I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit 1." ... The theme of the chapter revolves around the unfair social norms of the time that plagued the lives of African-American slaves. ... This ties along with the main theme of chapter 1 and the first stanza of STILL I RISE. ... (This next paragraph strays away from your instructions, but it deals with the theme of this paragraph and it elaborates on Angelou's message in the first stanza.) ... It is biased publications like the BELL CURVE and misvariations of real science that subconsciously affect...

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• Grade Level: High School

Men, women and children were crammed into every available space, denied adequate room, food or breathing space. ... The heat of these horrid places was so great and the odour so offensive that it was quite impossible to enter them, even had there been room. ... Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have freely parted with them all to have exchanged my condition with that of the meanest slave of my own country. ... Another text which explores this theme is the work of Coguano (1787), that describes, in English, ...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Because of his troubled relationship with his strict stepfather, Baldwin turned to reading as a way to escape. ... view of the damage that racial prejudice inflicts on both whites and blacks" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). ... "All thought flows, all is grace, because Baldwin is writing solely from himself, from an inner necessity, which generates a variety of approaches and an affluence of themes and variations" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). ... The Fire Next Time consists of two essays in the form of letters, with the first as an introductory to the beliefs and c...

• Word Count: 2618
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. ... The old Jim Crow laws governed all aspects of their existence, from the schoolroom to the rest room. ... Ironically with all the women's suffrage bickering, women did not receive the ballot until 1920 by the 19th Amendment. ... An opposing view suggests that the Civil Rights Revolution of the 60's led to reverse discrimination that some whites complain about today. ... The new deal had again failed with the ...

• Word Count: 8719
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School

Suddenly, the black man was rushed back to square one with the advent of Jim Crow. ... The white man thought the same with slavery but that proved to be an erroneous assertion. ... Civil rights activist argued that socioeconomic inequality coupled with racism produced crippling poverty and social issues. ... " Welfare and crime were the major themes of Reagan's campaign rhetoric. ... However, at the time less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. ...

• Word Count: 4144
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography