Fictional socialites

FOURTH DRAFT An American Tragedy: The Hawaiian Scottsboro Boys In his book, “A Death in the Islands – The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow,” Mike Farris recounts in vivid detail a miscarriage of justice in early 1930s Hawaii that echoes an all-too-familiar American theme. We learn that several men, collectively known as the Ala Moana Boys, were the Hawaiian equivalent of their more notorious black contemporaries, the Scottsboro Boys of Alabama, who themselves became…

Prejudice dates to the very beginning of the United States, when the Europeans interacted with aboriginal tribes. There are some powerful movies that depict prejudice, and the reality of how people hurt one another. Today, racism ignites the riots of the black communities, as several black men and women, unarmed, and with little reasoning, are shot. It encouraged many to partake in the social protests, #BlackLivesMatter movement and take a knee (a national anthem protest), over police brutality.…

His argument consisted of his own personal analysis after meeting with Patty Hearst several times. He concluded that her behavior did not have to do with being brainwashed, but was because she had an “unhappy childhood, resentful of her wealthy socialite parents and disenchanted with her fiancé. ( New York Times)” He decided that overall she was “ a rebel in search of a cause.” Then when she was kidnapped she found a cause and acted for it in a violent way (New York Times). The final argument…

She emerged on the Indian fictional scene in 1970 and created a place for herself in the cluster of Indian women novelist in English. She was born in 1938 in Dharwad, Karnataka. Her father Adya Rangachar better known by lovers of literature as Sriranga, was a prominent kannada writer…