Ancestor

a slave said, “ As for me and my ancestors, it means more than that.” The Confederate flag might remind some people of slavery and hate, but it also reminds us of how much we have grown and learned because of it. Allowing Confederate flag apparel at school can remind everyone that we can change. Dalton Reedy said his ancestors fought for the Confederacy, but he doesn’t support their choice of having slaves. Reedy and other people can still honor their ancestors and show them respect for…

taken care of. This is similar to Paikea when she demonstrated being family-oriented. Paikea’s grandfather, Koro, had called upon their ancestors in his deep sadness after he was not able to find a new leader for their tribe, which was dismantling. In result of seeing her family in chaos, Paikea calls upon the ancestors because they hadn’t come for Koro, and the ancestors were her family’s and tribe’s last hope. Paikea says, “I called them and they came” (Caro). Paikea calling…

Act I, scene ii, lines 135-161, of Julius Caesar shows the true colors of a character in the play. Cassius reveals his manipulative nature when he convinces Brutus that Caesar has too much power, and Brutus would be a better ruler than Caesar. Cassius knows Brutus wants to do what is best for Rome, so he uses this to his advantage. Before this scene, we see that the people like Caesar even though the people once liked Pompey, who was killed by Caesar. During the race, Cassius notices that Brutus…

and chants coming from spirits of a young African American woman named Mona, ancestors, Mona is on her ancestors sacred holy grounds in Africa, where blood was spilled from her ancestors who suffered and were being taken by the white man and taken to America, Trinidad and Jamaica. Mona is in a photoshoot wearing high end clothing, it shows that she is disconnected with her past and unaware of the sacrifices here ancestors have made. A older native man by the name of Sankofa appears and begins…

their ears changed and other body parts changed.” It has been discovered that modern day whales can be traced back for many generation and each one can be considered a transitional form. One of these early ancestors are the Pakiectus. A Pakiectus are land animals but is clear they are an ancestor because of the specialized bones in the ear. These animals were This example of the “whale with legs” are classic cases of fossils with transitional…

of evolutionary changes. For example, the transitional fossil can provide how the ancestor and modern species are different and similar. The most known example of transitional fossil is Tiktaalik which is the species between the arthropod and tetrapod. In addition, we can trace back the ancestor of the modern species using fossils. In the article, Perkins details how the species named elder frog might be an ancestor of salamander and frog, which fundamentally means that salamander and frog might…

Idolatry is the worship of idols and it is a crucial component to the understanding of how it affected the race of the Colonial Andeans. Idolatry affected the race of the Colonial Andes in a much more negative way, but if course there was resistance. In this paper, it will discuss the beginning of the Inca Empire then lead to the explanation on the Spanish desire for change. To conclude, Taki Onqoy will explain this resistance from the pressure and the conversion that was discussed beforehand.…

Whenever a group of people face multiple years of oppression, the group either chooses to break apart or join together. In A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest Gaines establishes a black community that joins together to fight the many years of racial oppression present before and after the Civil Rights Movement. Gaines uses fifteen narrators, that are cajun and black, to tell the two opposing sides of racism still present on the Marshall Plantation. Although the cajun farmers believe they no longer…

response to 106 million dollars they were giving them for the Black Hills, the government thinks that money is everything but it isn’t. The U.S relies on money to get them somewhere but the Native Americans were here first then all of us and your ancestors and their…

and 1970s: one of assimilation and one of reversion. The narrator mother and her daughter, Maggie, represent the former. They take pride in the culture in which they have spent the majority of their lives; however, this is not the culture of their ancestors. Due…