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Throughout history storytellers have taken events from their own lives to make stories to teach about the world. John Ernst Steinbeck is one of many examples of this. Steinbeck is an American novelist who used his own life experiences to inspire, and create his works. Steinbeck through these works has taught about human nature, the natural world, and shone light on social issues. Three of his works exemplify these: “Of Mice and Men”, “East of Eden”, and “Grapes of Wrath”. John Steinbeck was born…

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws used to enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws lasted for decades until their ban only 52 years ago in 1965, but their presence is still felt today. After the Jim Crow laws were banned, a new wave of segregation took over with the Separate but Equal Act. Although the name of the act makes it seem as if all races were on the same level of social, political, and economic equality, the harsh reality is the exact opposite. Black…

13 days after the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, Pharrell Williams’ song “Freedom” was released on June 30, 2015. Williams’ motive for writing the song is to show that he is advocating freedom. Pharrell went around the country and used various ethnicities to portray the different ways the human population is enslaved. Through music, Pharrell Williams created a very impactful explanation of his emotions using all three rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos and logos. Freedom…

Throughout history, war has been at the forefront of politics and has led to the formation of some of the greatest societies and movements of all time. That being said, war has also led to the ultimate downfall of enormous empires and movements that at one point were sparked with enthusiasm. In short, it brings the most glorious of times and the worst; thousands of human beings dead, families and nations left grieving, and beliefs shattered like glass – all the aftermath of a brutal, hard-fought…

became their main suspect in the Anthrax case, they tried to look for any evidence that would only reinforce their belief that he was the actual killer, rather than evaluating the evidence with an open mind. For example, after finding out that the AMES strand used in letters could have only come from a USAMRIID lab, and Hatfill worked at USAMRIID and he also had the knowledge about the strand they used this evidence to further build up their case that Hatfield was the mastermind behind the…

how the children would develop over time, but it was also an indicator of the effects that hit the child more immediately. This has been shown by a drop in the child’s attendance for school following a parental loss (Gertler, Paul, Levine David I. Ames Minnie).…

Imagine being told that you should not be a ruler because you are not a man. Hatshepsut took the opinions people had about who can and cannot be a ruler and proved them wrong. A. Hatshepsut was a female born to a wealthy Egyptian family. Hatshepsut had a very long and eventful life. She married her half-brother. Once he died she took the throne young and held the throne for twenty years. Her legacy was just beginning. Hatshepsut was the first female pharaoh of Egypt. Her legacy…

Able not Angel Women are the mother, the wife, the object of infatuation, a symbol for something else, and a villain. She has been marked with the original sin, forever doomed to repent. She is to be ashamed off, brushed off, controlled. This is what the role of women has been written of as in a multitude of literature, but this is also how she is treated. She is never to be the hero; she is the only there to assistance him in his journey. There have been the occasional defiant of these tropes…

can see that our Church needs more heroes of the faith such as Daniel Payne. Payne lived through a time where the Church was attempting to overcome the sin of racism. Just after the Civil War had been fought, Payne began to help open churches for the AME. He preached a strong message of inclusiveness, and he preached even stronger against those who were not allowing people in. He said, “I believe that the pastor who could turn away from God’s sanctuary any human being on account of color was not…

Unmasking Racism in Media "[Media 's] depictions can stray far from reality, with the effect of creating and reinforcing distorted impressions," (Bissler 1). For many years, media has shown that they have no real understanding of race. There have been many cases where media discreetly uses stereotypes to depict certain races. Masked racism has been seen through different types of media such as news broadcasting, television shows & movies, and also print media, such as newspapers, magazines, and…