In this play he writes of a character named Rose who deals with family issues in her household. ... She can always put her family in the right place when they seem to go over the edge. ... Rose supports him in everyway, of his decisions and although she has been loving and supporting it somehow wasn't enough to keep a tame on her husband. ... She was too caught in maintaining her family that it made him stray. ... She continues to support him even up to the point of his death. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Eat your eggs they gonna get cold " (1.1.993) his point of why he thinks she is not supporting him proves itself with her comment. ... The eggs she makes everyday symbolize her mechanical approach to supporting him. ... Walter doesn't realize that she isn't supporting him. ... When they begin to put the family and it's wishes before their own, they merge their individual dreams with the family's major dream. ... Every member of the Younger family had an individual dream. ...

• Word Count: 1265
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many women living in the United Stated during segregation, mainly African-American had hard times supporting their families. ... Mama has the insurance money and what to do with it is fought over by her family. ... This upsets the whole family. Though Mama supports them in their decisions and they move into the new house. ... Her family fought the system and Supreme Court after they moved into an all-white neighborhood. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another dream of Walter's is to be able to financially support his family. ... She does not care so much about money; all she wants is for her family to get along. She tries really hard to hold the family together, and instill both religious and family values. ... Near the end of the story things started to look up for the Younger family. They got the insurance money, got a new house, and started to get along like a family should. ...

• Word Count: 454
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This theme is supported by the mood created by the setting, characters, and their barriers throughout the play. ... Character also supports the theme of "Raisin.... Her dream was to own a house, with her family. ... Which was to own a home with a white picket fence, and a happy family. ... This led to larger sized families, jobs. ...

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Now without his financial support, Richard and his family are constantly left hungry. ... Even when Ella sues Nathan for child support, Nathan convinces the judge that he has already given them all the support he can. ... Soon after their arrival, Maggie's husband is murdered causing the family to move to Helena, Arkansas. Once again the family faces hunger. ... Not being able to make much money, Richards's family decides to separate him and his brother to make it easier. ...

• Word Count: 1035
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• Grade Level: High School

Black women worked in the fields if they were asked, they cared for the children of the family, and they cared for the field slaves and their families. ... Within the family, the female took care of the day-to-day house keeping, and her role was to be a housewife. ... Black men cannot get over the image of the matriarch, and keep producing babies with black women who have very little economic and social support. ... Othermothers offer the child another form of support besides their bloodmothers. ... This is different for black males because they are still looked at as the breadwinner, and ...

• Word Count: 1853
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• Grade Level: High School

This conflict is supported by Sara's father trying to control everything she did, even though her father is a complete failure. ... The conflict is supported by Bigger's difficulty to be happy with who he is. ... Bigger had a hard working mother who was barely able to support their family. ... Sara and her sisters had to bring in all of the income for the family. ... Sara does everything she can, even abandon her family, to just feel accepted as an American. ...

• Word Count: 1142
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• Grade Level: High School

The truth about black men, gays, and homophobia There's nothing easy about being black, but the struggle for a positive African American Identity is filled with support for fighting it. However, when that same African American Male is Gay there is no support team. With the African American struggle you have your families and community support. ... African American males have be brought up to have a love for their families and strength in their community and the source of history which to build a foundation on. However, the fear of losing their family and facing the wrath ...

• Word Count: 1889
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He held a steady but disagreeable job as a garbage collector, supported a wife and son, stayed sober six days a week, won his own private civil right battle to become a driver and remained faithful to his wife Rose for eighteen years. Fences is a fascinating play of an African American family in the 1950's. ... The author also recognizes that the family represents the foundation for American society as a whole, and chooses the family as the emphasis for the story. The family is built with that specific form of love, respect and dreams that most people had during this time. ... He wa...

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Martin Luther King preserved this as a future threat to his family and decided to put an end to this racism. ... With his massive support of his coalition, Dr. King organized speeches to preach against racism, boycotted those who supported racism, and organized rallies and marches. ...

• Word Count: 547
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In the way the main character Troy impacts his family, August Wilson provides an Insightful look into the culture and history of 1950's black America. ... What should we expect, he was abandoned by his mother at age eight, fled in a brutal, lustful father at age fourteen, began steeling for a living and served fifteen years on a murder charge He holds a steady but disagreeable job as a garbage collector, supports a wife and son, stays sober six days a week, wins his own private civil right battle to become a driver and remains faithful to his wife Rose for eighteen years before ...

