Dudley Weldon Woodard, was an African American Mathematics Professor. Dudley went to a College called Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903-1906) he worked at a University of Chicago (1907). Dudley Weldon was born October 3(1881,Galveston Texas). Dudley died on a Wednesday in a Jewish hospital of old age on July 1,1965 in Cleveland Ohio.…
Sexist, or What Lord of the Flies Called for? There is something unusual about Lord of the Flies that is glaringly obvious. Why are there no girls? Was this simply due to the author’s choice?…
“All American Boys” is about a young African American ROTC student that gets beat up by a white police officer. There are two points of view in this story, one being Rashad- the kid who got beat up, and the other being Quinn- a close friend of the police officer. People in school and around town start to take sides and have their own opinions about who was in the wrong. Rashad’s friends and relatives take action as well as students who attend the same school as Rashad. Tension flares, and people will do anything to support their side of the story.…
The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows the life of Hester Prynne, a woman living in Puritan America and forced to wear a scarlet letter that represents her sin of adultery. Although faced with hate, Hester manages to rise above it and help others. The novel classifies as a feminist novel because it shows a woman, alone in a world filled with discrimination, battle against society’s judgement and not giving into peer pressure. A feminist is someone who stands up for the equal treatment of men and women.…
The Scottsboro Case A case that was unfair to the defendants and to the society of mankind. The Scottsboro Case first started on March 25,1931 9 young black men were wrongly accused.…
Author’s Background Zora Neale Hurston wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in 1937 after the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement in culture, social, and art. Hurston wrote the book in seven weeks when she was in Haiti studying voodoo. When Hurston was a young child, her family moved to Eatonville where her father served as Mayor.…
In Native Son, by Richard Wright, the protagonist character learns that various factors, such as race and heritage, can greatly influence a person’s life. This is demonstrated through character motivation, conflict, ethos, and symbolism. These elements are illustrated by Wright’s indigent character, who is obstinate to reach his goal and persevere through any obstacles that he may face. Character motivation, conflict, and ethos are all illustrated through the protagonist character, Bigger Thomas, who is portrayed as a very motivated black man, who encounters a variety of problems in Chicago’s 1930s. On page 87, paragraph 3, Wright states, “She was dead and he had killed her.…
Many people see the words “Civil Rights Movement” and automatically think of the bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Ku Klux Klan. However, the movement was much more than that. In the book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire, the author shows us some of what was happening in the lesser known parts of the movement focusing on how sexual violence against both women and men played a big part in the Civil Rights Movement. The book starts at nearly the beginning of the movement (1940s) and spans throughout the whole movement, seeming to mainly focus on the rape case of one Recy Taylor in 1944, as the book begins and ends with the story of Mrs. Taylor.…
The Family Romanov, written by Candace Fleming in July of 2014, is a captivating story of the Russian Revolution as it unfurled. The Romanov family, a renowned and illustrious clan, were the powerful rulers over Russia from 1613 to 1917. Throughout all the years of government, the family conquered multiple issues. However, the group eventually fell in 1917 due to the resignation of Tsar Nicholas the Second. Aside from the historical aspect of this book, there are many other messages imbedded into it that most readers will recognize.…
September 11, 2001 is a day every american remembers and could never forget. On one ordinary morning, no one could have expected it, in the matter of hours, to take a devastating turn taking lives, distressing families, alarming the government, and terrifying America. News reporters, screams, cries, smoke-filled streets only embody a diminutive picture of the capacity of the terror. For an american, the trauma and destruction of 9/11 could never be disregarded, but many do, in fact, take no notice of the sufferings and torment children, the young ones, fought that day and the days following.…
Father Comes Home from the Wars, Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks created a character that had the illusion of choice. She showed how Hero’s perception of having control of his destiny undid his relationships. The costumes of this production propelled this show into modern day and made commentary on how systemic racism may still be inhibiting the freedoms of African Americans. This play forces the audience to reconcile with the past sins, and then points out the ways society still discriminates against people of color.…
Ill Manors (2012) is a low budget British crime/drama film, written and directed by Ben Drew who is also an artist that goes by the name Plan B. This film was released in June 2012 with a budget of £100,000. The length of the film is 121 minutes. The age certificate is 18, the reason for this is because there is very strong language, there is a sex scene right at the start of the film, and violence all throughout the film.…
Historian and a specialist on the life of Andrew Jackson, Robert V. Remini, tells the story of Jackson’s life from childhood to his years of presidency, and how his whole life revolved around the Indian conflicts of the time. Remini stays on widely known topics of Jackson’s life throughout most of the book. Although he strays from most historians when he feels that Jackson is justified in his actions and believes. Remini starts the book by telling of Jackson’s family and their heritage. He gives many accounts that he found of young Jackson’s horrid and traumatizing childhood.…
If you asked multiple people what they thought of history and history books they might say, It’s boring…those books are filled with bias opinions. Well Danielle L. McGuire’s book, At the Dark End of the Street, is defiantly not boring. Reading this book helps me better understand the role African American women had, and how it was so important. This is a book mentions not only the struggles African Americans had during the civil rights movement, but the struggles women faced specifically. You always hear about the super famous men who started and influenced the movement, but what about the women.…
This not only made this scene memorable but made an impact on all societies everywhere. McConaugheys’ performance was very convincing as he also begins to get chocked up during his delivery of his argument. In this scene the performance of Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson), Omar Noose (Patrick McGoohan), and Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) are outstanding. The cinematographers’ (Peter Menzies Jr.) use of lighting, filters, and choices of lens made all these actors standout. Menzies was able to bring the jury, Carl Lee Hailey, Jake Brigance, Omar Noose, and all other spectators in the courtroom, come into focus at specific times, to show the emotions tearing through the courtroom.…