American Dad!

Corinne says “don’t you hate that?” and I have to say “yeah,” even though I don’t have that 5. The baby who’s crying “Ice cream!” because she sees the “berry sweet frozen yogurt” sign, and her dad who looks at me and says “damn signs,” while continuing to roll her away in the stroller 6. $1.00 American Spirits, but only if you have the coupon 7. The heart-shaped dog bowl chained to the door of the Sip N Go Juicery 8. The rolled up newspaper tied…

dream catchers, and I became confident that I could beat my fear. When I finally asked my dad to take the doll away, taking control of the situation, my nightmares stopped. So, I’ve decided to thank that doll which I had always believed to be cursed for teaching me how to deal with fear, something I need as I grow older and gain more responsibility. I also thank my doll for introducing me to Native American culture, something my mother and I have grown very fond of ever since we discovered dream…

to write so freely because he said his dad’s conflicting views made him want to write. He could have accepted his father’s ideas of minority groups, but he instead chose to be proud of his race. One of the works he wrote after an argument with his dad, “The…

Where I grew up racism was almost ever talk about however it was always implied. This is how it was rank from important to most important. Brown skin, light kin to white. As I grew up and became more aware of myself and my surroundings I realize we are all the same. Even through whites and lighter skin individual seen more privilege. The person begins to attempt an understanding of racial, cultural, and sexual orientation differences and may reach out to interact with minority group members.…

However African American believes that they will be paid reparation because they have been treated cruelly and have been wronged. Moreover reparation can't not pay off all the crimes that has been done, only some crimes can be paid off by reparation. Yet getting reparation may be satisfying, but it will divide all Americans. Moreover Americans has been divided for centuries, and if Americans cry about what has been done to their dads or themself then we will never unity as one Americans.…

the english parliament decided that American colonists were second class citizens instead of first class citizens. The English King, King George, established that people would have to pay taxes on anything printed which they would have a stamp on them. Some things they had to pay taxes on were legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards. The tax wasn’t much but offended many people because it was a direct attack on the American colonists. All this started…

It all started in the month of March in 1765 in the town of Boston, Massachusetts at the time of when the Stamp Act was in full effect. My name is Ferdinand Taylor I am twelve and the Stamp Act is in a full scale riot. In Boston yesterday the colonists started to burn all the stamps they could find in the streets to protest against the British. A lawyer by the name of James Otis argued that we shouldn’t be taxed from the Parliament because we didn’t get to vote for the Parliament members so we…

Alabama, a white women by the name of Mayella Ewell, shocked the whole town when she accused Tom Robinson, an African American, of raping her when all Tom wanted to do was to help her with her chores. It started when Mayella was putting her hands all over Tom because she wanted to know what it was like to kiss a black man. Tom did not like it and was forcing his way out until Mayella's dad came in to see that Tom was forcing his way out away from Mayella. This of course led to Mayella and Tom in…

The television series Master of None, created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, centers on a 30-year-old Indian American actor, Dev Shah, played by Aziz Ansari himself. The comedy of the show is gleaned from Dev’s experiences living in New York. Many plot lines of the show incorporate discussions of race, gender, and sexuality. For this project, we focus on the second episode of the series, “Parents.” This episode’s theme is the child-parent relationship in America, when the parents are immigrants.…

because my mother knew how to cook Vietnamese food and our family went down to Charlotte almost every weekend, where my grandparents would cook for us. Once school came around, I dropped our Vietnamese culture and desired only to be affiliated with the American culture. I pushed away the Asian part of me because school became the only part in my life where I could be just a kid and hang out with my friends. Once I came home, I expected to be swamped with academics and athletics. It wasn’t till…