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Please edit the following sentences from student's papers:

 

1. It brings up the assumption as if American was trying to exclude the Natives like they aren't apart of the U.S population.

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2. I feel Natives should of been included in all population calculations.

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3. My purpose today is to enlighten, you people on a subject that is titled race.

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4. The main topic in todays society is race; how people deal with it and what people think it is.

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5. A new/advanced perspective of viewing what she once saw, now enlightened by her life's experiences beyond the playground of her youth.

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6. It means that there are no songs residing within a persons soul of their very being, neither within their spirit.

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7. Yes, I believe it is important for African's or people of its' dissent to unify because, even today, black people are more violent to themselves than anyone else and being that they don't have a sense of real history and don't know what they as a race are capable of, it his harder to have high expectations or see their potential.

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8. Yes, America has a horrible and bloody past, but what nation does not.

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9. What is equal; real equality?

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10. In Amiri Baraka's poem "Black Arts," there is a feeling of both hatred towards the white man, and disgust for poetry in general.

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11. By using these lines to end the poem Knight lets the reader know that once you make your bed you are forced to lye in it, even if it means being like the speaker in this poem, disappointed, and alone.

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12. The overall theme of this poem is that things are not always the way that they seem from an outside perspective, and that you have to live among the chaos, and hardships to understand them.

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13. In Audre Lorde's poem "A Litany for Survival," the overall theme is that fear is crippling, and can cause people to do strange things.

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14. The first line in this poem "For those of us who live at the shoreline", that to me is meant as image of fear.

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15. A decision will be made once fear is come upon you.

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16. Being terrified of what makes it hard and tough to make a decision.

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17. Man, woman or child, make yourself be known and stand up.

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18.  Another quote that Knight uses is when she was describing on how she feels about her dying and anxiously waiting to see ancersisters who had died before she did.

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19. What Knight was saying was she couldn't wait to see her family; therefore she talked on how she waited for her day to die and see them.

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20. I also learned that a family tree is a great way to break down your family's genes.

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21. This poem started of in lower case letters with each line not giving importance to the beginning of no start, even the title wasn't capitalized.

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22. The poem was very deep poem to me it was written by a woman who has been molestaed at night around the midnight hour.

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23. This also a metaphor showing how serious she is, that they will not get back into her body and mind.

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24. She also talks a lot about travelling fare away but not knowing where she's going.

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25. Ibelieve black men would pushed there daughter to have sex with white men or even blacks themselfs.

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26. This poem was written by a man you can see that when he speaks of in the image of Malcolm.

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27. That is why they killed him because he spoke truth and he made a difference.

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28. The words effected minds so much they hung over there heads.

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29. If your not part of the solution your part of the problem.

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30. In this short essay I will be talking about his life story. About when he was enlightened as a teen, and started the learning process.

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31. I will also be writing about when he studied untill his health started to diminsh, then went to teaching.

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32. However the readers are able to grasp a better learning of theirself.

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33. I have learned a lot about this particular poem I feel that even though sometimes being in a new environ,ment and learning new things and being educated, and then trying to go back to your old environment and seeing no progress u tend to wonder on maybe something is wrong and something needs to happen.

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34. But realizing that things did not change, in fact things seemed as if it got worse where she is from.

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35. What Amiri was telling her readers was that there should not be love poems unless that poet really gets into detail about that particular subject.

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36. I learned that poems should not just be written to please the reader, but a poem is for u and that the reader should really know in detail how u felt at this point in time when writing this particular poem.

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37. James Baldwin discussed one of the most important reason wrong with the African Americans society.

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38. This is a very true concept and I see it happen often a lot.

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39. Having struggled your whole life you would know exactly what poor is and know it isn't a pleasant thing to be.

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40. There are some things that are controversial about Baldwin statements.

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41. With a statement like this it doesn't really make you wonder why a determined will is scarce these days.

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42. It even lets the people in the ghetto know how they are perceived by others, although I don't agree with a lot of the things James Baldwin says it is a very good essay and it should help other ethnic groups really understand the ghetto and the struggle.

