Social Conflict In The 100, By Kass Morgan

At the end of the novel some major conflicts in the story are resolved which resulted in some major tension between characters. At the end of the novel T. Ray shows up at the pink house to come and take Lily home and T. Ray learns somethings about what Lily has been doing and who she has been staying with. On page 292 it states "The is where my mother came when she ran away from us. August said she was wearing it(the pin) the day she got here." When T. Ray sees Lily and that she is wearing her mother's pin, he automatically gets reminded of Deborah. The memory of Deborah leaves him enraged at Lily and he is in a mental stage where he is not thinking straight. On page 294 it states "He stood over me. 'Deborah,' I heard him mumble. 'You're

The book, The New Jim Crow written was written by Michelle Alexander. It was published on January 5, 2010 and is 312 pages long. It is a non fiction book that talks about the re-introduction of the caste-like system that has already resulted in millions of African Americans being locked in jail. During the Civil Rights Era, African Americans were put into a second class status that rejected all of the rights that blacks had previously won in the Civil Rights Movement. This book talks about many situations where blacks in today’s society are treated almost the same as they were over 50 years ago. For example, Alexander opens up the book with the story of a man named Jarvis Cotton. Cotton is a black man who was arrested when he was younger and because of that arrest, he will never be able to vote again. Throughout the history of the United States, African American men have been deprived of their supposed “natural born rights”. Alexander also discusses how Jarvis Cotton’s father, grandfather, and his ancestors have all been unable to pursue their naturally born rights, but all for various reasons. Cotton’s great grandfather for example, was a slave in the South and his grandfather and father were daunted by the Ku Klux Klan. Voting is one of the many rights that African American people have not had just because of the color of their skin.Alexander says that even though it used to be acceptable to discriminate against African Americans, it’s no longer socially acceptable to

When one thinks about the American Civil War, the question at hand begs attention: what could the Confederacy have done to win the war? Ideally, according to Robert G. Tanner in his book Retreat to Victory? the idea of the Confederacy wining the war by a different means might be impossible to answer. That being said, Tanner emphasizes how the strategy commonly referred to as Fabian would not be a prosperous endeavor for the Confederacy due to the southern geography, people and through the Confederacy’s generals.

The poem The Change written by Tony Hoagland, carries a strong message, yet using western, modern examples. The poem is a story, written as if the poet is retelling it to a friend or just another person. It can also be taken, as if the poet is reflecting on an event that had just occurred. Hoagland seems to be writing to an American. Although it seems he is writing from a white, American male perspective it is unclear if he is writing to a specific ethnicity or just Americans in general. This is important to note since his message, whose over arching theme is change, has used the example of a African American female tennis player to show a moment of change. Hoagland uses extended comparisons, especially similes, to explain that change is inevitable

American political activist Jody Williams once said “There’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted like Mother Teresa or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. But ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.” In an excerpt from his essay “Why Bother?” published in the New York Times Magazine, American public intellectual Michael Pollan reveals his goal to convince ordinary American citizens that they are capable of changing their behavior in order to reduce America’s carbon footprint. Through the use of the four rhetorical elements situation, purpose, claim, and audience, Pollan aspires to have his readers gain a greater understanding that the environmental crisis is “at heart a crisis of character” (Pollan 766). However, although Pollan targets the correct audience to carry out his purpose, he fails to provide proper evidence to support his claim that individual contribution matters.

James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” utilizes race, poverty, stereotypes, and adversity to shine a light on the struggle to escape circumstance. Throughout the text, Baldwin describes the hardships leaching the life out of Harlem’s black community from the narrator’s perspective. Sonny, the narrator’s brother, struggles with his identity and ability to feel emotion leading him to the world of music and drugs, “To be aware of oneself, Baldwin believes, is to feel a sense of loss, to know where we are and what we’ve left behind” (Murray 355). Truly knowing one’s identity comes at the cost of confronting the past. Pain, suffering, and tragedy make up the identity of men just as music expresses it. Sonny’s passion for music, as Murray points out in

' ' 'James Stephen Smith ' ' ' was a schizophrenic defense attorney and who thought women were the “the tools of his enemies” through a an old story in the Bible called the wife of Heber.

