For example, Black people are portrayed to go to church every Sunday but often sin every other day. ... My religion is something I do take seriously and I don't have to go to church every Sunday to show that. Stereotypes tend to over exaggerate the religion for my culture and make it seem like African Americans have to go all out to praise who they worship and that isn't true. ... However, my family and I go by whatever we practice and try our absolute best to live by the rules of the book. When it comes to music; I listen to whatever I like. ...

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Let them do whatever they want to. I know it's humiliating, bet let themdo whatever they want to do to make sure you get out of that situation alive. ... Your emotions are going to come second - or last. ...

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She goes on to suggest that the civil rights era allowed for proud identification, and the consciousness of racial difference. ... Throughout history black women have been the backbone of survival for most African-Americans, doing whatever they can to help their children survive through a fatherless environment. ... Hooks goes on to say that, "until men are taught how to parent using the same model of effective parenting that has been taught to women, they will not participate equally in child care. ... Collins says that, "othermothers c...

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While you thinking about a TV, I got to be thinking about the roof . . . and whatever else go wrong here. ... (Wilson1773) Troy then goes on to say that he is very similar to his father and, "that the only thing that separated us was the matter of a few years" (Wilson1774). Troy is saying that he is having trouble finding a reason to go on living in the same way that he felt his father had no reason for living. ...

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She is motivated both by her guilt for failing to prevent Pieter's tragedy and by the wish to show mercy, in contrast to the racially divisive laws that separate Pieter and the country The novel is set in the time following World War II, and Pieter and the other South African soldiers who volunteered to go abroad and fight with the British have returned home and resumed their lives. ... Sophie's failure to understand Stephanie goes beyond mere cultural ignorance. ... It was a good thing I went, for the two extra girls from the location had put all the dirty glasses in the sink, and ...

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For 19-year-old Jeff, weekends begin on a long strip of highway near Atlanta. rather than browsing the mall or going to the movies like others his age. ... " "We have a cruising area where all the cars go and just chill. ... "When I started racing, there were always people who would do things to show off - burn tires, race around a parking lot, blare their audio systems...whatever," David says. ... "I'm not going to say that the danger doesn't thrill me," says Jennifer, "It does. ... "The sport thrills me, and when it starts to scare me, I won't go anymore."  ...

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If an individual goes out and kills a black man, he will be viciously targetted by the media and prosecutors as being a racist skinhead, out to kill niggers. ... The list goes on: Colin Ferguson, a black, killed 6 whites and wounded dozens more, all of who were white. ... Everyone deserves to be charged to the maximum for whatever crime they committed. ...

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Rumors circulated that Rowland was going to be hanged that night. ... There was an internment camp that was set up at the Tulsa Fairgrounds for whites and blacks who had nowhere to go. ... Whatever the real reason or combination of reasons, the event which set the fighting off may not really have happened," (Blakey 103). ...

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Anne's mother wanted her to be scared to think of going against the whites or trying to change things for African Americans. ... She realizes her mother isn't going to give her any answers because she is set in the rules of society and would never think of defying them. ... Anne goes on to Tougaloo College and gets involved right away with the NAACP and the SNCC. ... I knew I was going to be a part of whatever happened" (Moody 254). ... I had realized that I was not going to treat people in that fashion ever again and if I heard one of my friends speaking badly about someone bec...

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Growing up in Westfield, since there were so little blacks, Paul was forced to go to school with the white children. Going to grammar school with white children was obviously a step in the right direction as far as Paul's education because the education he was to receive at that institution would be better one then he would receive at an all black school. ... Paul, even at age 20, had overcome barriers that many of his people at that time were not going to be able to overcome themselves. ... In class while we were learning about the reconstruction period and the hardships that blacks wer...

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This simply creates the image of a man going through a routine and daily life picturing the signposts in the streets as he does everyday but this time he is challenged with a new task, although on the exterior as most things are it is simple. ... The character then goes on to state the fact that he is the only african american and lives in Harlem. ... Here we find our character switching directions instead of speaking about what separates black and white/him from his classmates, he goes on to list similarities. Hughes word choice in his list of similarities is meant to go from simple human nat...

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Contemporary playwrights are constantly writing about and commenting on current social and political issues. Some do it directly and very obviously, addressing the events in the plot and the world of the play. Others do it merely through being classified as contemporary, without needing to addres...

