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Drug addiction has contributed to a large portion of cultural foundations in The United States. Throughout the decades, the use of drugs has sculpted the principals of life in a majority of all ethnic backgrounds. “Sonny’s Blues”, written by James Baldwin, conveys a first person view of the effects of drug addiction and the recovery processes power to bring family back together after an immense amount of hardship. Throughout “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny has been released from jail and is dealing with…

Defending Jazz As African-American artists, LeRoi Jones, poet, playwright, and jazz critic, and Max Roach, drummer and jazz lecturer, believe that jazz is a representation of African-American culture and attitudes about the world. More importantly, they believe that the creation of jazz music is reserved for only African-Americans. This is evident when Roach says in his essay, “Beyond Categories”: “I am often asked, ‘Can whites play your kind of music?’ My answer is ‘Yes’...But no whites have…

The articles have pointed some challenges that intergovernmental bodies were faced with in the wake of hurricane Katrina and the survey taken by the National League of Cities. Interestly, the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe have sparked arguments saying that those who were responsible failed to respond effectively to the situation. Besides, Hurricane Katrina the issue of the unfunded mandates was a great concern for the local governments in the 1990’s with a shrinking municipal financial resources…

According to spotify 9.6 million people in the world listen to rap/hip hop. I usually listen to rap when i get home or when my little sister starts to talk or some times when i get made. When my sister starts talking i just put my headphones on and jam to loud music and ignore her. that is usually when i get home. when i am mad i put the headphones on and listen to my music on spotify. Rap is my favorite music. Most people listen to rap to get something out of ther head. Rap is something that…

A 100 and 500-year flood will create city-wide damage to residential, commercial, and municipal infrastructure. Fargo had many major floods that brought many properties, homes, and buildings submerged under water and created destruction. For instance, 1997 and 1897 Red River floods were the biggest floods that occurred in Fargo, North Dakota that flooded most of the city. After 1997, the government built stronger neighborhood and city dikes. Besides, each flooding warning, the government orders…

Dr. Ruby Payne grew up in a middle class Mennonite family in Ohio. Dr. Ruby Payne is a famous author, a publisher, business owner, and career educator in the area of poverty and social class. Dr. Payne is known as an expert on mindset of economic classes. Dr. Payne has had 30 years of in-field experience in public schools, she has served as a head school department head, as a principle, and as an administrator of staff development at central office. Dr. Payne received her B.A. in Elementary…

Under the sea? Certainly there were many wondering whether or not Charleston was going to become the next Atlantis; a city submerged completely under water due to some catastrophic event, to forever be lost in history and time. Well, that did not happen, but due to the low pressure system delivered to Charleston via Hurricane Joaquin, the whole peninsula did experience a great deal of flooding that cost citizens millions of dollars in damage and even cost several their lives. But the question…

P.B.S. Pinchback, or Pincney Benton Stewart Pinchback was the U.S. Governor, was a Civil Rights Activist for African-Americans equality, and was a U.S. Representative. He was born on May 10, 1837 and died on December 21, 1921. He was born in Macon Georgia and his father was a slaveholder and his mother was a former slave of his father, and his mother was freed before he was born. His parents were of different races even though this wasn’t the social norm back then. This was called being…

booming success, due to channel 19 news, which featured a lot of his famous designs such as “ The Lawnmower “ and “ The Pelican “ where he would put the New Orleans Pelicans logo in your yard. When he arrived at Mrs. Robinson’s they chatted a bit and she explained what she wanted and to nobody 's surprise it was “ The Pelican “ due to the recent NBA championship the New Orleans Pelicans achieved. It…

August 17th, 2017 was when it all started, but it wasn’t until August 25th when Harvey decided to take a shot at Texas. The nation was shocked by the highest winds of 130 mph, the 84 confirmed deaths, and the thousands of homes destroyed. Why did Harvey develop into something so destructive? In “Hurricane Harvey: Why Is It So Extreme?”, Mark Fischetti successfully explained the science behind how and why Hurricane Harvey became so powerful and destructive in Texas to the public, from a natural…