After a few more years, Jane moves to another part of Louisiana with a fisherman, who suddenly leaves, and she is left all alone. ... Robert Samson runs the plantation with his wife, Miss Amma Dean. They have one son, Tee Bob, although Robert Samson had another son, Timmy, with a black woman on the plantation, Verda. Timmy looks and acts more like Robert than does Tee Bob, and the two boys are close friends even though Robert and Miss Amma Dean still expect Timmy to be subservient to his brother since Timmy is black. After the white overseer, Tom Joe, severely beats Timmy in response to Tim...

• Word Count: 1538
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Ewell?" ... Atticus proved to the jury that it was a left-handed man who hit Mayella and beat her. "If her right eye was blackened and she was beaten mostly on the right side of the face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it... "(178) This goes to help Atticus" defense of Tom Robinson because Tom Robinson had a bad accident while working, and it left him partially crippled. ... His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side. ...

• Word Count: 994
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• Grade Level: High School

I myself believe this, because if you grow up in a household that hats Blacks, women, elderly or any other group in society then you too most likely will think that way ( Roberts). ... James Byrd Jr. had just left a niece's bridal shower at his parents' house, and was trying to hitch a ride home. ...

• Word Count: 709
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Because of this, hundreds of Union soldiers left the army (Fincher). ... Robert Shaw, commander of this infantry, was one of the few white commanders who treated his troops with dignity and respect. ... Robert Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts demanded that his regiment be given the opportunity to engage in battle and not just the menial tasks assigned to them (Fincher). ...

• Word Count: 2424
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I think that Zimmerman could've definitely left the scene before it got physical or just listened to the dispatcher in the first place. ... In the state of Florida, "A person is justified in using force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other's imminent use of unlawful force" (Roberts, 2012). ...

• Word Count: 1262
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Alice was in an accident at the age of eight, which left her blind, and scarred in one eye, it was partially corrected when she was fourteen. Not only did this accident allow her to receive a rehabilitation scholarship to Spelman College; she said it also left a profound influence on her. ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

For over four-hundred years, New York City has been a thriving city sought out by those wishing to better their lives. New York City is situated in a prime location and has been drawing people from all over the world since its grassroots with the Pilgrims who settled Manhattan Island. New York Cit...

• Word Count: 4369
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• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. Nel Wright represents the archetypal mother and wife, a conformer who never leaves her hometown. Sula refuses the bonds of marriage and children, and sets out into the world, refusing tradition's version of woman. D...

• Word Count: 2386
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Black people must move now. When the people move for liberation, they must have the basic tool of liberation: the gun. Only with the power of the gun can the black masses halt the terror and brutality perpetrated against them by the armed racist power structure black people were forced to build Ame...

• Word Count: 2373
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In his analysis of a slave ship, in 1829, the Reverend Robert Walsh pointed out that "The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18 and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls, into the second the men and boys". ... Lots of them died of dysentery and other diseases, even if they had left the coast in good health. ... These two works were the only two of their type in existence until the appearance of Robert Hayden's Middle Passage, first published in Phylon in 1944. ...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

With words of encouragement for "ghetto bastards" and women that were left as single mothers, Tupac was a comforting voice, offering an empathetic message and speaking the truth that many knew all too well. ... Roberts offers a solid explanation. ...

• Word Count: 3526
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

• Word Count: 9660
• Approx Pages: 39
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School