You will have to write a three or four page essay, double-spaced, 12 font, style - Times New Roman  on one of the following questions. Your essay must have a clear thesis and a specific focus. Your essay should have an introduction (thesis statement), three body  paragraphs (Each paragraph should have a topic sentence and evidence) and a conclusion. Please, use APA format. Do not forget to proofread your essay.    Explain, discuss and illustrate from your own experience and from your readings, James Baldwin’s articles and speeches how race and culture effect people's lives.  What  it means to be a particular kind of American. Has it been a complex fate for you to be an American?  Use examples, quotations and citations from the essays we have read to support your claims.   Please use poem If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? By JAMES BALDWIN to write this paper.  By JAMES BALDWIN