... Joe doesn't allow Janie to talk and fraternize with the town folks and this give...

• Word Count: 1356
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the corner of the stage there is an industrial pipe tree that is covered with artificial moss in Act I that is later transformed into a futuristic tree to represent the effect of time passing. ... The lines and dynamics are very clean but there is somewhat of an imbalance with the placement of the tree to the choreography. ... I genuinely believe Abraham intended to give a clear point across to the audience. ...

• Word Count: 744
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", roots are noticeable and it gives us the meaning of the poem. ... Through images and details the poem showed strong pictures related to veins in the human body, rivers, and the roots of trees. ... This means the rivers are not like roots growing wildly and penetrating roots of a tree or human veins. Rivers are the same as the soul of humans having no ending, similar to tree roots that reach deep into the earth, both the river and the human veins are nurtured. ...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The black man (raisin) refuses to give in and thus turns into a "sore". ... This imaginary urn is bordered with leaves and trees, men chasing women, a musician sitting under a tree, lovers, and a priest and his congregation leading a heifer to sacrifice. ...

• Word Count: 891
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Faulkner begins discussing the setting, the city of Jefferson, as a place where the electric and telephone companies are taking over and cutting down the trees to make way for "iron poles bearing clusters of bloated and ghostly and bloodless grapes- (76). ... Cutting down trees to make way for any new technology takes away from the traditional look of any town in the 1930's. ... The old trees are like the Romans, Jews to Jesus of Nazareth and his followers; they also represent the white people as opposed to the black people. ... After all of the inferences and ideas surrounding the name...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the water, she would know. But there are no palm trees on the street, and dishwater gives back no images." ... "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou gives the audience an idea of the way some people have overcome such things as being a woman in the nineteen forties and being a black American in Arkansas at that time. ...

• Word Count: 1242
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin uses irony in several different ways, and these methods can be seen as literary links between her stories, "Desiree's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour." because each gives an emotional shock to the reader, which also helps link the theme of women facing depression through appearance versus reality. ... As she looks out the window, she notices "the tops of trees that were all aquiver with new spring life....

• Word Count: 502
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Harry Crews was not old enough to work on the farm so he spent his days playing in the shade under the oak tree watching his mom, his brother, and Willalee Bookatee pick the worms off the plants. ... Willalee however knew his place in the relationship, "Willalee almost never argued with what I decided to do, up to and including giving away the worms he had spent all morning collecting." (396) The story suggested that Harry, being a young boy, could not comprehend why Willalee was not allowed to eat at his house while he could go over to his freely. ... "Jim grabbed the newest hoe for himself...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I think the beginning of the Civil Right Movement began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. ... Their street with lined with green trees and green grass, and they were clean. ... People giving rides to and from the voting poles, lots of cheerful people gathering around the voting poles making sure that everyone casted a vote if they did not see you at the pole someone would go and find you and bring you to the pole to vote. ... However we still known that we were being denied our basic privileges and our rights as citizen of the United St...

• Word Count: 1607
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

King was giving a speech at his college sometime in the month of February, on the year 1956. ... The hoses, which had not been used the day before, sprayed the demonstrators with water pressured to denude tree bark." this is a perfect example of a one-sided story. ...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This was the case when they had to coordinate their efforts for hauling a fallen tree or any heavy load. ... John Lovell lists the purposes of the spiritual in this way: To give the community a true, valid, and useful song To keep the community invigorated To inspire the uninspired individual To enable the group to face its problems To comment on the slave situation To stir each member to personal solutions and to a sense of belonging in the midst of a confusing and terrifying world To provide a code language for emergency use (John Lovell, Black Song: The Forge and the ...

• Word Count: 1353
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Through a crystal-clear depiction of Southern life in the twentieth century, strongly suggestive vocabulary, and the pure illustration of the divide between the races, Hurston gives the audience a captivating taste of segregation. ... Not only is the religious element evident in the underlying theme of good versus evil, but is shown in many allusions such as the song about the River Jordan, the constant mention of the snake, and the reference to the Chinaberry tree. ...

• Word Count: 963
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Another argument supporters of affirmative action will often give is that affirmative action compensates for the past discrimination and injustice African Americans were forced to endure. ... Even so, "it makes [no] sense to give preference to applicants from these groups, despite the fact that some of the beneficiaries will be people who haven't suffered much from racism, and some of the members of the non-preferred group may themselves be disadvantaged, as stated by Ilya Somin in an article titled "How Affirmative Action is like Racial Prof...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They started giving orders as soon as they got over the sight of Mr. ... He never stops to chat with anyone, he never gives anyone a lift, it never breaks down so the kids can help push it, in short, the car is only a show piece. ... When she was finished, he came out from behind a tree, and asked her if she had come to lie on her father's grave. ...

• Word Count: 2974
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The music within the novel "Beloved" presses upon the reader's own emotional boundaries by presenting to us the treatment of slaves through an entirely different medium; not only through language but through sound; through the "soul" of those who give their voice melody. ... They represent the "soul" of ancestry and bondage that they must endure together, through the cadence and melody of each woman, "Building voice upon voice until they found it, and when they did it was a wave of sound wide enough to sound deep water and knock the pods off chestnut trees." ...

• Word Count: 3100
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...

• Word Count: 3309
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Meetings, exhibitions, lectures and symposia were organized to climax the scientific study of the African experience throughout the year in order to give a more objective and scholarly balance in American and World history. ...

• Word Count: 3305
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. Walker and Marshall write about an identity they have found with these women because of their exposure to the African culture. These women were searching for independence and freedom. Walker expresses independence as found in the creative spirit, and Marshall finds it through the spoken word. Walker...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School