American Pie

The Football Hall of Fame is an honorable place for athletes that have participated, or are currently in the NFL (National Football League). Being in the Hall of Fame would not only make a Football player feel accomplished, but it only makes them do better in life. Furthermore, the Hall of Fame has over 17 different locations in the USA (United States of America). According to Ray Lewis (Who is a Hall of Famer), he thinks the Hall of Fame is a fantastic place to be inducted to and is a…

Ifn a society that has oppression of PoC (people of color) deeply embedded in its history (and even today), whitewashing concocts a false illusion that race problems do not exist, that PoC do not face discrimination and that PoC do not need representing. “anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame” is the definition of Whitewashing by Dictionary.com. Since 1937 T.V. has been putting white actors into…

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…

Should College Athletes Be Paid? College sports have become one of the largest spectacles in our country. Hundreds of thousands of people come to watch the heat of competition, and the universities bring in millions of dollars from the sporting events. There are even video games of the sports that are made that can bring in equal amounts of money. There has been continued debate about if the athletes should be paid to play, or if the money from their scholarships is enough. There are many…

Everyone knows who they are, and the media is after them, led by Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), producer and conductor of the TV program American Maniacs, the young lovers become global superstars. Their notoriety is only increased by their capture by the police officer Jack Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore) and they end up at the hands of prison boss Dwight Mcluskey (Tommy Lee Jones) who is hungrier for media exposure, even more than they are. Wayne Gale makes a live interview to Mickey where he has a…

place where she kept order, and is able to find beauty, that she never introduced to her children. She devotes herself and feels at home (Morrison 127). Once, Claudia and Frieda went to visit Pecola, at the Fishers. Aroused by the smell of blueberry pie, Pecola tries to reach for pan to see if was still hot but her nervousness made the pan tilt and fall to the floor, making a mess. Mrs. Breedlove enters and slaps her and in a voice thin with anger says, “Crazy fool . . . my floor, mess . . .…

appears as a portrayal as a way to unify the black community and create a sense of Black Nationalism. Through the portrayals of Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, and Orthodox Islam in Malcolm’s life, we can see how religion unifies Black Americans by giving them a sense of self-pride and belonging. Black Religion for Malcolm X appears throughout the entirety of his life starting in his childhood right up until his death. At the beginning, Malcolm X, “had very little respect for most…

The Butler Movie Review The Butler is an American movie, which was directed by Lee Daniels. The story was written by Danny Strong, based on an African American butler’s real life story. Lee Daniels managed to put the civil rights movement into this movie and reflect the hierarchy position, racist situation, and the right of black people in the society. This movie was filming about the life of a sharecropper’s son, Cecil Gaines’ life. Cecil grown up in a cotton plantation with his father and…

Ebonics, like all other vernaculars and dialects of English, is undergoing a constant yet nearly impercievable evolution. The jargon of african americans today could very well be unintellegeble to the african americans of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Perhaps one of the most accesible and legitimate illustrations of modern ebonic language can be found in rap and hip hop music. Simply browsing a list of the top 10 rap songs today will present you with prime examples of the vocabulary,…

my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…