Ebony

The Watergate Break-In 1972 was a very eventful year in America. Republican President Richard Nixon was running for re-election. Most importantly, the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War. This harsh political environment prompted the need for a forceful political campaign. It seems as if President Nixon would stop at nothing to be re-elected. It was just after midnight on July 17 when the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. was…

Micro aggressions are in abundant cyst that continues to grow on the navel of society. Whether they be painful or none existent they still exist. Claudia Rankine author of, Citizen, was someone aided in pointing out these atrocities. For people of color (in this case black people) it is a shard of glass that feels the need to dig its way into their shoulders a little deeper with each passing day. This is because racism is the most practiced sport still in existence. In the book, Rankine…

research, and HeLa cells have been referred to in more than 74,000 scientific publications as of 2013. Dr. Walter Nelson-Rees of the National Cancer Institute says, "You can do with cells of a human being what you cannot do with a human being himself" ("Ebony," 2015). For example, HeLa cells are used to test human sensitivity of radiation, toxic substances, glue, tape, cosmetics, and irritants on human skin. Also, in 1973, scientists used HeLa cells to study the invasiveness and infectiousness…

often to describe a person. But Hughes used “lazy” to describe the singer’s action. Hence Hughes is trying to tell us the real laziness is not the sway; it is the description of the singer’s listless condition. And then in lines 9 and 10 “With his ebony hands on each ivory key / He made that poor piano moan with melody.” (Meyer 401) or line 18 “I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan--” (Meyer 401), the word “moan” also deviated from its original meaning in these lines, it is used to…

maybe, just maybe, you've been delivered. NARRATOR: Delivered from Swedish furniture. TYLER: Delivered from armchairs in obscure green stripe patterns. NARRATOR: Delivered from Martha Stewart. TYLER: Delivered from bullshit colors like ‘Cobalt,’ ‘Ebony,’ and ‘Fuchsia.’” After Tyler tells the Narrator that he sees him as “delivered” from these items, the Narrator openly agrees with Tyler and trusts Tyler’s opinion on the…

For many years, Haiti has been a country wallowing in disorder and confusion. The country faces prodigious levels of corruption and has an unorganized government filled with unjust laws. This past summer, I had the privilege of visiting Haiti, not knowing that I would obtain anything from it. On a hot, humid evening, I traveled from Massachusetts on a serene flight to the country of Haiti with my parents to teach the native children English. Upon arrival, an ivory, bulky-looking caravan…

Wynter Hills. A boy still in his teenage years Black side swept hair and mesmerising blue eyes. A tall fragile body and clear pale skin. His all black converse padded through the puddles in the dark, empty alleyway. Tap. Tap. Tap. He thought he heard the faint clicking of heels. Maybe not. Tap. Tap. Tap. He was not sure he heard it. Whatever it was, it was closer, for this time it was louder and clearer than the first. Scared and shaken, he picked up his pace until he was running. Before he…

that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire, that projected its rays through the tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room” (Paragraph 4). Also in the black chamber, there is a huge ebony clock, whose “pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang; and when the minute-hand made the circuit of the face, and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud…

“Catch the Moon” by Judith Otriz Cofer and “The bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,” by W.D. Wetherell are two short stories that share a similar theme relating to the word love. Both of these stories have a protagonist, conflict, and a theme that will make benefit the character and maybe even the readers of these selections. “Catch the Moon” is a story that is written in the third person limited point of view and it features Luis Cintrón, the protagonist. Luis is a teenager who often hangs out…

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe delivers his that no can escape death in his short story “The Masque of the Red Death” through symbolism, setting and narration. The story takes place during the dark ages where the bubonic plague is devastating the land killing off thousands. The bubonic plague is a horrendous disease that cause a gruesome death. The author states that it causes “sharp pains and sudden dizziness and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with…