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The “New Jim Crow” subject is a very sensitive subject to me, I say this because when I arrived here, a year later I was involved in a committed relationship with a person who had been to jail because he believed he was a victim of misidentification, because he was believed to have looked like someone who sold weed on the street where he was hanging out, he was found not guilty and an apology was given out, but he was left angry for the misidentification as a result he had trust issues, anger…

Jim Casy who was a preacher, met Tom on his way back from McAlester and since then he became a member of the Joads. He asked the Joads if he can ride along with them to California for a new life. The Joads agreed to let him ride along with them to California. Over the trip Casy helped the Joads with anything he could such as helping with off loading or loading the truck, praying, and protecting the family. When the Joads arrived to California they needed a place to stay. A large, crowded,…

lacrosse to settle wars and conflicts between nations. Sports not only settled conflict but was also an integral part to making changes throughout history for the aboriginal culture and inspiring its youth into what it is today. Athletic heroes like Jim Thorpe, Tom Longboat and present athletes Jordin Tootoo and Ted Nolan helped inspire youth of today. By showing courage of standing up against racism and the other struggles in life as aboriginal. These athletes persevered through these struggles…

Reading ¨The Ethics of living Jim Crow¨ it feels me with a incredible feeling of anger. I have read and learned about several historic times during the time of segregation and this gives me a very strong feelings of anger and disbelief. The things that were happening in this story, the sections of inequality that were normal for this time period in this section of the US, absolutely astound me and drive me crazy. I am someone who avidly believes in equal rights and am driven crazy by…

The New Jim Crow was a very interesting point of view. In the book Michelle Alexander expresses to us her opinion that the war on drugs is the way to legally discriminate against African Americans and people of color. In the book she encourages us, as United States Citizens to discuss the criminal justice system and how it is not how it should be. In chapter one we are introduced on how the discrimination has made come back according to Michelle Alexander. She did acknowledge that some African…

new form tailored to the needs of the time” (Alexander). Hence, after the civil war, mass numbers of African Americans were arrested for trivial crimes like loitering. “It was our nation’s first prison boom,” Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” explained. Though slavery was “officially outlawed,” loopholes such as convict leasing were born. States realized they could rent out their convicts to ex-plantation owners…

Have you ever thought about the origin of the name Jim Crow? According to a National Geographic article, there was this white man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice who made up the name. He was really into theater and he did this bit where he painted his face black. He would do a song and dance that he claimed was inspired by a slave he saw. The act was called “Jump, Jim Crow”. Jim Crow laws would soon be known to demean African American people by setting them at a lower status than white people were…

CUT TO: INT. HOME – NIGHT A small family consisting of 4 members are packing their bags, getting ready to leave for dinner with their relatives. The parents and their oldest son are going, but the younger one insists on staying back to finish his homework. CHRIS walks from the kitchen to the corridor and comes to the guest room, he sits down and he is waiting for his parents and older brother to leave, so he can lock the main door. CHRIS Hey mum don’t forget to bring me some food on your way…

The definition of the Jim Crow Laws is defined as laws of segregation and disenfranchisement that effected the south of the United States in the 1890’s (PBS, n.d.). With these laws in progress, it separated the black community from the white community by placing detail signs over water fountains, bathrooms, and schools letting the black community and the white community know that specific place was either “whites only” or “colored”. (PBS, n.d.). The two following narratives Willie Ann Lucas and…

When Chris first began his journey to the wild, he caught Jim Gallien’s eye while walking on the side of an Alaskan highway. Gallien offered Chris a ride, and shortly into their conversation he learned considerable amount concerning Chris’s plans to live in the Alaskan wilderness. According to Gallien, it was easy to notice how lacking Chris was in terms of supplies and knowledge about where he was going and what exactly he was getting himself into. For his time in the wilderness, Chris only…