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everyone finding out her secret, I make the music drop. Also, when I put the pictures in there of the broken hearts I drop the music because it's a sad topic in the story. I also display the mood through the pictures I use, for example when Amanda and Grant break up I put a picture of broken hearts. Themes: My two themes are “Gender identity is a struggle” and “Never give up on someone important to you.” I chose the gender identity one because the whole book is based on how Amanda used to be…

Fruitvale Station Review There are many movies that try to tackle the race issue that has been endowed on the people of America. I believe Fruitvale Station based on a true story of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by police officer Johannes Mehserle, at the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Station in Oakland, California. (This movie portrays a great role in showing the genocide amongst the African -American community and how African Americans are more at risk of…

2016). During 2016 a total funding $9,031,738,547, to 2,697 grantees, through 5,370 grants were given Nationwide; while Nevada’s overall funding was $45,789,233, to 18 grantees, through 39 grants; and Clark County totaled $11,874,564 in funds, to 9 grantees, through 13 grants. Since 2010,…

1940s. Two characters, Grant Wiggins and Reverend Ambrose, develop a rivalry based on their opposite interpretations of spirituality. Gaines uses these characters in order to comment on the nature of religion, especially as many events in the novel call characters to question and grow in their relationship with God. Characters, like the Reverend, that push religion onto others don’t always consider what is best for that individual. The characters of Reverend Ambrose and Grant Wiggins show the…

where they have to stand up and show that they are strong. In the book Grant Wiggins had many times…

murder, and his claim of innocence is ruthlessly ignored. Shocked and devastated, Jefferson refuses to do all the things that characterizes him as a human, including talking and eating “human” food. His concerned mother pleads to the teacher in town, Grant Wiggins, to make Jefferson a “man” again before his execution takes place. Throughout the course that leads up to the execution, the two African American men seeks human dignity through hardship and struggle, affecting each other in a very…

which imprisonment is a pervasive struggle throughout the lives of Grant and Jefferson. Grant and Jefferson, although never close, come from Black American families. These men come together and form a strong bond with one another when they spend a great deal of time together and develop love for each other. Their close relationship results in Grant willingly completing the task he initially is forced to do. The black heritage that Grant and the people in his community possess…

the people including Grant Wiggins, a teacher, who help to make Jefferson a man before he dies. Although Grant and Reverend Ambrose both have the goal of making Jefferson a man by the end of his life, their different ways of teaching him caused reverend ambrose to come out stronger because he puts his faith into something bigger than himself and chooses to have hope for the future and life after life. This helps him to make Jefferson strong in the hardest times. Both Grant…

Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and President Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War was a fight between the Union army (the North) and the Confederate army (the South) about whether or not slavery should be practiced in the United States. Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman played key roles in the North’s victory over the South. Grant and Sherman were both generals of the Union army during the civil war. Before the war however, things were not going too well for these two men.…

Dignity is a quality that one learns that they are worthy of respect and honor. When people are treated like animals all their life, they tend to believe until they learn they have worth. In the novel, A Lesson Before Dying Jefferson, Grant, and Paul are characters who learn about dignity, self-worth and the hope for equality throughout Jefferson’s sentence and execution. Jefferson’s death sentence allows him to accept his own self-worth and helps him realize his value as a human; it also…