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extensive views of a conservative bias. In Bill O’Reilly news segment, “Black Lives is Killing Americans,” he scrutinizes the Black Lives Matters movement and argues that protesting against police brutality and violence perpetrated by the police makes them responsible for all of the gun violence and deaths in America. He uses harsh language…

Monica Potts attempts to answer the question “what kills poor white women?”, in her essay “What’s Killing Poor White Women?”, Potts uses studies on this topic, her own research, and her own opinion to try to answer this relatively new question. Potts uses a woman’s life that fits the criteria as a poor southern white woman as the basis of her essay. The essay is full of facts that I agree with but there are some points in her writing that I do not agree with, and think are rather stereotypical.…

professional setting because music is universal. According to graph A the amount of hip hop sales in country is 19% as of 2014. According to census applied to the US there ranged 317 million americans in US making us the third most populous country to date. Applying the 19% to this we find that 4,121,000 ( rounded) americans were hip hop users during this era. With this that means 4,121,000 million individuals are apart of this subculture in the US. Not only does the amount of listeners…

After learning about the different trials and tribulations that the black community as a whole had to endure in the past to provide a better future for the next generation, I would say that the twenty-first century American Negro in 2016 are strong, confident, and intelligent black men and women who used their gifts to bring about positive change within their communities. They do not need to be highly educated to achieve these gifts, but the most important thing of all is that they have to have…

that over the past decade, graduation rates for African American students improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for white students. However, because completion rates of African American students progressed at a slower and lower rate the graduation gap has grown. Of the 232 institutions studied 68.5 percent of the institutions had an African American student graduation rate increase, while 31.5 percent of institution’s African American student graduation rates decreased or stayed the…

challenges and heard many sides and thoughts on life and they put it together to have their own lives. This memoir was created to show that any black or African American can overcome odds and be what they want to be by motivators, by experiences and by Responsibility. Motivators are one way that can help any black or African American overcome odds and be what they want to be. George was 8 years old when…

country have made historic milestones in order to have the rights and status that they have today. Although those advancements in American culture are truly substantial discrimination has yet to dissipate. White people live in a metaphorical bubble, and the message that is trying to be conveyed is that there are countless forms of racism and discrimination that White Americans will never have to concern themselves about. The impact of this social institution is significant in our culture. The…

help but follow in his or her day-to-day life. Everyone has stereotypes. One common stereotype that most people tend to reject out of guilt or society’s morals is that black men, specifically, can be threatening to women. Brent Staples, an African American writer, has personally and generally experienced this stereotype in the streets of Chicago. By analyzing Staples’s rhetorical devices in “Just Walk on By”, one can certainly come to the assumption that stereotypes of race and gender impact an…

The book written by Richard Wright was centred around the racial discrimination in the country. The protagonist of Native Son is Bigger Thomas, a disillusioned twenty-year-old black man, who grew up in Chicago in the 1920s. Richard Wright focuses on the maltreatment and ugly stereotypical behavior which was used to label blacks. Bigger Thomas is a troubled young man trying to live up to the expectations of his household. He comes from an extremely poor family and is ashamed of his background. He…

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) is set in Chicago’s Southside and many social issues of the 1950’s are the themes of this play. This essay is about one of the major themes in the play, racism, and how the Younger family, a poor black family, experienced and resisted the racism in their society. The members of the Younger family had to deal with discrimination in the housing industry, their home and their jobs. In, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family bought a house in a…