He sells typewriters to make a living while he halfheartedly pursues his ambition to be a writer. ... Her action conveys a complete dismissal of the wishes of the child's mother and emphasizes her own satisfaction; in essence, promoting the inferiority of the wishes of Carver's mother. ... Once, however, Julian realizes that his mother has suffered more than just a blow to her body and ego he realizes the mistake that he has made with his own condescending attitude towards her and the folly in his own way of thinking. ...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Locke, 258) Even more, the fact that European artistic movements like Modernism or Cubism were influenced by African sculptures and imagery should in his eyes cause black artists to look for that "vital connection between this new artistic respect for African idion and the natural ambition of Negro artists for a racial idion in their art expression."" ... Through his own understanding and interpretation of the visual arts and their meaning was he able to relate them to the black experience in America as both African-Americans and Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... Now, it seems that she has the ambition to do those things again and cannot, because of health reasons or the fear of breaking social norms. ... Likewise, one would assume that the man's son would be expected to become a farmer in his own adulthood. ... The father in this piece appears to want a different path for his son, one in which he has the abi...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He wasted no time once back in Jamaica to start his own organization of which he planned to finally liberate his race through. ... When he first launched the UNIA he did not garner as much support as he had hoped in his native country so sought to take his ambitions to America in order to spark the oppressed minds of the African Americans. ... By 1918, Garvey had developed a great following among the black people of America and had even begun to usher in more followers from countries outside of America, where they too began establishing UNIA charters of their own. ... He wanted to give them so...

• Word Count: 2365
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Redeemers were the leading cause of the end to Reconstruction, and, in Mississippi, they were remembered for their use of the most violent tactics and most extreme techniques to achieve their main political and social ambitions as a group: the end of Radical Republican and black rule. ... Alcorn called out carpetbaggers for being more concerned about their own personal political goals and being less concerned about bringing equality to blacks. ... Redeemers would use all of these issues to turn many Republicans, black and white, against their own party. ...

• Word Count: 2285
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Harlem is indeed the great Mecca for the sight-seer, the pleasure-seeker, the curious, the adventurous, the enterprising, the ambitions and the talented of the whole Negro world. ... It was an important literary movement as well as a movement that sought to unite blacks and allow them to discover their own identities. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School