Oreo

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, we're all accustomed to a certain standard, or stereotype that needs to be played. Whether it's being captain of the cheerleading team or the smartest kid in your class, it's one way or another that's there's going to be someone who's supposed to follow by these stereotypes or standards just for the sole fact that that's them. Unfortunately for me, it couldn't get any worse, since being an African American female who unfortunately does not fit your typical, "angry black…

Odysseus encountered Cyclops twice in this section of the book, once with his men when he landed on an island full of them. They didn 't make any contact with them at all, though shortly after seeing the island of the Cyclops they landed on an different island that they believed was safe and possibly uninhabited. They ended up being very wrong when they discovered a cave filled with sheep, cheese, and one blood thirsty giant. Did I mention that they knew he lived in the cave and continued to…

Dear Y Camp family, One of the greatest feelings in life is when you’re laying in the cool grass looking up at a crystal clear sky with a million stars. Lighting bugs make the darkness sparkle and move. The night air unsullied and fresh, frogs croak, barn owls call back and forth to each other, and cicadas sing in the blackness. The moon casts shadows from the colossal hundred year old surrounding oak trees, your belly is filled with M&M’s and campfire cooked s 'mores. You can feel a sense of…

Enter Lenny, his protégé who, according to the book, will take over the bookstore and get The Pinch published. It appears that Lenny has gotten by through life by making very little effort and is working in the bookstore to bide his time until he is drafted. He is practically a squatter, and deals drugs on the side; otherwise he would have no social life to mention. Lenny appears throughout the book at the wrong place at the wrong time. He manages to find himself, during an errand, in the…

The Color Complex African Americans have struggled and overcame a lot of difficulties as time has process. From slavery and being free, voting rights, segregation and equal citizenship these outcomes has been a journey for black Americans. Some people failed to realize that blacks themselves had their own racial issue within United States. Black people suffer mainly from a term called color complex. “In short “color complex is a psychological fixation about color and features that leads blacks…

KiKi Petrosino’s Fort Red Border speaks volumes as both a creative outlook on the imagined relationship between the speaker, an Italian African-American and her beloved Robert Redford, an iconic American actor. With her unique perspective on the world in which she lives, Kiki takes her readers on a fantasy between the natural and unnatural, and the real and unreal; questioning the validity of everyday life. Fort Red Border also explores the ideologies behind class, ethnicity, and inheritance,…

Marianne had struggled throughout her childhood to fit in and be “popular” . She had tried to fit in by making friends, going to camps, and doing normal activities of a teenager. Fitting in never came easy to Marianne because she had always self-conscious and insecure. One day at camp changed her life forever when she was sitting in her bunk. She believed that if she had lost weight she would fit in and be “popular”. This night started her fight against anorexia and bulimia that soon would take…

worry about not being able to sleep at night. It was a good feeling that paranoia would be crossed out from my list of things to worry about at night. I dropped by the nearest 7-11 store before returning home. I got a variety of food. From crackers to oreos…

WELCOME Brothers and sisters in Jesus, welcome to this time set aside to focus on the Holy Spirit working among us. May our hearts be open and eager to receive God’s Word! PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP “We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord!” That old camp song reminds us we are all one family in Christ. May God bless us as we gather for worship. OPPORTUNITIES TODAY WE WELCOME JeanJean and Kristie Mompremier, missionaries with UCI in Haiti, who will be with us during morning worship…

came in conjunction with other insults like, “you have HBO”, standing for Haitian body odor. The fact that I chose to speak in Mainstream Academic English, instead of in Black Vernacular English made me a target for being called a “Valley Girl” or an “Oreo”. All of my differences were highlighted in a negative way, my appearance, my speech, and my existence. Simultaneously, I also received the first push back about my Latina identity. Children would say, “you can’t be Puerto Rican, you’re not…