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people and a community to which they refuse to be silenced on the issues at hand as a cry for fairness and justice. The Black Lives Matter website and the Twitter hash tag #Black Lives Matter had been launched in by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomeki-all in their thirties and all veteran activist. Cullors a performance artist based in Los Angeles, founded Dignity and Power Now, which she says has “achieved victories for the abolitionist movement.” The word abolitionist” here refers…

Doctrina is the daughter of Athena, the Goddess of wisdom, and Zeus, the father and ruler of all gods, as well as the god of law, order, and justice. She was form formed from the wise thoughts of her mother and brought forth from her mind. She and her older brother Ares were raised by their parents. She learned a great deal from her brother but they were polar opposites. Ares is the god of violence and represents the chaos of war. He is moody and unreliable. Doctrina learned her military…

Author Willa Cather in her short story, “Paul’s Case”, suggests that the main character Paul is unhappy with his lifestyle, and therefor he devotes himself towards living a life of luxury. She supports this by first showing Paul in his disciplinary meeting at school, then Paul goes to the theater, then he returns after the theater to the dullness and darkness of Cordelia Street. Cather’s purpose is to demonstrate that nothing good comes out of hoping for something that you don't have, and be…

I kept my jacket slung over my shoulders in the event that I would be summoned outside again, and toiled my way into the kitchen before placing the contents of my pocket onto the table in preparation. The onslaught of my stomachs tantrum and distaste, with being unattended to for longer than it would like, began as a low hum and swelled to a vicious gurgle upon coming to the realization that it would soon be fed; and, naturally, the state of one’s stomach directly dictates the demeanor of its…

close family. Leverton uses describes many colors, painting a surreal world that has had the saturation turned up. It paints a clear picture for the reader and provides a common running thread of word choice through the poem. Levertov uses colors like opal, green, white, and gold, but the color gray is stated three times, more than any other color. Gray is often dull and unemotional, much how the speaker must feel during the poem. These descriptions paint a unique picture with a clear tone that…

The Joy Luck Club was written by Amy Tan, a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Based on her detailed past, I feel like she put pieces of her life in the novel. Just like the novel, Tan’s parents immigrated from China, in look for a better future in America. Amy Tan was raised as an American while her mother still hold inside of her the old Chinese culture. Another thing I felt she compared her life into the novel is what her mother expected her to do as she grew up. Like the mothers in The Joy Luck…

“She’s Gotta Have It” is a momentous film that captures the dynamics one woman, Nola, encounters in her personal relationships, as she pursues multiple partners. Throughout the movie, Nola has three consistent partners; each possesses a distinctly different personality and manner in which they go about dating Nola. Nola is a young and successful woman who is unsure of what she wants in romantic relationships, so she seeks out multiple partners. Despite the many manipulations and domineering…

It literality started out as a hashtag that was created in 2013 by three women by the names of Patrice Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. They are organizers that are based in California and New York and they have campaigns for incarceration, immigration and domestic labor. After the shooting of Brown, the movement has told others that police officers are racist and is the biggest…

Humans are the only known species to have a complex verbal means of communication. The words we speak everyday communicate opinions, define objects, and distribute knowledge. Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night not only proves the importance of words in society, but provides explanation of word usage through the minor character Feste the Jester. Feste plays an important role as a “corrupter of words” and explains to the reader how powerful words are. With this understanding, he affirms that people…

Hiram “Hank” Williams was born on September 17th, 1923, and by the year 1937 Hank had begun his career as one of the early pioneers of blues and country music. Hank was born in a small town in Alabama called, Mt. Olive. Hank was the third child of his family. His dad, Elonzo “Lon” Williams, worked on railroads for a lumber company during the first seven years of Hanks life until his father started having health issues. Elonzo fought for two years in World War 1 and years later he started…