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dresses. Honduras is known for their flour tortilla and bean mixtures. If you want a dessert in Honduras you can get a dessert called Tres Leches Cake. Honduras is known for its many famous soccer players, but they are also known for baseball and American football. Honduras was in the first Olympics that was held in Latin America in 1968. There are many holidays and celebrations in Honduras where people have parades and eat food, like mardi gras here in the United States. There is one holiday…

the manufacturing industries into town, which would ultimately create more jobs for residents. Apparel and textile industries in Etowah would be successful for a while until Etowah’s largest manufacturing employer, Beaunit Fibers, left town leaving 1,000 local residents without jobs (Lambe, 2008, p. 55). After Beaunit Fibers closed their doors,…

Sam Houston was a well known camaraderie in the mid 1800s. Through out his life he was able to accomplish a lot and impact the lives of many; both the Natives and civilized Americans. Despite his down falls of being a "Big Drunk", Houston was able to create a big name for himself. In his 70 years of life, Houston managed to become a lawyer, Politian and Commander-and-Chief in the Army. Despite his great accomplishments, being man for the Natives and eventually earning the tittle of "The father…

Ashley Bolt, Group #1 Stagnant Wages for Middle Class Families, 11/13/2015 SOC 225, 9am In today’s society, the middle class has become a major concern that needs to be addressed. Elizabeth Warren and other academic scholars have noticed the issue and have begun to discuss the reasoning for it. Elizabeth Warren wrote couple books that discuss the matter and she also personally takes about it in interviews, she gave very insightful reasoning’s to why this is occurring. To go even further into…

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…

What am I going to eat tonight? How am I going to help my family out? Questions like these often creep into our minds as well. I’m fortunate enough not to have these problems first hand but some of my teammates struggle in eating every night because they just don’t have money to always buy food. Not everyone on the football team is on scholarship, we have a good amount of walk-ons on our team and after practice we eat dinner, but just the guys on scholarship. It sounds really harsh but that is…

Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an excellent example of an effective argument; it was written in response to an editorial addressing the issue of Negro demonstrations and segregation in Alabama at the time. He writes in a way that makes his argument approachable; he is not attacking his opposition, which consists of eight Alabama clergymen who wrote the editorial. This is illustrated in his opening sentence: “My dear Fellow Clergymen” (464). King was an activist for…

Lorde implies that protecting and providing for them the best that one can should be a priority that is acted on, not just talked about. Speaking about putting them first and doing it are two very different things as are "...poetry and rhetoric...." (1030) Poetry is metrical composition in verse that uses figurative language, symbols, metaphors to help express aspects of internal and external realities in some meaningful way. The key is the meaningful way. Poets, as well as all artists, want…

January 25, 2011, from The Arizona Republic: Retrieved from http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/07/07/20090707jailpopshift0707.htm Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, L. C. E. F. (2011). Justice on trial. in racial disparities in the American justice system. Retrieved from http://www.civilrights.org: Retrieved January 28, 2011. MacDonald, H. (2010, May 14). Distorting the truth about crime and race. City Journal, 21(1). Retrieved January 25, 2011, from Retrieved from…