Alex Ferguson

Ten year old, Lafayette Rivers exclaims enthusiastically in Alex Kotlowitz’ 1992 biography There Are No Children Here, “If I grow up, I’d like to be a bus driver”. Sophomore year, in Honors English, we were reading out loud in class when this aspiration of a lower-income, innocent child, was lethargically muttered by a classmate, and to my dismay, I began to cry. I was saddened by the fact Naperville was less than 60 miles away from Chicago, yet my peers knew so little of what too many city…

While most movies depict spies as 20-30 year olds who are super highly trained, this book’s protagonist is almost the exact opposite. Although it would never happen in real life, Alex Rider is a 14 year old teen who works for MI6, a British spy agency. In the previous books in the series, he has gone to a secret academy in the Alps, Cuba, and undercover with a terrorist group. Now, he goes to Russia to live with one of the richest men in the world. He later finds out that he has to foil an…

Alex Rodriguez, a former New York Yankees baseball player made almost $22 million a season as of 2004. The amount of money professional athletes make is insane! They are not financially responsible enough to make this much money, and other careers deserve more money. To start off, other professions deserve more money. One reason why other professions deserve more money is because Peyton Manning made more money in one season than an average worker makes in their lifetime. Also, athletes make…

A complex character is a realistic character they are not totally bad or good there for the character may have both bad and good motivations. A character's motivations drive or push him/her to do something. For a character like achilles who has many motivations threw out his days of war. His motivations actually have such a big impact on him it actually changes his personality from this disrespectful self centered person to a more considering , respectful, honorable character and with a change…

In the Autobiography Of Malcolm X the authors purpose contributes to the beauty and power of the text by showing the beliefs of Malcolm which he believes understanding a person, their birth must be reviewed, which relates to the authors purpose of showing the reader how Malcolm became the man he became to know in his time period. The author began the Autobiography with Malcolm still being in his "mother's womb" which could reveal the connection of his belief, which he lives on throughout his…

Corporation Ferguson Enterprises Incorporated is a publicly traded company, which means that ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock. The ticker symbol is WOS because Wolseley, a Switzerland-based industrial distributor, acquired the company in 1982 but retained the name Ferguson. Since then, Ferguson Enterprises has grown from a local distributor to an $11 billion company. A wide assortment of marketing techniques helped in the substantial growth. Ferguson…

and white schools unconstitutional. For a long time, the black Americans inured a life of abject poverty, maltreatment, inequality and injustice. The quest for fairness, love and justice led them on to fight for their rights. The famous Plessy V ferguson case of 1896 which was behind the ‘separate but equal’ decision, may or may not have been effective in the country because racial segregation still lingered on in some states. “In 1950, public schools in Prince Edward County, VA, were still as…

All people regardless of color, race, or religion deserve to be equally protected under the law. Not only do they have the right to be protected but they have the right to have an equal opportunity to thrive. Brown went against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas because he believed that his daughter and other colored children deserved quality education and because he lived by a white school, however because of segregation his little girl had to travel a much further distance to a colored…

of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which endorsed the idea of being “separate but equal”, played a major downfall in their pursuit of justice. This Supreme Court ruling supported segregation and kept the races separate which means it legalized discrimination and racism throughout the nation (Bowles, 2011, ch. 2.3). African Americans not only struggled but according to Blair Kelley, “The legal defeat of the efforts to gain equal accommodations on the rails through the Plessy v. Ferguson decision…

are those out there that want better for us and their children’s children. Many that have gone before us have sacrificed their lives just so that we might have a better tomorrow. They changed history but also became a part of it. In Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) Homer Plessy sat in the white segregated railroad car and was imprisoned on the bases that he was a black man, who was violating the law since he was called himself black but sitting in the white railroad car. He was light skinned and…