Griffin's main purpose for writing this book was to show inconsiderate and immature white people were in the past. ... The author's main reason for writing this story was to tell the story of racism. ... The author expresses this by writing this book. ... I think that it showed a lot of guts and most of all heart for him to take up this assignment. ... He keeps pushing himself to finish the assignment because he wants the world to really know what it is like to be a black person and how they are treated. ...

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes, is a poem about an assignment given to a student by his teacher to write a one-page paper about himself that captures who he is. The student then responds to this assignment by giving a brief biography, such as where he lives and his favorite things to do. ... Although the poem does not indicate whether the speaker is male or female, at the time not as many women attended college as they do now, and it seems like Hughes is writing from a somewhat personal experience of what it is like to be a young black male. ... Since I began wri...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

John stays as a black man for 6 weeks and when his assignment is over he scrubs his skin back to white. ... John's children and his wife had to move to Mexico because their family was in danger, but John stayed to finish writing his assignment. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Frederick Douglass vs. David Crockett Frederick Douglass was a black American, who was one of the most acclaimed human rights leaders of the 19th century. Known to be one of the most famous slavery abolitionists and also became the first black citizen to hold high rank in the U.S. government. Da...

• Word Count: 874
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman was published in 1972 and was written during the prime of his writing career because his first short story was published in 1956. ... In conclusion, I read The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman as a class assignment for you Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1101
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The poem begins with the instructor giving the class the assignment of writing a paper and asking that what they write comes from within them and only then it'll be truethis is immediately followed by the characters line, "I wonder if its that simple?...

• Word Count: 1440
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School