Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

speaks to the character of the speaker, which makes them so vastly different in perspective. Martin Luther King Jr was a renowned civil rights activist who advocated nonviolent protests to make a statement, whereas Malcolm X was an activist for black Muslim faith that challenged the civil rights movement and their nonviolent means that was lead by Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr could no longer stay silent about the Vietnam war, for even the headlines read “Silence is betrayal”…

Such people as Martin Luther King Jr. whose was The great civil rights activist who was the leading force behind the withdrawal of segregation laws in the 1960 's. Frederick Douglas bravely fought for the cause of the abolishment of slavery in the United States. Rosa Parks a woman who…

In my last few weeks at Harpers Ferry, a man in his mid-fifties walked into the Provost Marshal’s office. He was a big man, maybe six foot four. Bald, overweight, wearing a red polo shit and sagging cargo pants with sunglasses pressed into his forehead. I was already talking to a family from the Carolinas interpreting the experiences of the town’s citizens after the war, when across the former slave states Provost Marshals were replaced by agents of the newly formed Freedman’s Bureau. They were…

Both King and Obama obtain positions in society that affect their perspectives on violence. In his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, King states society needs to overcome violence without the use of violence. By him saying this, the reader can tell that King is an activist for the civil rights movement. He believes in fighting violence with nonviolence, something that is thought to be ineffective for civil rights. King also says, “…nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral…

Joseph Smith, Jr. Situated on a bend of the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Nauvoo grew rapidly during the next seven years as a flood of Latter Day Saints settled in the area. Finally, it would seem that the Mormons had found a place, a holy city where they could practice their faith without the fear of persecution from others. Unfortunately, the peace would not last long due to many different reasons that will be explored in this paper. The Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith Jr., and his…

gives purpose or meaning, but the ‘nothing’ negates the ‘something’ and then draws these characters back into the nothingness of modernity. Both “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor and “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree Jr. focus on on the “too” much, or a cataclysmic event that in turn draw the reader and characters back to the nothingness. Essentially, these texts stress that horrific events are going to occur without any purpose or reasoning to explain the…

The renaming of streets “often reflect larger social (power) disputes about who has authority to create, define, interpret, and represent collective pasts through space.” Through the naming of streets, Black activists and citizens in America are often claiming space in American landscapes and defying racism all in one movement. Ordinary street names bring history into a tangible and familiar way for many Americans. Sociologists Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Barry Schwartz stated, “Memorial devices…

challenges. The daily struggles only continued to get worse, as whites realized they were in charge, and that African Americans were not fighting back. In order to set things right, they decided to do otherwise; it was through the works of Martin Luther King Jr., that made history and shaped parts of the African American community. Not giving in to the oppression and constant threats change soon took place. King influenced many to take the step and fight for their rights, for at the end of the…

You don’t realize the importance of freedom, until it is stripped away from you. The very idea of being constrained and your desires being halted is in complete opposition with human nature. If you asked someone what it means to be free, you would likely get an answer citing the ability to do as one pleases. However, analyzing the African- American experience, the idea of freedom become increasing complex. It often seems that with each law instilled to ensure our freedom, another obstacle…

In Langston Hughes “I, Too Sing America”, it is obvious that Hughes is expressing himself over the inequality of America from the point of view of an African American man. It is interesting, almost amazing the way he explains himself in this poem because he does it in an appreciative manner that one reading the poem would never see the anger behind it all. Some of the ways he shows this is through showing his who he really is proving his race and value, through his ambition and through his…