All-American girl books teach little girls one thing; they want to grow up to be Samantha the doll. Growing up, society teaches you everything but the most important thing; social classes, and the true facts about them. All we know growing up is Samantha’s “perfect” and living the American dream. Through the eyes of society, if we are raised poor we aren’t going to go anywhere; and we learn to hate the top one percent of the population with all of the populations’ money. The girls grew up dreaming of being Samantha, but society pushed us down, and as we became young adults it struck us to dislike the one girl that little girls grew up loving; the All-American girl doll, Samantha. Classism is huge in today’s society, and not many people know what it means, because nobody teaches it anymore.

There are several themes that we can all relate to in The book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, one of which is language. Language in this novel represents power as it is the driving element of the story. Language is a fundamental theme in this story because it helps Aminata cope with the situations she is put in and saves her when she is in danger.

Racism has been around for several decades, and it is still around today, unfortunately. According to Google, the definition of racism is “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one 's own race is superior.” When it comes to the book Straight Talk About…Racism and Prejudice by Marguerite Rodger and Jessie Rodger, the definition of racism is “the belief that people of different ethnic backgrounds are unequal.” Racism has a unique history in America that has impacted the lines of education and has evolved to continue the blurred lines of minority group conflicts all the while enabling a poor and weakened education.

Segregated toilets – a recurring symbol in The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, are mentioned in over 18 pages of the book. The author uses this symbol to represent the racial bias against the colored by the white. The words “disease” (Page 8, page 10, page 184) and “diseased” (Page 28) are commonly used as a fact while describing colored people in a bathroom context. “All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do.” - a racist character named Hilly Holbrook exclaims on page eight. Although that statement had no basis, almost all of the white characters immediately accepted this piece of information due to a societal notion that colored are unclean and ignorant.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand”- Abraham Lincoln. Civil wars are bloody times in a nation’s history when its citizens fight against each other for reform or other change in the nation. The American and the Russian Civil Wars are known to be some of the bloodiest wars in each country’s history and having some of the bloodiest or the largest battles in the world. The books I read were The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan and The Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley. John Keegan was a senior lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy and a professor of history at Vassar College. Evan Mawdsley is a professor of Modern History at Glasgow University and has written numerous books on Russian history.

To bring about change whether social or personal takes courage. Courage is standing up for what you believe, it is standing alone and sticking through to the end. It is when you do what is right even though no one is looking. When you want any kind of change you need courage. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, change through courage happens very often mainly by Atticus, Jem and Tom Robinson.

Life is like a waterslide. There are twists and turns, and ups and downs. There are rough, choppy moments and smooth, polished moments. And there is always an end to the journey. Conflict can relate to a waterslide - with many twists and turns, ups and downs. But once resolved, conflicts always come to an end. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, Rainsford faces many types of conflict, including man versus nature, man versus man, and man versus self conflicts.

Systematic injustice and inequality perpetuated by those in positions of power is seen as a war that may never be won. When citizens under the ideal of a white man are presented with an alleged crime, they are often unfairly treated and misrepresented. The social spectrum gives insight on who would be convicted for a crime, all evidence aside. White men are the pinnacle of purity, while white women are below them. Black men and women are seen as dirty criminals. When the court takes matters into their hands, verdicts are often determined by race. Situations where facts are outweighed by racial bias present a colossal injustice issue. The constant battle of injustice in To Kill A Mockingbird structures a platform to discuss that social aspect, mainly regarding the trial of Tom Robinson and the outcome. Harper Lee conveys the idea of systematic injustice by giving characters unfair consequences for their actions. The characters Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell delve into the idea of injustice, while Bob Ewell can be seen as a token of justice, but in fact serves the same purpose as Tom Robinson and Mayella. A large portion of the unfairness represented is because by prejudice, specifically racial intolerance.