King first argues that he is not an "outsider.... In the letter that was previously written by the Clergymen King is referenced to as an "outsider" so it is only fitting that he introduces himself and his relations to the issue. ... ", By including the fact that he was actually invited, King infers he is inferring that he is in fact a guest not an outsider in Birmingham. ... He wraps up his explanation of why he belongs in Birmingham by stating "Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds....

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Through this character, Thurman is expressing his ideas that the position of the outsider is created by the surrounding society and constructed within the mind of the individual, so that only by putting an end to the discriminations within one's self will others do the same and happiness be found. ... By applying all the cover-up, she sets herself apart from the others and once again becomes an outsider. ... Emma Lou's views set her apart from her coworkers and force her to become an outsider when she could simply choose accept herself and therefore receive the respect of others ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is careful to hide the alienation he feels at being seen as an outsider, and makes every effort to smile and exude friendliness in public, so as to minimize and sometimes prevent white perceptions from forming that he is a dangerous criminal of some sort. ... He is careful to hide the alienation he feels at being seen as an outsider, and makes every effort to smile and exude friendliness in public, so as to minimize and sometimes prevent white perceptions from forming that he is a dangerous criminal of some sort. ...

• Word Count: 1787
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

Interpretation of "The Harlem Dancer" The poet, Claude McKay, was an African American who was born in Jamaica. His history starts with arriving in the United States in the year 1912, where he traveled to Tuskegee Institute. After only staying there a coulple of months he decided to move...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Interpretation of "The Harlem Dancer" The poet, Claude McKay, was an African American who was born in Jamaica. His history starts with arriving in the United States in the year 1912, where he traveled to Tuskegee Institute. After only staying there a coulple of months he decided to move...

• Word Count: 1634
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Living the American life during the 1870s was not an easy thing to do. Foreigners, freed slaves and immigrants were all desperately trying to better their lives. Although this was the beginning of industrialization in the United States, people, especially immigrants and African Americans found it ...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Living the American life during the 1870s was not an easy thing to do. Foreigners, freed slaves and immigrants were all desperately trying to better their lives. Although this was the beginning of industrialization in the United States, people, especially immigrants and African Americans found it ...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

" During this period in his life Langston Hughes was a man who transcended what it was to be African American into what he thought that it should be through his writings according to Smethurst, "An African American narrator frequently searches for an organic connection to an African heritage but finds himself strangely rejected and assigned to another community in which he is an outsider when the indigenous people see him indistinguishable from his "white" (and "brown") mates (2004)....

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. In the book's foreword, Morrison explains her reasons for writing the novel. She states that the idea to write this novel c...

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The only way for consumers to know about a new product is through advertising. At first, advertising was just in print, in newspapers. Today, though, advertisements are seen everywhere throughout America. Advertisers have used every media possible in order to sell their products to consumers. Newspapers, magazines, television, and social media websites, have all become platforms for companies to advertise a product to the world. ...

• Word Count: 1817
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dee makes herself an outsider, in many respects the same as the white people she despises, and she would never be able to see the quilts for what they are until she can finally obtain her freedom without rejecting her African American roots and Walker does not provide much encouragement for that ever happening. ...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For many decades liberalism was the biggest factor in politics, and the largest force in changing America. Liberals believed in a government that was active in the nation to provide "economic prosperity, international security and social justice"(Schulman 1). Lyndon Baines Johnson "embodied the contradictions of political liberalism" in post war America, and he "orchestrated its triumphs, and endured its agonies"(Schulman 2). He was also the maker of its most important legislative achievements and a factor in its ultimate demise....

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. In The Comet, W.E.B. Du Bois describes the relationship between a black man, Jim, and a white woman, Julia, after a comet hits New York City and kills everyone ex...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, playwright, author, poet, activist, critic, and educator. His life has been a changing cycle through multiple philosophy and beliefs. He has been considered a literary genius among his peers and a man we all can learn from. A leader of the Black arts movement, Baraka's n...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School