Battle of Baltimore

I attended Lake Clifton High School in Baltimore City from 2014. My high school was in the northeastern area of Baltimore City; I took a city bus to get there because I lived in west Baltimore. I chose to attend that school because my cousin and many of my friends were there. I fit right in and I felt comfortable because I knew many students. I only remained at Lake Clifton for two years because that high school was closed down by the Board of Education; the buildings were very old. After this…

The mid 1900’s consisted of ideas revolving around discrimination and women in the house. The Help depicts many of these by showing its antagonist’s, Hilly Holbrook, opinions. Her most dominant opinions are that women should be in charge of the house while the men work, everyone must see eye to eye with her, and she is against African Americans. With the expression of all her opinions throughout the story, Hilly gets led down numerous destructive paths while bringing the other characters with…

Final Essay The three stories I will be writing about are Devil in a Blue Dress, A Lesson Before Dying, and Fences. Devil in a Blue Dress and A Lesson Before Dying are told from the perspective of an African American male. Although fences is not told from the perspective of an African American, due to it being a play, its story is centered around an African American family. All these stories focus on segregation and hatred towards African Americans in different ways. The main characters in…

“How much do you make?” This was the first question that guest speaker Dan Glassman proposed to the class before taking us on a journey through his life. In the traditional sense this question would have been in reference to one’s salary or wages, but on that day the speaker was heading in a different direction. Dan Glassman, an accidental lawyer and recent widower, had walked into our classroom with one purpose, and that was to instill in a group of college seniors a value that he had gained…

In this paper, I am writing about two norm violations I witnessed along with one norm violation I committed myself. In order for myself to understand the different types of norm violations I had to watch videos as well as identify what a norm was. For example, a norm that is not strictly enforced is called folkways. Other norms however are taken much more seriously in which we insist on conformity and these are called mores (Henslin pg.51). “Norms are expectations of ‘right’ behavior” (Henslin…

Throughout history there has been discrimination to those who are different. It has been the culprit behind many organized and unorganized hate crimes. Just as there are many people that feel the need to judge and put others down, there are others willing to fight for the rights of those that can’t defend themselves. Sadly this is not just a thing of the past. I can remember how growing up I was discriminated and looked down upon for speaking English with a Cuban accent and how my teachers at…

They knew that they were getting a very valuable player. There was a myth that went around the because they bought his contract that the “ curse of bambino” would not let them win. The curse haunted the Yankees until 2004 where they won the world series. The Yankee’s on the other hand were very happy to have the Babe Ruth on there team. But Babe Ruth also was known for the things that he did off the field. He decided to marry a 17 year old waitress and also had enough money to buy a very…

Residential context is vital; the inconsistency of one's environment can generate insecurity and stress, as a result, introduce behavioral and psychological repercussions on a developing individual. Researchers Goldner et al. (2009) three-year longitudinal study found when low-income African American adolescents in urban neighborhoods, spend their recreational time in public and with older peers, both boys and girls linked with increased risk. Additionally, reported rates of exposure, through…

In her play A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Loraine Hansberry uses the characters of Joseph Asagai and George Murchinson to show the themes of race and sexism. Compared to other characters, Asagai and George appear very little. However, their dialogues with the Beneatha display their opinions on the issues of race and sexism. While Asagai symbolizes the African American heritage and support of women’s rights, George displays the assimilationist African American and the sexism found in Chicago…

I conducted my interview with Ernest McBride. The interview was conducted on Friday, November 18, 2016 from 10:00am to 1:00pm. McBride is a seventy-eight year old African American male. He currently resides in Lakewood, C.A. with his wife of 50 years, Bobbie McBride. The three major issues to be addressed NAACP, membership, militaty life and racial inequality in the life of Ernest McBride. These situations will analyze his life using the macro Conflict Theory. McBride’s life will be…