Malcolm in the Middle

The United States prides themselves as being the land of the free, a place where people can come and live the American dream. Our country hasn’t always been free for everyone, though. African-Americans have not always been free; they were slaves before the Civil War and after the Civil War, for about 100 years, they were still treated unfairly and punished for not being inferior to the whites in their community. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were violated by the federal,…

Once Daisy is secluded from Malcolm she becomes the laughing stock in her country. Irony plays a role in Daisy’s outcome due to the fact that she called beauty pageants a joke. Malcolm holds a powerful status in their marriage and once he left Daisy, she have no value to her society. This proves Malcolm’s impact on the relationship resulted in Daisy’s downfall. When Daisy runs away after her corrupted relationship with Malcolm, she encounters Santos Tirador who she vanishes with…

The first half of the last decade of the century proceeded as the previous decade i.e. regular hard farm work, children at school, women providing the warmth of a home. Zachariah was still winning in the fall fair for colts and geldings, shearing rams and of course the best fat sheep. Occasionally, he would get lucky with his Holstein bull, a ram or sow and come in first or second. His potatoes usually ran into competition but he sometimes would still win and lucked out once winning the Hubbard…

differs to that of the current common language of a particular social setting (Green, 2006; Emmitt, Zbaracki, Komesaroff & Pollock 2010). Children who do not have Australian English as their first language, or who have not been raised in the white, middle class culture of Australia may come to school with a distinct educational and language disadvantage, with little or no prior knowledge of the social construct that exists in this foundation and has naturally transferred from home to school…

Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” In Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is a middle-aged man who wants nothing more than to be the king of Scotland. With this yearning for power comes the problem of how to obtain it. Was it fate that controlled Macbeth or his own free will? Free will is a free and independent choice while fate is the development of events beyond a person’s control. Macbeth is not a helpless victim of fate, he was in…

it. Malcolm and Douglass faced similar obstacles in their life which we might of thought they never would of faced but they managed to overcome them. In the article "Prison Studies" Malcolm X was a person who faced obstacles throughout his life in prison but being in prison made him become the person he is today. Malcolm had a hard time reading and not knowing words which was a big obstacle he had to face. When he would read a book he would skip the words…

A classic American feel-good film full of bad guys in the Middle East being shot by an American hero, American Sniper does not at all try to hide its Western bias. The hero’s journey trope of a white man bringing civility to country full of “savages” (which Chris Kyle, the author of the book, literally calls Iraq…

In “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell attempts to prove to his audience that their idea behind how success is attained in the United States is considerably different than what many Americans would like to think. In America many people believe in the concept of a hard-working individual pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and earning their success through dedication and talent. Gladwell attempts to prove while individual efforts are a big role in success, theses outliers would have never been…

“Religious Convictions” “The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.”-Sarah Vowell, Goodreads. The play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare suggests that religion can be a deciding factor in someone’s life choices and how they think, in a positive or a negative way. More often than not, however, religion is used as a justification for something immoral to those who don’t practice it. These choices can be…

superpower. We had the world in the palm of our hands, controlling half of the world’s manufacturing capacity and almost doubled our economy. The 1950’s we started to see early sitcoms where the setting was urban, families were ethnic and working middle class. The most popular show at the time was “I Love Lucy”, it ran from 1951 to 1957. Later on in the 1950s we started to see other sitcoms, where it was families with children that lived in suburban areas. Some included, “The Donna…