Leonard Pitts

business landed him in debtors’ prison in September, 1770. While he lost certain rights in prison, his fiery attitude stayed with him. Fresh out of jail, Hewes participated in the Boston Tea Party where he was named a minor leader by Commander Leonard Pitt. Hewes accounts “as soon as we boarded the ship, [the commander] appointed me boatswain, and ordered me to go to the captain and demand him the keys to the hatches and dozens of candles (Young p.591).” This was Hewes’ first time holding a…

call out to America for refusing to join the fight. For the majority of the early comics, showing Steve in acts of violence against various Nazi figures and Hitler himself was a centerpiece of the comics and of the character. In an interview with Leonard Pitts Jr. published in Conversations With The Comic Book Creators, Jack Kirby states “Captain America was myself. Captain America was my own anger coming to the surface.”[1] Evidently, the vexation in which the comic embodied didn’t just relate…

Since the seventies there has been an ongoing war on U.S soil. This war first started by President Richard Nixon and later enforced by every president following him is called “The War on drugs”. With thirty plus year fighting this so called war, one would think that it is being won, but unfortunately this is not the case. The war on drug is not only being lost, but costing the country millions, lowering drug cost, increasing corruption, rising crime rates, and increasing drug use. Because of…

The Jim Crow Era refers to the time period between the late 1800s and the mid 1900s when African Americans in America were socially, economically, and physically treated unfairly. The Jim Crow laws were made after the Reconstruction period, and those laws continued in with great force until 1965. The laws followed the Black Codes and the federal law provided civil rights protection in the South of the U.S. for freedmen and free blacks. “Jim Crow” was a slang term for a black man. Thus the name…

You know what gang violence is, mostly? (And the people don’t want you to hear this) If somebody shoots your family member of course you retaliate, you know what I mean? Same thing the U.S does except nobody even shot his or her family members. 
They see that, somebody bomb a school
and all these people get killed, so the United States feel like ooh that’s messed up
we got to go show them who the real killers. This country was built on gangs, you know, I think this country still is run by gangs…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…