Opal

A detective – the one who solves the mystery of a crime, clever, wise, and knowledgeable. Yet detectives are not always the obvious type, as is exemplified by a both a novel and a series of short stories. In G. K. Chesterton’s Favorite Father Brown Stories, the wise detective is not a usual detective. As implied by his name, Father Brown was an English village priest in the 19th or 20th century, who ended up being the one to solve or lead another to solving a crime or finding the criminal.…

Race Relations in the United States has been a volatile subject dating back as far as we know and can read in history. The United States and its citizens have long created plans to tackle these conflicts that arise from race relations, yet they seem nothing more than good simple ideas that have grown into forced approaches on society. Ideas that have changed and evolved over time to be only a sliver of the original tone and plan to begin with. If one doesn’t follow these opinions, you could be…

It was founded by activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi after the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013. Martin was a 17 year old African-American boy from Florida who was wrongfully shot and killed due to racial profiling by police officer George Zimmerman. On the evening of the murder, Zimmerman had…

The Rebellion The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, and the film Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann are two examples of storytelling in which the main protagonist struggles in expressing their own spice of individuality in their society. The boy in The Ocean at the End of the Lane is an odd character as he is placed into almost two different planes of existance and is forced to find his personal strengths and weaknesses, while Scott Hastings in Strictly Ballroom is a…

contributions black leaders were in, and black women leadership in public settings. A way the youth is spreading awareness for black innocent lives is by using the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. This hashtag was created by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi: three black women. This hashtag has brought many people to realization that black people need support and to not be ignored. Not only do black people don’t get enough recognition, Black Muslim people don’t as…

The analysis of Christina Rossetti’s skilful construction, timeless content, and sophisticated use of language in her poetry provides insight into why her poems are both engaging and highly valued. Rossetti’s works are highly acclaimed by many modern critics as innovative for her time, due to her commentary on Victorian society and her lyrical gift. She explores many thematic concerns that maintain relevancy in present-day society, including the corrupting influences of the world; the…

of Roman mythology, and Sidney even goes so far as to call her smooth, mild, and fair. The other stanzas of this poem follow this same pattern, the poet praising the traits of his subject and comparing the traits to those of precious stones such as opal and sapphire, as seen in the third stanza. This was not an uncommon thing in the sixteenth century, even Shakespeare is known for comparing a woman to “A midsummer’s day” in one of his more famous sonnets. However, unlike a gentle summer day, the…

In Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech, he envisioned “a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls [would] be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers” (personal communication, 1963). This speech was spoken during a time of segregation and discrimination between White’s and African Americans within the United States. Despite the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, White’s still sought…

#blacklivesmatter” (Sinder, Simon). Other people saw her status and liked it and some even used the hashtag themselves and before Patrisse knew it, almost everyone was using this hashtag. Astonished on what she had created her and her two sisters; Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza decided to move all this support into the streets, by creating Black Lives Matter Ride. Black Lives Matter ride was a national conference that was organized by Patrisse Cullors herself and with the help of Darnell L.Moore.…

an alcove where a shrine lay; it was magnificent, the candlesticks where gold, the cloth covering a fine silk, and the centerpiece was a delicate construct wrought in gold and sliver, encrusted with lustrous pearls, star sapphires, and a white fire opal as big as his eye. Aaron made short work of the gold candle sticks, and silk, and had just pried the centerpiece loose, already thinking of how best to dispose of it, when suddenly he hears yell "Aaron, what are you doing!" The sudden yell…