Black. However, there is an internal debate that I have if whether to call him African-American or Black. African-American to me means someone who is of strictly African descent and who can trace their recent heritage to the continent, conversely Black; in my opinion means that the person cannot with a degree of certainty trace their heritage to the continent but is quite certain that their being an American is because of the slave trade. In the case of President of Obama, I choose to call…
Not everyone served their country by fighting the Axis Powers on the front line. Many did their part in their hometown and Dorothy Haener was one of them. She contributed to the war effort by working in a plant and inspecting B-24 parts. Even growing up, Dorothy was exposed to the expectation that women were to aspire to marriage and raise a family while their husbands worked. She also noticed that many men thought women were inferior to them and were even lower in their eyes if they were…
It was 1997(2005) in Ethiopia, and I was about 9 or 10 at time, still naive to the world at large. It began as a typical school day, but then as my classmates and I were on our lunch break, we started to hear a man shout “Taxi, taxi, taxi!” just outside of our school. It seemed peculiar to us as to why that strange man was shouting. To the students and faculty in my school building, this man seemed deranged. One of my friends joked “we should probably go back to class before we end up like this…
In the beginning, the American Revolution was only a rebellion by British colonists, however, it quickly turned into something much more. The road to the Revolution started with a nine-year war between the French and the British over land in the Ohio River Valley, and ended with the battles in Lexington and Concord between the minutemen and militia. The road to the American Revolution was paved by the French and Indian War, all the acts passed by England, the events in Boston, and the Battles in…
You Cannot Have What Your Wish For My paper is all about compare and contrast in two stories. My main theme is death. Death represent in Kafka “The Metamorphosis”, is hurt feeling from his family and other story death represent Herman Melvin “Bartleby the Scrivener”, is loneliness and alienation. Both character have really emotional ending. Death is not about only one person it’s all about physical attachment and how people treats to other. Both stories are really touching and emotional. In…
I was born in Nebraska, where I spent most of my youth. I lived in rough neighborhoods but was still an enfant. I only started remembering things when I was around four and living in La Vista, by my elementary school. My home was a yellow house with a large basement and garage. My garage wasn 't connected to my house directly, but I often ventured into it anyway because of the cool things my father and uncle had stashed away in there. My uncle lived in the basement, a cold dark room that had…
countless authors and how they view him. Four Letters on Interesting Subjects addressed the relationship between the colonies and the British as being a country that is oppressive and creating tension by not sharing the same principles that the American colonies wanted. In letter one Thomas Paine talks about the Stamp-Act and Tea-Act . He believes that those acts were not implemented for the…
Have your ever heard of someone getting their heart broke on their amazing prom night? Well let me introduce you to a beautiful young lady name Sarah. Sarah was a graduating senior of Hill Forest High School, and she had been dating a guy name Lawrence since her eighth grade year. Also, Lawrence was a graduating senior of Hill Forest High School. They went through a lot of chaos during the time they dated, but they still managed to hold on to each other. Their relationship status was very…
the NBA would be the only possible thing I would be able to do in life. It did not happen and I was kind of lost for a point in my life with not knowing what to do with myself. After I graduated high school I decided eventually to go play basketball at the local junior college and it just didn’t feel the same for me and I lost a lot of confidence in myself in about everything. For the first time in my life I quit a team which was a huge mistake and something I should have stuck out and did…
classical novel Native Son is a story about Bigger Thomas, a 20-year old black young African-American man, who lived in the Southside of Chicago. He lives in poor conditions Bigger Thomas physical appearance has affected his moral traits throughout the story. Because of his dark skinned color he is born with limited opportunities which causes him to become aggressive, not only angry but fears the white Americans who are overpowered of him and his people. Discrimination plays big roles in Biggers…