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Everyone has felt at one point in their life that they did not belong or fit in because of specific standards and expectations that have been socially constructed by society, for example being attracted to the same sex, being too big in the waist or simply just because they are considered to be the wrong skin colour, whatever the case may be, everyone of these people have wanted to at least once in their lifetime go unnoticed. ... Caucasia goes deeper than a group of people who are similar because they have the same skin colour, it ties in with physical features and location, the texture of on...

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Once slavery was abolished, they still didn't have really anywhere to go. ... Their race has been almost wiped away into extinction, because it was either move in whatever direction you are told to move (basically herded like mere cattle or sheep, or else you would end up dead), or try to do what Roosevelt wanted everyone to do:  assimilate and Americanize. ... Due to her age, which Ša is able to keep in character so well, this little girl cannot understand why her mom just won't let her go, doesn't comprehend why her mom is so upset, at least on the appropriate level. When th...

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No other people have been made to live for more than four hundred years with that terrible stigma and the terrible lies that go along with it. ... No matter how you think of yourself, whether you are African-American, White, Hispanic, Asian or whatever national origin you identify with, you should never call anyone a "nigga." ...

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I. The Differences between "Rosie- and the Woman in "That Damned Fence- During the time of World War Two, there were hard working women taking over the jobs in industry that were usually held by men. But these women working as welders and miners were not the only women in America. There is a tend...

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Although the fight for belonging still goes on in America today, it was an almost insurmountable mountain in those days. ... Whatever the case may be this young man grew up to see been black in America as something to be despised and avoided as best as he could. ...

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One particular student attending a predominately white school commented on the discrimination: "I seem to just accept the fact that it is going to happen sometimes, you have just got to learn to try to ignore it." ... One situation given by a bi-racial adolescent was: "Me and my friends were walking past someone and they said "Oh you black this," and you think, well, I can't ignore that, and you say "Shut up you, blah", but in some situations you might just go, well, I"m by myself, I"ll ignore that (Tizard and Phoenix 110)." ... I suppose because if I have a go at someone who is of lower ...

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Whatever the reason is, it still clarifies that she is definitely tougher then her brother. ... In Hazel's case, her family odes care about her, but I don't think that she thinks they do, "And what I mean is you said you were going to marry me when I grew up." ... However he does encourage her to be aggressive to stand up for herself no matter what because that is going to be the easiest way to get through life in such an urban area - by gaining respect. ... (These two are children her age, who she is not particulary friends with - infact, they are more like enemies, "I don'...

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In fact the main question they discuss is if everything will go back to "normal". ... He is trying to make her feel as if he will support her in whatever decision, but he is instead telling her that he wants her to have an abortion because he would be happy and he is not making any promises to stand by her if she does not. ... In fact his writing is similar to Hemingway in the sense that he goes to great strides to make the reader focus on the issue at hand and makes careful use of symbolism, however Banks is much more vivid with his descriptions and very much unlike Hemingway he backs up hi...

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The Indians had so little food that they ate whatever they had, but that still was not enough so they still stayed skinny. ... Since a hurricane could not have happened during this fight, Alexie describes this fight in such a way because he wants to convey a message of going against nature. ... Sherman Alexie knows that when a white person murders another white person, the murderer would go to jail and be put on trial before a judge and the white man who had died would receive proper burial services. ...

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Chester Himes wrote If He Hollers Let Him Go, with the close-to-home perspective as an African-American author living under these altering circumstances himself. ... Alice illustrates this, "You mustn't think in terms of getting even with them [white people], you must accept whatever they do for you and try to prove yourself worthy to be entrusted with more." ...

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My mom's American dream would be to live long enough to see all three of her children graduate from college and be successful at whatever career we choose. ... In this short story Barbara Ehrenreich decides to leave all her luxuries a side and go into being a low wage worker. ... In many occasions the American dream might seem as unachievable, but that is because most of the time the American dream components coexist together because if a person does not have a high school diploma then that will have less chances of having his or her own home, going to college, being able to manage his or...

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1. The traditional definition of race and ethnicity is linked to biological and sociological factors. Race refers to a person's physical appearance, such as skin color, eye color, hair color, bone structure and etc. Ethnicity, on the other hand, relates to cultural factors such as nationality, cultu...

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Even without the possibility of actually creating human beings, they saw the potential for controlling where humanity would go and what kind of people should be allowed to be made ("Nazi Eugenic"). ... Genetic analysis of embryos may give parents the opportunity to select the "best" of their fertilized embryos, whatever their definition of best, and destroying the rest (Kevles). ...

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