Reflection On Jim Crow Law

1. As a young boy, I have been told that being black has come at a price for many of my ancestors, and that I should be proud of the color of my skin. Being told this sparked my interest to learn more about my native heritage. I began completing research about the start and reason behind slavery. Slavery began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, to help farm and harvest tobacco. After slavery was abolished, black people were still treated unequally, and later put this inequality into legal action. In the early 1900s, many states in the south began to implement “separate but equal” laws, better known as Jim Crow Laws. Many people have suffered at the hands of the Jim Crow Laws, including both my mother and grandmother, who were turned away from …show more content…
I believe that this course will affect me in many different ways, including both personally and professionally. Personally, it will affect my ability to understand of what other before me have experienced, in addition to their pain that they have had to live with for many years. Professionally, this course will improve both my communication and writing skills. According to the course syllabus, I see that we will have to extensively exercise our writing abilities, in order to pass the course. In addition to writing, we will have to complete comprehensive research to support the writings that we will have to perform. This of course, will help us both in our academic and professional lives. Writing and research is an important part of our lives, and this program will inadvertently improve those critically needed skills. I expect to gain an in-depth understanding of different writing styles and process, which I will need to learn how perfect for future careers and activities. In the future, I plan to become an OB/GYN; however, this job will cause me to dictate notes, in addition to performing research. Being able to adequately write and research topics will become beneficial skills that will constantly be used each day of life. After learning so much additionally information about the past of the African American Race, I will communicate this information to the general public via writing blogs and letters to organizations to help spread awareness of the racial issues that …show more content…
Along with the wonderful opportunity that are presented with this program, there are challenges that we as students must overcome. These challenges will include both stress and exhaustion, which are two things that I am highly familiar with, being a college student. College students have to learn how to multitask between classes, job(s), homework, and extracurricular activities, which mean that handling traveling for extended periods of time, while doing homework is just another act of juggling. Juggling has become my new hobby, and it is a hobby that I am good at. Staying up late to do homework, while still being able to function throughout the day has become second nature. To maximize my time, I tend to complete as much work as I can during the day, while finishing up the rest of the work at night. This tends to allow me to have a little free time to do other things that may present itself that previously was not on my schedule. By making time for surprises, this has conditioned me to become a cautious college student. Most teachers do not accept excuses, therefore, you do not present a potential need to create one for late and missed assignments. Additionally, the stress load will decrease as you tent to mark things off of your todo list. Stress is a factor of both life and college life, which tend to be one in the same. To help minimize my stress, I tend to sing, write, and converse with both friends and family members to express myself while allowing my brain to