Jim

There once was a monkey named Jim. He was sitting in his mother’s family room which had the sun shining through. He was listening to the sounds of the rocket launching on the TV. He saw the flames that came out of the bottom, and the American flag painted on the side. He was watching the moon launch, and he was thinking that he wanted to ride in the rocket when he grew up. Jim later asked his mom if he could be an astronaut one day, and his mom said, “You can be whatever you want if you put in…

Part One-Jim Crow The Jim Crow system was a post-Reconstruction series of legislation that established legally authorized racial segregation of the African American population of the south. The Jim Crow system ended in the 1950s with the beginning of the civil rights movement. As Hewitt and Lawson wrote, “these new statutes denied African Americans equal access to public facilities and ensured that blacks lived apart from whites.” With the 1896 Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson the…

good man, in my book, but not someone who ended Jim Crow through Nonviolence. Jim Crow (racism) was itself a complex social phenomena, composed ultimately of social beliefs, customs, violent tactics, and laws that evolved over a long period of time. The end of Jim Crow (and it isn’t totally over yet) came about as a result of a complex set of individual decisions made by real human beings. Black Americans had fought back against various aspects of Jim Crow ever since the era of Reconstruction.…

himself and he finally loses. To begin with, the story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” written by Mark Twain is about how Simon Wheeler tells the narrator the amusing story of Jim Smiley and his trained frog. A notorious gambler, Jim was startled one day when a stranger fed his frog lead and made Jim lose the bet. In the tall tale “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, it uses caricatures or comic characters, and hyperbole to convey the universal truth…

On the surface, this movie looks like a typical example of Hollywood arrogance. Produced by the same people behind "Ghostbusters" and "Happy gilmore", this is the movie responsible for Jim Carrey becoming the first actor to collect a $20 million dollar bank cheque. But to his acclaim, Carrey returns to the heat by going the extra mile and sticking his neck out more than ever before. After the successful horseplay of "The mask" and "Batman forever", The cable guy tells a venturous departure.…

Jim Crace, the author of Quarantine, was born at Brocket Hall, England. When Crace decided to go to school, he ended up going to the University of London. There, he edited a local newspaper while earning a degree in English Literature in 1968. Soon after graduating, Crace traveled around the world and became exposed to many different cultures. While he was abroad, he assisted writing and producing educational programs for a television network. Finally in 1976, he started to work on his own as a…

After the Civil War, black people were freed and became citizens, but they did not have the same rights as white people. “The Jim Crow Laws were statutes enacted by Southern states, beginning in the 1880s that legalized segregation between African-Americans and whites” (American Historama). “The Jim Crow Laws were not just a law that separated whites and blacks, but it was also “a way of life” (David Pilgrim). These laws made life for African-Americans extremely difficult; the next paragraph…

the white which allow the white to be in control. The Jim Crow was a way to discriminate on African American when slavery had ended, “ racial segregation had actually begun years earlier in the North, as an effort to prevent race-mixing and preserve racial hierarchy…Even among those most hostile to Reconstruction, few would have predicted that racial segregation would soon evolve into a new racial caste system…that came to be known simply as Jim Crow” (Alexander 30). This racial caste system…

Parents either dream or dread about a time when their child looks up with hopeful joy filling his eyes and exclaims, “I want to be just like you when I grow up!” The parents who dream about this occurrence usually have interests and unfulfilled dreams they would have liked to accomplish and do not want their child to regret not pursuing his interests and dreams. On the other side of the scenario, are the parents who feel a bolt of cold dread at their child’s enthusiasm. They know they have…

this week’s reading of the book, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Many people have told me about the book but I had never gotten free time to read it. I was excited about it because of the thesis of the book which states that the system of mass incarceration that is based on the war on drugs is strategically created to control blacks in America. The prison system is used to marginalize blacks economically, politically, and socially, just like in the Jim Crow era where there existed laws…