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August Wilson wrote, Fences which provided the story line for the movie “Fences”. Although the author wrote the dialog, there are still some similarities and even differences that make each piece unique. Both the play and the movie setting was set in Pittsburg during the mid-nineteen-fifties when there was a time where there was racism. Troy is a sanitation worker, who wanted to become a driver. Drivers are normally Caucasian, Troy was determined to overcome this barrier. Later in the…

In the 1850s slaves in the south endured extreme hardships, not only from working all day in the fields but also because of the abuse they received from their master. In particular, female slaves were treated more harshly than the male slaves because some of these women were abused and raped by their masters. Celia, A Slave is a book written about a fourteen-year-old slave who was abused by her master, Robert Newsom. Once Celia decided she had had enough she fought back by killing Newsom. While…

Jamaica was filled with poverty and violence. Bob Marley used his music to bring people together. Bob Marley acted on what he preached by sharing his wealth and involved himself in politics. Bob Marley is a transcendent person by ringing peace not only to Jamaica but to the world. Bob Marley knew that by making music and helping those who needed inspiration or hope the most was the best thing he could do for the world. The messages in his music were mostly about treating others with kindness…

cooking and sewing is playing in the mud. In today's society everyone is supposed to be thought of as equal, but unfortunately this does not happen as a result of white people still have the illusion of power. “Maybe it was a few weeks later, when a South Carolina jury deadlocked because the panel — most of them white — could not agree that it was a crime for a police officer to shoot an unarmed black man in the back”(Pitts 1). Today the world has somehow painted a picture of equalness but it…

When it came to the south, the early 1960’s drew a fine line that neither the black nor white communities could cross. This fine line lead to separation between the two groups, and allowed them to disconnect entirely. Kathryn Stockett accurately portrays the struggles that…

It is important that those middle-class women whose voices are more likely to be heard in the debate over redefinition of the family not create a new hegemonic narrative of motherhood in which there are good nonmarital mothers who are middle-class, white and well-educated, and bad nonmarital mothers, who are poor, black, uneducated and possibly drug addicted or HIV-positive. Such divisions along lines of class and race would be disastrous. What must happen instead is that women must seek…

In Manet’s Olympia, two women are featured in this piece, one unclothed white woman, lying on the bed sheet, showing her body and her black servant in white, standing behind her almost out of visibility, holding a tribute of flower. The composition of these two figures implicates racial class issues as only one female in the painting has the right to her own body. Since the black person is her maid, the white woman, Victorine Meurent, also has the control of the other woman in this painting. The…

Set in the 1960's, a movie called The Help written by Tate Taylor and Kathryn Stockett, a recent graduate from college gets a job at a newspaper company and begins writing a story that will change her life. In this time of history, it was evident racial discrimination still played a role in everyone's life. Skeeter Phelan saw the split in roles between the white and black community in which she lived, so she began writing about it. This inspiring and educational movie gives today’s generation a…

Dear: Ta-Nehisi Coates, My name is Carissa Pillay and in my English class we will be reading the play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry. We have read your article in class to give us a better understanding of what happened from the Case for Reparation, It really opened my eyes on how I saw the case for reparations. One of the quotes that was in the article that caught my eye was “So that was just one of my losses”. In this instance black people were referring to how land that was…

In content by Richard Wright called "Black Boy", Wright discusses growing up and getting out into the world and persevering through the agony from viciousness and fierceness. He experienced childhood in the Jim Crow South, which was clearly difficult being that he is dark. One thing I discovered noteworthy in Richard Wright's content was the means by which whites controlled, provoked, and physically mishandled him on the off chance that they felt that he was being rebellious…