Person of color

I produced my tape of Mariah Carey. She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove’” (Adichie 2). Adichie's roommate presumed that she would not be able to speak english, or know how to use a stove. This assumption was purely based off of the color of Adichie’s skin. Her roommate even asked to hear her “tribal music”. Nigeria's official language was English, Chimamanda could use a stove, and enjoyed Amercian music. Time after time, Adichie’s roommate assumed that she lived a certain way…

different colors in the world, but humans can only name so many. There are around ten colors in our world that every human can name and are at the center of our everyday life. These are the colors that dominate all the other colors in a supreme fashion. Colors like red and blue which we see just about everyday our always in the back of our minds, Humanity has come to naturally associate these colors with objects to the point where some people can hear a word and immediately associate a color…

synesthesia including Billy Joel, Vincent Van Gogh, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, and Duke Ellington (WC #4). However, some people with sound-color synesthesia, their musical ability may be affected by their synthetic experience.A person will see a sound as a color when hearing a sound. This makes it difficult for the musician to see their music, with colors…

Identity is how a person defines themselves. It could be things like race, morals, sexuality, gender, height, weight, etc. Nearly anything that could be used to describe a person could be part of their identity, but only if that person is willing to adapt that aspect of their life into their identity. These things that people define themselves have the ability to change, but in order for that to occur there either needs to be a slow, gradual change caused by a long-term event or a strong event…

an individual does not only affect the individual, but the people who the individual associates with daily. When exposed to the benefits of formal English, one’s past has the possibility of getting buried and a new identity can be born within that person. People can be trapped by the language they use, which limits their identity from growing. Different environments may have their own dialects of English, even though they know standard English exists. For example, Malcolm X, a spokesman of the…

give them a blank sheet of paper with some crayons for drawing and coloring. They will be asked to draw their favorite fruit and color it. When they are done, they will stand by their seat. Each person that stands will be connected with a partner, making them two. They will then share their picture with each other. The sharing time consist of them telling about the color of the fruit and why they like to eat it. How will I assure that…

flowers are overlapped together. Furthermore, it is not empty since most of the space that covered with flowers, and trees. It is also a positive space as similar colors, and it is not focused to the background. I think for subordinate at the painting will be the road that connected with the Left-side of the background. Since the color of the road is a little bit lighter than the flowers, thus I can focus on…

The white boy attending his first lynching party has a major lack of respect for characters who have different external characteristics than them, specifically skin color. Although he is slightly uncomfortable with the lynching “party” he still continues to watch it, hence supporting it in a way. As if being there watching the lynching is not bad enough the narrator additionally dehumanizes the black male by referring…

invasions and even suicide. Suicide is one of the number one causes of death in the U.S today. Many things like sadness, family issues, school or bullying can make a person commit suicide. It can be planned out by the victim or it can be unexpectedly. Older adults or younger kids can commit suicide. One can never tell when a person is suicidal until its too late. In the poems “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy…

You Be You The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about a boy, Jonas, who becomes the new Receiver of Memory and faces challenges, that causes him to make some tough decisions about how he wants to live. The society that he is living in has been the same since he was young. But now that he is older and is seeing it as a totally different place, he decided that the town is a place where people live as if nothing is wrong but the whole town really isn’t a happy place that Jonas wants to live in. His…