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This article is a thought – provoking and articulate depiction of how writers have captured the life and story of Emmitt Till, a young black boy who was kidnapped, horrifically brutalized, tortured, taunted, and eventually murdered by two white men. Within the article, the author, Chris Metress, takes a journey through the American judicial system during the year of 1955. It also describes the influence that Emmett Till’s death had on the Civil Rights Movement and subsequent African American…

The book War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson Denis looks into the actions of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party during the 20th century and how it affected US-PR relations. As time went on and the US still occupied Puerto Rico, the North American imposed government in the island was faced with several uprisings against it let by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and its leader, Pedro Albizu Campos. Albizu Campos organized the agricultural workers of the island and executed and agricultural…

culture and Puerto Rican culture, one can see many similarities and many differences. Both cultures are considered Hispanic or Latino. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans make up the largest group of Hispanics and Latino’s in America, but the Mexicans are 10x more populated than Puerto Ricans. The Infant Mortality Rate for Mexicans is 12.23 for every 1,000 births while it is 7.57 for every 1,000 births for Puerto Ricans. Also, the Life expectancy of Mexican males is 72.6 and females 78 while the Puerto…

To begin, I will be raising the question and asking, What was money like for African Americans in the late nineteen hundreds? My hypothesis to this issue is, to make money, you must have some connection that will get you a job for a decent amount of cash to live off. As I read the required books, In the nineteen hundred there were no such thing as a man to have a “connection” for the African Americans. Therefore, this is because of the extreme racism going on. When no one wanted to hire an…

“Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.” Therefore, to explore the resistance and the effects of globalization in the Dominican Republic and to address the…

good example of differences in speech. In the United States there are people from many different Hispanic countries such as: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and others. The people from each of these countries have different dialects. For example, Puerto Ricans and Cubans have different names for the same things. We Cubans say "pomo de leche" while the Puerto Ricans say "bobo." Both words mean baby bottle. But even having so many different dialects inside the U.S., we still are able to…

Reading this book was an enriching experience. I had initially thought that the West was generally better than the East because westerners would have learned from prior experiences, such as the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the slavery. Prior to reading this book, I was infused with the idea that westward expansion was one of the greatest occurrences in America’s history. After finishing this book, however, I realized that although the West significantly contributed to America’s history,…

Toni Morrison’s Beloved, set in post-Civil War Cincinnati, delves into race relations, and how even after slavery was illegal, the African-American race was still traumatized by what they were forced to endure. The inhumane experiences that former slaves were forced to live through are personified expertly in the interracial interactions that occur throughout this story. Toni Morrison frequently uses flashbacks to show the reader how these former slaves suffered at the hands of the landed white…

Shaping Our Accents “Oh, you betcha!” Being from Minnesota people get labeled with the stereotype of talking like lumberjacks. Many factors can shape the way that people speak, whether it’s where they are from or where they have originated, or even their social interaction, such as peers and parents. These factors supposedly give people accents, which they are unaware about because they have talked that way their entire life. Peter Trudgill’s thoughts on the way people speak are based off of…

Miss America pageant the show that prompts the most “beautiful” women in the country competing for the prettiest award. Wrong. In the article, No More Miss America by Robin Morgan she explains how the show is demoralizing the rest of the women as “ugly” or not worthy do to the certain perquisites the rest of the women do not meet. Miss America pageant is promoting a dominant ideology where white woman have been the only ones to ever win this award. It shows the privilege, social power, rights,…