That type of achievement does not just come from hard work it comes from understanding your environment and getting it to work to your advantage. ... Knowing your audience and understanding what they would want to hear is a skill that Washington learned to use very well. ... Letting those men know that he had same stance as them on different issues helped him gain their respect, even if they wanted the same thing for completely different reasons. In each of these literary works, we see black writers trying to find common ground and mutual understanding with their white audience. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

DuBois combined his knowledge of literature from his educational background, his understanding of American Culture as a result of his numerous studies, and taking direct force by protesting for equality to represent what he believed would solve racial discrimination of blacks. ... Washington urged fellow blacks, most who were poor, illiterate farm laborers whom he could relate to based on his background, to abandon their efforts to gain full civil rights and political power as DuBois's plan of action called for. ... He modeled his teachings around the beliefs that blacks deserve the sam...

• Word Count: 1561
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

[T]here they gain a knowledge of how the white man lives and "earns his bread by the sweat of his brow (Stewart, 1905).... Although never enslaved in a manner like the African Americans, Native Americans did not gain legal status as Americans until 1924, where they became dual citizens of both the United States and of their tribal government (Mohan, 2012). ...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She is in other words proving that she is a tough girl to George by standing up for Raymond and to gain respect from him. ... However he does encourage her to be aggressive to stand up for herself no matter what because that is going to be the easiest way to get through life in such an urban area - by gaining respect. ... However, towards the end she learns to be happy for others, as well as herself, and becomes more generous and understanding towards other people's feelings. ... Fortunately, towards the end, she understands how trust can be used to form friendships and begins to gain t...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This helps him to gain an understanding for his father and let go of the feeling which he thought was hate, for this man and personally grow and become a better person, by not allowing himself to be consumed by the hatred. ... This passage is a good passage to use in understanding Walker. ...

• Word Count: 1418
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

America and Dunbar gained national praise for his dialect verses in some of his poetry. He was the first black American poet to gain this national praise, although white and black writers before him have used it also (Laryea 108). ... After his work "Sympathy" he grew as a poet because of his famous line " I know why the caged bird sings" brought out a sense of understanding. ...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

For Example "The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet like speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.... For example: " •hen you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammered as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beg...

• Word Count: 1513
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The major difference between the two were that King used non-violence to break the walls of oppression and Malcolm X wanted to gain "freedom - by any means necessary." ... In an effort to raise his understanding of Ghandi's beliefs, in 1959 he visited India. ... While in jail, King wrote his acclaimed essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail", urging the white population of America to put a stop to segregation, asking them to see how truly unjust the punishment of African-Americans was and that African-Americans were people who only wanted to gain their full civil rights one hundred years af...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Because white society refused to take notice of him, Bigger felt like he was forced to kill in order to gain the recognition and feeling of individualism white society egotistically possessed. ... This understanding kept blacks like Bigger Thomas subdued and afraid to do such things as rob a white person's store. ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Their contrasting views and some of the words, phrases, and facts they use in their speeches arouse different emotions, such as anger and understanding at times from the audiences they are aimed at. ... DuBois believed firmly that political action and academic education would be the way to gain full citizenship rights for African Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1527
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Gains in economic prosperity, however, are not uniformly shared across society, with sections of American communities becoming marginalised. ... The American Bar Association, reviewed the US public defender system in 2004 and concluded "All too often, defendants plead guilty, even if they are innocent, without really understanding their legal rights or what is occurring...The fundamental right to a lawyer that America assumes applies to everyone accused of criminal conduct effectively does not exist in practice for countless people across the US." ...

• Word Count: 2307
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We are able to trace firefighting all the way back to the Roman days, all the way back to understanding the start of basic firefighting, and how African American males were able to join the fire department. ... "Firefighting has become more equal but, there are still challenges for women to gain the respect they need for the job....

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through their writing, both Wheatley and Terence gained respect as individuals and were seen for their achievements and not solely for the color of their skin. ... If she is able to make white Americans identify with the yearning desire for freedom, maybe they will be a little more understanding of the black's argument to end slavery. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School