The Rude Awakening

statistical data and concrete facts in support of my argument are very compelling. The U.S. holds five percent of the world’s population, but carries twenty five percent of the world’s prison population. This staggering statistic should be a rude awakening to the way we punish and imprison our degenerative citizens. It seems like the common consequence for these individuals is to lock them in a room and throw away the key. The decent majority of people that make up this population are African Americans

Philosophy Socrates a sophist? Or just sophisticated? Plato goes a long way in attempting to distinguish Socrates from the likes of Protagoras, a self admitted sophist. In Protagoras, Socrates is depicted as a street smart, wisdom dispensing young man, brash with confidence and a bit of arrogance that goes a long way when confronted with the old school rhetoric of Protagoras. Plato begins to separate the two at the hip right from the get go. The dialogue between Socrates and his inquisitive friend

Walt Disney once said that “all of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” The concept of dreams and aspirations are what connects the two seemingly different Of Mice and Men and A Raisin in the Sun. Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, portrays a story of two poor farm hands living in California, one of which is handicap. This pair, despite all efforts, fail to accomplish this dream, showing a very anti-american dream aspect of this novel. On the other hand, A Raisin

On August 6, 1945 the United States revolutionized warfare by dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. President Truman jotted down in his diary, “We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark” (Sadao 103).  There has been much controversy regarding this brutal attack on the Japanese, which according to the American Historian, John A. Garraty,  it is known to be “the

comfort Kenya had to offer me. I often found myself regretting the move I made, but I knew with every opportunity, there must be hardships harboring around the corner. I always knew culture shock was inevitable, but I was not prepared for the rude awakening. Because I was raised with the Kenyan customs, when I arrived in

party, telling her it?s a costume party and it obviously wasn?t. As ?typical girl? Elle shows up to the party as a playboy bunny. There is nothing more gender specific then a playboy bunny. For comfort she turns to Warner but instead all Elle got a rude

Ralph Ellison narrates the portions of his earliest days in the semi-autobiography “On Being the Target of Discrimination”, where he recalls the effects of racism on his life. Through his chronological writing, he uses the timeline of his childhood as personal evidence of the effects of racism in the upbringing of an African American child in a Post-Reconstruction Era America. A creative narrative written in second-person, all his arguments are supported primarily through anecdotal examples that

the system. This is proved time and again when students graduate high school unprepared for college, a lack of exposure to different cultures, and without basic life skills. Students are breezing through the years of high school and receiving a rude awakening when they graduate. The four short years of high school have an enormous affect on the next forty. So many things such as GPA, ACT scores, clubs etc. can mean the difference in thousands of dollars of debt from student loans or a free ride to

“The Flowers” Stories sometimes have the power and meaning to change someone's life. Reading in general, can make someone feel like they are living in a different world. Usually writers have the tendency to add affection and tone to engage their readers more. Flowers, sound so pure and bright, but are all flowers meant to be lively? For Myop in “The Flowers” represents an innocent African American girl whose evolution to maturity and innocence comes to a sudden end without a warning. In the beginning

The poetry of Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of Harlem, is an effective commentary on the condition of blacks in America during the 20th Century. Hughes places particular emphasis on Harlem, a black area in New York that became a destination of many hopeful blacks in the first half of the 1900ís. In much of Hughes' poetry, a theme that runs throughout is that of a "dream deferred." The recurrence of a"dream deferred" in several Hughes poems paints a clear picture of the disappointment and dismay