reflected on the importance of Brown vs. Board of Education: “ To all men of good will‚ this decision came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of human captivity. It came as a great beacon light of hope millions of color people throughout the world who had a dim vision of the promise land of freedom and justice.. This decision came as a legal and sociological death blow to an evil that had occupied the throne of American life for several decades”. (Papers 3:472) “Brown vs. Board of Education was
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The Masque of the Red Death and Young Goodman Brown are both good stories that paint vivid images. Throughout these stories‚ both Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne evoke a sense of fear and death. Edgar Allan Poe tells us a story of a prince who believed he could save himself and his nobles by keeping them inside of his castle. However‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne tells us a story of a man who takes a "journey" with his conscience. Both authors use characterization‚ symbolism‚ imagery and allusions
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In the modern short story‚ Eudora Welty clearly develops Phoenix Jackson as a main character who indirectly manipulates other people. Phoenix‚ as the speaker in "A Worn Path" holds the status of an old Negro woman who continues the everyday cycle of life. Although‚ in reality Phoenix is an average human being‚ who feels she must be rewarded for living. Phoenix believes that humanity owes her something for the troubles she encounters throughout her lifetime. When Phoenix says to the hunter‚ "that’s
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than dealing and admitting how you feeling you‚ instead‚ project it out onto others. Towards the end of the short story‚ Brown has a vision‚ or some may argue a dream‚ about his wife and peers basically worshiping the devil in a local forest. Young Goodman Brown received that illusion‚ or dream if you will‚ because of his own psychological projection problem. Young Goodman Brown doesn’t live up to his name‚ he felt ashamed to have been associating with the devil in the woods‚ and he was looking for
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Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” describes the journey of Phoenix Jackson. Phoenix is an elderly black woman who shouldn’t be making such a treacherous journey. But what drives her you might ask? The reader doesn’t find out until the end of the story that she makes this journey every year‚ “as regular as clock work” (34)‚ to get medicine for her ailing grandson. Some might say that this story is about the love and endurance of a loving grandmother. But after being asked if her grandson is
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is willing to do anything to get what she wants. The narrator’s response to his alienation is that he has to believe in himself because nobody else does. His alienation leads to defiance because he just goes on with his routines. The theme of "A Worn Path" is no matter how many internal or external antagonists you come across you can overcome them. Phoenix’s alienation leads to her facing many antagonists but she overcomes them because she knows that she needs to get medicine for her grandson. In
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however there is also a trap: “up through pines‚ now through oaks.” Pines and oaks both mean hardship of life‚ which means that life is same as the path that there are uphill and down hill. Her duty is indicated by a little boy‚ an illusion that she see while she mounts the log. It revels when she goes to a hospital that Phoenix must travel a dangerous path through the forest in order to get medicine for her dear grandson. She meets the dangerous trap consistently: “so she left that tree‚ and had to
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Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s "Young Goodman Brown" captivates the reader through a glimpse of the Puritan church. The story also shows the struggle of good versus evil in the main character Goodman Brown. The role of the Puritan church is crucial in shaping Goodman Brown ’s personality and helping the reader understand why he was reluctant to continue his journey. "Puritanism‚ movement arising within the Church of England in the latter part of the 16th century that sought to purify or reform‚ that church
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Goodman Brown was so deeply shaken by just the thought that the good Christians he attended church with on Sunday‚ could really be consorting with the devil. Goodman Brown was in a state of disbelief when his traveling companion told him that his father and grandfather‚ whom Goodman Brown had described as “honest men and good Christians” were also acquaintances of his. “My father never went into the woods on such an errand‚ nor his father before him” he had been sure of. However‚ the breaking point
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Brown v. Board of Education Back in the 1950’s ‚ the saying for schools was “separate but equal”. All over the south most of the public schools did not allow colored students to attend their white schools. Alot of the colored students felt as if they were getting a more poor education compared to all the other white students. This law was challenged by thirteen parents who all attempted to enroll their kids into white public schools. Down the road a lawsuit came about that was filed against the
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