Black Eyed Peas

As Eden explained, Ebenezer Howard has stated that he had combined three projects to create his scheme of Garden city (Eden, 1947). These projects are the proposal for organized migratory movement of population by Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Professor Alfred Marshall; the proposal for land tenure system by Thomas Spence and Herbert Spencer; and the model city called Victoria by James Silk Buckingham. This idea can be supported by Batchelor as he noted that Ebenezer Howard wrote his proposal for…

McGrinn 1 Elizabeth McGrinn 1 Feb. 2017 Mr. Sanders 6th Period There have been many different scientific discoveries throughout history. Scientists have found different galaxies, medicines that cure the sick, or someone like Gregor Mendel, who discovered chromosome genes. Gregor Mendel discovers why/how a person looks the way they do. Growing up, Gregor Mendel did not have much money. At first, he also studied meteorology before he studied genes Gregor entered college by age 21, when he…

As he studied and studied plants, Gregor then began to do the same with animals. Although he tried animals, his favorite things to do experiments on were pea plants. He studies the characteristics thoroughly and learned many things about them. Gregor Mendel passed away January 6th, 1884. Until many, many decades later his experiments and contributions finally came in handy to other scientists. Today, to…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines being “spoon-fed” as being “fed with a spoon.” And although this is most certainly true, there is so much more to the word. As a child, I loved to be spoon-fed – mashed carrots, soft yams, mushy peas. I loved them all. But it didn’t end there. I also had an insatiable curiosity. Where did the dinosaurs go? Why is that man homeless? Where do babies come from? My parents would always patiently listen and spoon-feed me a quick and simple answer. Growing up I…

Hamlet Village Retirement Community and Friends of WomenSafe are partnering to host a fall luncheon, “Leaves of Change” on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at the Hamlet Atrium located at 200 Hamlet Hills Drive, in Chagrin Falls. The doors will open at 11:30 a.m. so you can enjoy a glass of wine, mingle, and buy tickets for the gift raffle offering gift certificates, jewelry, and specialty baskets. Lunch will be served at noon, followed with a brief talk by Andrea Gutka, Executive Director of…

In Chapter one, I discovered a commonly known New Year's tradition in my family actually originated from slavery. To emphasize, eating black-eyed peas and other related meals ensures a prosperous new year ahead in my family. However, black-eyed peas was in fact fed to enslaved africans to help them survive and sustain their fearsome voyage. Black-eyed peas symbolizes a form of luck. Correspondingly, I discovered the “Rice Culture” in the United States was based on the expertise from the people…

him as the “white devil” as portrayed by the way Dr.Dre and Ice Cube spoke of him in some of their songs after straying away from the group. In their eyes Jerry was nothing but a money hungry white man who was going to legally rob the less educated black rap stars of modern society.…

Black people made severl cultural contributions to American culture. Life as we know it waouldn’t be the same. Your favorite song wouldn’t exist and neither would your latte. It’s important to recongised the influences made by people of color. They made their mark on our history and culture. Black people made several cultural contributions to American music. Many African slaves used music to help themselves and others. It reminded them of their free life back in Africa. Some slaves could bring a…

Some of the most common stereotypes consist of: Black people being lazy and uneducated, love fried chicken, males are all thugs, females are loud and full of anger, family reunions are a big thing, and they collect welfare for a living and are low income. A couple of things mentioned above are not just…

a very young age by our predecessors; our parents, our society, history, even by the very nature of being human. Our perceptions define our realities, and when we are afraid of the dark or the blackness that is inside our cores, our perceptions of black and white change. Explanation as I perceive it are…