Master of the Rolls

enslaved African Americans faced a life of physical violence and mental torture. The slave life of Solomon Northup, as depicted in the film 12 Years a Slave, exposes the variety and intensity of the abuses slaves dealt with at the hands of their masters. Solomon, who was born a free man is illegally sold as a runaway slave; he is stripped of his name, stolen from his family, beaten and whipped then sent to the south for auction. Solomon attempts to deal with the complete loss of his freedom the…

specifically remembered the year, because in that year, months before I was born my father was brutally terrorized and murdered. He and my mother had tried to escape and got caught. They made it as far as Birmingham, AL when Master caught up to them and had his dogs attack. Master John was what some considered a nice white man and treated us kindly. In return, all he stated was for no slave to escape or attempt to escape or they will be captured and killed. Even if he over heard someone making…

go. My cultural identity is homemade because my family always makes their own materials from scratch instead of copying and taking an idea. Which is illustrated by homemade cinnamon rolls, my culturals arrowheads, and my favorite movie suicide squad. My Cinnamon Rolls represent my culture and me. In the cinnamon rolls my grandma puts chocolate chips in the bread. The bread is softer than the store bought. She puts cinnamon and chocolate chips in it. This recipe has been passed through…

Louis Thomas Jordan was born on July 8, 1908 in Brinkley Arkansas. He is sometimes called “The Father of Rhythm and Blues” and “The Grandfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Louis Jordan was a great singer and saxophonist who started in the 1940’s. He was the leader of a band group called the “Jump Blues” or “Jump Jive.” He has collaborated with many of the Harlem Renaissance stars such as Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong. Louis Jordan was also an actor and a major black film personality…

Max (obviously), Stephen, and Me. Aside from the one’s I’ve just listed, there was also Breck. Breck was the Dungeon Master (DM). D&D, for the uninitiated, is a table-top game that requires a hefty imagination and enough wrist strength to roll a die. A famous die used for the game is the dodecahedron die, or the d20. It was necessary, usually, for the aforementioned Ian to roll the d20 roughly 6 times every time he attacked. In the industry, we call this an inconvenience. He took note of this…

Welcome to the Dark Side (Still deciding on an opening sentence) In the first episode of Star Wars the Phantom a Menace Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi master and his young padawan Obi Wan kenobi are sent to Naboo as ambassadors to negotiate a deal with the trade federation in hopes to end the blockade. Negotiations ended badly causing them to flee and they met a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks while running through the jungles of Naboo. Jar Jar took them to the hidden underwater city called Otoh Gunga to keep…

focus on core leading up to the shoulder stand text next week which requires a lot of core strength. Parallel Bars: Attempted the forward roll for the first time. There are a lot skills involved in the forward roll, and can be quite difficult to master, because they have to be done while you your whole body is flipping. To perform a successful forward roll you need a tight tuck and your knees need to be kept together and you also need a clean and controlled landing." "Resistance Training: By…

to a productive roll but in a communist society the general production is regulated thus meaning people would no longer be confined to just one productive roll they would have options. Marx believed that if proletariat achieved political power and put an end to the bourgeois modes of production that this would weaken class antagonisms which means the proletariat would lose their class character. This would then lead to a classless society. "The proletarians cannot become masters of the…

Education did not have a roll in slavery. Slaves were not given the privilege to learn how to read or write. “If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master—to do as he is told to do.” Douglass learned his A, B, C’s, when he was sent to Baltimore to a new master. His master’s wife began to teach him his A, B, C’s. Once his master found out he made sure that is was put to an end. He was not supposed to be exposed to any learning if it was…

it was always just a brief overview of his roll in history, never in depth like in this book. It was interesting to read about a slave who didn’t live an absolutely awful life. Even Douglass himself talked about how he didn't see why people were so angry about being slaves but, he was also still very young at that time and didn’t know what was really going on. He was one of the more fortunate slaves we’ve read about because he had a Sophia Auld( his masters wife)and she saw him as just a child,…