Black box

They found Maurice Stanley’s decomposing body at the factory grounds. He’d been lynched, the media concluded. He must have deserved it, they whispered under their breaths, or said much louder. After all, a people as wretched as his kind did deserve no better fate…. but did they, really? Was their existence really so cursed, so pathetic, that mercy should skip them? That justice itself should forsake them? Or rather, did they have the curse thrust upon them? Like a leash of heavy brass that would…

people consider high school years the best years of your life, that is because I think that it is such an improvement from middle school. There is also not a specific reason that middle school is so terrible. It may be the discovery of highlights or black eyeliner or it may be the longing to be in high school. Or the start of puberty, usually when boys turn into bigger jerks, or it may just be the general despair from your most recent heartbreak but, in any case, middle school is just the…

movie was the part when Cinque was alone in the jail cell and Tappan showed him death threats that people were sending to him this was in inaccurate seen because what he showed him in the Jail cell was a doll, a pin and a rope when in reality it was a box of slave ears and a note stating a body…

him to defend this nigger,” then another guy says, "Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him..." (218). These people think that Atticus should not defend Tom Robinson and that he should be like the others and not care. This is because Tom Robinson is black. Atticus does not conform to their ideas and does what he thinks is…

problems facing African Americans that, at the same time, would not explicitly confront white readers’ internalized beliefs regarding blacks,” (7). I agree with Morgan, Dunbar did have to think creatively to disguise his true message of pain without offending or upsetting white Americans. He wrote these poems describing the pain with the hopes that someday whites and blacks would both be equal and no longer need to wear the mask to disguise the…

when he realized that the restaurant he frequents doesn’t serve black people yet he is determined to keep going. His notoriety got him fired from multiple jobs. The disease is in his blood makes Baldwin who “can never be really carefree again” (592), the fever will happen without a warning. Being fired from his jobs had angered him because his reputation that he had outside of work further declined his work life. The lives of black people have to be surrendered…

There is a saying: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” This means that people lack the ability to form judgments without using their own personal beliefs and experiences. Therefore, people have a difficult time fitting into an environment that has a set of beliefs that differ from their own. This is revealed in the two short stories “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In “Young Goodman Brown,” Young Goodman Brown learns some…

Racism has been around for hundreds of years and is something we’ve all witnessed at one point or another in some shape or form. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, racism is a belief that race It appears in social structures and practices that limit, exclude, oppress and discriminate against individuals and groups based on their perceived race. It may be found in the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups as well as in organizational and institutional structures that…

member of the camelid family from South America, where they live in the semi-arid areas of the high-altitude plateau. They are famous for their soft fleece, which is known for its good strength and a range of natural coat colors from solid white to black. Not only does the coat color of the alpaca have important economic value, alpaca is also a perfect animal model in which to study the mechanisms controlling mammalian coat color genes. Mammalian coat colors are formed by melanocytes produce…

Setting The book takes place during the 1920s in a fictional town know as Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Throughout the course of the novel, they will travel nine days from their home to Jefferson. White people in the South always had racial issues with African Americans. With the novel set in the 1920s, it becomes apparent when Vardaman reveals that Cash’s “‘foot looks like a nigger’s foot” (Faulkner 224). Since they live in the South, it is socially acceptable to use derogatory words to…