Belle

In 1938 segregated Oklahoma, the compilation of a white educator and a black community created a rare gem, that until recently has been known only to a select few. Long before The Civil Rights Movement officially began, Emma Elizabeth Akin saw many voids within the ‘separate but equal’ system in which the African-American was forced to live. One of these gaps was the presence of educational literature that focused on the culture and history of the African-American within the United States.…

Only a few hours ago she was living the happiest day of her life: A man was treating her like a belle and her ingenuous nature grasped at it desperately. Even now, beyond the guilt that welled in her chest, she could recall vividly how pleasant the man was to him. She was being pampered and placed on a pedestal and it was exactly as she had imagined…

On Sunday June 12th, I attended the Oklahoma Community Orchestra Concert. This event took place at the Oklahoma Christian University Pavilion. The Concert started at 7:30pm and it was free for everyone.this was my first concert in a long time, since middle school. I got there exactly at 7:30pm, which made it hard for me to get a seat and a clear view of the concert. There were a lot of people there which meant that this was going to be a very good concert. The concert started of with the band…

Alain Locke, in his “Foreword” to The New Negro (1925), observes, “America seeking a new spiritual expansion and artistic maturity, trying to found an American literature, a national art, and national music implies a Negro-American culture seeking the same satisfactions and objections” (xvi). Within this statement, he underscores the complex relationships that exist within national literary space, such as the one between “American literature” and “Negro-American culture,” where the latter has to…

My book Lincoln’s Last Days by Bill O’Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman is about, as the name suggests, the last days of Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln was our nation’s president during the Civil War. He was a great leader who helped bring the Union to victory alongside General Ulysses S. Grant and General George Gordon Meade. However, this book does not only highlight Lincoln’s life during the Civil War, but it also tells what happened during the end of the war and how he was assassinated…

She is often seen as an innocent southern belle, just a beautiful fool. However, many readers view her in a completely opposite way. She has been noted as quite a dishonorable character, almost more of a villain, in the harshest of descriptions. She is motivated purely by her own comfort and security, which come in the way of money and material items. This sense of monetary motivation seems to affect her in such a way that makes her almost superior to the common working person. Daisy…

school year, as I entered the list of red As and Bs into the gradebook, I noticed that one student, Chloe, was getting grades significantly lower than her classmates. Chloe was the smallest kindergartner, the one who carefully positioned her Ariel and Belle princess figurines on her desk before getting out her books, the one who spent most of class undoing and redoing her curly hazel pigtails, and often the last one to toddle up to my desk to hand in the weekly quiz, when the…

Golden Girls was an NBC show written by Susan Harris. Golden Girls aired on Saturday nights with the idea that the show would raise their ratings and bring in an older demographic. NBC had a hard time fulfilling Saturday ratings until Golden Girls joined the line up. There are a total of 180 episodes. Golden Girls had 15 Emmy nomination and 10 wins, Golden Girls ran from 1987 and eventually ended in May 1992. The shows premise surrounds three widows and one divorcé, based in Miami all living…

In 1937, Walt Disney Pictures produced its first princess film. Almost seventy-nine years later, a total of twelve Disney princess movies have been completed, with each one bringing a captivating narrative to life. These classic tales feature a female protagonist that aspires to discover herself. Along the way trials are uncovered and, by the conclusion of the story, it makes the princess a better person overall. Villains normally create these obstacles and are an essential part of these movies;…

duties. Before the arrival of Blanche, Stella and Stanley were just an average couple living each day at a time. There wasn’t much to say about Stella’s personality besides the fact she adored Stanley, however, when Blanche revealed Stella leaving Belle Reve to care for herself, there was a glimpse of boldness within Stella. Nonetheless, the longer Blanche stayed with her sister and brother-in-law, the more Stella’s boldness faded into a soft sensitive side regarding the two individuals she…