Buy Nothing Day

Best Buy functions today from amongst one of the oldest retail stores in the world. Like all major influential businesses the company faced a few setbacks and stood through in tough and difficult times and has established its name and positions as one of the leading and successful businesses. In a rapidly changing and progressive world, it is difficult to sustain consumers and adapt according to the ever changing tastes of the consumers, where Best Buy coped with the demand and sales factors…

allowed for the immigrants to gain a community, yet they still received some of the worst discrimination through religion. Religion found its way into politics and made it hard for Irish to find a place in politics, without being attacked by the Know-Nothings. Eventually, even policymakers took a stance on the immigration status, creating new acts and laws to restrict the allowance of immigrants into the country. Overall, Irish immigrants had a hard time settling in this new land, as they were…

If you were a sports fan in Hartford the day of my birth you had probably traveled to Dell Rapids the night before to see the West Central Boys basketball team. The Trojans, who defeated the Quarriers 76-68, were lead by Tucker Hansen, who had 23 points (“West Central 76, Dell Rapids 68” 4C). Also from around the Sioux Empire the police were searching for the driver of a truck that hit a pedestrian. The driver of truck hit a man from behind on 31st Street North and between Cliff and Van Eps…

Taking all of the latter factors in mind, to what extent are Latino ethnic enclaves in Los Angeles influence assimilation rates and are beneficial or harmful to Latinos? Let 's first review the negative factors that ethnic enclaves can generate in terms of assimilation, then the pros. The first is the prospect for potential limited educational, economic and social prospect. The second is the relative or perceived social independentness and separateness from the rest of American hegemony has…

This political party formed and grew from societies that were secret. This party was opposed to immigrants coming over into America. The Know-Nothing Party was a group of Catholic political organization that also called themselves the American Party. The members in this political group were mainly white and it quickly grew as one of America’s second largest political party, in the 1850’s. Strangely…

Many issues and events fueled the creation of the Republican Party during the 1850 's. A significant cause of the formation of the Republican Party was slavery 's disturbance on the political system. However, this party was also the foundation of new social and economic modifications within America; such as the start of mass European immigration and the finalization of the market revolution. During the late 1840 's and early 1850 's, the U.S. economy expanded at an alacritous pace. This economic…

Mother to Son The poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes, is about a mother telling her son about her hardships in life, how she is not giving up, and how he should do the same. The poem is told from the perspective of a mother to her son. The mother explains to her child how she strived to do better after the problems she encountered earlier in her life. She wants to help her son and teach him valuable lessons on how to not go down the same road she did. Through syntax, imagery, and diction;…

“Once Evan’s side finds out about him they’ll stop at nothing to get their hands on him. You’ll never be able to stop the millions of demons out there. You couldn’t even stop this bag-of-shit from taking advantage of you.” Evan brandished Katelyn his award-winning-smile as if to say, Fuck You! “Once Satan’s…

Wrapped in cloth lying on the floor, there is no bed to rest. Only one window with bars is where the moons dark and shady light sneaks through the bars. Shadows of the bars land on the floor as the weakened man lays as he awaits his eternal fate one day to see the light. Thirty years before the incident in 2007. "Please open your Bibles to Proverbs 8:10." The word of God is preached by Ivan Sokolov a man in his mid-thirties speaking in front of only around fifty people in a Baptist Church in…

for through lack of knowledge. The United States of America was built on the back of immigrant ancestors, but the irony is that the same people are kicking them out. Money feeds a hungry nation, and when there is nothing left, we do away with the foundation. These ancestors are nothing but items that can be bought on a famous punch line like “ the pursuit of…