This leads us the reader through job after job that Richard goes through to get money. ... Richard finally saves up enough money to move out on his own. ... When he moves out on his own, he has enough money to get a library card where he spends so much time reading from great authors. ... He and his brother decide to save their money and move up north, but not let anyone know about it. Richard finally saves enough money, and hops on a train away from the south to go to Chicago. ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In order to save her ancestry, a black woman named Dana is sent back into time repeatedly to save her great-great-grandfather Rufus who ironically is a white southern slave-owner, confused, spoiled, and a rapist with a remarkable gift for self-destruction. ... An educated slave was more likely to runaway or be kidnapped which in turn lost their master money. ...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It is what saves him and also what curses him, at the same time. ... This lightness of color saves him because he is able to blend in with the other whites. ... He considers himself "an ordinarily successful white nab who has made a little money". ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Then the original owner of the plantation, Colonel Dye, buys it back (with money borrowed from Yankees). ... After the white overseer, Tom Joe, severely beats Timmy in response to Timmy's obstinacy, Robert Samson gives Timmy money and tells him to leave the plantation. ... In the final chapter of the book, Jane describes a boy named Jimmy Aaron, whom the whole plantation hopes will become the "one" who will save them all. ...

• Word Count: 1538
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"They have risked their lives to save their life, my life, they have given their freedom." ... "A black soldier can stop a bullet as good as a white soldier, and for less money too!" ... Although for many individuals $13 was enough money to support themselves, Colonel Shaw suggested that no one should receive pay because a regiment should be treated as a whole, and a whole deals with equality within itself. ...

• Word Count: 1546
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Each era of history is remembered for something significant that took place during that era. Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of the coming of age of two children who begin to realize the cruelty of people in the world. In particular, the racism in the town plays a large part in...

• Word Count: 1479
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• Grade Level: High School

Has Gospel Music Gone to Far Changed? Being that the church is the cornerstone for gospel music, the songs adopted into hymnals sung by both choir and congregations passed from generation to generation. The change in gospel music has effected today's youth that have shown interest in the up be...

• Word Count: 1353
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• Grade Level: High School

Racism isn't born, it's taught, and if we want to save this country from a dark and desolate path, we need to be teaching acceptance, tolerance, and open-mindedness instead of hate, racism, and bigotry. ... Some of the kids desire to make more money and yearn to have some form of financial stability, so they join the drug trade by working for some drug dealing organization. ...

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His long hours worked would never provide money for the benefit of his family. ... According to Gray White "the negro woman as wife or mother was the mistress for her cabin, and save for the interference of the master and overseer, her wishes in regard to mating and family matters were paramount." ...

• Word Count: 1416
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the history of the United States nothing has brought more shame to the face of America than the cold, calculated method of keeping black people in captivity. People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. These methods were quite effective, so effective that these "slaves" were kept in captivity for over two hundred years in this country. It was the rain of terror that kept black people in fear of their lives for so long. The invention of the gun back in the fifth-teenth century was the main reason t...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Mark Twain provides a justified starting point: "The lack of money is the root of all evil.... Due to this, the rise of a Christianity movement occurs and had thus begun the "mission" to save souls i.e. those uneducated and uncivilized. ... The aim of missionaries was to educate the Africans of European presence, the reasons for European dominance and the ways in which one could save themselves from a state of barbarism. ...

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Moving to the United States was one of the biggest circumstances that influenced my American dream because I came with the idea that this was the land of opportunities but when we arrived to this country my family and I lacked so many resources; like money, clothes, and a stable home. ... I want her to forget all the times she was stressed because she did not have enough money to pay rent. ... Seeing how much Jose Vargas struggled because his family could not get him a green card when maybe it could have been easier to purchase due to lack of money reminded me of how much I want to live decent...

• Word Count: 2444
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Though Nikki gave most of her time, energy, and money to the Civil Rights Movement, she couldn't let the opportunity for her to take part in the movement for women as well. ... It's not that I carry my ideas around so that should the occasion arise I can pull it out and say, in regard to some impending problem, "Oh well, a stitch in time saves nine." ...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School