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The Beautiful Struggle, written by Tanashi Coates is a memoir published May 6, 2008. Coates’s memoir gives you some insight of the upbringing and maturation of his life. In general the memoir gives you an outlook of how Coates and his siblings were raised including the struggles Coates went through that ultimately created a beautiful future for himself. This memoir also portrays the life of a conscious black family growing up in the 80s. Coates’s blunt style of writing expresses the…

Symbolism in A Lesson Before Dying is important in understanding the lives of the African Americans like Grant and Jefferson in this story. Jefferson’s diary is one of the symbols in this story. The diary represents Jefferson’s struggles in life and the treatment that he endures every day. Jefferson has never had a wonderful life, always treated like he was nothing, but when he is in jail he experiences love and people who care about him. He tells the story of who he is and being in jail gives…

One day one feels one way and the next he is a new man. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain the main character Huck changes his view on racism, and the similarities between races as he travels with a black man named Jim. His friend Tom Sawyer goes through part of this adventure and constructs crazy ideas. Huck grew up on racist beliefs taught by his father, and thought black people were lesser beings and could be treated badly. His thoughts on this change under the…

prison.Mandela was in prison for 27 years Nelson Mandela is important to us because he was the first democratically elected president of South Africa, after being imprisoned for 27 years, and overcoming obstacles to inspire the world. Nelson Mandela was born Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela on July 18, 1918, in Mvezo, on the banks of the Mbashe River in Transkei, South Africa. He was later named Nelson when he entered school because his name was too hard to pronounce. Nelson was supposed to be raised…

or killing them. The things these civilians faced during this time were and still are unreal; something no one could even begin to imagine. The Vietnam War started in 1954. It was between North Vietnam and the Vietcong (South Vietnamese communists) versus South Vietnam and America. More than 3 million people were killed, including 58,000 Americans. The Vietnam War is one of the longest wars America has been a part of. It is also considered one of the worst America has been a part of.…

Lyndon B. Johnson deserves the most blame. Johnson approved more military advisers to aid South Vietnam efforts, which lead to the…

come from standing up for something you believe in. In the book to kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus is given the job to stand up for a black man in court in the time of racism and segregation of people. This book also takes place in the south during the Jim Cow law times, when things where very different. In the videos that was watched about the laws it shows segregation between the blacks and whites. Meaning whites hated black and black had little to no rights. Tom Robinson in this…

level education and professional careers than that of the Apartheid era (Saniei, 2015). The cabinets in the Apartheid era were all white, today we find the cabinet filled with Blacks, English and Afrikaans speaking Whites, Indians and Jewish members. South Africa can no longer be seen as a political…

States, northern and southern Vietnam, China, Viet Cong, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, North Korea, Soviet Union, Philippines, New Zealand’s, Taiwan, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Khmer Republic, and kingdom of Laos. This war initially was just North Vietnam government fighting with Viet Cong to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. At first they just viewed the conflict as colonial war, fought initially by France then America then even later South Vietnam. The Vietnam War was something we had to…

lost, both Korean and UN soldiers, it may be easy to see why North Korea hates us. We intervened their invasion of South Korea, which they might have taken. The reason they are testing nuclear weapons, such as the supposed hydrogen bomb referenced earlier, might be because they want to make up for what they failed at achieving in the early…