Emily”‚ there have been some similarities in the stories. Such as for the main character of both stories had personally faced a dead body. For Myop in “The Flowers”‚ she innocently stumbles onto the remains of a man who had clearly been killed in a lynching. She discovers the body when she saw the man cracked or broken large white teeth in the woods. For Emily in “A rose for Emily” she had one love‚ Homer Barron‚ whom the town had believed he had left her. It is revealed at the end of the story that
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Scout’s actions eliminates the tension of lynching mob because she used compassion. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird‚” Scout talked to Mr. Cunningham and asked him about how his family was doing‚ how was his day‚ what’s going on‚ and to tell that she said hey to his son (Lee). She made him realize what he was doing is wrong. He felt special and happy about his family for once. She made him stop attacking Atticus and Tom Robinson because Mr. Cunningham realized what he would’ve done would cause
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Jim Crow Laws Reflection Thomas D. Rice was a white man but was wearing black face makeup‚ in 1832; Thomas started performing “Jump Jim Crow”. The Jim Crow laws came to existence in 1877 when the whites regained power in the government in the South after the war and made it law. The Civil Rights act passed in 1964 ended discrimination by law and said no one may be discriminated against race‚ gender‚ or religious reasons. There were many court cases that helped fight the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow
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spiritual aid that women can give for the social advancement and moral development of the human race” (Bair‚ 2000‚ p. 336). Other black women‚ particularly Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells‚ protested white racism‚ black disenfranchisement‚ and lynching. African Americans were going public in their struggle to build community institutions‚ such as schools‚ churches‚ and businesses‚ within the African American world‚ and for integration into American institutional life (Bair‚ 2000).
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Journal 4 - The Flowers Alice Walkers‚ “The Flowers”‚ is a short story about a young girl Myop. One day‚ Myop is happy and carefree as she skips around her family’s cabin playing with the animals. On this day she decides to explore the woods as she had done many times with her mother in late autumn while gathering nuts. Myop then leaves the safety and peacefulness of her family’s cabin to search for new and wonderful flowers. The flowers represent innocence‚ life‚ and the beauty of life. This
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Christian Bernard English III IB SL Ms. Garner 20 December 2013 Values and limitations of Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn is considered to be one of the greatest novels in literary history and its Author Mark Twain is considered to be one of the greatest American writers of all time. Twain achieved both of these rather impressive feats because of his familiarity and experience with the themes of the ethicality of philosophical issues such as the‚ discrimination on race and age‚ morality
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois Booker T. Washington was a dominant African-American leader in the United States in the late 1890s to early 1900s. He believed that people could make the transition from poverty to success with self-help. His views incorporated working to achieve benefits and rewards from the whites and accepting their place in society as blacks. Washington and his students built the Tuskegee Institute for learning and to provide themselves with basic needs. The Tuskegee
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texas revolution most texans would run away to mexico. Slaves later became free June 19‚ 1865 which led to the thirteenth amendment; that abolished slavery. Discrimination started at the end of the reconstruction era; white southerners was angry. Lynching also started after the reconstruction era. Residential segregation did not exist in 1870. The buffalo soldiers were the first blacks in the US army. For black votes they would supply things like better schools and street paving. The fourteenth amendment
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During our assigned weekly reading we read several primary sources relating towards how the Black community will advance and on which approach is best to uplift their people. After reviewing these documents‚ I notice the two opposing views between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois and the advantages/ disadvantages towards resistance and subserviences. In the Atlantic Compromise‚ Booker T. Washington essentially agreed that Southern blacks would not upset the social order of the South and would
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The separation of race is nothing new in American culture. Even though slavery was abolished in the late 1800’s signs of class separation and racism are still apparent in this story. In the paragraphs sixteen and seventeen of "Champion of the World" a story lifted from Maya Angelou’s popular novel‚ "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"‚ there are many references to racist offences committed by whites to blacks. She uses a champion boxing match as a metaphor for an opportunity for blacks to rise above
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