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43. Her breast had gotten bigger, some women breast feed there baby so the milk in her breast had started to form.

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44. Her stomach had gotten bigger, the baby had started to form already.

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45. After she gave birth to her child she had a major headache.

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46. When you are a child or young adult you may not know what is wrong or what is right so when get older everything becomes understandable.

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47. Marcus Garvey attempts did not succeed.

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48. He figured if a person was black, they could go to Africa and rebuild and start fresh.

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49. Everyone knew not to mess with Hard Rock, they knew he wasn't to be played with.

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50. "A Poem for Black Hearts" is about Malcolm X an influential African American man that wanted change for everyone.

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51. The people in the poem want revenge, they want the killer to suffer and go through the same thing Malcolm X went through.

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52. He thought that he and his people were the only one's that could speak about change.

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53. He has a mission to accomplish and he's going to accomplish it because he has people on his side and in his corner.

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54. When dreams fall its nothing you can do but stay far away.

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55. After coming home from college, it is nothing there for you no more.

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56. If you come home from college and you keep seeing friends on your street corner getting high and using needles.

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57. She is afraid that her daughter will suffer if she has to grow in all this conserverse that is going on in are cold nasty world.

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58. Black men need to get all that fear out of there heart.

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59. In the reading he speaks about Harlem, this is where he was born and raised.

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60. In the South they lived in poverty and struggled to live.

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61. In the south they faced many obstacles and, they were plain as day.

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62. To add to that white southerners that doesn't like blacks to stay away from them and keep minimal disturbance and problems.

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63. They stayed in apartments that sometimes wasn't up to par with health codes.

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64. But Baldwin further states that there Is no difference between the southern white and the northern.

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65. Do Racism versus Sexism does it really existed?

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66. Race however always been an issue in America.

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67. Race is an out ward appearance but once we get know each other back ground and cultural we are all the same.

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68. In America we have more races then African American and Caucasian.

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69. Americans tend to treat them different because we aren't accustom to them.

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70.  Edit the following paragraph:

 

       Looking at the candidates of 2008, many associate Barack Obama with Martin Luther King. But is it this that Obama uses to pull his crowds, like some follower. If it's to deceive or to tell the truth to the masses, you have the ability to sway the crowds your way. People don't only look at your statue but also your confidence. Confidence is the key, for if you don't have faith in yourself then you will and can fail. And fearing to fail comes from not wanting to be criticized.

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71. Thoughout both works I found many things that were positive, and should have been implemented in the black community during the Black Arts Movement.

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72. I disagree on Mr. Marcus Garvey behavior and what he tries to accomplish by having a meeting with the notorious, most hated racial gangs the Ku Klux Klan.

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73. Everyone has there down falls to Gods gift of common sense.

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74. Black Americans are like this because there are some who are not afraid to be themselves, they are not afraid of spirituals and they except their beauty without any questions.

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75. Yet, did they know things wouldn't get any better, because they were still faced with the same obstacles, if not more.

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76. Not listening will keep a person stuck in one place; a place of confusion and low achievement.

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77. When people think about race they have mixed opinions.

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78. His convetional speech was based on that, and his explanation of why people should be one unified party and not Democrats, Republicans, and Independence.

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79. By the end of that speech, I felt like I was in a dream world, because that is not what it's going to be like; ever.

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80. Barrack Obama's speech is what it is; a speech of hope: Hope that American people can work not only for themselves, but for each other.

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81. In this world, everyone is incanted to his or her own opinion.

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82. So you have a voice so let it be heard and use it to your best ability that you can use it to.

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83. Edit the following paragraph: This debate was a fairly good debate; both candidates did have some issues at hand that they had stronger views on. Even close to the end when both candidates were going back and forth with the issue of taxes when it comes to small business. Biden saying it should be about fairness only to raise taxes for the wealthy, people with an income of 250,000, but Palin stating if you were to do that small business would be included in that figure as well, and that by doing this it would make less job available in the future. However Biden said that small business do not make 250,000 which are not enough to get a tax increase. In which it made the debate very exciting for it to be only Vice President Debate, and it was very respectable for both candidates to take up for their political parties.

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