Goodlettsville, Tennessee

There is a point in every teenager’s life where they have to take a moment to sit there and think, if only for a moment, “Oh dear God, I’m an adult.” Some approach this point too early while others will have this epiphany too late. It all depends on what the person has gone through and the experiences they have had growing up. For me, I didn’t realize that I was growing up until I started my first job at a family fun center. Working in that rundown arcade, I hated it, yet it was honestly the beginning

The world of the Mountaintop is very confined and does not change at all throughout the play. The Mountaintop is based inside room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. Time during the play is downtempo and at the end the play begins to move at a more realistic time frame. The mood of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is very serious, but he loosens up when Camae enter the room. He then becomes very relaxed and even smokes cigarettes with Camae. He makes small talk with her, and even seductively compliments her with

Houston Community College The Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South Susanna Swannegan History 1301 Professor Mojo 21 July 2017 " If the Reconstruction of the Southern states...had been conceived as a major national program of America, whose accomplishments at any price was well worth the effort, we should be living today in a different world... The attempts to make black men American citizens was in a certain sense all a failure, but a splendid failure." _ W.E

There are many things that happen in my life. I have been alive for 15 years. I have been exposed to manything that could have changed me as a person. The real world is brutal and keeps changing. T was okay to have discrimination against blacks back in the 1900’s. Now in 2017 the rules have changed and now black and white people have the same rights as everyone else. No One thought that the life for blacks would change but it did. I have changed to based on what I have learned. I have learned from

However, the current events of NFL athletes have been taking a knee during the National Anthem. The president has recently been caught in the action saying, “Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our Country!” This has been one battle that has been going on back and forth since the start of the season. This controversy seems like it will continue until the NFL makes a change. The players have said that they will not

The Reconstruction era was a very impactful, but hard time for South Carolina after the Civil War. The process of rebuilding the south came with many great challenges, including the profound main conflict of racial discrimination. Although the Union had won the war, much of the Southern United States had been destroyed, including the many farms, plantations and crops. Also, due to the Union victory more than 3 million slaves were granted freedom, but still faced racial discrimation from restrictive

across the Southeastern region of North America. According to Smithers, archeologist believe Cherokees “settled in a vast and diverse area that included the modern-day states of Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky.” The land provided wealth and survival for the Cherokee people. Many of their families were raised and buried on this land. They believed migrating to a new territory would be detrimental to their survival as a people. In fact, they

"Men were seized in the fields or going along the road, women were taken from their wheels and children from their play. In many cases, on turning for one last look as they crossed the ridge, they saw their homes in flames, fired by the lawless rabble that followed on the heels of the soldiers to loot and pillage" (James Mooney). This is just one encounter shared by someone who witnessed the treatment of the Natives during the United States' Westward Expansion movement. The treatment of the Native

Hybrid shopping Shopping is an activity that has been around for years. Although it is not something that all people love to do, especially guys, it is kinda inevitable. Everyone will shop most likely at some point in one's life whether it's for him or herself or for others, because every year holidays and birthdays and many other events come around. Even though shopping is still big today and is only getting bigger, it is starting to become more popular to shop online from the inconvenience of

Along the Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears played a part in what is known as the Manifest Destiny, which was the expansion of the colonists to the west. Gold was found on the Cherokee land during the Georgia Gold Rush. The greed that it created was one of the leading causes of the Trail of Tears where thousands of Native Americans were forcibly relocated from their native lands (Cherokee.org). Little did the Native Americans realize that the new nation that was going to be forming around them