Bleach

Introduction As of recent, the children have started a new school year. Many are returning to the same school while others are starting a new school. This means that they will make new friends, get acquainted with some former ones and for some both will happen. This can also be a scary time for some because even though the school year just started, some will encounter those who have bullied them from the year before or worse, they can and will encounter a new bully. The statistics of…

On June 17th, 1968, my mother was born during a very despairing time for the black community. Not only were African-Americans still struggling with severe racism 100 years after the end of slavery but the leader of their movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated less than three months before her birth. In its 23rd year of publication, Ebony magazine was trying its best to report on the positive things happening around the black community in America but despite this attempt at…

Sontag, it is an essay about the manipulation and functions of photography. Sontag goes through many functions of photography. Sontag starts off with beautifying. According to Sontag beautifying is, “ classic operation of the camera, and it tends to bleach out a moral response to what is shown.” (653). In others words Sontag means beautifying makes photo appear better than the actuality of the image. Uglifying according to Sontag is “showing something at it’s worst.” (653). The next function…

Megan Miller Professor Corley GOVT 2306 March 20, 2016 Abortion in Texas Texas policies have now made it harder for women to have an abortion. According to the Texas Abortion Clinic Map on fundtexaschoice.org as of today “ten out of thirty six clinics remain open. The policy that closed the twenty six clinics is called HB2”. According to Section 245 of the Texas Health and Safety Code facilities are required to undergo major reconstruction and meet much higher standards that will cost a lot of…

22 Benefits of Lime For Health and Beauty - The article this time I will discuss about the good benefits of lime for health or beauty, let's see. Lime is a family of Rutaceae plants such as oranges which we often consume. Lime often serve as a very refreshing drink. However, the benefits of which were once very much lime for health, and beauty. Let's discuss the benefits of lime. The Nutrition Content Of Lime In the lime, there is a lot of benefits, including: 1. Macronutrients, Fiber, and…

Malcolm X Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19th, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, to the late Louise Norton Little and Earl Little. “His mother, Louise Little was a homemaker busy with the family’s eight children. His father was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader, Marcus Garvey, back to Africa movement.” ‘Mamiya, Lawrence A. "Malcolm X." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 30 Mar. 2017. Web. 09 May 2017. Malcolm X was the fourth of…

The use of Chemical Warfare in World War 1 was horrifying as many soldiers would say. Chemical gases were used as a physical weapon as much as a psychological weapon. The first major gas attack happened on January 31, 1915 when over 18,000 tear gas shells rained down on the russian lines but as surprising as it may seem the gas did little to no effect on the russian lines as one soldier said “The results left him disappointed” (Pruszewicz, 2015). Even tho the first gasses weren't that effective…

One of 40 children, a young boy named Amitosh, describes to reporters from The Guardian, how his life as a sweatshop worker began. He was bought from his family's isolated village near Bihar and was dragged to New Delhi by train. Amitosh recalls that a few men came to their door in early July, convincing his parents that, if they sent their son to work in the city, they won't have to work in the farms. Looking through the bus windows and observing, Amitosh noticed one of the men pulling out a…

cheap, durable and environmental friendly lights for people living in poor conditions with the ‘Liter of Light’ project. The procedure to making a solar bottle bulb is to simply “find a disposed plastic bottle, fill it with purified water, add some bleach, and install it on the roof of a house, one half inside, the other exposed to the sun” (literoflight). A properly installed solar bottle bulb is estimated to last around 5 years. This project is used in several Asian countries such as China,…

that we prevalent during the time come to light. Around this era America saw many advertisements and movies value blacks as less than whites, and the darker you were the less valuable you were. As explained by Gooden, many girls during this era would bleach their skin to become lighter colored just in order to be treated better than their dark-skinned family (Visual Representations of Feminine Beauty in the Black Press, Gooden). Like many of the girls of this era the daughter of the black woman,…