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. ... This essay aims to compare the lives of a woman Irish immigrant, an African American, and a white railroad clerk's lives in the 1870s and in 1914. ... Their lives changed greatly by 1914. ... To tell life on the worse side would take forever. ...

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• 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. ... This essay aims to compare the lives of a woman Irish immigrant, an African American, and a white railroad clerk's lives in the 1870s and in 1914. ... Their lives changed greatly by 1914. ... To tell life on the worse side would take forever. ...

• Word Count: 1488
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• Grade Level: High School

" Marji later states that she feels ashamed because the social class system present in the public world is also part of her private family life. Both Lee and Satrapi use the symbol of the maid to represent the presence of intolerant public values within their main characters personal family lives, despite their progressive nature. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" Marji later states that she feels ashamed because the social class system present in the public world is also part of her private family life. Both Lee and Satrapi use the symbol of the maid to represent the presence of intolerant public values within their main characters personal family lives, despite their progressive nature. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The whites didn't want to have any contact with their "inferior race" and they lived their lives without encountering with African Americans by setting up separate black and white facilities. ... If any blacks violated the laws, they risked their homes, their jobs, even their lives. ... The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life, such as restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

You have made such an enormous impact on the lives of millions that there is a street named after you in almost every major city in the United States of America. ... Thanks to your efforts, young African American children do not have to struggle to get a good education and to get a good chance at life. ... Many kids have taken your words and actions and put them to use in their lives. ... I think he represents everyone's struggle in life," said Amphay Thiraphouth, a high school student when asked how she felt about Dr. ... I have found a whole bunch website filled with comments about how ...

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The two girls are quite similar characters, but on the other hand, they live completely different lives. Squeaky lives in Harlem, a very urban area of NewYork, where she experiences a tough life, while Hazel lives in the rural south, a place of racial discrimination. ... They fight to achieve respect, which is particulary vital to Squeaky, for she lives in quite a brutal area. ... Furthermore, they learned to demand respect from other people, and for that reason, they needed an attitude to get through life. ... Nonetheless, if you take a closer look, and take a step towards to them, you will n...

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• Grade Level: High School

In "A Raisin in the Sun," life was less than fair for Walter. Walter, the man of a poor black family, lives in a small, livable, but not extravagant apartment that shares a single bathroom with the entire floor. ... Her dream, to become a doctor and save the lives of others, is prevented by the racism embedded in society. ... "So now it's life. Money is life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As one of the most representative social animals, human beings keep seeking for their identity and belonging throughout their lives. ... Yet there also exist people like Nelson Mandela, who lives in both the same country and the same era, who are disrupted by such barriers but still find their belonging through hard effort. ... Sandra Laing is obviously the character who suffers most from barriers in life in the film Skin. ... However, such 'stable' life doesn't seem to last long as racial barriers again disrupts her. ... However as a well evolved animal human beings always hav...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

James McBride writes "The Color of Water" as a dedication to his mother and his own life. ... James McBride talks about the power of race in his house and how it affects him and his siblings in their everyday lives. ... This quote shows that there is an underlying sense of race in their home and within their family which controls their lives. ... This differentiation between the races in the McBride family causes many issues in their daily lives. ... Later on in James' life he changes the path he was headed down and goes down the path of his life where he begins his music and writing care...

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• Grade Level: High School

Crash is an exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen Los Angeles residents - Black, White, Latino, Asian, and Persian. ... Haggis invites the audience into the Latino locksmith's personal life, and we are shown that he is good man, working a long and tedious job to provide for his young daughter. ... In summary, this movie has so many messages about racism and stereotypes and how we deal with it and the sometimes crippling ways that we respond to the situations and people in our lives. ... In his mind, all Filipinos like Karaoke and make it an important part of their lives. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book explores the life of Clare Kendry who decided to abandon her African-American heritage and contrasts the life of Irene Redfield who finds this abandonment as a problem. ... She marries a white man, who assumes that she is white, and lives her life as a white woman. ... This clearly shows that Irene values her own security rather than the life of Claire. ... The reader is presented with two women of the same background who establish a live their lives completely opposite to one another. For Claire Kendry, passing as a white female takes on a whole new meaning of life for her....