• Word Count: 1386
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• Grade Level: High School

Thesis Statement: Langston Hughes was an author and a poet and a musician before his time by overcoming family adversity and racial hardships. ... Encouraged black Americans to support the United States in its goals abroad VI. ...

• Word Count: 288
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When the slaves learned they were free there was a feeling of excitement, followed by one of the reality that they were now responsible for providing for their families, shelter, food, clothing and a better way of life. He talks about the connection and bond that they continued to share, as the slaves began to prosper and the master and his family began to suffer. ... The part where is education was put on the back burner as a result of a need of income to support hi! s family. ... He believed that man must have skills and should be able to provide for himself and his family. ...

• Word Count: 919
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In order to support the story's theme of domestic struggle, Walker employs rural and urban equality, heritage, and the symbolism and importance of quilts. ... These are things that a family provides. ... Because Dee has different views than her family, she has created a wedge in her family relationship (Hoel 2 of 6). ... Family tradition is passed down through the art of the quilts made by the women in a family. ... The quilts are considered a family legacy. ...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
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Pecola's family, the ultimate victims of this destructive cycle, have deserted their search for beauty, preferring to accept their ugliness in an act of hopeless fatalism: "You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and couldn't find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw, in fact support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance"(pg 39). ... She has many problem is her life, starting with family issues, ...

• Word Count: 577
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His family was asleep when the house got bombed, but they were safe by the time Martin got home. ... Nowadays when someone family has been threaten the first reaction is to kill. ... He was supported by many others because everyone knew a change needs to happen. ...

• Word Count: 556
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When she died in 1910, Hughes lived with his family, friends and various relatives in Kansas. ... After grammar school, the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. ... During this period, he also worked a series of tedious jobs while supporting his mom who had recently moved to Harlem. ... The Millers chose the Huntington Library to house the collection so it would remain in Los Angeles where the family members could visit and review the documents. ...

• Word Count: 738
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It follows young Richard through his youth, examining the hardships and obstacles faced by both him and his poverty-stricken family. Richard's only thought is to find a haven outside the prison that is his family's circumstances. ... Throughout his life, Richard faces the need for a loving family to help and encourage him, but his family in a way, unknowingly help to form his independence. Richard's family was unable to provide what a family is normally supposed to, which was love, acceptance, and security. ... His family never fully supports him in his journey and make his stud...

• Word Count: 1189
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• Grade Level: High School

Many black families related to them. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... Many other shows had a few episodes with interracial relationships, yet, The Jeffersons had a interracial couple as supporting actors on the show. ... Family Matters showed focus on a middle-class black family living in Alba 6 Chicago. ... They were portraying the average black family. ...

• Word Count: 1691
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

First the ex-colored man does not seem to favor one or the other, though the way he view the black race is expressed a little more negatively than the white, which supports his reasoning for passing as white. ... But then again how would you be looked at by your own race, by your family. ... This may seem, and I think it is, as if he is "selling out" but his decision is supported by his experiences of his life. ...

• Word Count: 856
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• Grade Level: High School

Carrie Hughes came from a family that had been prominent in the abolitionist movement. ... Though he periodically sent money, he never lived with his family again. ... When Langston was twelve years old his grandmother died, and he went to live with some family and friends. When he was thirteen, his mother finally sent for him to join her in Lincoln, Missouri, where he found he had a new family. ... His support for left-wing politics and his sympathy for repressed people made him a popular figure worldwide, and sometimes a controversial one. ...

• Word Count: 1295
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• Grade Level: High School

They went through somewhat parallel struggles including the amount of servitude they provided, their family situations, and political rank in the government. ... Crockett who had family was in fact not as close to them as he would have liked to have been. During a good portion of his childhood, his father was poor so he would send Davy to work on different farms, so he could provide money for their family. ... When Crockett decided to join the army, he wanted to show his bravery, be strong for his country, and keep people like his family safe. ... Douglass became an active part in the Abol...

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The book follows the story of a mean and ignorant white man who falsely accuses an innocent black man of raping his daughter, purely to uphold his own family's values in the community as racists. ... Bob Ewell, who fought for racism until the very end, and many of the supporting characters throughout the book, who stand by Atticus, and do what they can to help him and Tom. ... The supporting characters in To Kill a Mockingbird stand up for what they believe in, through multiple subtle, but meaningful acts of friendship, integrity, and morality. ... Some of the supporting characters, such...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Born into an abolitionist family, he was the great nephew of John Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. ... Elected to be the class poet, his father did not support his writing as a career, and encouraged him to get a more practical profession. ... In the autobiography, "The Big Sea," Hughes writes about a boy of a poor family in the Midwest. ...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School