Culture is modified by the experiences in life, education and the things parents teach an individual. In this case, culture affects how an individual live their life. ... Culture can also affect how an individual's views on responsibilities and duties in life. ... Through education people learn new ways, perceive life better, and obtain knowledge and skills that would make their lives different. ... These people are focused, serious, and have a drive in life. ...

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" The really great ones like Hughes confront their bleak realities without letting those realities dictate their lives with regards to things that they can control. Very often there is a lack of curiosity about the lives and feelings of the African Americans and their past. It usually has to take something really great for the Anglo-Saxons to show any form of interest in the lives of these people who share the same land. ... Two of the most popular narratives of that era were Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave" and Harriet Jacob's "Incide...

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In Maycomb, it is commonplace for people like Bob Ewell to have their lives revolve around the strong belief that racism is right and natural, and therefore feel completely justified in lying and endangering the lives of others over this issue. ... Bob Ewell believed in racism so strongly that he was eager to take the "rape" case to court and put Tom's life at stake to cover up the broken "code.... Many of the people who play smaller roles in Atticus and Tom's life each do their part to help. ... By bringing the children to church, despite the grave risks, she helps ke...

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In "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" Walt Whitman draws on many life experiences that provide both realism and conviction to the poem. ... Hughes did succeed however, and went on to write about the injustices that were a part of daily life for blacks, as well as life without his father. In "Cross" Langston Hughes presents an image of a mulatto and the implications that it had on their life. ... The life long witnessing of white supremacy leads Hughes to pen these two lines that not only show of how his parents lived their lives, but also the lives that he saw nearly every black person in America l...

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This novel focused on the life of a young man growing up in Harlem grappling with father issues and his religion. ... This is a story of how two African Americans brothers take their own path through life as they struggle to find meaning in their lives. ... He's trapped by his wrong decisions and cannot find a way to change his course in life when he's under the influence of heroin. ... He argues that the lives and futures of whites and African Americans are inextricably intertwined. ... Boyd focuses on the powerful role Harlem played in Baldwin's life and work. ...

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I felt very depressing after watching the movie "Imitation of Life." ... Susie, Lora's daughter, lives a rich and envied life. ... People say that "Imitation of Life provides a unique intersection of feminist film theory and black female spectatorship" (Thaggert, 2009). ... Annie finally realizes that her black skin will really impact the life of her daughter, she choose to leave. ... In her mind, she can live a normal life like white people do. ...

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What pleasure is available for the black female audience member when viewing Imitation of Life? ... In Sirk's version of Imitation of Life (1959), the Mammy character is a woman named Annie. ... Her dress is more modern, sans a handkerchief, she has no trace of an accent, and she lives with Lora out of necessity, not obligation. ... She attempts to create a new life for herself passing as a white woman but only at the cost of losing her mother. ...

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The society that existed at that time had very different views on life and how it should occur. ... The horse highly affected the lives of the Native Americans by improving their hunting abilities. ... The Southern ideal was country life. Instead of a meetinghouse being the center of the community, the waterways and roads became a place of social life a brief moment for colonists to sit back and relax was very rare and very savored. ... In the 19th century, sexual lives of Americans began to change. ...

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In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. ... Indians believed that there would be a better life for them after they die, because many of them did not see a way out, but people were still fighting for their lives. ... The most important aspect of the book shows how young Indians aggressively try to overcome all of the harsh reality and attain the one point that would substantially change their lives. The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, Oglala, gave them strength for trying to...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book Black Elk Speaks, being the life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. ... Indians believed that there would be a better life for them after they die, because many of them did not see a way out, but people were still fighting for their lives. ... The most important aspect of the book shows how young Indians aggressively try to overcome all of the harsh reality and attain the one point that would substantially change their lives. The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, Oglala, gave them strength for trying to...

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The two girls are quite similar characters, but on the other hand, they live completely different lives. Squeaky lives in Harlem, a very urban area of NewYork, where she experiences a tough life, while Hazel lives in the rural south, a place of racial discrimination. ... They fight to achieve respect, which is particulary vital to Squeaky, for she lives in quite a brutal area. ... Furthermore, they learned to demand respect from other people, and for that reason, they needed an attitude to get through life. ... Nonetheless, if you take a closer look, and take a step towards to them, you will n...

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In "A Raisin in the Sun," life was less than fair for Walter. Walter, the man of a poor black family, lives in a small, livable, but not extravagant apartment that shares a single bathroom with the entire floor. ... Her dream, to become a doctor and save the lives of others, is prevented by the racism embedded in society. ... "So now it's life. Money is life. ...

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She definitely lives by this. She lives the life that was given to her, and she lives it to the best of its capacity. ... He makes the children respect him, while no one else does. " In our society, where two- legged, two- armed, strong Black men were able at best to eke out only the necessities of life, Uncle Willie, with his starched shirts, shined shoes and shelves full of food, was the whipping boy and butt of jokes of the underemployed and underpaid." ... He does not allow his lameness to defeat his character, merely he lives with it and remains human. ...

