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Firstly, we began by talking about her perceived identity based on her appearance. For many Caribbean immigrants, their appearance and ethnicities will correlate to how they are treated in society, as well as the American school system. Based on her appearance in the Guyanese community and growing up in Guyana, Ramona was and is perceived to be Indian. In the United States, she remarked that people thinks that she is Dominican, for her “dark skin and those features and I live in the Bronx, so…

was is this old mouth fiddle and these clippings” (Myers 14). This shows that Lemon Brown stilled thought and cared about his son after he died so he kept the things that he had before he died. Also Lemon Brown was gonna never forget his son and everytime he looked at the things he thought of his son.…

1918 The revolution was raging, the deep dark gloominess of war settled throughout the country. The Tsar was was in hiding, along with his family, and his Fabergé eggs. Oh the gloriousness of those eggs, with their jeweled tops and hand painted pictures. I had first learned of these eggs when my older sister, Svetlana was working as a chambermaid at the palace. Svetlana is as dumb as the rebels, considering she married one, but she is the best storyteller I know. When she first told me about…

When going on to the actual Dodge website that sells the Chargers it all seems to be biased. Everytime I read sentence per sentence it makes it seems like I need to buy this car and nothing else. For example, in the Dodge website it quotes “Performance is more than just a word. It’s the rumble of the engine. The grip of the road. The efficiency found…

There are many mysteries of the world that have puzzled mankind since the beginning of time. You know things like the pyramids in Egypt, the Loch Ness monster, UFO’s, Bigfoot or my favorite: what do women really want. But what’s not a mystery is why some people who go to the gym year after year and still look the same or even worse. I figured it out and it’s simple; they haven’t reached 212 Degrees yet. Did I lose ya? Well think about what happens when you boil water. At 211 degrees the…

Individuals have to blend in with their environment to avoid being treated as an abnormality.Vershawn Ashanti Young shares his story about the difficulty about being and an unmanly and educated black man in “Prelude: The Barbershop.” He mentions that everytime he enters a neighborhood barbershop full of black men, the men talk about topics that do not interest him like sports and wore jerseys, He makes an effort to assimilate within his own black community, but he is not comfortable with…

Today millions of people play Basketball, whether it is playing it professionally, for a school activity, or just to get a little bit of exercise. I bet 90% of those people don’t know a thing about who, what, why, or even when basketball came about. I'm here to take you on a journey to understand how basketball became alive. It all started in December 1891 at the international YMCA training school where a group of college students were sent to play indoor activities to burn off their energy…

away – and I remember Doodle.” This shows us how the grindstone isn’t a physical item, just a way Brother is reminded of Doodle. This suggests that Brother thinks of his mind and him remembering Doodle as a grindstone for his mind. He sees it as everytime he recaps Doodle’s life, he sharpens his mind and his memory. In his mind everything is carefully organized to certain memories. He remembers exactly what happened on the days he narrates about, he remember the weather, sky, and time. Brother…

The Phoney in the Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye is a novel where the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, tells his story about being a normal sixteen-year-old boy struggling to move into adulthood due to being afraid of growing up. This even inspires him to want to save all the children from growing up, desiring to be the Catcher in the Rye. Holden appears to be normal, but exhibits an abundance of signs of depression throughout the story. In this book consisting of 26 chapters is Holden…

“As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It’s really about how much you want it.” -Malaika Arora Khan “If Beale Street Could Talk” written by James Baldwin, published June 17,1974. This book is based on a young couple, Fonny and Tish everything seems to be going fine with them, but then Fonny is accused of a crime he didn’t commit and the families are trying their hardest to get him out but the chances of that happening are very little. Tish soon finds out that she is…