Race to the Sea

Introduction: Welcome listeners to this Episode of Literature Round Table in our Open Learning Podcast Series. Today, we are going on a journey into the magnificent world of poetry and I am your host David Sea, a student from Indooroopilly State High School. Poetry to me is unique. It does not need a plethora of explanation, just a powerful message, image and meaning of the sweetness or the bitterness experiences from the bottom of the poet’s heart to tell the story. However, different poets…

minutes, and after 5 minutes they landed in the sea. When they got back it was a miracle the flight to the moon caused and stopped a lot of things, they were greeted by the president Nixon on the Great Hornet. They were quarantined for three weeks because the scientists wanted to see if they carried any diseases and if they did the scientists did not want them to spread around the diseases. They also ended the space race against Russia, the space race is when Russia and America were racing to…

need cater to them, while cotton field were hard to collect at the time. Sea island cotton can only be found near costal regions which makes it more scarce to collect. Short staple cotton is found up country but nearly impossible to extract by hands. These showed that slavery was not be used up to its potential and causing a more of a loss keeping slaves. Whites already thought of themselves as dominant race over other races such as blacks and Indians and they did not want to free the slaves to…

Central American countries. Alfred T. Mahan expressed this ideal of imperialism in his book on sea power; he stated that “Americans must now look outward,” and argued that a strong American navy would…

In 1620, hundreds of Puritans left from the Great Britain and sought for their own settlement in American Continent. Those Puritan settlers had signed the Mayflower Compact which was a basic form of lawful management and order before they landed on Plymouth in Massachusetts. Freedom has always been and will ever be the most valuable nationhood of the United States. The political system of the nation changed from a loose confederation to a central government because the founding fathers thought…

lives and society, making it harder to recognise in everyday life. Racism is classified as the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one 's own race is superior, but it is any type of discrimination, small or large, that hurts a person of different race. 11. In the movie Elysium, the greatest injustice towards the people of earth is the loss of human needs, such as clean food and water, stable houses and the lack of…

Tocqueville is disgusted with slavery while being pessimistic on the future of blacks in America. He declared there are “two races bound together without…being united (Lecture, 10/19/16),” meaning whites and blacks are separate but in this country we are forced to live together. This thought, coming from a French outsider, shows how evident the separation is between races, laying the foundation for segregation in the future. During the time of writing volume one in his book, published in…

The Effects of Jet Aircraft On Maritime Warfare A dawning of a new age in maritime warfare was brought upon the world when the jet aircraft entered the battlefield of the open seas. The development of a faster, deadlier, and more effective type of aircraft led to jet aircraft ruling the skies; Also many profound effects have stemmed off as reactors. Jet aircraft had effects on maritime warfare by the secondary technology advancements it caused, new strategy and tactics, and foreign policy of…

According to Martin Luther King Jr. " We are caught in an escapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affect one directly, affects all indirectly." It is inevitable that a society which varies in culture, religion, races, and even customs must understand that they need to embrace the differences as they live in a multiracial country. Decisions and choices that are made by every individual will either improve…

think of is marrying or dating someone of a different race as you. Mexican Americans are very proud of where they came from and often want to keep wedlock in the same race. They feel by dating out of your race you are ashamed of who you are and consider it a disgrace. Mexican Americans want to keep the Mexican culture alive and growing, by missing with other the races we are losing some of our culture traditions. Due to the missing of races we are seeing more English speaking people than…