... uses shape, color, perspective, and other aspects of visual art to create a painting, a fiction writer uses character, setting, plot, point of view, theme and various kinds of symbolism and language to create artistic effect in fiction. In literature, a symbol is define by Michael Meyer "a person, object, image, word or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its ... literal significance" (2212). William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" are two examples of fiction that utilize symbolism effectively to...

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... who was forty-nine years old when the bombing occurred. This ballad features irony, symbolism, and discrimination. It is very ironic that the mother did not want her child to be on the streets of a big city because of the safety factor, so therefore she sent her to church instead which was the death ... of her daughter. The shoes and clothing that she dressed her daughter in was white and clean when her daughter left to go to church but after the bombing she only found one shoe that was underneath all the rubble. The symbolism is represented throughout the ballad in ... different ways....

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Symbolism in Ralph Ellison "Battle Royal". "Battle Royal," by Ralph Ellison was a very difficult piece of literature for me to understand since I didn't grow up in the african american society. One boy is invited to speak at local men's club where he will deliver his graduation speech. As I go on, I will discuss the nature of the ... woman is dancing. The white men yell at the boys for looking and not looking at the woman. It is as if they are showing them all of the good things being white can bring, and then saying that they aren't good enough for it since they were black. Next the boys m...

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... loved one. The stories are similar and different and reflect similar morals and ideas. Patsy Barnes and his mother are African-Americans who live in a part of Kentucky called "Little Africa." They are a poor family who live in a segregated town. Patsy's father died while riding a horse. Hana in "Tears ... their goals. Both stories show how the main characters both face prejudice: Patsy as being an African-American and Hana at the office of immigrant affairs where immigrants, especially Japanese and Asian immigrants, were not treated well. Patsy shows his struggle to survive in white and ...

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... this level of spirituality the historical black woman was able to overcome many of the obstacles that they faced. The spirituality of the historical black woman allowed Walker to express her emotions in historical allusions, literary allusions, and symbolism. The author employee's a variety of historical allusions ... to the essay. Walker starts off by calling the historical black women "sexual objects". The historical black women were called sexual objects because the men looked upon the historical black woman not for her brains or personality but mainly for sex. "Sexual objects" is im...

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... W.E.B. Dubois were two very important civil rights leaders in the late 1800's to early 1900's with common goals, but different ways of achieving them. Booker T. Washington was a little more patient in his philosophy. He wanted African Americans to quiet down about all the ... believed that persistent agitation, political action, and academic education was the best way for African Americans to obtain equal rights. Dubois put a lot of emphasis on his "Talented Tenth". He believed African American leadership should come from well educated African Americans (talented tenth). While Dubois" id...

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... English B" is a poem about a young freshman student asked to write a theme for class. This poem makes a powerful statement. It touches on the racial differences of that time. The student wanted to know if the assignment is as simple as the professor says. Below you will see just a few ... with all races. He wants the professor to not see the theme as just a colored personality it. The student mentions that he and the professor are apart of each other. Here he is trying to say that they are both men living under the same notion. They follow the same guidelines for life, or do ... they? H...

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... militarism."" "Martin Luther King Jr. According to Martin Luther King, our only hope for a better tomorrow, and our only hope to reach the Kingdom of God, and to live in peace and harmony, is tearing out our humane fighting spirit and fighting against the issues that matter, such as poverty, discrimination, ... prejudice based on race, and aggressiveness that involves the threat of using military force. We as conscience, intelligent, feeling human beings know, for the most part, what is right and wrong. We know and understand that ... stereotypes, prejudice and other matters that tear...

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... Johnny. Johnny is fourteen years old and is born to a southern family. Johnny and his family live on a farm near a mountain by the Shenandoah Valley in the state of Virginia. His father is a Confederate soldier. Johnny has always been taught that African Americans were inferior. He realizes that everyone was wrong about African Americans. African Americans play a ... is Cush. Cush is a Black union soldier. He is a fourteen-year-old boy just like Johnny. He is a black Union Soldier and goes by the name of Private Turner. Johnny first meets Private Turner when he captures him. Johnny was t...

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... people and the hip-hop culture. It also allows up to see how black people have grown as a unit. The number of black people on television and advertisements in recent years has increased. Companies continue to increase their budget for advertising to black consumers. Blacks ... to $921 billion in 2008. They (the Selig Center) came up with those numbers by estimating the total disposable income of black Americans. There has also been a steady increase in the amount of money black households have available to spend (excluding credit and loans). Blacks have twice as much income in 2002 ($631...

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... Three's Company, Cosby Show and Mash. These shows had strong influence on society, and made us look at certain things with a different point of view. Three's Company had an influence in the way of the sexual revolutions. People started to see that it was ok for one guy to live with two women. People saw that women were the ... and women are equal. The Cosby Show had a great impact on society by being the African American show on TV. The show helped break down barriers of racism. Bill Cosby showed that African Americans do live a normal live and can be just as successful as any other huma...

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... African American woman growing up in a racist south in the mid 1900s. It is the story of Anne Monody's struggle to deal with the race the racist society she is born into and her fight for freedom for herself and fellow African Americans. The ... book portrays her fight from when she was a small child on a plantation farm until she became a great civil rights leader in Mississippi. Moody tells of her hardships of growing up poor and black at the time and one can see how she changes and grows living in the United States at the time. She is shaped by ... society's view.... It shows life i...

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... author is close to the subject, but not obvious emotionally involved with a depressed tone. To the poet, Hard Rock epitomizes freedom. Hard Rock was, at one time, the living example of a free man imprisoned. Hard Rock "is known not to take no shit/from nobody " (Etheridge 891). and "he had the scars to prove it" (Etheridge 891). So we can say ... Hard Rock is his own person--a "free man," though imprisoned. Unable to bear this, "the doctors had bored a hole in his head, /Cut out part of his brain, and shot electricity/ through the rest" (Etheridge 891). The doctors had not cut off Hard ...