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• Grade Level: High School

Rufus discerns that his yearning for a blissful and ordinary life is not being fulfilled. ... After Rufus" departure, many people's lives begin to change. ... At the completion of the novel, much of what has been altered in the character's lives progresses back to normal with absolution among them. ... He scrutinized his life for the aspiration and significance that he never found. ... She then learns to use the objective as a way of finding her position in life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She endured exclusion and ridicule as a Jew living in the South, and later as a white woman living in black neighborhoods during the black power movement Ruth lives in New York City in a black neighborhood and attends an all black church. ... Through James's narrative technique of weaving his own life story in and out of his mother's story allows us to learn about the lives of mother and son in the context of both stories. ... These issues can teach lessons about life and will open your mind about the complexity of families. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The two brothers lead very different lives, but share a common bond through their pain and suffering. The suffering and the pain of life is what truly brings them together as brothers. ... During that time Sonny's older brother reflects on his past and his life as it is. ... Through their pain and losses the two brothers are brought together for the first tie in their lives. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, some blacks were content with going through life as blissfully ignorant as the day is long. ... The story views the lives of a small African American family through the eyes of the mother raising her two daughters. ... Maggie and her mother have both lived peaceful, simple lives in a house in which the sisters spent a large portion of their childhood. ... Maggie, who had lived with her mother for the entirety of her life, walked down a different path. ... Being set to marry, Maggie expects to live a life working in her home as her husband goes out and makes the wages for the...

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Passions of the Christ Religion is a very important part of many lives throughout the United States of America. ... The Jews mistreated Jesus Christ simply because he was trying to save lives and teach people about God his father. ... Black people are closer to God, because white people have always had life the way they wanted it, and black people had to struggle and pray to God for years to make life to were black people can have the same amount of rights as white people. ... He was only talking about the life of Jesus Christ. ... I feel as if Mel Gibson did not have any intentions on...

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• Grade Level: High School

Walker and Marshall celebrate these women's lives and they see them as inspirations to become black women writers. ... Walker's and Marshall's identification is related to the African-American culture that they have been exposed to throughout their lives. ... Every week, regardless of her busy life, she makes time to escape to a spiritual place. For Delia, being at church gets rid of all the misfortunes of her life and she finds some inner peace. ... Hurston, as a writer during her life, can be seen as being ahead of her time because she touches on issues that are sensitiv...

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• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes" poems and stories reveal the author's comprehension of the Negro culture, and his awareness of their individual work in Southern life. In Hughes" writings, the conventional life of the Negro folk is made to come alive, and to show the life of the Negro folk as they are. ... He demonstrated the different approaches and methods, while still concentrating on his position concerning the lives of common black people. ...

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This movie is worthy of condemnation because it demean the importance/seriousness of slavery, makes fun of factual events and groups of people that existed during the time of slavery, and has no life connection or relativity to the one who chose to make fun of this subject. ... The lives lost in the movie does not begin to add up to the actual lives lost in reality, black people did not get to shoot or kill the white people who enslaved them, they lived through enslavement and some died while some escaped in the process. ... Tarantino should look at the movie himself over and over again and...

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• Grade Level: High School

X and King by the end of their lives were fighting to achieve the same goals but in different routes with same objectives. ... However, he went through several phases in his life, one key phase was after his break with the black Muslims after visiting Mecca. ... Like Malcolm, King went through several periods in his life where he changed his thinking and approach. ... The media portrayed Malcolm X in a negative and incorrect manner because they only addressed one aspect of his life, his contempt for white people, when he is multifaceted. ... In Martin Luther King's and Malcolm X'...

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From the way the author organizes and it seems that the author's purpose in writing the book not was not only as an informational analysis of the 1890s but also to show how trends in the past can significantly effect our lives in the future. ... For instance, Brands emphasizes that since the frontier was used by everyday people as an escape from the burdens and pressures of life, the disappearance of the frontier meant that people no longer had an "escape hatch" that they could use if things do not go well for them in their everyday lives. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is men and women's disposition to ultimately make decisions for themselves and choose their own trials in life. ... Soldiers laid down their lives for the freedom of their nation and the freedom of those future generations. ... Our ancestors faced oppressions and hardships on several occasions, and those same calamities will be dealt to us at one time in our lives. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Authors wrote to escape the trials and tribulations of life, such as poverty and discrimination. ... Their writings dealt with black life from a black perspective, and it celebrated the characteristics of African American life and the enjoyment of life without fear. ... Mckay also presented glimpses of the glamour and the grit of Harlem life in Harlem Shadows. ... Writers were able to deliver a more subtle, and more effective, message by portraying the lives of characters and by composing verses in their poems. ... The Great Depresion increased the economic pressure on all sections of life. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys of hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life." ... An example is when Boo saved the lives of two children, Jem and Scout Finch, from an attack by a disorderly man named Bob Ewell. ... Martin Luther King's statement, a true neighbor would risk his life "in dangerous valleys of hazardous pathways" for the welfare of others. ...

• Word Count: 462
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School