Leggings

Josephine Park in her article gives her critical argument about Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine. Her article, “Alien Enemies in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine”, published at spring 2013 in MFS Modern Fiction Studies. She explores how the family in the novel transform into “alien” and “treacherous beings” from a normal American family because of “racialized enmity” (137.) This exploration leads her other argument of continuing distinctions between minority groups in the…

Not to sound cliché, but it was pretty much pumping through my veins as I stretched my limbs out. I thank God that Minghao told me to dress comfortably and that I wore a top with leggings and my high-tops. Minghao, who had been dressed in a casual tee and knee-length trousers, had started to move with the beat. I grew curious to find out just what Minghao’s capabilities are. He seemed to be at pro level. I was right. His style...…

Each race is known to act a certain way; we think that everyone from that race acts that way; White people are proper and stuck up, black people are cheap and ghetto and Mexicans work hard for little pay. This is how we have been programmed to think through the years; this is why we as people definitely stereotype based on race and that’s probably never going to change. When I identify myself, I say I’m African American. But why do I say that? I say that because that’s what I was taught and…

This is a qualitative study observing a secondary group within a formal organization. The social institution chosen for the place of observation is a middle school within the Rockford area. The class I have chosen to conduct my observation is in an 8th grade Language Arts classroom; the purpose of this class is to develop the reading and writing skills students will need to progress into higher levels of education. My first observation took place on Wednesday, November 16th from 2:43 P.M. to…

Bane asks, “Can we go to the Reptile House?” Maisie says, “I want to buy a zoovenier!” I say, “I’m cold!” Kyran says he will take us to see the lizards and to buy zooveniers, but first we have to tickle Michael. “It’s justice,” he says, so we all pile on top of Michael while he lies there not saying or doing anything. We tickle him some, but it isn’t any fun because Michael is balled up on the ground like a big baby. Finally, Indie says that the shop is going to close in a couple of…

I will; I Seek was performed and choreographed by Mariana Orozco Arango, who costumed the work herself and collaborated with three musicians, and a lighting designer, to help create her piece. All aspects are crucial in understand, analyzing, and interpreting Arango’s work. Throughout her solo, Arango passionately, chaotically, and desperately seems to search for something as she frantically propels herself through space. Specifically, the intimate size of the flexible stage and black box…

It all began with a simple phone call one night after dinner. “Joe,” my father hollered up the stairs, “it’s for you. It’s Jackie, she sounds excited.” As I came down the stairs to pick up the phone, I was not happy. I was tired and had looked forward to sleeping, not another stupid adventure with Jackie. Thirty minutes later, however, Jackie’s yellow Jeep swung into our driveway, and Jackie was leaning on the horn before the car came to a complete stop. Grabbing my coat from the couch, I…

they were grateful for the first winter in their new camp. The Seneca came to help them cut poles for the longhouse and strip bark. Ahmeya and Mahonoy gathered bittersweet vines along with the others the women and men used as lashing. With so many hands helping out it wasn't long before Mahonoy and Ahmeya had a new roof over their heads. The Lenape were welcomed whole heartedly by their Seneca Indian friends, though the Lenape were considered a lower status than they, in the Iroquois Nation. The…

“Okay, so, who wants to try to go to the summit tonight?” James took a glance around. He was holding the fire stick that had been at the campsite since last summer, his tall, lean figure tilting forward into it. His pale skin gleamed with sweat from building the fire as his eyes took in all the raised hands from beneath his darkened glasses—the pair my best friend Phoebe and I always made fun of him for looking so geeky in—which he denied were actually Transitions. James and I had become fast…

Fallen Chief Crazy Horse was perhaps one of the greatest war leaders of the Lakota people, his reputation and prestige as a courageous and fearless warrior was acknowledged by his enemies and allies alike. He is remembered for being one of the bravest of warriors always riding at the front of a charge. In his lifetime he counted more than two hundred coups which exceeding the likes of other respected warriors such as Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull. If Crazy Horse had lived in an…