It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

synthesis on. The idea is based off of the land of opportunity, in the article “The Land of Opportunity” by James Loewen talks about how high school student do not leave high school prepared for life. They soon claim that ‘High school history textbooks can take some of the credit for this state of affair.” The article written by “The New York Times” ‘The Land of Opportunity?’ is mainly about the question “When questioned about the enormous income inequality in the United States, the cheerleaders…

manipulates the wind, the sea, the whale, the sun, and even the worms! For those that want to point out the debilitating effects of disobedience and its consequential effects toward depression, then Jonah is a good case study. This man begs God to take his life three times in the short narrative. What makes a man more concerned with the fear of living over the doom of dying? For those that want to use the book of Jonah to springboard their theological position on the doctrine of election, then…

20th century their hopes basically vanished. Black people were denied the vote and remained in poverty. Black people were victims of violence and murder. All over America, resistance to racism was met with deadly force. At the same time as Europe’s nation built empires across the globe, Africans and Asians were being stripped of their land and beating to death. In the west, popular culture reinforce the idea of a racial hierarchy and being better than the next race and white supremacy by…

it still stands today as having the most resources. Actually Africa is considered the top richest continents of today standards, having the most natural resources, and also some of the most beautiful sights on can only dream of. Sadly what holds the country back from making the inhabitants rich is their lack of leadership and empowerment. If colonization never ruined these factors of Africa the people could be as rich as the continent is, instead of it being looked as a poor continent. They…

Outsourcing has given companies a way to reduce the cost of operations, labor wages and also taking advantage of the reduce corporate tax rates(). For example a US company contracting employees from India to handle services can pay the employee a fraction of the price that they would pay an employee based out of the US. Another reason why companies have elected to outsource is because it has given them the opportunity access and hire world talent to handle their services; if a company is…

hostilities of World War II and the surrender of the Imperial Japanese government, Japan was disarmed and its armed forces completely decommissioned. American and Allied forces were put in the position of providing protection and security for the nation. As Japan focused on rebuilding itself from the ashes of war, the leadership of the American occupy forces under General Douglas MacArthur put pressure on the Japanese government to amend its prior Meiji Constitution of 1899 (LOC, 2006). However,…

heavily influenced by technology that it can often times blur our understanding of reality. We as a society are more connected than any other era in this world. That idea in itself is very intimidating. In the blink of an eye a leaked image can reach millions of people. We see this happen all the time, artist or big corporate companies have images, sound bits, product details etc. leaked to the world in a matter of seconds. More times than not those images are false representations but social…

Mockingbird is written by Harper Lee. It is set in the 1930s, in this time period the area had economical, racisim, and sexisim issues. This book was published in 1960, it is still read in taught across the nation. Students are able to make some modern connections to this novel and realize how the 1930s affect us now. The book is set to 1930s, in the 1930s racism was accepted by most of the white community. Because of this toleration of racism, the Ku Klux Klan is an existence. Although the…

additives that convince the consumer that the low-quality food they are eating is of high quality. Even though the foods that they were producing were the cheapest they could get. The most importance about this story is to inform the people of this nation about the unspoken truth of the fast food industry. That is because McDonald’s is not the only place that does it. Title easily implies…

Hoover Dam is considered to be one of the must see sights apart from The Strip when one goes to Las Vegas. Apart from being an attraction for tourists to come to see it, also provides enough power to serve 1.3 million people for residents in Arizona, Southern California, and Southern Nevada. From the Dam alone it produces on average 4 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric energy (“Hoover Dam”). Hydropower is being looked at as an safe alternate source of energy. There have been several debates…