A Different World

A Different World “A Different World” was a spin-off sitcom of the “The Cosby Show,” which aired for six seasons between 1987-1993. It focused on primarily African American college students at the fictitious historical black college (HBCU), Hillman College, in Virginia. Before the Civil War, there was no form of higher education provided to African Americans, and higher education was prohibited in certain parts of the country. In 1892, the second Morrill Act was passed requiring states to…

In the perfect world, everyone would get along with each other, and it would be like strawberries and yogurt. However, in reality, not everyone gets along, and it could be difficult. Good afternoon fellow students and teachers. Have you ever been in a situation where you and another person can’t agree on something? Perhaps it's because you don’t get along. Today, I will be speaking to you about what you should and should not do when you’re around those people. I will also be explaining the word…

Shakespear's world then, is different from our world now because of 3 different key topics. The first topic is language, the english language has advanced very much since this time. There is a lot of words that are still the same but the way we use the words in a sentence, and the order they are. I've noticed studying this time period they said stuff very differently from the way we do now. For examample, "What do you read, my lord?" (Hamlet,2.2.191). However in todays modern world we would say,…

have learned a lot in six weeks about my agency and I know there is still more to learn as my journey at my agency continues. I did some brainstorming this week about what I want to do my research project on. It’s hard because there are so many different topics to write on especially when it comes to a substance abuse treatment center. I could do…

How our world is different that Shakespheres William Shakesphere is a very well known poet, and a well known playwright. There has been people going around researching to find out how is world is a lot diffrent that what it is like now. There are ways that our world is similar and different like how school was or what kind of jobs they had. People have done research on this because they want to find out if life was harder or better than current time. There is a article called a nest of singing…

After the first season of A Different World, the spin-off series from The Cosby Show, writers and produces made much needed changes to the sitcom in order to accurately represent black college life. It was after those changes in the characters and actual dialogue of the show that made the series the first of its kind and largely successful. Herman Gray poses these two questions, “why the show should be characterized as exemplary, even distinctive, for its representation of diversity and…

I am originate from a middle class family. The most imperative thing about me is that am a religious person. I have faith in good, values and regard others. I am a present day scholar, additionally have faith in great qualities given by my predecessors. I cherish soccer, moving, listening to music and watching motion picture. I’m 20 years old with an oval face, dark thick curly brown hair, with a small nose, ears, eyes. Have two curved eyebrows that are thick and narrow; with a full-lipped mouth…

difference, a conflict will begin to form. The idea of conversation is what keeps relationships on good terms, it easy to say men and women have different ideas about conversation. In Deborah Tannen’s article “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” holds key information about how important a conversation can be. Throughout the article Tannen forms different scenarios where a couple may or may not have conversation problems. This article pushes the idea of how each person wants to talk…

The media shows much negativity about many countries and people all around the world. Many of us wonder why? But sadly there is never an answer. We live in a world where people make commercials just to make people think different about things around them. In the year of 2010 an earthquake happened in Haiti and I am proud to say that I am a survivor but when the tragedy occurred all the reporters started talking and announcing how bad the country got and how we got poor. I’m not saying it’s false…

For this project, I volunteered at Sacred Heart Community Center serving the poor in the community around me. I packaged food into bags to give out to those who needed it, then sorted clothes onto different racks in order to give out clothes to people who needed them the next day. This would allow them to focus on more important matters, such as paying for other necessities or trying to better their lives, and would help give them the same opportunities afforded to me. I picked this service…