... us. You're father's one of them"(245). Miss Maudie exhibits the enormous amount of respect that she has for Atticus throughout the entire story. When the entire town turned against him, and looked down on him, she was there, standing by him, and she never lost respect for him. Some of the supporting characters, such as Mr. Underwood, are even so bold as ... to make a public statement contradicting Maycomb's culture and values. As Scout says about the editorial he published in his newspaper about the trial and Tom's murder, "Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin ... church in Atticu...

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... at less I didn't. I remember one time going to work with my mom I think in Evanston, Ill. She was a domestic worker who cleaned the homes of the wealth whites in the Northern and Western suburban. Their street with lined with green trees and green grass, and they were clean. I did see no signs of broken ... if they did not see you at the pole someone would go and find you and bring you to the pole to vote. Men coming out their homes walking up to the poles, some people standing on the corners debating about who would win. How the win or lost would change the lives of us in a positive or...

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... play a "double role" by appearing to be numb and unaffected by mistreatment, while also accepting pain and injury, and acting grateful to the White race to be alive. I believe that Wright is correct in his explanation of African Americans playing a double role to avoid being ... me if I knew enough to keep my mouth shut," (595). The other experience occurs when he and another black lady are leaving work, and the white night-watchman slaps the lady's backside. When Wright looks stunned and amazed, the watchman pulls a gun on him, and even encourages Wright to agree ... that this gesture ...

• Word Count: 1958
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... African prostitute for spilling his drink in a waterfront bar in Senegal. A more youthful mariner, "The Little Virgin," who is a kind of protégé of the more seasoned man, unsettled by depression and a loss of group, assaults Mike. The story closes with "The Little Virgin" ridiculously droning again and again, "He oughtn't to hit a lady. So, what was Langston's goal in this story? To depict ... the rage he felt towards the injustice that was racism, sexism or sexual exploitation, and colonialism ... among other things. It was also an ironic twist on the way that he possibly viewed hims...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything," as he does not trust the symbols or the ideology of democracy. The young man stirs many emotions among his own people in the crowded room with his way of thinking, especially that of an outraged preacher and a baffled but amused elderly lady, when he challenges the very existence that they have learned to live within. While ... the reader is unsure whether the young man's logic has been widely heard outside the dentist office, he/she can confidently presume that ... in time it will be, as the determined young man pur...

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... ordered to rescue the "Lost Battalion ". The "Lost Battalion " were American battalions cut off by the Axis powers from the rest of the other American and its allied forces. The 442nd Regiment successfully rescued these American battalions after losing more than 400 out of 1,000 soldiers from their own unit (The 442nd Regiment and the "Lost Battalion "). The rescue of the "Lost Battalion " was significant because the Japanese Americans risked and even lost their lives to ... save other American battalions, despite discrimination and suspicion on their loyalty to the United States by oth...

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... their indigenous language was hard, yet many people realized these hardships and worked to keep their literacy alive and running. Take for example, the Europeans invasion upon the Native-Americans; not only was much of the Native-Americans land lost, but in many cases so was Native-Americans language and literacy. From Zitkala-Sa's Boarding School Experiences it goes on to say: ... was forgotten or lost to the European's thought of identity and literacy. Native-Americans had been stripped of their own languages and beliefs. In many ways, the Natives-Americans were forced into adjusting ...

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... , it almost becomes taken for granted, and thus easily ignored and not thought about. "The question of race was like the power of the moon in my house. It's what made the river flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a silent power, intractable, indisputable and thus completely ignorable" ... controlled, which was both race and religion. Although race was ignorable in James' family, it was not necessarily ignorable in the outside world. For the McBride family, the issue was not that the children were African American, it was that eleven African American children were being r...

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... from their pasts that can be found both directly and indirectly in their poems. Were it not for the experiences that these two authors had during their lives many, if not all, of the passion that they put into their poetry would have been lost or compromised. In "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" Walt Whitman draws on many life experiences that provide both realism and ... in a positive manner. Although he does write this poem about the victory of the North and the values that are embraced there, Whitman also reveals a line that he hopes will make people take a closer look at the direction that ...

• Word Count: 1893
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... women's independence and responsibility was eventually stripped from them through legislation.14 Thus, the Native American women, like their men, fought the teachings of the Anglo Americans and lost land and social status because of it. Women in general faced similar stereotypes and oppression during the early nineteenth century. How the social reforms of that century affected women depended on their race. African American women continued ... , regardless of advances others were making during this time. Anglo American women gained social status as education and women's rights became pred...

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... climbing again (lines 15-16). Much like a hiker or marathon runner, once you stop moving, you lose momentum and the ability to return is nearly impossible. It also means if you fail to keep moving, all the progress made by the mother will be lost and a setback for all African Americans. "Don't you fall-now -- / For I'se still goin", honey, / I'se still climbin"" are ... the final hopes and inspiration of the mother, giving the advice to be strong (line 17-19). If she can do it, then there ... luxury, but of struggle and difficulty; which over time she has endured and in many ways overc...

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... woman growing up during a difficult era in American history. Although the situation for African Americans had improved, the Civil Rights Movement had not yet hit its peak. As more and more people of color gave in to the immense pressure to relinquish their past customs and traditions, the African culture became lost and forgotten among the new mixing pot of various ethnicities. Beneatha is speaking in ... the family apartment with Joseph Asagai, an intellectual from Nigeria. Asagai says, "You came up to me and ... 's home in Clybourne Park, a primarily white neighborhood. Walter sees no...

• Word Count: 1948
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• Grade Level: High School

... sign that Congress, and its northern constituents, had finally lost interest in the cause. As the opportunity for economic advancement increased after the Civil War, the North felt as though it had done its part and both the President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. With the protection and support of Northerners lost, the blacks in the South were held hostage by white supremacists. Although ... the 13th Amendment stated that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States," a new agricultural system, the c...

