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game and made Jackie the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. The youngest of five children, Robinson was raised by a single mother. He went to John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College where he played four sports; football, baseball, track, and basketball. Robinson was very successful in all of these sports thanks to his big brother Mathew Robinson for his inspiration. Jackie then went to college at the…

On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery Alabama. Everyone has heard of this story, but what most people don’t know is that Lieutenant Jack “Jackie” Robinson also made the same action, 11 years earlier. On July 6th, 1944, Robinson was riding a military bus at Camp Hood in Waco, Texas during World War 2. Robinson was asked to move to the back of the bus by white men. He argued and fought until he arrived at his stop, in which they continued to argue…

Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He moved to Pasadena where he went to high school, and junior college. He excelled in track, football, baseball, and basketball. He would then go on to compete in these sports at UCLA. After college, Jackie enlisted in the Army and served in Fort Riley, Kansas.(Robinson, 13). At the army base Jackie experienced racism, “ Finally, taking for granted that I was white, he said, ‘ Lieutenant,let me put it this way. How would you like…

In his autobiography Doing Battle Paul Fussell writes of his personal experiences which also tie in to several themes touched upon by social historians such as George Roeder in The Censored War. Roeder documents how the participation and suffering of African-American soldiers was censored carefully so as not to offend racists. While photographs showing dead American soldiers were a propaganda staple (as long as not too gruesome and not showing faces of the corpses), photos of black American…

The TV show I will be exploring in detail is the Big Bang Theory. This is a popular American sitcom produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. It is currently on its tenth season and has been renewed for another two seasons on CBS. According to the Big Bang Theory fansite (2007-2017), The Pilot was first released on September 24, 2007. This show focuses on the daily lives of two geeky physicists named Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter. Their introverted lives change when the attractive, social…

Scholars have criticized the media for producing and pushing the Model Minority stereotype to the general public. Bob Suzuki, who published an article about thirty years ago in 1977, argues that the Model Minority is mostly a publicity stunt pulled by the media. Suzuki further states that although the Model Minority Stereotype seems misleadingly positive on the surface, it is erroneous and distorted, which proves as a liability for many Asian Americans. The Model Minority stereotype…

In just such a move, Trader Joe’s phased out singleingredient products (such as spinach and garlic) from China. “Our customers have voiced their concerns about products from this region and we have listened,” the company said in a statement, noting that items would be replaced with “products from other regions until our customers feel as confident as we do about the quality and safety of Chinese products.”19 Conversely, discontinued items may be brought back if customers are vocal enough,…

rose between black demonstrators and the police. During this time, John Ball wrote his first book. It was a murder mystery set in a small Carolina town. The crime-solving detective of Ball’s novel was Virgil Tibbs, an famed homicide detective from Pasadena, California, who happened to be passing through the area on the night of the killing, having visited his mother downstate. Although local cops initially arrest Tibbs at the train station, suspecting without any evidence that Tibbs may have…

Hamlet’s Insanity There have been many arguments as to if Hamlet is insane or not. This is a topic that a lot of people have concerns about. Some believe that Hamlet has always been insane because he has really negative thoughts in his own soliloquy when he is talking to himself. Others say that he was never insane at all and he was just acting it all out as a part of his plan that nobody could know of. At the beginning of the play, Hamlet does not seem to have any negative thoughts about…

Jackie Robinson was a very inspirational athlete, known world wide and his name will go down in history. He was a role model, a leader, and made it easier for African American ballplayers everywhere. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was the first African American professional baseball player in todays day in age of baseball. Jackie is credited and rightfully so, with breaking the “color line” in baseball. While he was a great baseball player, that was not even close to the most important thing in…