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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”(Robinson). The sports world developed in the 1920’s with the explosion of America’s pastime, Major League Baseball. Baseball was formed in 1850’s in the United States but did not really become widely watched until 1920. The majority of those who watched baseball were middle-upper class Americans. This meant that the black community had not indulged in playing or watching baseball. Starting around 1920, the Negro League was…

Cuban American Sunny bright clear beaches with white soft sand, that is what comes to my head when I remember about Cuba Placentas, and when I think about Miami in the United States. I was born in Cuba but I move to Miami when I was 8 years old. I can’t tell you there has been some major changes in my life but I still keep my background. This experience for me has may me see how different is Cuba from America, yet at the same time I have seen similarities. I can say I have more experience in…

A Century of Dishonor is a outcry for justice by Helen hunt written in 1881.”One of the most prolific women writers of her time, Helen Hunt Jackson hoped to be remembered mainly for A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government 's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (1881)”(Briscoe). Helen raises the question at the beginning of her book by posing the question to the reader, has the American government really been honorable in their dealings with native americans. Helen…

Radical, or conservative. Abolitionist, or proslavery. Whether you believe in one or the other, we all share a common belief: to fight for what is right, just, and beneficial to our country. Through the years of American history, there have been events that led to the satisfaction of our people, and there have been times where we admit we’ve overstepped. But who decides when it’s too late to apologize and to replace the mile we’ve taken when only given an inch? The United States of America is a…

Marxism is an idea from German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism is a social system that people are classified as multiple individuals in a nation under capitalism, which are employers, working classes, and farmers. Their social status are based on their owned properties. According to Franks, people who claim themselves to be Marxists argue that they have deeper understanding about class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Inequalities in the society are the ramification of the…

Identity Crisis or Nonexistent Identity? Amid the journey of life, an important distinguishing within oneself is finding identity or how to define oneself. This can easily be impacted by difficult experiences, such as being an immigrant in a foreign land. In the novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, author Julia Alvarez expresses the struggles that character Yolanda feels from migrating for the Dominican Republic to the United States with her family at a young age and the effects…

Culture is all around us. From what we wear to what we eat to how we speak. You can try to hide your connection to culture, but it will always find you. When searching for a definition to culture I feel Texas A&M University did an amazing job. Their definition states: “A culture is a way of life of a group of people—the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation…

The novel The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander a compelling guide through the American justice system. The novel gives its readers insight that since the Jim Crows and Obamas Presidency the “colorblindness” within the United States has revolutionized the American society in ways unimaginable, especially in the Wars on Drugs. The author takes her readers past times in 1840’s, around the time of the Jim Crows to about modern day dealing with how…

Fires in the Mirror “And it’s a way of knowing that no matter where I put myself that I am not necessarily what’s around me (Fires in the Mirror, 1).” Anna Deavere Smith wrote the play, Fires in the Mirror. It was shown in 1992, and it focuses on the power the white had over the blacks. More specifically it discusses looks, distortion in mirrors, and whether or not a person is being themselves or hiding it. I want to propose the question: how does Smith use her play to portray these messages.…

The income rate for upper and lower class families is based on economic in society. The middle to upper class children have unlimited options to choose what schools they would like to go too, unlike lower class children who have very limited options and do not have the advantages of going to a university “(Rodriquez)”. Lower class family cannot afford to spend their money on high priced food, brand new vehicles, and big houses. The state-earned income tax help them a little to pay their bills,…