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... it means that there are certain sociological and cultural biases present in our society that makes us render an individual, worthless and insignificant. This is the sentiment of the protagonist in the novel, in which he narrates: "I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be ... "What is your name?" and "Who are you?" and he couldn't respond, when he was given a new name by the Brotherhood and was assumed to have a new identity, and lastly when he disguised himself in order to shake pursuit and was mistakenly called as " ... the one name he seeks for ...

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... husband's efforts to give her a "rest cure" have only driven her deeper into perhaps permanent psychosis. In "Sonny's Blues," the narrator is Sonny's older brother, an educated black man who has chosen a "proper" career as a schoolteacher, trying to achieve that middle- ... will never again try to keep Sonny away from the music that nourishes his soul. In both of these stories, artistic expression is the only weapon an oppressed individual has to cry out. The writer in "The Yellow Wallpaper" may have lost her mind because her art was denied; Sonny ... finds his soul again because his art...

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... husband's efforts to give her a "rest cure" have only driven her deeper into perhaps permanent psychosis. In "Sonny's Blues," the narrator is Sonny's older brother, an educated black man who has chosen a "proper" career as a schoolteacher, trying to achieve that middle- ... will never again try to keep Sonny away from the music that nourishes his soul. In both of these stories, artistic expression is the only weapon an oppressed individual has to cry out. The writer in "The Yellow Wallpaper" may have lost her mind because her art was denied; Sonny ... finds his soul again because his art...

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... children and was sent to a mental facility. Malcolm Little and his siblings were quickly separated between family friends and foster homes leaving Malcolm to temporarily live at a foster home. Despite the destabilization Malcolm Little continued to perform especially well at a new school he attended; however, that did not last as a consequence to continual racist actions he experienced. Malcolm Little consistently achieved ... evoked his powerful influential gift on people. Malcolm Little was 27 years old when he entered the Nation of Islam in 1952. He changed his name from Malcolm Little...

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... can potentially serve to restrict their access to college by limiting pre-college academic programs and resources. These school resources and programs are unreasonably distributed based on the wealth of the school district rather than the need of our nations students. Almost half of all high school seniors in 1992 were enrolled in some type of college preparatory program rather than general programs ... world because he is not given a equal opportunity to prepare for college. In some cases, the preparation is so awful that college does not even become a factor in the life of some black ...

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... at that time. Also, some 30,000 African American soldiers served in the Union Navy (http://afroamcivilwar.org/). On March 2, 1863, the out spoken abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, published an article in hist newspaper, the Douglass Monthly. It was called "Men of Color, to Arms!" Since they knew that if the North lost, it meant they would be enslaved once again, free African Americans and former ... slaves joined the army. Frederick Douglass wrote and spoke supporting of the recruiting of African American soldiers in the army. "Once let the African-American man get upon his ... person ...

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... confusion in their identity and their choice between races. In this novel, James Weldon Johnson uses black language, but he is not renowned to the black culture. The protagonist of "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson has characteristics and habits of a white man. He is a black man, yet ... ". (p100) He misses his black heritage, but for the sake of his children he will hoard those feelings of nostalgia and keep them in a burrow, tucked away where he can be free the desire to go 5 back. He realizes what he has lost by "passing". "It is difficult for me to anal...

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... house her, feed her and pay her minimal wages until she learned her chores better. Her chores included cooking, cleaning and tending to the children. After a few months, Mary got the hang of what she was doing as was paid about $9 a week plus food and shelter. She loved her host family's children as ... be, Mary was glad she had a home and a fairly easy life compared to some girls she knew that were working in a factory. On the plantations in the south, many African Americans told stories about traveling north. Many did not tell their employers that they were leaving. Every African Amer...

• Word Count: 1488
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... house her, feed her and pay her minimal wages until she learned her chores better. Her chores included cooking, cleaning and tending to the children. After a few months, Mary got the hang of what she was doing as was paid about $9 a week plus food and shelter. She loved her host family's children as ... be, Mary was glad she had a home and a fairly easy life compared to some girls she knew that were working in a factory. On the plantations in the south, many African Americans told stories about traveling north. Many did not tell their employers that they were leaving. Every African Amer...

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... era, coming from New York City, Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlantic City, Cleveland, and other cities were a substantial African-American population lived. The Romas, one of the greatest female ball clubs of all time, played against male and female teams, never lost a game for six years after World War 2 (1939-1945). Mignon Burns, Corrine Robinson, Lillian Ross, Lola Porter, Issadore Channels, and Virginia ... Wills were among the Romas best players of all time. These women weren't only basketball athletes, but, they were a symbol of freedom, not only were they tryin...

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... At other times protest burst forth in such organized and collective forms such as the slave revolts, the Garvey movement, and riots. The term "modern civil rights movement" refers to the black movement that emerged in the South during the 1950s, when large masses of black people became directly involved in economic boycotts, ... it will never end. For example, Rodney King was excessively and unnecessarily brutally beaten by Los Angeles Police Officers. He was hospitalized, and the officers were arrested but two were later acquitted. This is just one incident of modern racism. February 26...

• Word Count: 1967
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... an artist was drawing caricatures. I didn't know what a caricature was at first so I decided to look it up. The Merriam Webster Dictionary Online defines caricature as, "An exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion or parts or characteristics" ("Caricature"). ... the white perception of Mammy surfaces from the postbellum South. Many white southern authors use the name Mammy when referring to a black woman who would serve white families as a nanny and would commonly overlook childcare. They were always called Mammy by the white families. Once they became a Mammy, they lost ... ...

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