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Citizens throughout American history have often presented the “home of the free” and the “land of the brave” as the perfect nation, filled with perfect families, and more extreme examples of how impeccable the nation truly is. No time presented the United States of America in a more splendid light than the 1950’s. The 1950’s are remembered as a decade of prosperity but as with every time period, multiple historical issues marred this time. The United States encountered political, diplomatic, and

The first thing that strikes me about The Star of Ethiopia is the stark difference in structure and style. The structure itself does not revolve around a single person or character but rather of a peoples as a whole. The plot follows an entire race of people through history, and the urgency of the story is not lost, but rather it is amplified. Likewise, the style of the show requires a unification of collaboration to create a spectacle for show. DuBois gives a freedom to a production to make a production

I hope you guys are ready for a good start. Awesome! As you can clearly see, I am wearing a mask, hiding my true face and feelings from the society. Who knows what pain and misery I am going through in my life at the moment! However, who, after all, has not worn a mask on occasion to conceal their frustration and disappointment? One particular group in our society who were forced to wear a mask to conceal with true feelings about their situation, was African Americans during the fight for civil rights

In the memoir The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, the main character Wes Moore grew up in the rough city of Baltimore, where the future of a typical black male teen is often associated with illegal activities.  Contrary to these discouraging expectations, he went on to become a successful and prominent business leader.  This unusual phenomenon is called being an outlier.  According to Malcolm Gladwell, an outlier is a “scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lies outside

This Wednesday Carolina Panthers Quarterback Cam Newton made comments in a press conference that were pretty clearly sexist in nature. When asked a question about Devin Funchess and the growth in his route running Cam Newton simply laughed and said it was “funny to hear a female” asking a question about routes. After this absurd reaction Cam Newton did proceed to answer the question but there is still serious confusion to why Cam Newton reacted that way. Throughout his career Newton has been respectful

Should the NCAA Adopt a Rule Similar to the NFL’s Rooney Rule? Quintez T. Choice Georgia Southern University The Rooney rule is a rule that the NFL created back in 2002 and implemented in 2003. According to Burke (2013) “the rule stated that each organization had to interview at least one minority candidate for all coaching and general manager positions once there was an opening.” The Rooney rule changed the league as a whole, according to Thomas George of the New York Times in an online

This novel starts off on June 9, 1976, in California with an African American Girl named Dana on her 26th birthday with her husband Kevin and are moving into their new home. Kevin has started to unpack his office and Dana is unpacking books. Then Kevin walks out of the office to talk to Dana when Dana all of a sudden starts to get dizzy and Dana then finds herself in a grove of trees thats in the late 1800’s in the state of Maryland by a nearby river when she spots a young boy drowning named Rufus

Ralph Ellison 's “Invisible Man” is an illustration of African American scholarly work managing the racial fight against African Americans in the USA. The fundamental character, in this specific case it is the storyteller, stays anonymous all through the novel which permits him to present his backgrounds with a specific level of separation, yet, in the meantime offering the pursuer a look into his one of a kind view of the occasions that occur all throughout the novel. As the novel unfolds it turns

Why Dig Up the Past? This article “The Negro Digs Up His Past’’ by Arthur schomburg on 1925, elaborates more on the struggles of slavery as well as how history tend to be in great need of restoration through mindfully exploring on the past. The article, however started with an interesting sentence which caught my attention, especially when the writer says ‘’The American Negro must remark his past in order to make his future’’ (670). This statement according the writer, explains how slavery took

Eating Disorders In the essay “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” by Susan Bordo speaks about eating disorders. In society today appearance is a huge factor. Even though appearance has always been a major thing but now day’s people take it to the extreme when trying to have a certain body image. Now day’s people think beauty is whatever is on the outside, instead of the inside and the outside. Most people go on crazy strict diets, surgery and some go through starvation in order to become a