Past

Faith Colbath Extra Credit Thurgood Marshall’s writing, The Constitution; Past and Present, starts out by explaining that the United States will be celebrating the Constitution’s bicentennial that year, 1987. The celebration will not only celebrate the Constitution but also the Founders of the document. Marshall assumes that most of the population will proudly commemorate the Framers for forming a free nation. He was invited to celebrate the historical document and he readily declined the…

Dictators Past and Present As we recently passed the 100th year anniversary for WWI, we look back on famous Leaders and their abuse of Power A s we come up to the 101st anniversary for WWI this year in July, we start to remember those great leaders and those leaders that abused their power. We also remember the Leaders that lived before WWI. One of those would be Julius Caesar. A dictator that was born in July 100 BC. He is also a character portrayed in William Shakespeare’s famous play. Even…

portrayal of the story, it is obvious that Miss Emily doesn’t cope well with change; instead she fights to hold onto her old way of life. Holding onto the past, Miss Emily refused to adopt modern amenities such as the free postal delivery, and failed to become the southern aristocrat everyone expected her to be. By staying planted firmly in the past, Emily has alienated herself from the present; she has walled herself up into of her house and is out of touch with reality. In order to live,…

a summary of each piece of writing I read, note the points of of differing interpretation between the authors, and also my evaluation of the various authors issues and how they relate to each other. The summary of the “In Discovering the American Past”, It talks about the Peculiar Institution stating what the problem was and the method or changing the problem and the evidence showing the problem. The problem is Slavery with over 500,000 slaves in America. They tried to stop it by ending the…

4. Ilya Kabakov Ilya Kabakov offers an interesting counterpart to the artist duo Komar and Melamid. In comparison to Komar and Melamid who applied to emigrate twice in 1977, Kabakov was reluctant to leave his country, admitting that he would have remained in the Soviet Union “forever if perestroika hadn 't come”. Nonetheless, this was not due to any deep patriotism to the Soviet Union. Though he still retained his official position as a children’s book illustrator, he was seen as an unofficial…

A Past that still Impacts America Today: Racism Everyday all over the world there are cases of Racism and violent acts because of Racism. This is an important matter that has been going on in America for many years and will continue to be an extreme issue if nothing is done to erase it. Several significant figures have attempted to present awareness of the matter through, protest, advertising, and public speeches. For example, Barack Hussein Obama II. In Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union”…

Most people would think that “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is about Christmas when it was originally written to prevent child labor. The novella tells the story of a wealthy and greedy man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is not the nicest gentleman and he is mean to his poor servant whose name is Bob Cratchit. This book teaches us that money does not always make us happy. This message can still apply to us today. around the time that ACC was written, children did a lot of work in the mines…

Many arguments as to why poor children of color do not succeed as well as White middle class peers is speculation by judgmental people. In “Pushing Past the Achievement Gap: An Essay on the Language of Deficit,” Ladson-Billings discusses some of the assumptions naïve people make about “at risk” students. For example, some people believe that, “these children are not ready” to begin school, and they…

African-Americans were dehumanized and considered inferior compared to White Americans. They were treated unfairly and restricted in public places for their rights and resources were stripped. Based on the two autobiographical memoirs, Black boy and Separate Pasts, the authors have expressed their own opposite respective experiences of Blacks and Whites to show how the Constitution rights were overturned. African slaves had to endure brutal working environments and continued to be treated…

How the Past Lives in the Present Transformative events can potentially impact and change one’s life indefinitely. On September 11, 2001, the United States of America encountered a life-changing occurrence which resulted in lasting effects on the lives of its citizens: a terrorist attack. The term “terrorist attack” remained weak to America until its direct contact with the nation occurred. The effects of events on 9/11 remain current today in that American Muslims suffer from inequality,…