American Idol

led by Martin Luther King, was the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), another formed by young students was the the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), all organizations slowly expanded, as well as the organization of black Americans: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were the main…

in Joyce City, Oklahoma during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. During this time, a severe drought and dust storms ravage across the great plains, making life difficult for many Americans. Billy starts by describing her family’s awaiting for the arrival of a new member, her passion for playing the piano, and her idols, Mad Dog and Arley Wanderdale, whom support her when she performs. Meanwhile, dust is a regular occurrence that surrounds the city, and Billie Jo illustrates these storms as an…

certain level that is no longer appropriate. Over the past few years, news coverage on NFL player’s domestic violence, assault, and murder charges has brought up the discussion about the league’s promotion of violence. Many youth players see their idols scoring touchdowns on the field, yet the next day they read a headline that they have been arrested for hitting their fiancé. Although this is not indicative of all NFL players, it still has become an issue that translates into violence amongst…

or even earlier than the 1920’s. That is where we will begin all the way until today’s music. In the 1920s music was dominated by blues and jazz. The blues primarily came from African American slaves mostly in the south. A lot of the songs would portray the troubles of prejudice and racism that African Americans endured during these times. One singer from the 1920’s that explain the troubles of African American’s during this time is Bessie Brown who sang songs like “Song from a…

Christine didn’t have many friends when she was younger, but didn’t need any since her whole life revolved around Lee, who was her best friend, her confidant and her idol. Growing up, they did everything together and enjoyed life just the two of them. “He was everything to her, until the spring afternoon he saved my life” (146). Lee was “turning into a criminal” (160) and Christine didn’t want that to happen since…

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…

the music as one and I was proud of myself, that I didn’t fully give up, that I stuck it out. It took a week before I would find out whether I made it into the program or not. When I got the call that I did, I was proud. I know it wasn’t like an American Idol or The Voice callback or anything, but it felt like one those. I screamed and ran all over the house. Ever since that day, I told myself that any dream I have I’m going to go after no matter what happens, that I’m going to put my heart and…

In the voice of Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, "left all of us far behind.... He gave the first impulse to the ball of Revolution.... He was the idol of the country beyond anyone that ever lived,” (Moss 127). Patrick Henry was a crucial factor in freeing the colonies from British administration. Started from the year 1765 through 1775, he had produced a string of speeches and disputes with the British Parliament in which he won, slowly edging out Britain. Their significance to the colonies…

He threatens the people by letting them know if they do not bow down to the golden image it will take me a matter of life or death. Even though the people used to worship a false god, so the command was easy for them to obey. African Americans analogy thinks that between a true believer and an unbeliever its recognize as faith because everybody lives by faith in other things. The diversity is the object of the faith. The people believed in the king so therefore, they obeyed. Shadrach,…

Black Lives Matter was a international activist movement that helped fight for equality towards the African Americans. This movement began as a small but fierce rebellion in a St. Louis suburb exploded into wildfire that has engulfed the whole country. It has done something all too rare in our time: it’s escaped the control of the ruling establishment, which police repression nor Democrats have been able to stop the movement because of how powerful it was to the world. Most recently in 2013…