He became a preacher who felt as though he had been chosen by God himself to lead slaves from bondage. ... As a small child people thought he had a special talent because he spoke of and explained things that happened before his birth. ... After thirty days of hiding in the woods he decided to return to the plantation because he received a sign that he believed to be a sign from God. ... Turner pleads not guilty during his trial, believing that his rebellion was a work of god. ...

• Word Count: 594
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

It's especially apparent that he'd done wrong by God when the albatross is used as a metaphor for the crucifixion of Jesus: "Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung" (II-34). On the surface, the killing of the albatross is presented as a sacrilege in that the mariner, guided by no apparent reason at all, killed a creature of God. ... One may wonder why everything about the albatross is mentioned if the wrong that's being punished for is the participation in slave trade, but in great likelihood, the killing of the albatross serves as a metaphor for t...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Native Americans who live today are a small fraction of their population in the mid-fifteenth century. ... The Spanish explored the New World in search of gold, glory, and god, they sent many different types of people to the new world, and they had an overall negative affect on the Indians. ... The soldiers often married single native women and small villages were formed. ... These things were a great leap in technology for the natives. ... The Spanish played a significant part to destroying the native populations and arousing ill will from the Indians toward all Europeans therefore ...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

By Celia being Newsom's sexual partner she was privileged to some things other slaves were not to. One of those privileges was a special cabin close to the main house, whereas other slaves stayed further away with smaller and poorer living conditions. ... Being as the man that would be doing these things were the master or someone in the family Power relationships during this time were virtually non-existent. ... This was a very god book about the woman's side of things during slavery, that I would recommend to my peers....

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Having lived so long Phoenix is forgetful of many things, including her reason for heading into town in the first place: "It was my memory had left me. ... Welty's description of her early on in the story is enough to paint a picture of an old, tiered and overworked woman: "She was very old and small...moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock" (865). ... This experience suggests that Phoenix was perhaps "reaching" up to God, ready to retire from life. ...

• Word Count: 668
• Approx Pages: 3

At around the age of twenty or so, Linda escapes and ends up in very small garret only nine foot long and seven foot wide. ... She doesn't want them to go through the same things that she has so she wants them to die, but since she loves them so much she doesn't want to become like other slave mothers by losing her children. ... Why doesn't God kill me?" Linda explains that things like this happen daily, even hourly. ... Although it wasn't everything she though it would be, the most important part was that she was free and able to do the things that she wanted to do. ...

• Word Count: 1014
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Slaves used these mediums, among other things to, lift their spirits, let out their sorrows, pass down tradition, and give them hope for the future. ... One author pleasantly concludes that music was a god given gift "recognized by the black slaves in the Americas who found in musicking a tool for spiritual survival; it must have seemed as if the art were given as a gift in a time of desperate need It spoke of and to them in their particular predicament."(Small, 118). ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are restraints from school, from your parents, the law and the God. ... Things go hand in hand. ... Some employers falsely argue that children are particularly suited to certain types of work because of their small size and "nimble fingers". ...

• Word Count: 1398
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Mary Rowlandson sees this instance as an act of the devil and since the Puritan religion would condone such acts, she believes that even God sees the Puritans as a better race the Native Americans. ... Twain uses a small boy to show what the white human race is like without the corruption of society and slavery. ... He is defining the black race from the standpoint of another race by showing what it is really not; that they are really not all those things. ...

• Word Count: 1155
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There are restraints from school, from your parents, the law and the God. ... Things go hand in hand. ... Some employers falsely argue that children are particularly suited to certain types of work because of their small size and "nimble fingers". ...

• Word Count: 1390
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The men's obsession to act God made him to treat the feeble helpless humans worse than cattle. ... Things were worse when bad weather was encountered.   ... This was possible only with the seizure of power by the workers allied with the tradesmen, small farmers, and small producers. ... This was possible only with the seizure of power by the workers allied with the tradesmen, small farmers, and small producers. ...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

"Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains," remarked on slave. ... A folktale, about a partridge and a fox, portrays just this message: the partridge, although physically smaller, tricks the fox into believing that the meat was poisoned so that the fox would give it all to him. Slaves were driven to steal things as a matter of necessity, to provide for their family or for themselves in order to live a tolerable life. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Countless scholars have written numerous accounts on its interpretation. It has been the subject of heated debate since it was published. Some may even say its even the most disputed work ever written. But what is the true meaning behind More's Utopia? Is it the political satire that many believe it...

• Word Count: 2207
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

If it is hard now, it was extremely demanding then, and probably even less appreciated because those were the things women were naturally expected to do. ... What Governor Winthrop also said, and to him this was the sum of her offense, that Anne had done, "...a thing not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God nor fitting for your sex..." ... On a much smaller scale, this practice was brought to America with the slave trade. ...

• Word Count: 2256
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She then went to her grandmother's house, and there she is helped and tucked away in a small attic above a storage room of her home. ... Jacobs writes, " If God has bestowed beauty upon her, it will prove to be her greatest curse" (Jacobs 27). ... Jacobs is by far a brave, daring woman, and it brought me joy when I read she lived a full life that she was finally freed by friends she had made, and at least had those years to be her own human and do things she loved in peace. ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At the top of this southern social ladder perched a small but powerful covey of great planters owning gangs of slaves and vast domains of land, the planters ruled the region's economy and virtually monopolized political power. ... It is noted several times that in the eye of the law, blacks are not considered men, but things. ... She is convinced, from what I read there, slavery is not in accordance with what God delights to honor in his creatures. ...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

On a final note, Garrison makes a powerful call to action for all Christians to resist the slave system; he concludes that those who are truly on the side of God must also be against slavery. ... She doesn't punish him for the smallest things that he would do, like looking right into her eyes. ... Before she turned all cruel she thought Douglass the alphabet and some small words. ...

• Word Count: 2694
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Another interesting thing I came across was a small fragment from presumably a letter. ... One of the things that my research did prove was that there was and indeed still is a great deal of contention over this issue. ...

• Word Count: 5422
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography