Sometimes a person has to pass his own way by himself and understand what is bad and what is good and how not to fall into the hole. ... I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind"(56).Margarite understands from her uncle's speech that she is smart and has a good mind to create her future and begin to believe in herself. Uncle Tommy says that pretty women are digging ditches or worse and he tries to notarize Margarite that it is better to be smart than cute behind, because if she has "her head on her shoulders" she can find a good job and has more opportunities than ...

• Word Count: 1584
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through these lines, Phillis writes that Africans are good people and that through Christianity they will be welcomed into Heaven with God, where all people despite their ethnicity are created equal. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Tony had raised himself from the scum of the earth which was basically a common Cuban to being everything that a rich white man could have but he had done this through a life of crime and murder. ... You are either a good simpleton that believes in god and makes tortillas or you are a bandit getting drunk and pillaging a town. ...

• Word Count: 1382
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

However Malcolm Little was still an average youngster who wanted a good life but was stopped by racism. ... You 're good with your hands-making things. ... I'm telling you we do it because we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth. ...

• Word Count: 2034
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Racism People see racism everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing. What will the future br...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

They believe that what is good for the White Race is of the highest value to the world and what is bad for the White Race is the ultimate sin. ... Everything they do is geared towards populating the earth with all white people. ...

• Word Count: 1899
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps he was aware of the abnegation in it: the imperious and fierce urgency that concealed an actual despair at frustrate and irrevocable years, which she appeared to compensate each night as if she believed that it would be the last night on earth by damming herself forever to the hell of her forefathers, by living not alone in sin but in filth... McEachern and he is forced to realize how old Joanna really is, "You just got old and it happened to you and now you are not any good anymore. ...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jackie Robinson: Robinson Changes Americans' Views on Racism Jackie Robinson was one of the most profound individuals to ever walk on this earth. ... It I make good-well that will be perfectly wonderful- (Elderkin). ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Native Son - Richard Wright #1 Post-Reading After Bigger Thomas, the central character of this novel, has "murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body,"" he thinks that he has "created a new life for himself. It was something that was all his own, and it was the first time...

• Word Count: 2344
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

He follows through this fallacy by saying that whites "might out number us in this country but do not outnumber us all over the earth" (Malcolm 232). ... Martin goes on to quote Jesus and other biblical references by saying, "Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you""(Martin 225). ... He uses these authority figures to show that he might be an extremist, but he is doing it for the good of his people just as did the people he had quoted. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although black is said to have good and positive attributes, rust represents the negative perception of their character and is reinforced numerous times throughout the book. ... The pipe makes references to the scene at the beginning of chapter two with the description between the "small white Home Economics practice cottage" and the "black powerhouse with its engines droning earth-shaking rhythms in the dark" (Ellison 119). ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8

But marry one who's good and kind, And free from all pretence; Who, if without a gifted mind, At least has common sense. ... "Bury Me in a Free Land" Make me a grave where"er you will, In a lowly plain or a lofty hill; Make it among earth's humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. ...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When you think of African-Americans today what's the first thing that comes to mind? Reverse Racism? Angry? Thugs? Mean? Armed and Dangerous? Threatening? While I tend to think Blacks are resilient kings and queens, I thoroughly understand that the media constantly force feeds us negative represent...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School