African Grey Parrot

Procrastination is a problem that people face everyday in tasks both big and small. It is not uncommon to realize that most everyone has trouble with procrastination in some way or another. My client, Madison Waltrip, is no different. Madison came to me to help her bring an end to her continuous procrastination. In order to help her better I felt I needed to do some more research into what procrastination is and what causes us as people to do it. The first article I came across was,…

Michigan and there has always been a lack of markets that sell healthy food, especially at a reasonable price. There is multiple fast food restaurants on every corner which is very convenient for many people. The lack of healthy foods is harming the African American population. The closest healthy market is not relatively close and if it is one in the area, the prices are incredibly high. My plan is to make healthy food very accessible to the urban population. It will be extremely convenient for…

White America’s inability to understand African Americans is echoed in Claudia Rankine’s essay, “The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning”. Rankine recounts the deaths of African Americans by the hands of the police, she expresses the fear that she and her friends have for their children, and she interprets the intentions of Black Lives Matter. Using recent black deaths as examples, Rankine reveals that “though the white…

Throughout history, the U.S. has been seen as unequal in government laws and social normalities against minorities and women. Prior to 1920 women were unable to vote and not until 1965 were African American’s given the right to vote. And if you were to ask why it took so long for women and minorities to be given the right to vote, you would receive answers on the lines of sexism and racism. However, the refusal of voting rights was based on the fear that women and minorities were wildcards,…

In “Battle Royal”, Ralph Ellison sets his story after the Reconstruction. In his story, the white, elite leaders of the time, invite the narrator to the hotel room to deliver graduation speech. However, before he can deliver his speech, the narrator becomes involved in a brutal box-match against the other workers. Similarly, in “The Lottery”, the village initially, seems calm. Yet, at the end, it is revealed that due to the long held tradition, a person, who has picked a paper with black dot…

The term “thug” has become synonymous with young black males in the United States. This stereotype owes its origins not to rap music, but to the racialized political atmosphere of the late 1950’s (Abagond, 2015). The notion of the stereotypical black thug of today took hold in the 1990’s with the advent of gangsta rap (Abagond, 2015). As rap has grown in popularity, integrating the thug stereotype into mainstream movies, television shows and even advertisement campaigns was easy and systematic.…

works motivated African American people for their dreams and influenced people as not only a dancer but also a humanist. Theoretical Approach Argument: The theoretical approach in this research of this project is race and culture. In the Mid 20th century, there were still a lot of prejudice and racial discrimination against African America people. For example, they were not allowed to attend same schools or go to same churches as white people. Of course, it was difficult for African American…

people to the reality that the drug war led to the unbalanced confinement of African American men. Our prison system is legalized discrimination and a race-based caste system. The war on drugs was the turning point for the New Jim Crow. Each time a new caste-system is created it gets harder and harder to include all members of society that controls the entire race. A racial-caste system will always exist even when African Americans have achieved such great…

approach to illustrating the issues facing African-Americans, when he writes, “Full of black guy [wack,] you want black guy facts/ 80% of the population in the jails are black/ 1% of the males teaching schools are black/ So fight back, because the system is trying to break our backs” (Jasiri X 34-36). “System” is used to refer to the government or economic structure of the United States. Therefore, “system” implies that the injustices perpetrated against African-Americans are systemic and being…

Truth is not a simple task to understand. We cannot stand with an extremist’s belief and not believe anything else. Dr. Cornell West argues in his essay Race Matters that it is not just one race that is to blame for the racism and inequality, as people often believe, but that it is an individual’s decision to decide if one race is better than another. He is mirroring the idea, unknowingly, that Deborah Tannen writes about when she says that truth is like, “…a crystal of many sides. Truth is more…