Has Anything Changed? In his world-renowned speech, "I Have A Dream," Martin Luther King Jr. describes his reflection of present-day America and his hopes of the future by dramatizing the disgraceful situation in which America is consumed. In 1963, when this speech was being giv...

Compare Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of Native Son, to the unnamed protagonist and narrator of Invisible Man It was observed by Socrates that 'an unexamined life is not worth living.' If that is true, then Bigger Thomas' tragedy of Richard Wright's novel of the African-Am...

"The story "Going Home" by Archie Weller is about a young mixed Aboriginal and white descent boy, William Woodward, and his struggles to find his place in society. Being of mixed descent, Woodward is confronted with many difficult conflicts of culture. The coming-of-age-story about Wo...

Throughout the novel, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the contrasting of light and dark images permeated the text. The use of this imagery created an underlying theme revolving around the conflict between savagery and culture, knowledge and ignorance. Conrad depicts the events, locations, and id...

There comes a time when racial conflict rears its ugly head and affects the people who have no choice but to be engulfed within its fiery rage. These people were influenced greatly by their surroundings and were sometimes inspired artistically to express their own views of how they perceived this. ...

The Light in the Darkness Author James Conrad, in his short story "Heart of Darkness," uses light in an attempt to symbolize the civilization of the European world and those things which, by appearances, are generally accepted as "good." To emphasize the acceptability of ...

Chief Seattle created the speech "This Sacred Soil" to explain several facts about theIndians to Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory. He expressed his animositytowards the white man before signing a treaty which redistibuted his land to white settlers. Chief Seattle compares the decease...

Aboriginal Australia by Jack Davis, Our Village by Wopko Jensma, and Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali's Nightfall in Soweto all explore the experiences of the oppressed. Each poet does this in their own unique way – exploring related themes and using various poetic techniques. Despite these diffe...

In "Heart of Darkness" and "Things Fall Apart" two characters faced a tragic ending. Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness" and Okonkwo in "Things Fall Apart". Both started with respect and a sense of nobility but yet both had a tragic ending. The tales comes from two v...

In Twain's time, 'nigger' was a synonym for 'slave'." "The language is appropriate to the setting and time." "The portrayal of Jim proves that the racial stereotype of Twain's day was wrong." In the book The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark...

Essay – Cry, The Beloved Country The controversial novel, Cry the Beloved country, originally published in 1948 by Alan Paton has received just as much praise as condemnation. The novel, thought long since antiquated by some, remains a classic still, after 50 years. Paton's novel has b...

Essay – Cry, The Beloved Country The controversial novel, Cry the Beloved country, originally published in 1948 by Alan Paton has received just as much praise as condemnation. The novel, thought long since antiquated by some, remains a classic still, after 50 years. Paton's novel has b...

Alan Paton wrote Cry, the Beloved Country to show a view of South Africa's problems in which one can relate to rather than writing a novel specifically naming the problems. This novel is about an old preist, Stephen Kumalo, who goes in search of his son and other relatives in Johannesburg. Step...

The film "To Kill a Mockingbird" was based on Harper Lee's novel. It is set in a quiet Alabama town in the 1930s. It portrays deep racial problems and social injustice that existed in the South during Depression. It also shows poverty and growing up themes as it is told by a seven-year old girl call...

Discrimination in SportsWe've all heard the story! A poor kid grows up in the tough part of town. Life's rough, but the kid has a dream. "One day", the kid says, "I'm going to get out of here. I going to be the best football or basketball, baseball or hockey player in school, and I'll win a coll...

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Two Views, One Cause Many black authors and leaders of the sixties shared similar feelingstowards the white run American society in which they lived. Malcolm X,James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, and Stokely Carmichael all blamed thewhites for the racism which ...

Essay - Cry, The Beloved CountryThe controversial novel, Cry the Beloved country, originally published in 1948 by Alan Paton has received just as much praise as condemnation. The novel, thought long since antiquated by some, remains a classic still, after 50 years. Paton's novel has been continually...

Part II - B. Both Wilson and Fugard indict their cultures in Fences and Master Harold in terms of racial prejudice. How is the indictment manifested in both plays? Are there any similarities and/or differences?The racial prejudice as exhibited in the plays Master Harold and Fences manifests itsel...