Hyphenated American

I Believe In Role Models I believe that everyone should have a role model to look up to. I was watching my brother play varsity high school football against their rival, Garner-Hayfield. Since it was his senior year, it was my brother’s last time facing Garner, so I knew it was going to be a heck of a game. The stands were completely full, and the fences surrounding the field were packed. I’ve never seen anything like it before; the whole town was at the game. The teams were warming up to play…

“My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place” (KJV Jerimiah 50:6). A compass is believed to ensure guidance to a lost individual, no matter if you are a sailor lost in the Pacific Ocean or an explorer walking through the Amazon Forest; a broken compass does not provide guidance if you are lost. For this I believe I am a broken compass…

Both Blacks/African-Americans come from Africa. But the African-Americans has been here a longtime for so many generations. Now some Blacks come from African, Caribbean or the West Indies. In whatever country, state or city this group come from, according to CDC report, the 10 common leading diseases…

With all things change is hard and white people thought that by letting African American have anything would cut into their wealth. Before African Americans were emancipation, mayhem occurred when a white slave-owner felt the need to discipline one of their workers. Losing control over something can be a scary. Not only were slave-owner losing their was of life but they…

approved the Declaration of Independence, with the acceptance that “All Men are Created Equal.” After many conflicts with Great Britain, American colonists decided to separate from the British indefinite, war was inevitable. Yet, what drove the colonists to believe the only solution was battle? Much tension between the two was already established. The American colonists had become adjusted to different living arraignments than when they were originally living in Britain. However, the British…

of American Imperialism in Our Country consists of the Anglo-Saxons spreading the word of God and civilizing mankind. By achieving these two goals, Strong believed that the Anglo-Saxons would elevate the human race of the world. William Sumner’s view is completely opposite. Sumner believes that the Americans pushing their views on other countries are absurd. He believes that Americans should leave people alone and let them live their own lives and have their own beliefs. Ultimately, Americans…

Essay two For long years, it has been very notable how African-Americans are struggling to conquer equal treatment as white Americans, and how most of them feel victims of injustice. Even though there were civil activists that fought for equality in America, it did not happen because many whites in America still believing that is necessary to make a distinction between whites and people from other races, especially white Americans. Until now, 2015 has been a very controversy year, and it has…

An injustice I see throughout my community, or the American community in general, is racial and religious discrimination. Ever since the creation of America, there has been racism and a division among the people, and many people have tried to erase the tension entirely, but only small doses of success have been seen here and there. Yes, there is equal rights for all now, but there is a definite tension still among the American people when it comes to race and religion. People have to be…

My Not So Regular Friday They always say Friday the thirteenth brings you bad luck, but my horror story begins with Friday the fourteenth. After school on a regular Friday I made a quick stop at my dad’s house to drop off his stuff from my fundraiser. But only for all his friends to tell me he had just went out for a ride. He took his friend’s motorcycle out to see what was wrong with it. He was always the one someone would go to if they had bike trouble. I didn’t feel like waiting for him…

attend school. Brooks was born before the Harlem Renaissance, which gives the poem its setting. The Harlem Renaissance was the rebirth of African American Arts (History). We Real Cool is a ballad. A ballad is a poem telling a short story based on a theme or narrative (Strand and Boland 73). We Real Cool shows what is was like living as an African American young man during this time. The poem opens with a group of seven friends at a pool hall, the Golden Shovel. Golden Shovel could mean a lot…