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Topdog Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks’ play, Topdog Underdog, includes many imagery, symbolism, and metaphors. She uses symbolism in the names she assigns for both actors. Imagery is used to show the type of lives that both characters live in. The characters’ name of Booth and Lincoln symbolizes the President Abraham Lincoln, who fought for African American rights. The final scene, where Booth kills his brother is set up as a metaphor. John Wilkes Booth is Lincoln’s assassin, and was a racist man who…

We as a society have long been taught that the government is invaluable in creating and maintaining social order. However, this idea is idealistic and, in practice, unrealistic. The role of forcing social standards often falls to the public. This is apparent in many societies, as the public maintains social order through revolution and formation of new governments to prosperous times and even the destruction of nations. One of the moments in history that most exemplifies only citizens…

My interviewee knew very little about the American colonial period, for he never took an interest to learn about it throughout his life time. In high school my interviewee learned that there were many colonials in North American who got their freedom from Britain because they were differences. He also learned about all of the battles that the American colonists fought against the British Empire, and the colonist being the first ever Americans. The American revolutionary war fascinated my…

No one will ever know the truth if the government is keeping hidden information from the public. Edward Snowden a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) computer technician leaked classified documents from the government system to inform the public of what’s going on and what really happened in past events. This created a controversy among the public and government officials because some people believe he is a traitor to his country and others think he is a hero. Edward Snowden informed us of…

Nowadays, an increasing numbers of Americans are arguing that whether U.S should carry out direct democracy to replace representative democracy in U.S government system or not. Direct democracy means people vote for what they want and they do not need a government to interfere with the issues of their nation. However, I think direct democracy cannot be put into practice in the United State. If a nation is without a government, it will be anarchy and chaos. Some negative effects will appear in…

Luisana Zambrano Test 1 The necessity of the Founding Fathers to establish a new independent state was reflected in the Declaration of Independence, where they defined “that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their common creator with certain unalienable rights that among this are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. The main purpose of the constitution was based on the defeat and prevention of excess of power previously vested by the English empire. Their…

Martin Luther King Jr’s speech “I have a dream” was given amongst more than two hundred and fifty thousand people of all ages, genders, and races at the nation’s capital on August 28th, 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for the civil rights of all men of color keeping faith that one day everyone will come together and form as one. During this long and distinct period, there was segregation and separations between white and black and black skin colored people. Black skin colored people…

The class issues have been talked about for a long time, and there are three different articles that describe the class issues in American society, and explain what cause these class issues such economy, education and race. The first article is “Literacy and the Politics of Education”, which was written by C.H. Knoblauch. He shows that the literacy is a kind of way to judge people and gives readers four different kinds of literacy in his personal opinion. Also, he also claims that there are many…

In 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta on January 15 (Biography). Martin entered Morehouse college at the age of 15 and was ordained a minister at the age of 18 while in Boston he met Coretta Scott. In 1953 Coretta Scott and Martin got married in 1954 Martin studied the work of Mahatma Gandhi and in 1955 the supreme declared bus segregation illegal. In 1960 JFK was up for election and segregation was officially ended in interstate trial and in 1964 Martin was the youngest person to…

America is full of opportunities for some, but others might not have the access or ability to take advantage of those opportunities to make their American Dream a reality.Economic situations,the freedom that you have, and the qualifications for jobs and the are some contributing factors that lead to if someone really does have access to achieve their American Dream. Economic situations are a very big contributing factor to how America only gives access to some, but not to all. In “ Is the…