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... written on the pages. I did not really discover any hidden meaning that maybe others did. I guess I have made a connection with the story by sort of finding a connection with Milkman and myself. Milkman seems to not care much about his life for the longest time. He just partied and bullshitted everyday. He ... living off his father. Eventually when he set out on his own, he discovers his family history, which drastically changes his life. I feel kind of related to Milkman because for a while my mentality about life was similar to his. Living for the next party and just for fun. That was ...

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... intimidating black man. The story A Good Man Is Hard To Find, written by Flannery O" Connor, is a story about a family who falls into the hands of the Misfit, a killer who is confused about his life. The two characters Jim and the Misfit have several qualities in common, good and bad. The character Jim ... "Too big, too black, too loud, too direct, and probably too violent" (Wright 283) this is how Olaf perceived Jim and was very frightened of him. Even though Olaf did not personally know Jim he was threatened by his appearance. The Misfit, the character in A Good Man Is Hard To Find ......

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... discusses how we were taught as African Americans to think of ourselves. We were taught to think of ourselves as people without any background, no culture or foundation so we feel we have no type of self worth. He talks of about race superiority. Leading back to the days of slavery, the white race was privileged over the African ... American race. African Americans can never be reprimanded for the days of slavery no matter how much it is tried to. It ... it only to Black people but to everybody so that they to can see African American as who we really are Beautiful people who do have so...

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... discusses how we were taught as African Americans to think of ourselves. We were taught to think of ourselves as people without any background, no culture or foundation so we feel we have no type of self worth. He talks of about race superiority. Leading back to the days of slavery, the white race was privileged over the African ... American race. African Americans can never be reprimanded for the days of slavery no matter how much it is tried to. It ... it only to Black people but to everybody so that they to can see African American as who we really are Beautiful people who do have so...

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... to be 30 feet underwater. When this happened African Americans were called upon on to work on the rebuilding process. When the Mississippi river flood of 1927 happened many lost whatever they had such as their houses or belongings it was time where people needed a boost and help. Many blues ... songs were made specifically about the Mississippi river flood of 1927. According to "soundcheck.why.ord/story/songs-great-flood" artist such as Barbeque Bob wrote "miss heavy water blues" ... wrote a song about the flood was Lonnie Johnson called "Broken levee Blues" as a remembering of the devas...

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... think that they are as unimportant as the whites" think they are. Also, meaning that the white Americans cannot accept the blacks as Americans because of their skin color. The blacks did not have a chance to show the withes who they really were or show Americans what they could offer them. ... they wanted to. They had to deal with their conscious pulling them from one world to another. Another metaphor that Du Bois wrote is "another pillar of fire by night after a clouded day." This metaphor could mean different things to different people. It could mean that after not having freedom or s...

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... , wrote several books, such as, Mississippi Bridge, The Road to Memphis, and several other treasures. These works, along with Roll of Thunder, are excellent tools to introduce multicultural issues into the classroom. The issues of racism, prejudice, and stereotyping, are an important aspect of curriculum, that I feel often go unnoticed, or untouched. Books, such as, the ones I have mentioned, introduce cultural, ethnic, racial ... biases that the children have learned, whether it be from their parents, or other classmates. We need to get deep into these issues, and not simply touch the s...

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... purity. Like things that meant so much to the players back then, don't mean as much to the players today. Everything comes back to the love of the game as it is portrayed through the movie Sandlot. It didn't matter where they played or what they played on, they just wanted to play the ... game. They had nothing to play for except for the enjoyment and fun that they all got out of playing. The best part about that movie was that they wern't even playing against anybody, and if it was, it was themselves. Almost practicing, and I'd ... love to see how many players today would just want to...

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... the potential to being the best school in the state. Not being able to show potential was also evident with Jefferson. Everyone has thought of him as a hog instead of a man, and this is all because of his race linked with discrimination. Jefferson was called a hog because he was on trial for a murder, a murder he did not ... commit. He was put on trial for this murder for one of many reasons, and one reason being his color. He was called a hog because he had no intelligence. If Jefferson was given some school in his earlier years, I ... this way. As Wiggin's attempts to make Jefferson a...

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... james was going to put them both in to slavery. Harriet finally had enough in june 1853 in the middle of the night she finally had gotten away from james. The father of her children brought their kids. While shes children were living in a nice comfortable house while Harriet lived in a ... and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own.Also she was an author and a women's right activist. The book was called Incidents of a slave she has many other books but this one she self published because 4 publishers went bankrupt when she tried publishing. Also she hid out in ... she was y...

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... this book is set during the Depression, Jim Crow laws are still in effect, whites and blacks are to be separates in facilities of socializing and living. Crooks comments that he can't live in the bunkhouse and be able to play cards in there with the rest ... of the guys. " I can't play because I"m black. They say I stink."(75) The full extent of Crook's suffering is being show clearly, when Crooks lashes out at Lennie. "You got no right to come in ... my room Nobody got any right in here but me."(75) The character of Crook reflects the universal need for human connection as well as brut...

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... started using electric equipment to record music. In about 1900 - 1910, jazz started to flourish throughout America. There is not one way to give jazz a single definition. It represents a multitude of musical ideas and originating influences. It has been said that jazz is based on an African American rhythmic background entwined with European harmonic influences. However, it would be more accurate ... to say that African American slaves used European rhythmic and harmonic forms to express their own musical traditions. New Orleans was the birthplace, therefore conceived to be the capitol...

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