American architects

For as long as I can remember my great-grandparents have owned a wood burning stove to heat their house. My great-grandpa, my mother, my brother, and I had always been the ones to retrieve and split the wood for their stove. Since my great-grandpa and mother have gotten older, the responsibility of this laborious task has been handed down to my brother, Griffin, and myself. Retrieving and splitting wood is a long, tiring, and cold process. First, as with most things we must start at the source,…

A Lesson From a Bad Decision Who never learned from a mistake? Who never regretted from something that he or she committed in the past? We are all human being, and human being per nature makes mistakes. Particularly when we are, or were, teenagers, the stage that we learn, we see, and we try “new things”. Making mistakes make us fell deeply depressed, unhappy, and sometimes miserable. It is even worse when you hurt somebody. Somebody that is very important for us. In my case, it was my family.…

resulting in a bigger influence on his audience. In “The American Dream” and “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” King uses the appeal to ethos by touching on the topics of moral obligations and the needs of children. Martin Luther King understood the importance of a strong opening line. He understood how necessary it was to immediately create a connection…

A man’s hope for a change doesn’t grow weary: a change never comes about without a fight, a fight that most times involves violence, either a direct or an indirect violence. One such man, a pastor, a leader of the southern Christian leadership conference, and an author Martin Luther King Jr , wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written on April 12, 1963 in the Birmingham jail. He claim against the injustice towards the black community in the United States, especially in the southern part and…

and tolerance, I have become spoiled with the delights that this age and my skin color have given me, overshadowing any kind of bigotry and discrimination that still exists. Although I have seen news reports and historical re-tellings of African Americans facing prejudice, I have never seen this situation through the eyes of these victims, until I read Song of Solomon. During its first 112 pages, the novel Song of Solomon ensnares readers, such as I, into a world where men and women are…

Penny Holland Cooper is not only my mom, but also my best friend. She has many years under her belt that comes with a variety of different experiences and moments that I would like to share. She was born on June 8, 1961 at the Saint Mary’s Hospital, in Jacksonville, Florida. She weighed seven pounds one ounce and nineteen inches long. Her Dad and three brothers were there in the delivery room to welcome the beautiful sister they finally got. In my Mom’s first few years she spent her time going…

created the new colony that had a unique identity; a distinct American identity. In 1776, America declared its independence from England because they had irreconcilable difference with England due to an evolving American identity that clashed with England’s foreign policy on matters of economic ideologies, ethnic backgrounds, and lifestyle. A combination of these factors and England’s underestimation of the strength of the American identity, led to America gaining its independence in 1776, and…

The concept of stereotyping is prevalent within both Lori Baker-Sperry and Liz Grauerholz’s “The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children’s Fairytales” and in the preface to Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki’s The Black Image in the White Mind. These articles discuss how media has the capability to influence the mind of individuals with images of fairy tale’s beauty norms and with racial depictions. Popular media often creates ideals and stereotypes by using…

all be treated equally regardless of how we look on the outside, or what religion we follow. I think eventually most of all racism will die out, but there will always be some individuals who are stubborn and refuse to treat others as equals. While American has always been a mostly white country, every year more and more minorities are coming to this country, and soon enough, whites will be the minority. It has been proven that a majority of racism comes from a lack of education. There is still…

Franklin’s African American history 101 course, and in my opinion, it is also the foundation for most of the assignment the class received this semester. This theme was presented within an excises starting on the very first day of class The first assignment we were giving was called “Ball in Tube”. Each student had a scrap sheet of paper and some tape. We…