While, Gaines does make a sort of explanation for the situation "The people were all well-dressed, and most of them were older than Shepard and the new tenant. Two years earlier half of the crowd would have been their ages, but with Martin Luther King's death many of the younger people had left the program" page 28, a better understanding of the effect Martin Luther King Jr.'... Gaines addressed this in many viewpoints. ... Gaines uses this speech and Martin's interactions with several people in Baton Rouge to show the reader the tension that existed in the black community in t...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I as a reader am able to extend the boundaries of my understanding of the issues and characters in this and other novels. Issues such as racism, the coexistence of good and evil, the development of conscience and the transition from childhood to adulthood, are present in the novel and play a big part in expanding my understanding. ... The issue of racism, I feel is the most important in the novel and also the issue that has expanded my understanding the most. ... All the issues in the novel help extend the boundaries of my understanding. .....

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Washington's viewpoints are based on his own personal experience and understanding of politics. ... But he also remembers his will and determination to gain an education at any cost. This resulted in him going to school at night and traveling several miles in order to gain a proper education. Washington eventually gained an education at Hampton University, and went on to teach. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

These new establishments and new found land created a more intelligent black community throughout the nation which brought forth a better understanding of religion. ... What made religion so noticeable about this certain scenario was that Malcom-X had the nation of Islam behind him which was a huge supporter in his ideological campaign to gain civil rights. ... From my understanding and readings, the meaning of Dubois's concept toward double consciousness is that the current religion isn't the same teaching as White's during the slave period and the same teachings from African T...

• Word Count: 827
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shorty, the elevator operator, allowed himself to be kicked in the bottom to gain wealth from whites. ... Most blacks were willing to sacrifice their pride to gain riches; Richard Wright was an exception to this notion. ... Their conversations show a lack of sympathy and understanding for other ethnic groups as well as their own. ...

• Word Count: 783
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• Grade Level: High School

The grandfather's last message is an interpretation of Washington's message calling for black conformity as a way of gaining social stature. ... Although it takes the narrator a long while before finally understanding what was meant, he comes to realize that it is treacherous because it is self-denying and self-effacing. ...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That type of achievement does not just come from hard work it comes from understanding your environment and getting it to work to your advantage. ... Knowing your audience and understanding what they would want to hear is a skill that Washington learned to use very well. ... Letting those men know that he had same stance as them on different issues helped him gain their respect, even if they wanted the same thing for completely different reasons. In each of these literary works, we see black writers trying to find common ground and mutual understanding with their white audience. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The boycott continued throughout 1956 and King inadvertently gained national prominence for his role in the bus boycott. ... In 1959, King toured India and further developed his understanding of Gandhian nonviolent strategies, and met with many followers of Gandhi"s teachings. ...

• Word Count: 862
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By using this tone in his writing, I was able to eventually gain a better perspective about the type of person Booker T. ... He was a man who speaks, not with complaint or blame, but with a sense of determination and understanding. ...

• Word Count: 678
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• Grade Level: High School

DuBois combined his knowledge of literature from his educational background, his understanding of American Culture as a result of his numerous studies, and taking direct force by protesting for equality to represent what he believed would solve racial discrimination of blacks. ... Washington urged fellow blacks, most who were poor, illiterate farm laborers whom he could relate to based on his background, to abandon their efforts to gain full civil rights and political power as DuBois's plan of action called for. ... He modeled his teachings around the beliefs that blacks deserve the sam...

• Word Count: 1561
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She is in other words proving that she is a tough girl to George by standing up for Raymond and to gain respect from him. ... 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. ... However, towards the end she learns to be happy for others, as well as herself, and becomes more generous and understanding towards other people's feelings. ... Fortunately, towards the end, she understands how trust can be used to form friendships and begins to gain t...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. ... Shortly after he made that comment, I came to the understanding that the people of today are living in a "bed of roses", including myself. ... If there's a book that I wanted someone to read so it can help better their understanding of the culture in the United States, it would have to be "Black Power Years". ... As a result, they gained more knowledge then they had before of economic and social politics. ... Secondly, its essential understanding criticized and compared each event to the previous ...

• Word Count: 3405
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

America and Dunbar gained national praise for his dialect verses in some of his poetry. He was the first black American poet to gain this national praise, although white and black writers before him have used it also (Laryea 108). ... After his work "Sympathy" he grew as a poet because of his famous line " I know why the caged bird sings" brought out a sense of understanding. ...

• Word Count: 1623
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• Grade Level: High School

Simone belts out this song with anger and this relates to Moody and the theme of this chapter because she gains a sense of anger and hate towards the white folks and the Negroes. ... Overall, Coming of Age in Mississippi gives us a better understanding of racial segregation, racial violence, and discrimination. ...

• Word Count: 1133
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• Grade Level: High School

Simone belts out this song with anger and this relates to Moody and the theme of this chapter because she gains a sense of anger and hate towards the white folks and the Negroes. ... Overall, Coming of Age in Mississippi gives us a better understanding of racial segregation, racial violence, and discrimination. ...

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She is expecting to cash in on her family treasures either monetarily or by showing them to her high society friends to gain acceptance, without acknowledging her family roots. ... By this, the quilts become the centerpiece for understanding how money and cultural climates influence the way that Dee appears to her economically emaciated family. ...

• Word Count: 973
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They believe that a novel is evaluated by the quality of its plot, and that any language enhances the understanding of the time and social period in which the novel takes place (Hartford 1-4). ... Nothing is gained by banning the novel, only a loss to the many potential readers who have not yet had the chance to read it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

These brotherhoods, especially the Black Elks, and their Masonic lodges gave African American's a space where they were all equal, and were in turn, able to formulate action and plans to embark on the journey to gain equality, civil and political rights. ... This was a monumental step for Black Masons and fraternal societies, and helped them gain enormous momentum from those who were formerly enslaved in the South. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The major difference between the two were that King used non-violence to break the walls of oppression and Malcolm X wanted to gain "freedom - by any means necessary." ... In an effort to raise his understanding of Ghandi's beliefs, in 1959 he visited India. ... While in jail, King wrote his acclaimed essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail", urging the white population of America to put a stop to segregation, asking them to see how truly unjust the punishment of African-Americans was and that African-Americans were people who only wanted to gain their full civil rights one hundred years af...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Because white society refused to take notice of him, Bigger felt like he was forced to kill in order to gain the recognition and feeling of individualism white society egotistically possessed. ... This understanding kept blacks like Bigger Thomas subdued and afraid to do such things as rob a white person's store. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Their contrasting views and some of the words, phrases, and facts they use in their speeches arouse different emotions, such as anger and understanding at times from the audiences they are aimed at. ... DuBois believed firmly that political action and academic education would be the way to gain full citizenship rights for African Americans. ...

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According to Jessie Jackson, "A champion wins a World Series or an Olympic event and is hoisted on the shoulders of the fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders." This is what made Jackie Robinson a hero to African-Americans. Robinson's achievement goes beyond the statistics and championship...

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• Grade Level: High School

Janice Wilkinson is a 30-year-old African American female, born on May 18, 1982 in Los Angeles, California. Janice and I have been friends for about 5 years and had the pleasure of meeting each other during an internship program in Pasadena. Janice feels like she has had to deal with her race and the impact of prejudice and racism since the day she was born. She was raised in a single parent African American household. Her maternal grandfather lived with her most of her life and acted as a surrogate father. ...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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