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The movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis and portrayed by Tom Hanks who portrays the principal character. The story is based on the life of a man named Forrest Gump born in Alabama in 1940’s with a IQ score lower than normal which did not stop him from accomplish things most people could only dream off. According to the film the main character was born with a developmental disability in the form of Autism, which I think it’s a mild case, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to function the way…

Black and white people rode busses through the south, stop-ping to do sit-ins at ‘whites only’ lunch counters. And to generally do things in places that were ‘whites only’. These freedom rides were organized by SCLS, The Southern Christian leadership Conference. At first these freedom rides were peaceful, but it…

Poverty and Crime In this essay I intend to examine the way in which critics point to poverty as a catalyst for crime. Should we blame poor people for the decisions they made or didn 't make to get them where they are today or should we blame the government? The real question is whether or not crime and poverty are related? Many people believe poverty and crime are common social issues that has troubled nations for thousands of years. Many sociologists and economists believe that poverty and…

Racism is witnessed anytime, anywhere. It is commonly found in public areas like schools and workplaces. Racism is a way for people to express their own derogatory opinions about a person because of their physical characteristics and ethnicity. Majority of racism originates from stereotypes, or from something a person hears often. There are different forms of racism. One form of racism is microaggression. It is not often heard, but it means subtle racism. Workplaces, specifically, are not places…

The specific plastic described in the chapter was celluloid, which is no longer used for anything but the production of ping pong balls. However, plastics in general are something I use nearly for everything. Most of my storage is done through plastic containers because they are generally lightweight and are transparent, allowing me to know exactly what is inside. However…

British monarchy (Powell). Colonist had to work to survive and had to do as the British commanded and that is not a life. Freedom includes safety and that is what man fights for. The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the Tai Ping Rebellion, the Mexican Rebellion and many more wars and conflicts were launched in order to acquire…

Potter Stewart once said, “Fairness is what justice really is.” Richard Wright expresses similar sentiments in his novel, The Native Son, when displaying Bigger’s hardships as a black man in a white society. Wright highlights Bigger’s crimes in a new light when instilling empathy in the reader as he/she undertakes Bigger’s journey of self- fulfillment and awareness. His overuse of the black and white motif constructs a society in which people judge based on skin color. He constructs a society in…

Using the approach of ethnography, the cultural scene of the Kresge-Ford student lounge will be explored. In notion with this paper, ethnography involves conducting detailed research on a setting of everyday life (or group) by observing at a distance with partial communication with the individuals present. Culture is the learned distinction of what is considered acceptable and unacceptable behavior. And cultural scene is the shared experience between a number of people. These concepts will be…

In 2006, Miley Cyrus didn’t care that the Malibu {cultural allusion} she would sing about years later was being swept with fires; she was busy getting ready for her Best of Both Worlds tour {cultural allusion}. Mark Zuckerberg {cultural allusion} was definitely too busy turning down a $1 billion deal with Yahoo to listen to Shakira’s new “Hips Don’t Lie.” {cultural allusion}. And somewhere, some guy named Harry was finally about to defeat Voldemort {literary allusion}, and probably didn’t know…

automatically connects to it. Now, that tower’s radio waves send a command to your phone’s antennae: the baseband chip. That tells your phone to fake any shutdown and stay on...Spies could keep your phone on standby and just use the microphone--or send pings announcing your location” (Pagliery). The government could hack every phone, listen to every conversation, hear every sign of rebellion and stop it before anything starts like in the novel 1984. This could give the government the power…