... snap of weather and Maycomb gets snow. As a result the school is closed and Jem and Scout spend the day trying to build a snowman. That night Scout is awakened by a commotion and she goes outside to find that Miss Maudie's house is on fire. The neighbors have rallied round and have saved ... learn so much during this summer that it will influence the rest of her life. More and more the adult world is invading Scout's childhood. Her journey to Calpurnia's church is probably her first glimpse of the black community in action. The reader also obtains an insight and flavor of the black commu...

• Word Count: 10075
• Approx Pages: 40
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the law, but in the hearts of the people. It was never going to be easy. It was always going to be a long and arduous journey with perhaps no complete end. After all whilst they had their support of some of the white population, changing the views of generations of ... being murdered by a Hindu separatist, and only served to increase his status amongst the black community. Another of the resounding effects of Martin Luther King's days, was indeed the idea of the need for power. "Power" King said, "Properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the ... crisis of our times"...

• Word Count: 3793
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

... people with a deep and burning hatred, (...) the kind (...) which, finding itself held in sufficiently numerous groups, was capable someday (...) of bursting into dangerously malignant flames."" (80) Nonetheless has Anne no problem with imitating "their clothes, their manners, and their gracious ways of living- and condemning ... to flee and uncomfortable situation. Helga's decision to abandon Harlem for Copenhagen means a move into a different world. She does not know what will await her in that country she only remembers from a journey she had made as a "little dark girl who had cross...

• Word Count: 6293
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

... so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day". Sometimes, the height between decks was only eighteen inches, so that the unfortunate beings could ... stages of fury and desperation, struggling to extricate themselves. Men strangled those next them, and women drove nails into each other's brains. Many unfortunate creatures took the first opportunity of leaping overboard, thereby escaping from this intolerable ... and his fear that the European slavers would eat him. "Their complexions, differing so much from ours, ...

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