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"Don't judge a book by its cover", I wish that this quote is applied in the real life. ... In my opinion, these people can't be blamed, not in this harsh unfair life anyway. ... The person that suffered most of her life, took her life away because of other peoples' mistakes. ... Accept the reality and go with it, life is too short to be sad. Let other people judgments pass like a car, with no impact on people's lives. ...

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Although A Raisin in the Sun resembles the events of Hansberry's life, the play is filled with hope and sends a positive message about desegregation. Hansberry's lives are similar to the Younger's in the play. ... Although the Hansberry's lives are parallel to the Younger's, they have some differences. ... Hansberry did not make her play exactly alike as her own life. In real life when she moved to the white's neighborhood, her mom had to be holding a gun all the time in order to defend herself from anything that could happen to her or to her family. ...

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As one of the most representative social animals, human beings keep seeking for their identity and belonging throughout their lives. ... Yet there also exist people like Nelson Mandela, who lives in both the same country and the same era, who are disrupted by such barriers but still find their belonging through hard effort. ... Sandra Laing is obviously the character who suffers most from barriers in life in the film Skin. ... However, such 'stable' life doesn't seem to last long as racial barriers again disrupts her. ... However as a well evolved animal human beings always hav...

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Crash is an exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen Los Angeles residents - Black, White, Latino, Asian, and Persian. ... Haggis invites the audience into the Latino locksmith's personal life, and we are shown that he is good man, working a long and tedious job to provide for his young daughter. ... In summary, this movie has so many messages about racism and stereotypes and how we deal with it and the sometimes crippling ways that we respond to the situations and people in our lives. ... In his mind, all Filipinos like Karaoke and make it an important part of their lives. ...

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The book explores the life of Clare Kendry who decided to abandon her African-American heritage and contrasts the life of Irene Redfield who finds this abandonment as a problem. ... She marries a white man, who assumes that she is white, and lives her life as a white woman. ... This clearly shows that Irene values her own security rather than the life of Claire. ... The reader is presented with two women of the same background who establish a live their lives completely opposite to one another. For Claire Kendry, passing as a white female takes on a whole new meaning of life for her....

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The three major changes in Malcolm X's life that will be examined in this essay are his life in Boston, his life in prison, and his pilgrimage. ... Malcolm is still just a teenager when he moves to Boston where his sister Ella lives. ... "Shorty" Jarvis could be said to be a surrogate father, introducing Malcolm to the world he lives in. ... The reader can see the gritty, almost surreal, nightlife that Malcolm lives in, "Neon lights, nightclubs, poolhalls,[cq] bars, the cars they drove! ... But being saved from his life in New York doesn't help him out of his old life ...

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She endured exclusion and ridicule as a Jew living in the South, and later as a white woman living in black neighborhoods during the black power movement Ruth lives in New York City in a black neighborhood and attends an all black church. ... Through James's narrative technique of weaving his own life story in and out of his mother's story allows us to learn about the lives of mother and son in the context of both stories. ... These issues can teach lessons about life and will open your mind about the complexity of families. ...

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The two brothers lead very different lives, but share a common bond through their pain and suffering. The suffering and the pain of life is what truly brings them together as brothers. ... During that time Sonny's older brother reflects on his past and his life as it is. ... Through their pain and losses the two brothers are brought together for the first tie in their lives. ...

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Passions of the Christ Religion is a very important part of many lives throughout the United States of America. ... The Jews mistreated Jesus Christ simply because he was trying to save lives and teach people about God his father. ... Black people are closer to God, because white people have always had life the way they wanted it, and black people had to struggle and pray to God for years to make life to were black people can have the same amount of rights as white people. ... He was only talking about the life of Jesus Christ. ... I feel as if Mel Gibson did not have any intentions on...

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Educated blacks felt better than the uneducated blacks, and it seemed the more they learned from the white man, the they would develop the ways of white-life. White-life being the way whites are brought up to live their lives. However uneducated blacks still encouraged their children to go out and get an education to better their life, but in the process not to lose sight of their heritage and the background they come from. ... White people see them as outsiders, people who might take their spot in the social structure of there life and black people see them as traders for leaving the lives ...

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Native Son Chicago in the 1930's was split into two opposing views of life: the raw, tough life in the Black Belt of Chicago's south side ghetto and the awe astounding world of the distant white realm. ... He believes it is not possible in his home and in the environment he lives in which is a continual bombardment of shattering defeats for which Bigger is unable to see through. ... He feels uncomfortable in this new and benumbing world he has just stepped into, where "each person lives in one room and has a little world of his own" (100). ... He now knows that he "[lives] an...

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The story tells of a young man, who is African American, graduated high school, and ready to begin his new life. ... " "Our life is a war, and I have been a traitor all my days" (226). He gets confused and begins to question everything and the world he lives in. ... Was the story based on his life and struggle he had encountered? ... Gibson explains that he creates a character for this story at a young age to see from his perspective and the world he lives in. ...

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• Grade Level: High School