Lone Star Conference

Good evening, everyone. I’m Amber Smith. And I’m Caroline Vogl and we are co-presidents of the Fall 2017 pledge class. We are extremely excited to be standing before you today as the newest initiated members of Alpha Gamma Delta. *crowd cheers* It has been quite the journey from putting on our rush shirts and nervously boarding the busses to the Days Inn. Our acquaintances from Bid Day have become our cherished friends in the short amount of time that we’ve been together. We’ve grown together…

What began as a simple childlike fascination with space and aviation when I watched my first episode of Star Trek as a young girl, has followed me through the years, subtly influencing my choices throughout my studies. To me, the engineers in that series were the true heroes; no matter what happened, they were always able to draw out a “little more power” or come up with the creative work-around (albeit at the last second) that allowed the crew to collectively maneuver themselves out of whatever…

Once there was a great spie academy that solved many problems. Some of the problems were world peace, world hunger, and lastly terrorist. This story takes place ten years in the future in an alternate dimension. In this future the terrorist have taken full control and they all forced under one religion, Muslim. They also set a bomb off in america to destroy all electronic devices. Its actually got so bad that the religion got so twisted that the world just serves one profit that went crazy and…

Often at times, movies intend to mirror themes presented in a novel of similar context. Sherman Alexie, award-winning author and filmmaker, implements this technique and displays commonalities between his auto-fictional novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and his co-production of Smoke Signals. Both selections incorporate the stereotypical Indian lifestyle and culture such as chronic alcoholism and devastating poverty. However, there are also slight differences between the…

Star Trek vs. Star Wars Star Trek is an all American science fiction television series created in 1966. There are many novels over the Star Trek story also. Star Trek follows adventures in space of the starship USS Enterprise and its crew. Star Wars is an American science fiction film series released in 1977. Star Wars depicts the adventures of various characters “ a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” There are books also over these movies too. Fandoms have been going at it for over 40…

clergymen, that the Bible acts a central ground for them both. Both sides have Christian backgrounds, are based their beliefs on Christian principles. This central area connects King, for he is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the clergymen as he incorporates allusions to various aspects of the Bible. For example, in his argument he refers to the apostle Paul in his endeavor to carry the gospel to other parts of the world; King sees it as his duty to carry…

A man’s hope for a change doesn’t grow weary: a change never comes about without a fight, a fight that most times involves violence, either a direct or an indirect violence. One such man, a pastor, a leader of the southern Christian leadership conference, and an author Martin Luther King Jr , wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written on April 12, 1963 in the Birmingham jail. He claim against the injustice towards the black community in the United States, especially in the southern part and…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous and respectable man when he was alive. He was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He gave many sermons and speeches in his day. On one very important day, 4 February 1968, he gave a sermon called “The Drum Major Instinct;” it was based off an adaptation of J. Wallace Hamilton’s “Drum-Major Instinct.” In King’s sermon, he explains what the drum major instinct is and why you need to be cautious with it. King believed that you shouldn’t use…

To sum up, in his letter in response to the 8 white clergymen who were critiquing the mass protests he and the civil rights community was involved in while in Birmingham, Martin Luther King discussed how what was taking place in the United States, particularly in Birmingham, is unjust which is why people were protesting against. Also, that the church is not as great as it once was since its followers have not accepted African-Americans as equal, instead segregation was still taking place. Within…

In the novel, March, John Lewis illustrates how the desire to do better for oneself will always be met with resistance from others. Lewis portrays how the desire to do better for oneself will always be met with resistance from others through state-sanctioned police brutality against peaceful protesters. To illustrate this, Lewis recounts how Joe Rauh arranged for a series of testimonies on television, one of which included Fanny Lou Hamer’s. Hamer recollects how she was arrested after attending…