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Mia Yi Ms. Beskenis/ Mrs. Manley Pd 2 13 May 2016 Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. As one of America’s most respected poet, Wallace Stevens’s rich and colorful life story, impact from early traditional writers and his parents, and his unique writing style all contributed to…

Here I sit nursing my puppies. I’ve lost count as to how many litters this makes. As you can see I’m neither happy nor healthy. I have been bred until my uterus has begun to protrude. You couldn’t imagine how much pain I’m in! I’m not sure how healthy my pups are. Given my fitness, and their care I can’t imagine they’re in top form. Sadly to my captors this is not important. I’m a puppy mill dog, and all that matters to the breeders here is the profit they get from our litters. Misery is all we…

Racial profiling is defined as the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. It is illegal, yet is a longstanding problem facing our nation. It occurs every day, throughout the country. Law enforcement targets people of color in order to humiliate, frighten, and often detain them without presumable evidence. These searches are based on nothing but false stereotypes of race, national origins, and religion. Racial profiling is unlawful, and violates…

Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He served two terms for a total of 8 years. In those years he overcame many things. He passed many surprising and impressive bills and laws. He ended the Cold War and confronted the War on Illegal Drugs head on. But, during his first 4 years in office, he was almost assassinated by a delusional man by the name of, John Hinckley. The Jodie Foster fanatic planned the attack for many months, and during those months his thoughts became…

economic links to power. These differences and similarities are striking and deserve thorough examination. One of many aspects Samoan and Yanomamo life that is different is their subsistence methods. The Samoans mainly rely on agriculture. According to Holly Peters-Golden, “clearing the land for planting is hard work” (225). The Samoans use cutting tools like axes and knives get rid of trees and bushes and other foliage. Then the Samoans use small fires to eliminate everything else.…

attended an event at the Harris Center. For that reason, I felt this was the perfect opportunity to check out the venue while completing my coursework. I attended the El Dorado Musical Theatre rendition of “A Christmas Carol – The Musical” (The Holly Cast)…

The word cripple may mean something different to you versus what it may mean to me, to me it means to be disabled in a way that affects one’s physical abilities. I’m going to expand on the definition of the word and discuss a personal experience with being cripple as well as provide some examples of what I feel may be viewed by other as being cripple, finally I will discuss societies views on the word and how it may affect those it applies to. Generally when someone says the word cripple, they…

The holiday that I celebrate is Christmas because I’m Christian and that’s my religion to celebrate Christmas me and my family we all get together at my house Christmas eve and we make ginger bread houses and watch Christmas movies on Netflix and we get to open one present that night and then Christmas day we wake up and my mom and mom mom cook a big breakfast for the whole family and we sit down and eat and enjoy the food and then when were all done we go sit around the tree and start opening…

Crisis was only the beginning of the many racial incidents throughout the school’s history. Several incidents have transpired since. The campus protest at Fulton Chapel and the vandalizing of Rust College, a historically black college located in Holly Springs, by the Fraternity Beta Theta Pi, are just two stains in the school’s history (Sansing, 1999 & New York Time Staff Writer, 1989). But recently, social media and technology have brought attention to other racial episodes at the University…

In the song references several events that helped change the world, in his eyes, in a negative way. In just his first verse he references the major change in music in the late 50’s when a plane crash killed several major musicians (including Buddy Holly who was one of McLean’s idols as a child), Elvis Presley being drafted, Little Richard switching genres to gospel, and Chuck Berry being arrested. He goes on to reference several other artists and events through the song, including the Bob…