Black Spot

sometimes beat them due to the intimidation. These situations relate to To Kill a Mockingbird, when Tom Robinson was convicted guilty of rape, and many assumed he committed this crime without hearing his side of the story first, only because he was black. After being thrown into a jail, Tom Robinson is eventually killed trying to escape. In To Kill a…

Society. His TED Talks, How to Raise a Black Son in America along with another TED Talks, collectively have been viewed more than 4 millions times. The writer and educator draws on his and his students’ lives to create poetry that blends art and activism. Smith successfully delivers his presentation by gaining the audience’s attention and speaking on personal experiences. He wanted the audience to know that it was not easy for his parents to raise him in a black son in America. He wanted his…

While Bigger Thomas in Native Son actually kills two women, Jefferson, an innocent black man, has to die just because he was "at the wrong place at the wrong time" (158). They do not even have enough evidences to prove Jefferson's guilt. The only evidence is the fact that Jefferson was found on the spot with some money in his pocket and a bottle of whiskey in his hand. (Why couldn't he claim that the money in his pocket was his own, and that his drinking is nothing to do with the murder? It…

history. (Branch) Before he knew it, he was to become the face of social activates for black American men, and to become aware of the truth of everyday challenges he previously did not know about because of his fortunate early life. When police brutality against black American men started to rise exponentially as if a trend, Mr. Kaepernick chose to protest such social prejudice, particularly the violence against black Americans,…

African-American women who experience hair loss in the Lone Star State not only need an excellent black hair salon in Frisco, TX, but one that also specializes in hair loss treatment. Hair loss often has negative effects on a person’s self-esteem, and this is particularly the case with women. Although the causes of hair loss in African-American women vary, a few reasons are often to blame. Hair Loss Can Start When You’re a Child African-American females often turn to harsh and painful hair…

The White Savior Using a white and black paradigm, the black maids are the narrative subjects of The Help, yet many black readers such as myself, viewed Skeeter as the centralized protagonist and voice. The harshest yet powerful woman in the novel was white socialite Hilly Holbrook, the evil antagonist, was portrayed in a negative light in order for readers to identify Skeeter as the “white saviour”. She terrorizes, isolates, and dehumanizes her domestic workers, specifically Minnie, throughout…

Death of Sweet Medicine”). Bear Butte was also the site where Sweet Medicine joined the five bands of the Cheyenne. “The Aortas and the Eaters, who travelled southwest from the vicinity of the Mandan’s and were joined together at Bear Butte in the Black Hills by the prophet Sweet Medicine. The tribal…

given me away. I had walled up the monster within the tomb,” quoted from Edgar Allan Poe in The Black Cat. Using literary terms is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s strong points in his writing. In The Black Cat Poe uses figurative terms, for instance foreshadowing and alliteration, in a way that helps the story to remain interesting and flow fluently. With plot being an important necessity in a story, The Black Cat has a distinct plot of events. The story begins with a man who has loved pets all his…

atrocious treatment against blacks . Legal systems were one of the main bumps in the road when it came to discrimination against blacks. Whether it was a small case, or a huge case things in court always seemed to go in favor of white people. Some say white people just always had that unfair advantage, but it is something people will never know without living in the 30s through the 60s, with major segregation. During this time period court would have a separate place for black people to sit,…

Delacroix informed Tess that she had gotten there just in time, that the men were still talking away near the black box. Tess Hutchinson is very outspoken, yet some people of the town expect her tardiness. Tess Hutchinson is not entirely part of the group. She wants…