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    The Jim Crow Era

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    society. The Jim Crow era was characterized by legalized segregation‚ lynch mobs‚ and white supremacy which caused a dark oppressive period of American race relations from 1890 to 1910 (Campbell). The period which the states of Confederacy were controlled by the federal government and social legislation which granted African Americans new rights consisted of a time frame called the Reconstruction period. The Reconstruction period resulted as one of the main causes of why the Jim Crow era began rising

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    Have you ever been to the lake before? Usually when you think of the lake you think either fishing or some kind of water activity. It’s usually fishing because your dad owns a bass boat. This time though one of your friends‚ who you had no idea had a boat‚ invites you to go to the lake for the day with him. What do you think you are going to do? You ask your friend and he says that it is time you learned how to wakeboard. You get to the lake and it is silent there is no one to be heard or

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    boy that goes to Westlake high school. I enjoy devouring large amounts of food and going to the lake in our city. The lake is rumoured to have man eating otters surrounding the premises. I don’t like to go as much because I don’t like those scary stories about the lake and we usually run out of food at the lake. We’re going to visit the lake in a couple of days and I’m scared of the otters at the lake. I’ve been having nightmares about it every night and can’t seem to get my mind right and back on

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    Summers at Lake George Is that a breeze you feel? No‚ it’s still scorching hot and all you can think about is the lake in front of you. Imagine dipping your toe into the water‚ that first burst of cold is so contradicting to the sun’s heat and it feels amazing. You jump in with a splash‚ feeling the water rippling all around you. Taking in the dancing bubbles and the soft feel of sand beneath your toes‚ you resurface. This summer at Lake George is going to be a good one. Ordinarily

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    Jim Crow Laws

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    that didn’t always help them. Those laws that went against it or found a way around the Civil Rights act of 1866. There have been laws‚ acts‚ and amendments to help end segregation and then there have also been laws to encourage segregation. The Jim Crow laws have discriminated in so many ways since it was created. These laws often kept African Americans from going into certain public places

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    Greasy Lake Character Analysis The narrator of T.C. Boyle ’s "Greasy Lake" appears to be the ultimate rebel upon first glance. The unnamed main character goes out of his way to appear "bad" to his friends and anyone around him. The narrator explains that he wore leather jackets‚ drove his parents ’ station wagon and drank gin and grape juice to produce the effect of being intimidating and cool to others. By the end of the story when the narrator has the chance to continue his false image of being

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    In his novel In the Lake of the Woods Tim O’Brien paints a vivid image of the horrors of the Vietnam War‚ particular the savagery of the Thuan Yen massacre. While prior to reading the novel readers instinctively blame the soldiers themselves for their immoral actions‚ as the novel progresses‚ O’Brien shows that while the soldiers may have physically committed the brutal acts of murder‚ blame cannot solely be placed on them. O’Brien depicts the Vietnam landscape as one that‚ due its elusive and chaotic

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    We are Williams Lake Ignorance is the greatest challenge that man has yet to overcome; its ability to spread hatred makes it at fault for many of humanities problems. The only cure for such a wide-spread‚ and often deadly disease‚ is knowledge. Knowledge can be spread through many forms‚ but the most powerful way to spread it is through celebration. Celebrations allows for people to be surrounded by others in a place free from the things that divide us in the outside world. This is why Multicultural

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    Bad Character Through reading “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle it is easy to conclude that all three characters (Jeff‚ Digby‚ and the narrator) think they are bad‚ by what was mentioned in the beginning of the short story by the narrator saying “We were bad (Boyle 1).” Bad according to Webster dictionary can be define as having a wicked or evil character (Bad). With this definition in mind‚ it does not really describe any one character in “Greasy Lake.” Digby and his cohorts all think they

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