American Indian Movement

freedom than before. In this sense, in both the DREAMers and Chilean student movements, the youth protested to have better lives. These young generations experienced different feelings…

Around the World with Nellie Bly Women in journalism owe their career path to Nellie Bly. Bly was a famous journalist who traveled the world in 72 days, prompted social reforms and was the first women in her field. She pioneered investigative journalism which is a branch of journalism. Investigative journalism is gathering many sources and going very in depth on a subject that is a current issue or to prompt social reform. Bly chose current social issues of her time and was able to get her…

Culture is so influential that it can influence what kind of person you’ll be. Culture is music, sports, traditions, food, religion, language and more. I am a first generation Jamaican-American, which means my parents were born in Jamaica, then they immigrated to America and had me. Honestly I am more connected with American culture than anything else, but for the sake of this paper I’ll write about Jamaica’s food, language and sports. Probably the most iconic thing about Jamaica and Jamaicans…

immortality or social injustice and wanted to fight to correct the situation. After the American Revolution many Americans drink way more than they should. Alcohol played a huge role in society from wedding ceremonies to elections. That was until many became a part of the movement Temperance. The Temperance movement begin to solve the alcohol problem that was spreading because in the beginning it was to help the Americans drink less. By the 1820s it started to urge people to stop drinking…

Throwing a Wrench into the Literary Machine: A Poststructuralist Examination of The Monkey Wrench Gang Chapter One: Statement of the Problem An army of bulldozers propels its way through a nearly vacant town, churning powerfully towards the buildings it intends to reduce to meaningless rubble. The remaining inhabitants, left powerless to negotiate with the destructionists, all share an indignant determination to ax the onslaught of the place they call home. As the mechanized gears continue to…

Through this presentation I learned a lot about Theodore Roosevelt and his conservation efforts. Theodore Roosevelt was passionate about conserving our natural resources, because he knew that one day these resources would be exhausted. So he wanted to preserve these resources for future generations. He saw the need to protect these lands, so generations could see the beauty of the natural lands and its wild life. So Roosevelt dedicated not only his presidency to helping conserve these resources,…

GOODBYE POLLUTION Did you know that over 40% of the world is environmentally polluted by water bottles? Bottled water is poisoning the earth and our bodies. In the process of making water bottles, the manufacturing companies use crude oil, which is highly toxic to humans! Water bottles are ruining planet Earth, and are robbing too much money from too many people! Tap water is free of charge and is 1,000 times healthier. We should ban the sale of water bottles in California because bottled water…

technology as more information is collect to allow people to become better aware of their own actions and of those around them. Modern racism should be confronted by a movement in the American people just as the civil rights movement was, but it needs to be confronted out of love and respect for our differences, not to prove who is more American than the person beside…

useful work to push the development of the equal right movement including the politicians. Almost every politician claims that their goals are make every member in this society can be treated equality however the funny thing is most of their declarations will not be complied and this is the real situation for now. Jelani Cobb points out this real situation in “The Matter of Black Lives”, she recalls the history of the Black Lives Matter movement…

when mainstream. If these individual don’t excell to our expectation we cut them down and destroy them because it isn’t part of our personal brand. We forget the humanity of women, the complexity of someone who is expected to represent the women's movement. The dehumanization of women of other women because of the way which they express themselves, branding feminism as a category a stereotype about what “we should be” and not who we are. In her famous Ted talk “We Should All Be Feminists”…