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As people, we are often more inclined to listen to what people currently tell us. To live in the present based on what we observe. To overlook events from the past that hold many principles we are unaware of. In Michelle Cliff’s Abeng, these distinctions of the past versus the present are identified through Cliff’s use of varying repetition, sentence structure and writing style for each shift in time, depictions the past to be objective and true and the present to be affected by people’s…

In the novel, The Almond Tree by Michelle Corasanti, one main symbol is present throughout the entire book. This being the almond tree, hence the title. Corasanti chose to bring the almond tree alive and represent different ideas as the story and characters evolved. These characters are Ichmad and his family of Palestine who lives through hardships. The almond tree represents hope, survival, and shelter, all of which were essential and meant something to the characters within the book. Foremost,…

Michelle Obama presents herself as a friendly character to the graduating class instead of as First Lady Michelle Obama. It seems to me she wants to make sure the attention is on the students and not on her because the day is supposed to be about all of them. She came to see them to make a speech not them coming to see her make a speech.So she talks to the class as an aproachable loving,caring type of person who is very proud of them. She recognizes not only the students but the parents and the…

The New Jim Crow In Michelle Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” the author makes a case that modern African-Americans are under the control of the criminal justice system. This includes African Americans who are incarcerated in prisons and jails as well as those on probation or parole. Alexander claims that there are more African Americans under the thumb of the criminal justice system today than were enslaved in 1850. Moreover, discrimination…

“Education means emancipation,” according to Frederick Douglass, a writer, abolitionist and a leader to many. In order to inspire those who are lost and without hope of continuing their education, they must be uplifted to illuminate their path with knowledge and excellence. The same determination has been inscribed to many parents of this country and around the world, so they can guide their own children to a better future. Their sacrifices are great ones, especially if their children are first…

Michelle Malkin’s purpose is to expose the so-called “lazy advocates and ignorant journalists” who are not fact checking their news, and causing a skewed version of what’s the truth. Malkin uses a social media “meme of the moment” to drive home her point of what journalists and news reporters are doing incorrectly. She gives evidence to what journalists sloppiness has costed civilians, and even ends her column with “When #MeToo bandwagons form in the midst of a panic, innocent people get run…

Michelle Alexander is a well-respected civil rights lawyer, legal scholar and civil rights advocate, whom teaches at the law of Stanford Law School. Alexandria studied a series of information regarding the similarities between race and criminal justice. Also, Alexandria participated in both private and nonprofit organizations and launched campaign regarding racial profiling, where she served as the leading director of the projects (The new Jim crow.org). The New Jim crow: Mass Incarceration in…

The Traditional Rituals In the story "The Lottery" Michelle Jackson provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions so blindly without even thinking about how much sense it really makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones. The name of the title makes you think that this story is about drawing numbers and winning a prize, but to my surprise it is about how small villages take part in a tradition, ritual every year to be…

In her book “The New Jim Crow,” Michelle Alexander (2010) argues that elites undermined the civil rights agenda by portraying the poverty and unrest in black inner-city communities in the 1960s as the product of inferior black culture (p. 45). Alexander has a very different idea about the cause, blaming it on globalization and suburbanization, which moved jobs out of cities (p. 50-51). Conservatives, however, succeed in what Birkland (2015) calls social construction, or “selling a broad…

Cameron Michelle Diaz was born in San Diego, but, expressing an adventurous and determined personality from the earliest years of life, she left her home at 16 to act as a model in several international agencies. Working, he spent only five years in Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Australia and France. It was precisely in one of these trips that he met the director Carlo de La Torre, who opened the doors of the then model for cinema. At age 21, he auditioned for the film "The Mask," which starred actor…