... Fire takes up some of this imagery in its narrative about Jake Lo (Brandon Lee), who was in Tian'anmen with his father during the demonstrations, and who reluctantly gets embroiled in a gang war involving a Chinese drug smuggler who also happens to support the Democracy Movement. Sometimes ... highly educated electrical engineer with complex equations filling a blackboard in the living room to prove the point. Cliff may not get enough to eat, but his father requires him to read Charles Dickens's Great Expectations with Walt Whitman thrown in for a poetry diversion that his father promise...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... voter participation can effect change in the government, and 75 percent believe that whatever happens to the group affects them personally, and so it is necessary to have a government that is sympathetic to the state of African-Americans in the United States. As a ... , but still did not want to leave the "party of Lincoln" behind, because "no matter how far short of black expectations Hoover had fallen, his was the party responsible for the [13th, 14th and 15th] Amendments, and the Democrats were the ... organizing them as a group to put pressure on the government. Although the NAACP h...

• Word Count: 3336
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate