Atlanta

Gilbert Keith Chesterton once said, “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” I didn’t realize the full meaning of this until I was 10 at a modeling/acting competition in Atlanta. “Wake up, Johanna!” My mom called. “Today’s the day.” Groaning, I started to crawl out bed, not wanting to leave the blankets that wrapped around me like a cocoon (figurative language). Suddenly, I realized exactly what she meant. I was going to get…

Willie Mays was born on May 6, 1931, and at the time black and white people were separated.Willie Mays was a professional baseball player. He was first exposed to baseball at the age of six months. He started off “playing’’ with his dad, which turned into practice. Winter wrote in his book Willie Mays, “William Howard’s father took two chairs and lined them next to each other. He places a baseball on one of them. His father asked, “See the ball? See it?”(AUTHOR’S LAST NAME AND PAGE) Willie would…

In the third New York Times article, “An Assault on the Voting Rights Act,” the word choice of “assault” demonstrates a noticeable bias towards the disapproval of the ruling. It emits a vibe of attack towards the nation. The first sentence, “the conservative majority on the Roberts Court issued another damaging and intellectually dishonest ruling.” goes for a specific stance that accuses the conservative of having class bias against the minority, Entman and Rojecki’s work The Black Image in…

system and personalities, there are many similarities, as well as differences in regards to the support systems they have, and how they handle internalized oppression. Both characters lack a strong community at home which then pushes Tia to travel to Atlanta searching for her real mother, while Spurgeon travels to the Indiana area to bail his alcoholic father out of jail and take him home. In “Speaking in Tongues,”…

The Rivalry for Equality Between the Booker T. Rebellion and the Du Bois Resistance “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed,” says Booker T. Washington, the man who had one of the biggest impacts on the south with his opinions on how to handle racism. W. E. B. Du Bois severely influenced racial rights as well and had a firm viewpoint regarding equality. Although…

Lauren Miller Dr. Maggie Elmore History 124AC 31 October 2017 Primary Source Analysis 2 In what ways did African Americans advocate for greater inclusion and equality in US society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? If African American leaders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries agreed on any one point, it would be thus: the problem of the times was the problem of race relations. W.E.B. DuBois called it the “problem of the color-line,” and Fredrick Douglass the “race…

Poetry begs to be spoken; it begs to be heard. The sharing of poetry strengthens connections and brings people together. It builds community. Writing captures all of my attention, like nothing else is able to. I write down whatever makes me feel alive and hope that those words will have the same effect on others. I want my poetry to be a kaleidoscope of memories and emotions that reflects the deepest parts of my own humanity. As if the words were my blood and the paper my second skin, my writing…

The Progression of Women Struggles are known to be the efforts to be set free of the so-called “chains” that may be holding someone back. Back from what, you might ask? For women, it is a name for themselves. To become more than a homemaker. A wife. A mother. A caregiver. To become known as a key factor in how this country is run. To be known for how much they give and how little they take. While female Americans have come so far, it was not an easy or quick road to become who they are today.…

wrote your poem on a field of grass, you’re writing it on something that has been kept with hard work, like your poem. Not, saying one is greater than the other. This led the southerners having the Atlanta Compromise speech. The speech, taking place at the cotton states and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. This speech, became one of the most important speeches for African American’s rights in American history. Native American’s could not speak up against oppression because they…

ARMY has been always my biggest dream. Growing up with my dad in the military, I’ve always admired the armed forces, especially the ARMY. I have seen in movies how soldiers execute orders; but I’ve always wondered about how those orders or plans came to be. As I progressed through high school, I had a little understanding of the leaders in the military. Being in the SROTC program, I’ve learned more about the planning and strategic operation of the ARMY and the chain of command. In this chain of…