?The famous singer Frank Zappa said "The United States is a nation of laws; badly written and randomly enforced." The short stories of early 20th century quite well describe contradictions between written laws and their real meaning to people. The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of R...

"Are Black's the Untermensch(Sub Person)"The history of African integration into American society has been Permeated with human tragedy. Ever since the first slave boat reached the shore's of America, a deep affliction to the African race transpired. Generations upon generations were ravished by th...

Charles W. Chesnutt, America's first great Black novelist, lived in the distinct political, social and cultural environment that found expression in his literary works. Instead of trying to hide behind the lightness of his skin color, as many fair skin African-Americans did, Chesnutt chose to show ...

The short story "Battle Royal" is the opening chapter of Ellison's historic novel Invisible Man. It contains just as much power and drama as the world renowned novel. It opens giving you the story of a boy who is graduating from high school. He is a young African American and is an amazing oracl...

I have chosen to use my knowledge of New Criticism to analyze Alice Walker's short story "Roselily". Her short story has many meanings. We will specify on the work itself, as well as how benightedness can affect the outcome of a person's life, and how they perceive life, along with it&apo...

"The Child by Tiger" is not only a wonderful short story but an excellent learning tool as well. Much can be learned from the way the author writes the story. Thomas Wolfe uses characters, setting, and imagery to establish a theme of violence and savagery of the human soul.Characters of young boys...

What a Shame"What are the lives of a few 'negroes' in comparison with the preservation of the impetuous instincts of a proud and fiery race?" Mark Twain said it best in his short essay, "Only a Negro." Southerners would come from hundreds of miles to see an African American be lynched by a racist ...

brings out the worst in people. Explain and support with short pExplain why the good Mr. Guizac araphrased narratives. What causes Mrs. McIntyre to change her view of Guizac? Cite. Use one secondary source.Mr. Guizac brings out the worst in people because he is genuinely a "good person." He is ...

In many works of literature irony plays and important roll in the story. In the short story "Battle Royal" written by Ralph Ellison irony is a key factor on the story. The narrator who is nameless is a young black male in the time slavery recently had been abolished. A time where blacks were free...

Racism is the belief that one race is superior to others. To most people, race is characterized by the shade of color of one's skin, the texture and color of one's hair, the size of the lips, the shape of the eyes, the size of the brow and bridge of one's nose, and other such externa...

Courtney Smith Final Paper 5/11/2000 Alice Walker, in a short story called Advancing Luna- and Ida B. Wells, reflects back on her life to a friendship she had with a white girl in the sixties. She does so in a approach to which she justifies herself and her actions with still a sense of un...

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A Critique of "The Sky Is Gray" The short story, "The Sky Is Gray," by Ernest J Gaines, is an initiation story told from the point of view of an eleven year old boy, James. The story takes place during the 1940's in Louisiana in which segregation is a real, hard fact of ...

Slavery Reparations; Pandora's Box The US government owes the descendants of former slaves for years of unfair laws and practices aimed at their ancestors. Slavery was an institution that oppressed African Americans and earned trillions for the government and major corporations. The fede...

In the short story "The Pocketbook Game" was about this black woman named Mildred ,who was carrying a conversation with her friend Marge about a situation involving Mrs.E...., a lady she works for. Mildred tells Marge how Mrs. E....always holds her pocketbook close to her every time she is around....

While Claudia in The Bluest Eye and Nel in Sula are too late to change what has happened in their lives, Milkman Dead, in Morrison's third novel, Song of Solomon, completes a heroic quest for an identity and place within the community. Morrison depicts Milkman in mythic terms. Not only does his stor...

Soliders Without Swards In the world of the white newspapers nothing was occurring in the black mens world, they were not getting married or having events occuring. But in black newspapers all of these things were occring, black people did get married and social events did occur. New York was 1...

In his short story "salvation", Langston Hughes describes an event that happens in his life. Langston has hatred toward whites and this hatred is expressed in this story. He thinks white people think of their own selves as superiors over everybody. That whites are "saints" and th...

In the short story, the main character, Nat Lime, loves to being with black people, but they do not love to be around him. All of his life he has lived in a predominately black neighborhood and he loves to be around black people. The only problem is that he is a white Jew and in the 1960's blacks ...

The short story "Everyday Use," written by a Black American author , Alice Walker portrays unsimilar characteristics and attitude of the characters, ( Dee and Maggie,) to show (two different views/her views) on the way an individual understands heritage. On a deeper level, Walker used her charact...

Society is a Trap Richard Wright once said "No more fiendish punishment could be devised... Than one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by the members thereof..."(qtd in Kramer 419). Richard Wright wanted to inform Americans about the poor conditions of Afr...

In recent years black woman have made big strides in the area of advertising, but regardless of these efforts black woman all still shown as submissive or being dominated. Few women are shown as strong or self-sufficient. I believe a lot of black woman are made to deal with racism and the f...

But troubles abound. The government faces wide dissatisfaction with its offer of a year's average wage to those harmed by apartheid who testified before its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And the challenges of South Africa's affirmative action policy for the black community are formidable as t...

THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD Lalu was a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcomes poverty, footbinding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest. From Shanghai to San Francisco, Lalu's courageous journey was an important contribution to the history of Asian ...

In Wole Soyinka's poem "Telephone Conversation", the narrator of the poem, a dark African man is looking for an apartment. The whole poem is a conversation between him and a landlady. In this short poem, in order to confuse, mislead and frustrate the landlady, the narrator uses enough sarc...