Black Spot

The outside of the castle with its gargoyles and being surrounded by dead tress made it look like it was owned by Dr. Frankenstein, but the interior looked like something out of an expensive catalogue. The old man bid me farewell, and I started walking away from his castle into an unknown forest overflowing with creatures I couldn't possibly understand. A slight breeze pushed through the forest causing the few remaining leaves that hung to the trees to plummet to the ground. My feet became…

According to breaking barriers, “Television cameras captured well-dressed, polite young men and women being pulled off stools, spat on, kicked, burned with cigarettes, and called ugly names. It led to an outpouring of support from other young people, both black and white.” . The sit-ins not only had support from the CORE but they also had support from NAACP and SCLC. . According to Sit-ins: Social Action To End Segregation, “Students at Yale, Brown, Skidmore, and the University of Connecticut…

INTRODUCTION "Remember the Titans" The film takes place in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971- a time of segregation. T.C. Williams High school football team has just become integrated and has received a new black head coach, Herman Boone. He took the job of head coach from Coach Bill Yoast. There are some racial tensions. Boone offers Bill Yoast a job as assistant coach and he accepts after the white players threaten to sit out the season. During football camp, the boys become better acquainted and…

Eunice: Actually, I have rarely purchased music. In Haiti, my friends would make mixtape CD/cassettes out of the songs played on the radio. We would share music and introduce each other to the popular songs at the time. The first CD I purchased was “Black and Blue” by the Backstreet Boys. Now, I get most of my music from youtube and from the free Pandora streaming playlist. Pandora would introduce me to new songs and artist like Hillsong (a popular Christian praise and worship group known for…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…

The black panther is one of the most ferocious and intelligent creatures inhabiting the Earth. They are classified as members of the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Felidae, genus Panthera, and various species. Their scientific names include Panthera pardus and Panthera onca. The black panther has been so widely popularized that its name is shared by a National Football League team, a Marvel superhero, and countless other entities. Despite its…

Explained “How we stop the Black Panthers? Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer.” This is the first line from the Kanye West song Crack Music - from his Grammy winning album Late Registration. When most think of the Black Panther Party to which West is referring, they think of a radical, militant, anti-police, black civil rights organization. However, the Party was much more. In 1966, the Party released their Ten-Point Program. In this document they demanded full employment for Black Americans,…

Malcolm X believes “that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community”. He wants his fellow black citizens to better themselves and improve their communities using political knowledge, not aggression. This is the message he is trying to convey with his title. The Ballot or the Bullet can be understood to mean, if you do not take pride in your communities political life, you may as well destroy it. He fears political ignorance by black communities. He will…

Ozzy was known for theatrics and stunts during his concerts which furthered the public’s perception that he was a devil worshipper. At one point in his career, Ozzy bit the head off of a bat at one of his concerts. It was thrown onto the stage and he maintains that he was not aware the bat was real until after he bit off the head. He also bit a doves head off, while intoxicated, during a meeting with some record company executives, furthering the belief that he is a Satanist. Metallica…

Mississippi Burning takes place in the 60s and there was a great lack of justice back then. White people judged the black people by the color of their skin and the police department was corrupt. Another theme in the movie could also be friendship, because of the main characters’, Ward and Anderson, development of their friendship. In the beginning of the movie it is not easy for them to work as a team, mainly because they are from different places and have different opinions on how to solve the…