Jonah

Hip-hop is a historically black genre of music, with different iterations almost everywhere in the world now. If you turn on your car radio on the way to work it’s likely that you’ll hear a popular hip-hop song. You may even come across street performers having a rap battle. Either way, it’s one of the most common genres today. Hip-hop is a genre dedicated to telling stories of hardship in a poetic form. Music has always been a form of expression, but hip-hop brought a new level of storytelling…

Castellucci, Cecil. The Plain Janes. DC Comics, 2007. Realistic Fiction, Ages 12-18. This is a graphic novel about a transfer student named Jane thinks her life is over when she is forced to move from Metro City to Suburbia because of a terrorist’s bomb. She finds herself drawn to three other girls named Jane who are unpopular in different ways. The four of them make art attacks on the city under the guise of their secret art club and later go on an adventure painting the town P.L.A.I.N.-…

“Power is a pedestal upon which we stand. However, pedestals are easily toppled, or stolen.” (Jonah Salazar) John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie travel to a ranch in Salinas during the great depression. They meet other people on the ranch with various degrees of power. Power constantly shifts from one character to another. Lennie kills the bosses daughter in law. In result, George is forced to kill Lennie. The message John Steinbeck is trying to convey is that power constantly…

In the past children’s literature has been dominated by the agenda of religious institutions, the censorship of well-meaning adults and the pragmatic practice of inserting life lessons into children’s books (Glazer, 466). While these different interest groups have had a strong hold on children’s literature for many decades both Louis Lowry and Ayn Rand have not only written works, The Giver and Anthem, that address the dangers of special interest groups encroaching on the education and literacy…

I grew up in a Christian household so I heard about Jesus but never knew him. I never wanted to get a chance to know him. I would go to church and hear about how great Jesus is and the many things that he can do. When I came here to Fayetteville Christian School in fourth grade, I had no other choice but to learn about Jesus. I didn’t know anything about him and the feeling of sitting in a class while the teacher is talking about someone I didn’t know but heard of was coarse. There I started to…

Anthropology. Hurston moved to New York in 1925, where she became a key figure in Harlem Renaissance. In 1927, she married Herbert Sheen, a friend from college and jazz musician. They were divorced by 1931. Hurston went on to publish her first novel in 1934, Jonahs Gourd Vine, with the main character being based on her father. Zora Hurston was a traveler, she traveled her entire life. She traveled to, South America, Caribbean, Jamaica, and Hate. In 1948, Hurston was falsely accused of child…

What caused the Holocaust? Germany after the Treaty of Versailles was in a weakened and vulnerable state, where they were progressively, but easily manipulated by propaganda to believe their restoration and survival depended on a pure German line, and any impurities present needed to be eradiated for they compromised the future of Germany. The state of mind that allowed for such actions to take place was in part due to the Treat of Versailles that aggravated the German nation. The World…

The classic tale of two star crossed lovers, and no, not Romeo and Juliet, but close, West Side Story. Through music and dance, the homes of American families in the 1950 have been introduced to a modern story of Romeo and Juliet, except instead of the Capulets and Montagues, it’s the Puerto Ricans and the Anglo-Americans. The migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States in the 1950s led to an influx of new community members and as a result, another component of diversity in the “melting…

Ashulti clapped his hands and the servant appeared with the last of the wine. He held up his goblet and waited as the young lad emptied the jug. “The Mistress has gone to the marketplace for more Master.” Karmel muttered, bowing his head. Ashulti glanced into the goblet. Half empty. It would suffice till Peta came home. His hands trembled as he brought the cup to his lips. Red dripped down his chin, streaking his graying beard. Why bother to wipe it away. Karmel turned to leave. “Bring me…

Going all the way back to the Reformation in England, the roots of Southern Baptist were born. John Smyth was a strong promoter of adult baptism and started to baptize others and even re-baptized himself. In 1638, Thomas Helwys and John Smyth established 50 Baptist churches in England. When 1638 came around, Roger Williams fled to America and started the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island. Southern Baptism was introduced in 1830 when there was tension in the Baptist church and it…