Opal

The black lives matter movement focuses on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of the police. Demonstrators at the black lives matter movement who chant the phrase “Black Lives Matter” today are fighting for the same rights their ancestors and civil rights activist fought for half a century ago. The organization is not asserting that black lives are seemingly more precious than white lives, or another other for that matter. The organization…

Scott Fitzgerald writes as if he is reciting speech. He uses profound long words to describe and say things in almost every sentence, “Suddenly one of those gypsies,in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air ,dumps it down for courage and, moving her hands like a Frisch, dances out alone on the canvas platform.” He does this a lot throughout the book, most of the time he turns small simple words into big ones to make…

“In an Artist’s Studio” is a short Petrarchan sonnet written by Christina Rossetti in England during the year 1856. The sonnet encompasses the persona of the author who is watching an artist paint a portrait of a young woman. As the work progresses, the painter fails to capture the realistic beauty of his model, and begins fantasizing of the perfection she could be. Rossetti, being aware of gender inequality in this era, uses the subtle message of this sonnet to propose that the value of a woman…

The Ocean at The End of the Lane is a novel which was written by Neil Gaiman, and it was originally published by William Morrow and Company in 2013. It is a novel of fantasy, in that a seven-year-old boy experienced something horrifying and peculiar. The theme of this novel is the childhood memory which has been lost when you get older. Although it was a fantasy story, this is the book more for adults than children. This book starts with a scene of a middle-aged man returning to his hometown…

ice, which gains the solid crystalline structure that H20 lacks in its liquid form. Because of this difference in state, water cannot be defined as a mineral, while ice meets all of the geological requirements to be considered a mineral. Synthetic opal, by definition, is not naturally occurring, and therefore cannot be defined as a mineral without any further examination. Wood is an organic solid that is produced by trees that make up the biosphere. Wood cannot be considered a mineral due to…

INTRODUCTION Beginning in the year 1619, African-Americans were used as slaves to aid Caucasian landowners and work on their plantations. In 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was founded, a group that opposed the granting of civil rights for African Americans through murder, lynching, and many other notorious acts. In the 1870s, the Jim Crow laws were introduced, enforcing racial segregation between Caucasians and African-Americans. In the year of 1941, Emmett Till, an African-American teenager, was…

Imagine walking at night to get yourself a bag of skittles and a bottled tea, but you are spotted by an ignorant protector of a peaceful community; he acts impulsively and shortens your life, The life on an innocent African American civilian. In today’s society, many African Americans are targeted continuously and the next innocent soul is taken. Over a decade the black community as a whole has been targeted repeatedly.On the other hand a multitude of “American” citizens vision, unity there are…

Opal Mathis resides in a nursing home in Lake City, GA. Mrs. Opal looks like Mrs. Rosa Parks. Her hair is all white, wears glasses, and she uses a hearing device. When I came into her room to start with the interview, she looked at me and said “oh well young lady I am ready for my first…

Home Means Nevada “All For Our Country” Nevada was the 36th state to become part of the union. It became a state on October 31, 1864. Maybe that’s where Halloween came from. The state colors are blue and silver. Nevada goes by many names, you may know it best as the Silver State, but it is also nicknamed the Sagebrush State and the Battle Born State. The state flower of Nevada is the Big Sagebrush which grows in the desert and rangelands of Nevada. Native Americans used to use Sagebrush for…

For centuries, America has always directly or indirectly oppressed and/or discriminated one or more groups of people. It started out with the Natives and then the Africans, even Italians and the Irish were discriminated against. Noted that all this discrimination had occurred at time when many, many people lacked their inalienable rights. Now America is one the most powerful countries in the entire world and we do have a system that grants every human being in America their inalienable rights.…