Daphne

wicked poison to Clay; such as a white man’s words affect a black man’s actions. For example, when you put a drop of color into a cup of water and stir the water by mixing the cup, so even one negative word has a contagious affect on other people. As Daphne S. Reed said, “The same facility is demonstrated in Dutchman (1964) as the crazy white woman on the subway spits out the insane notions of white society toward Negros in general.” (Reed 55) Reed’s conclusion displays the understanding that…

Our readings “I Was One of the First to See Daylight”: Black Women at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities in Florida since 1959 and Rape and the inner lives of Black women in the Middle West: Preliminary thoughts on the culture of dissemblance when are given major insight on African American women. These two articles represent to topics that continuously create barriers between African American women and success: education and society’s misconception of their sexuality. We will be…

The increasing amount of dysfunctional families in today’s generation is affecting the intimacy between a parent and his or her child. Being dysfunctional, meaning they are not working normally or properly, these families have different attributes about them that contrast to normal, unimpaired families. Kevin Wilson, the author of the Alex Award-winning collection of short stories Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, displays these certain attributes about a dysfunctional family in a marvelous…

Video Games: Who is The Real Killer? On April 20 1999, a terrible event took place. Two young men, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, went into their high school with deadly weapons, and killed 15 people including themselves. Both of the killers had something in common: they enjoyed playing the video game Doom (Vail). Was it video games that turned them into killers, or was there another underlying problem? Is society too quick to blame violent video games for this attack and many others like it?…

You run like a girl. You’re too small. You’re not pretty enough. Almost every girl in our society today has been told one or more of these phrases, if not all. Humanity and the media have placed numerous stereotypes and expectations on women that can be discriminating and binding to their progress in society. However, the feminist movement is beginning to push back on these gender constructs thus creating a shift to break down the expectations for women to fully accept themselves for who they…

The last few decades’ women have been portrayed to be fragile on-screen. For years, women’s role on-screen was to stay home to clean, cook, and to care for their family. Women were not given leading roles in films or television shows; instead they were just given secondary roles where they did not speak. They are given roles where the main character is a male and they are presented as being defenseless. Now there are many roles that allow women to start in films and television shows with a…

Men. As clear as day, the default setting, for almost anything; unless it has to do with marketing, then the default is a sexy blonde woman who is half naked, trying to sell cologne on a six-foot poster. If women can sell all of these products, why does the marketing industry think that video games with female leads won’t sell? And, why is it that men are always thought of first in a positive way, and women second to mind in a demeaning way? Sex role stereotyping. Sex role stereotyping is hard…

Out of the Box: Analysis of Henry “Box” Brown’s Abolitionist Performances One of the most deplorable acts ever committed by mankind throughout the course of history was the buying and selling of human beings as pieces of property. A man by the name of Henry Brown was born into this system and although he was able to enjoy some level of comfort in his servitude, he still felt the longing to be free. The desire grew throughout his years in slavery until it finally cumulated in the act of securing…

quite understandable how cheaper food is the food consumed in these groups, but the surprising thing is that even though obesity tends to follow the poorer family’s, there is still a massive amount of people not in poverty that eat processed foods. Daphne Oz does an outstanding job explaining why the cheapness of processed food phenomenon is currently a reality. How she explains it is the government allows the basic crops like corn and soy to be subsidized and thus the prices for these crops…

Around the late 1940s organic farming was on the rise and america was making billions of dollars. Sales for organic foods in the past decade have increased annually by 20%. Its 20% growth is ten times as much as Nonorganic food’s growth Derven, Daphne L.. "Organic Agriculture." Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. 2003. Encyclopedia.com.18 Mar. 2016 . Natural nourishment makes up just a small amount of the sustenance advertise despite the fact that there are more than ten million buyers. The…