... right on every play. The internal monologue of this boy makes it very apparent to the reader that more than anything he wants to make the football team. As the third paragraph approaches we can start to see that discouragement is setting in. It even says: "He had ... never felt so lonely in his life, abandoned, defenseless." He becomes so discouraged that he finally resorts to falling asleep on the fifty-yard line. This is the first glimpse that we receive of his name; ... more you won't "hurt their self-esteem", it builds character. Figurative Language and Imagery: Page18- "A water fa...

• Word Count: 12087
• Approx Pages: 48
• Grade Level: High School

... FBI surveillance and raids, the Panthers were also a community-based organization that provided free breakfast for children and free health clinics in black neighborhoods across the nation. Less than a year after Afeni joined, she and twenty other members of the New York Panthers were arrested and charged with multiple felonies, including conspiracy to bomb several public areas in New York City. The ... resisting arrest, and has a $10 million claim against the police for alleged brutality. Then, in 1992, during a confrontation with old acquaintances at a festival celebrating Marin City'...

• Word Count: 5308
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... that point on he did not believe there was a Jesus, since he did not see him in church that night. Langston Hughes uses the narrative technique imagery to describe the setting of the essay. The story takes place the night after a big revival, in a hot and crowded church. Langston's aunt Reed escorts him "to the front row and placed him on the ... came and knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands" (219). This quote is an excellent example of metaphor. The "old men with work-gnarled hands" really helps the reader picture ...

• Word Count: 1434
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School