Half Nelson

Kalyn Brittain If Optimism Were a Person She 'd Have Green Eyes If optimism were a person she 'd have piercing green eyes, green like the buds that bring the hope of a beautiful spring after a cold, cold winter. She would stand the perfect height and her dark brown hair would flow just past her shoulders. She 'd have a slight obsession with cats and her name would be Kristina. I would be fortunate enough to call her my friend. Luckily this person does exist, she may not be optimism but being…

could never help her, and Osvaldo her lover let her down, Nieve has always managed to to keep herself together. Some might say that Nieve was just an ordinary girl with ordinary problems, but most people are not like her. She sees the glass half full instead of half empty in the worst of times. Through all her hardships, she began an independent woman and has never given up on life and the future of her…

achieved. I will realistically reach my boon when I can finally say there is nothing holding me back in life. When I feel at ease, always, and when a smile comes easily to my face. I will be able to see the good in everything, the glass half full rather than half…

Shayla Boyd Mr. Griffin English 3, Period 5 November 5, 2014 Nelson Mandela: Changing South Africa One Step At A Time By Shayla Boyd Martin Luther King Jr, one of the great leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, once said “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere ”(King). Dr. King was not only concerned with unfair treatment of blacks in a particular place, but the injustice they faced everywhere. Nelson Mandela would agree with this because he not only fought for oppressed South…

Considering the fact that it is extremely difficult to separate the concepts of gender, guilt, power and dignity in any given conflict, as they intertwine any inter-state, as well as intrastate outbreaks of violence, in this paper I will analyze the way how these four concepts permeate two, in my opinion, very similar conflicts – the conflict in South Africa and the conflict in Argentina, as well as the way how the four concepts intermix with each other and influence each other. In South…

In 1955, before the subsequent ban on the ANC by the National Party Government, the ANC put forth the Freedom Charter as the framework for an equal, deracialized South Africa. The key attributes of the Freedom Charter was the union of all races; White, Black, colored, Indian and Asian and popular governance as a key factor in post-Apartheid society. The all-encompassing nature of the freedom charter resonated with the disadvantaged racial categories within South Africa, and provided assurance to…

discussing the true historical people and events, summarizing the movie, and comparing and contrasting how the movie portrayed the true people and events. Nelson Mandela played…

cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. “It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die” (“Nelson Mandela”). Mandela stated that he only fought for the right reason for free nation for all to live and achieved and die for freedom as he told the court. Even though, Mandela was not punished with dead penalty, he was sentenced in prison at…

Nelson Mandela was a philanthropist and the president of South Africa. He hated the idea of apartheid and worked on getting rid of it for a good portion of his life. He inspired almost everyone around him because "in the nine years between his release and his stepping down, Mandela delivered peace, stability, and democracy" (Young 11). However, the tactics he used were illegal. The reforms he made in South Africa got rid of most but not all of the segregation. Nelson Mandela used civil…

Critical Analysis of Nelson Mandela’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son Hendry Mphakanyiswa the tembu tribe chief and South African farmer .Nelson Mandela later became the most prominent figures the leader of the fighting against apartheid. He also was the longest imprisoned member of the African nation Congress (ANC). As a result of his fighting and resisting to the white minority rules in and out of prison he was awarded Noble peace prize.…