Free people of color

The poems Africa and Flying Man by Rabindranath Tagore show the negative effects of man-made destruction. The destruction is the way they have mistreated the people of Africa, as well as changing the way nature used to be, from the peaceful harmonious nature to inventing more modernised technologies, making man seem more arrogant. The focus of the two poems is how man has destroyed the earth with their actions, and the poet does this by using imagery and figurative language. In Africa, Tagore uses adjectives to emphasise the effect of man destroying Africa and its people. The word ‘shadowy’ creates a negative beginning to the stanza that introduces what is happening with the slavery, and it symbolises Africa turning into something dark, as…

raised many issues of the right to free speech since this constitutional freedom has been characterized with contention subsequent to its entrenchment. Many medias are used to draw the attention of citizens and viewers to issues hindering freedom of speech. Political cartoons are one of the most popular medias used to express opinions about current events and draw our attention to the point of view in cartoons. Hypocrisy is one of the many issues restricting freedom of speech today, and is the…

segregation was unbearable. Black people were being terrorize, brutalize and murder by the police in their communities. There were high depression levels of unemployment in the Black community, people of color lived in poverty where 40% of men that lived in the ghetto were paid less than 60 dollars per week. Making it impossible to support their families or bring up their children in dignity. Health care was expensive and people of color had less job opportunities and those who did not have a…

we think of African Americans in the US before the Civil War, slavery often comes to mind. However, there was an often overlooked, but still important population of free black men in the North. In all, approximately 221,000 free men and women of color lived in the free Northern states. All of these states had generally abolished slavery before the Civil War, but this barely helped to create better conditions for the people formerly known as Negroes. Even though they were not treated as property,…

The French Revolution was about the citizens of France wanting better for themselves. During the revolution, the people cultivated strong ideals. Those ideals were essentially liberty and equality, for every single citizen of France. As a byproduct, those ideas produced “democracy, human rights, and citizenship”Those ideals were so strong in France and such an intensely vibrant way of thinking. (some might even say an enlightening way of thinking) It was able to topple a feudal regime and put an…

Reading books and listening to songs can be related in many ways. They can have emotions or feelings, messages, etc. But in the novel, The Giver, and the song, “Utopia” by Chris Jones both explore value of freedom and the power of creativity. The song includes the value of freedom in a way that the people in a utopia get to dream of the perfect world. The song includes the power of creativity because the people in a utopia colors, the environment around them, etc. The novel, The Giver, and the…

Doe Deere is one of those creative people that comes along once in a blue moon. She is the self appointed unicorn queen that is also the CEO of a very colorful beauty company named Lime Crime. Their wild palette of colors are also very whimsical and cruelty free. Some people like to play by the rules. Doe Deere is one woman that believes in breaking free of a few rules to really reveal the beauty inside of you. Her makeup line is definite proof of her love for wild and whimsical colors that…

of the Enlightenment. After all, it is only natural that the common people would support an idea that gives them power. This idea is so immensely popular and powerful that people were able to manipulate others into doing what they want with it. During the French and the Haitian revolution, middle-class minorities such as Robespierre and Toussaint were able to instigate the common people to fight against the order of their world by saying that they were fighting for the right of the majority. In…

contrast the similarities and differences of how the southern population treated its people and the northern population on how their people were treated talking about color of course. During the time of reconstruction not everyone had the same idea of moving forward as a country but instead to try to find ways to reestablish the laws of more southern ways of life. Only together as a whole they can move forward but until that is put into action nothing will go smooth and steady. The question is…

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;and under a rule of a just God, cannot long retain it”-Abraham Lincoln In the speech Ain’t I a Woman has to do with Sojourner Truth explaining that she is a woman and does not get treated like a woman because of her skin color. In the In the book or memoir The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass has to do with not being able to be educated and not being able to be free and being worked for free because of skin color. The Civil War…