Lafayette

aware that he was going to lose, yet he was still encouraged to push on by the slight chance he had of succeeding. He had faith and endurance, he knew that he could have won the people over. Another person that had was courageous is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. Miss Dubose was on her deathbed and wanted to be free of her morphine addiction before she passed on. She did not want to pass on to the next world still bound to something of the world she was leaving from. She suffered through the…

Moving from Jersey City into a small home at the crossroad of Van Doren Avenue and Kimball Street, my family started their life in Chatham when I was eighteen months old. My parents enrolled me in Chatham United Methodist Church Preschool, and then into Milton Avenue School for Kindergarten. This is where I made friends with people I am still very close with today. Kimball Street was the perfect setting for my early childhood. It was a safe and quiet street where I could explore and play; the…

The United States of America in the Post-American Revolution was overflowing with joy, fear and cautious optimism. The world had held its breath as it watched thirteen small imperial colonies succeed in defeating the British Empire and wining its long sought after independence. Unfortunately, the defeat of Britain was only the beginning of the woes America would face. It would come down to two prominent political intellectuals of the time, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, to take it upon…

“Shoot all the blue jays you want if you can catch em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” is a statement that Atticus makes which reflects the theme of the book. The reason being is that a mockingbird is selfless; they only sing their hearts out to everyone, not even expecting a reward or harming things that people plant. Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Atticus in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ are the kindest, most generous, and most good-hearted people of Maycomb. Boo can be seen as a…

American journalist Edward R. Murrow once said, “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices- just recognize them”. It is human instinct to judge people before one gets to know them. In this way, prejudices can have a negative effect, as they cause people to make assumptions about one’s character. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird tells a story of a young girl, Scout, growing up in a primarily white, racist small town. The novel exhibits several prejudices as…

The Enlightenment movement was wholly responsible for the revolutions that followed. Ideals of equality and liberty were cherished in the Enlightenment movement, and those who took those ideals to heart were able to jumpstart another movement, one of revolutions. Those who were responsible for starting the revolutions had voices and ideals that were heard across the globe, and while they clearly presented agreeable arguments they also had restrictions on how far they would or could go. The…

Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” James Holmes entered the movie theater and opened fire into a crowd of people watching the movie, killing 12 and injuring 70 pedestrians. Following that shooting, last year (2015), a similar shooting occurred in Lafayette, Louisiana. John Russell Houser (58-year-old) entered a showing of Judd Apatow’s “Trainwreck” on July 23 and shot his handgun, killing two people and injuring 7. Shortly after John Russell Houser took his own life before the police…

According to Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Gandhi, King, and Lanza De Vasto the nonviolence philosophy relationship between nonviolence and society was important for social change. Peter Maurin has been studying philosophy and church history. He was most well-known for documenting the three-point program for the Catholic Worker community. Though nonviolence philosophy was a topic of little recent interest, the strategies have been noted in several times in history and seems to have been well…

Louisiana has the pleasure of holding the brown pelican as its state bird and of me being able to call it home. I was born and raised in Louisiana so deciding on what bird to learn more about came very easily to me. I am from Lafayette, LA so pelican citing’s are few and far in between but whenever my family ventures towards New Orleans, which is quite often, we see them in many flocks on the way down along marshes and mangroves. Their beauty, shape, and way of life have always fascinated me and…

While we may not wear togas or worship the gods on top of Mount Olympus, much of our lives have been shaped by Greek philosophers and their discoveries. From our government, to the science and technology that makes up every tool we use, to our favorite medias and the very words we speak, the Greeks have had an impact on our world today. When our founding fathers of America wanted to separate from Great Britain, they had a job to do, create a new government. They needed to create a system that…