American agnostics

connections with the Native Americans. The English however were…

Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African…

Franklin was a proponent of the public choosing their government by voting for representatives in each of their home states. He saw the one-sided English government as unreasonable and set to keep the American way of life fair with equal representation. Thomas Paine was equally enthusiastic about organizing all of the colonies and breaking free from the tyrannical English government. However, Paine was not as eager as Franklin to setting up local government…

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…

and took a stand to end slavery. They also believed in the equal rights for men and women. Susan and her family worshiped at the Unitarian Church where her aunt used to preach. This was an unusual practice for that era. She was close to the African American community and they even made the first memorial for Susan B Anthony. Susan B. Anthony left her position as a teacher and led a movement to help women. Many of the married women of her era were physically abused by their husbands and there…

my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…

national identity since Lugo’s evangelization around the island: Puerto Rico’s status of commonwealth makes it inevitable to face the problem of integration and independence. In the perspective of integration, Puerto Ricans regard Pentecostalism as an American value that can support their upward mobility[ Gaston Espinosa, Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University press, 2014), 164.] and prevent them from being stuck in poverty and colonial…

X, a solution to the inequality of American society is to forget skin color as he said ‘“whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences”’ (Document D). No matter what type of skin color or beliefs people have, everyone belongs almost to the same biological race of human being. Forgetting differences is crucial in the settlement between authorities and discontent citizens. The American government disregarded…

about their race. This has been an ongoing problem in the African American community in the U.S. There have been incidents that have occurred that have been made internationally known like, the beating of Rodney King in 1991 and more recently the murder of Trayvon Martin. These events cause fear in the African American community when the police are involved. In the Rodney King beating consisted of a videotape of an African American male being beat continuously by four police officers during…

there is a dramatic difference in the risk of incarceration for persons who do not complete high school. Research by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit shows that 68percent of African American male high school dropouts had served time in prison by the age of 34 (Western & Pettit, 2010). Consider this: African Americans make up an estimated 15 percent of drug users, but they account for 37 percent of those arrested on drug charges, 59 percent of those convicted and 74 percent of all drug…