We would sit on the stoop or just lean out of the window to watch out one another. ... They were seen among the black elite, who did enjoy the Renaissance as opposed to the poorer blacks, enjoying the entertainment and engaging in lively discussions. ...
As a result, people tend to resort to violence faster in a crisis situation rather than by peaceful alternatives; viewers prefer watching a violent film rather than a romance etc. because it gets their adrenaline rushing; and viewers want to see Hollywood's opinion on who they will victimize next. ... Since the Roman Empire, human nature has been to enjoy violent scenes of other people's sufferings, like when they throw someone into the lion's den and use that as entertainment. ... Young children all day watch cartoons of cowboys shooting Indians like it is nothing, basically ...
Later in the novel, "Sula [...] watched Hannah burn not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested" (Morrison 78). ... This is why she is able to watch her mother burn without flinching, and does not realize that sleeping with her best friend's husband is wrong. ...
The Cosby Show has been watched by more people than any other situation comedy in the history of television. Having won countless awards and enjoying record-breaking success, the program has been ranked number one more times than any other TV series since its premiere (Crenshaw "Cosby"). ...
"Any Negro who displayed a spark of manhood, a southern law enforcement officer could say "Nigger, watch your step or I"ll put you in jail"." ... He believed that only by gaining equal status, could Black Americans enjoy equal right to their fullest. ...
"Any Negro who displayed a spark of manhood, a southern law enforcement officer could say "Nigger, watch your step or I"ll put you in jail"." ... He believed that only by gaining equal status, could Black Americans enjoy equal right to their fullest. ...
After watching them play he felt that those players could help expand the earning of his own team and could lead them to win more games. ... Altogether, baseball was segregated for sixty years and it wasn't easy trying to end it, once the sport became integrated it began evolving into a sport all races could enjoy. ...
It seems that the whites believe that the only way to enjoy black entertainment is to make them devoid of any emotion so you see sitcoms with boring black families or take the 1971 movie "Shaft" where the man is an action hero but also a man who slept with every woman he came in contact with. ... Douglass, like many of the slaves saw hardship and injustice and unfair treatment as he recounted many times how the slaves would instead be whipped rather than a master reprimand one of the white slave watchers in their presence (Douglass 21). ...
"Any Negro who displayed a spark of manhood, a southern law enforcement officer could say "Nigger, watch your step or I"ll put you in jail"." ... He believed that only by gaining equal status, could Black Americans enjoy equal right to their fullest. ...
They viewed that a big government will help protect the freedom that people enjoy... During his mission Johnson was convinced that "the fate of all Asia depended on American leadership in the region"(Schulman 61), and we must decide whether to meet that challenge with full realization of the costs America will endure; or else hold back and watch the expansion of communism...
