... impenetrable coastline, briefly stopping at French stations to load and unload soldiers, docking with a French battleship upon which sailors died at a rate of three per day. Marlow's disillusion and fascination grows as he approaches the first ivory station. Rusted machinery, ill workers, and cluttered unkept grounds ... men on the steamboat grab their guns and return fire, Kurtz' black helmsman continues to try to steer the boat through shallow, treacherous water. When a spear rips through the helmsman's body, Marlow grieves and reflects on the bond that had formed between himself and ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... May with the U.S. assistant district attorney mediating, Birmingham and its black citizens reached an agreement. The settlement said that sitting rooms, rest rooms, water fountains, and lunch counters would all be integrated within the month and that a biracial committee would be formed to hammer out any more differences between ... "I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! By now the crowd swayed in rhythm with the cadence if his words. He bui...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... to take the lowest - paid jobs. Segregation laws made that black people feel debased. King and his members of his race were not allowed to eat in the same restaurant, drink at the same water fountains, walk in the same parks, swim in the same pools, or go to the same schools as ... black children. It was a great shock to him, but King wanted to find out why it had happened. His parents tried to make him conscious of the fact of segregation and always told him "not to hate the white man, but that it was his duty as a Christian to love him". King had ... change he created. The Civil Right...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School