Jacob Black

There is a recurring interest in black people who have acquired social status through accommodating themselves to white society and by appropriating white values. Of course, Morrison herself has been very successful as a writer and as a university teacher. By the mid-seventies, Afro-American…

Railroad Strike of 1877, at Martinsburg, West Virginia. They walked off the job and blocked the train tracks until they were paid as they favored, but the strike took out their wrath on the Chinese since they were the railroad builders. (Tindall, 591)1. Jacob Riis was a “muckraking” journalist and a social documentary photographer. He helped shed light on the poor conditions of the working class immigrant in New York City, he got the attention of the middle class family and helped better working…

During the 19th century, America was faced with the problem of poverty. Two of the groups experiencing poverty were immigrants and African Americans. When immigrants came over to America, most were unequipped with the skills necessary to adapt and become “American,” resulting in them living in their ethnic communities in the poorer areas and being unable to get out of poverty. On the other hand, African Americans faced poverty because of the effects of slavery and racial discrimination.…

understand fear, they don’t need a doctorate degree to know agony, or a history lesson to learn about creation. Mark Rothko made a political statement by making his art an equalizer between humans. One of his last series “Black Form”, created in 1964, is centered around dark colors, blacks, browns, and deep blues. In exhibit today are: No.1, No.6, No. 7, and No.8, accompanied by Rapture, a sculpture by Kiki Smith. Viewers of this exhibition are recommended to lose themselves…

can be poison to an innocent child. Growing up in this sort of atmosphere can lead to a child having a, what society today would consider racist outlook on things. The story is set in a town within the American South where blacks and whites are pitted against each other. The blacks coward in the shadows amidst a corrupt local government that is managed by whites. There is no sign that this will change. By the end of the novel, Scout gained a better knowledge about the world around her, through…

storyline, the image of the “black-box” is mentioned approximately 20 times. This box plays quite a large role in the plot of the story in that the pieces of paper inside of it ultimately determines the fate of one the villager’s lives. Whichever individual draws the sheet of paper from the black box with the black dot on is plagued with the fate of the lottery. This villager is sentenced to death by means of stoning by the hands of the remaining townspeople. The “black-box” is representative of…

Patsey beauty makes her doubly enslaved since she is black in color. Mistress Epps however treats her indifferently and occasionally harasses her. This depicts women as their own enemies. Despite the two undergoing similar struggles at some time in their life Mistress Epps tends to forget every time she is…

After the Medieval Era in Europe, Europeans began to adopt a new way of thought which helped propel Italy and other European countries into the Renaissance. After the Black Death swept across Europe people began to stray away from the church. Countless people were upset that the Church could not stop the Black Death from spreading and killing almost two-thirds of Europe's population. Thus, people began to adopt a new way of thought which lead to the revival of classical Greco-Roman work and the…

differences between the lives of the elitist upper class and the bitter lower classes. Peter Fallow, an immoral, alcoholic Englishman, works for the tabloid, The City Light, and is the first to publicize the case of Henry Lamb, the eighteen year old black student who is left in an irreversible coma after being hit by the sports car of wealthy bonds trader, Sherman McCoy. Though Fallow’s coverage of this case earns him a Pulitzer Prize and evokes the rightful outrage of the minority communities…

world either for better or for worse. In these peoples’ lives, what common issue drove their motives and actions? Racism. Racism is what people often associate slaves, African Americans, and even common problems in today’s society (such as the riot “Black Lives Matter”) with. However, the argument can be made that racism was a much larger problem in the 1930s, which is when the events of To Kill a Mockingbird took place. In her book, Harper Lee incorporated real-life occurrences into the plot.…