African American Lives

People could be living in places like a house, apartment, orphanage, and maybe even a tent, etc. For example, I live in an apartment that my family pays rent for and sleep in every night. There isn’t any other place that I stay in whether I like it or not. It maybe where I live in but should I really consider it my home if I don’t like it(I like my home)? Must I consider it my true home if I had not liked it? Looking at it in a one point of…

move through life without knowing exactly what they are doing. They do not always have a plan or know where they are heading but they keep going into the unknown, driving without knowing how to drive. There are no set rules for how to live so no one truly knows how to live in a sense since there is no correct answer so everyone just does their best and keeps going. The poet uses visual imagery of driving a car and knocking down people as he goes. He uses this imagery to represent people moving…

Who is Paul Allen? Paul Allen is one of the most successful and interesting American entrepreneurs that there has ever been on the face of the earth he is on the Forbes most successful people. His net worth is 17.4 billion in U.S dollars. Paul Allen is the Co-founder of Microsoft with one of his best friends Bill Gates who he met in high school. He is also a collector of valuable War World II machines, planes, gear, guns, and uniforms. Also he owns a yacht in which he takes all his players and…

Discovering that Gabriella was a very intelligent Brainiac at her old school, Sharpay prints her information and puts it in Taylor’s locker. Taylor then asks Gabriella again to join the Scholastic Decathlon team based on the printouts Sharpay put in her locker, and Gabriella agrees. Hearing that the callback date has be moved up by request of Sharpay to the same date as the big game and the Scholastic Decathlon, Troy and Gabriella announce to the Jocks and Brainiacs that they are going to not…

• Xbox one controller The Xbox one controller is the controller that you need to use for the Xbox one for their games this controller is different to the Xbox 360. The purpose of the controller is to allow the gamer to have a device that will allow you to control the different games and allows you to do various action and movement to progress through the different game and the interface that the Xbox one console pervades. The design of the controller is different has they have base this…

wealthy individuals touring through the lives of individuals who are poor and capturing what it is like to be poor is notorious in American History. Jacobs Riis and James Agree are two interesting authors with different backgrounds, but shared similar motives. The two authors bring the struggled of American poverty to life by inserting themselves among poor families and wrote about their lives. In his book “How the Other Half Lives”, Riis reports on the lives of many ethnic and demographic…

in Joplin, Missouri and died on May 22, 1967 in New York City (“Langston Hughes”, par.1). Hughes was an American writer who was most famously known for being a part of the Harlem Renaissance, an artistic movement beginning in the 1920s that “kindled a new black cultural identity” (“Harlem Renaissance”, par. 1). Hughes poems were generally focused around the lives and hardships of African American people. “Themes for English B” is a great poem written by Langston Hughes and published in 1951. The…

Jr. and other African Americans participated in the Civil Rights movement in hopes of ending racial discrimination and segregation against African Americans. They hoped that future generations of African Americans would have equal rights and as Martin Luther King stated in his “I Have A Dream” speech,“ I have a dream that one day my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of the character” (American Rhetoric).…

to Keith Gabriel in his essay “The Cynicism of Cops,” police officers view Black Lives Matter as an ongoing threat to the lives of police officers. As a movement, Black Lives Matter began as a response to a perceived bias toward African Americans on the part of police. The controversial shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and the strangulation of Eric Garner in New York are the events that inspired Black Lives Matter. In his essay, Gabriel focuses on two former friends of his, both of…

Black-on-Black crime is one, if not the worst, challenge African Americans face today because it claims the lives of so many people, whether it be through death of a victim or a life spent in prison for committing crimes. Black-on-black crime and violence are major problems in current society because these tragic crimes and brutal violence break down African American unity. An astonishing amount of crime committed against African Americans is black-on-black crime. The vast majority of these…