Rant

The true Native American culture died long ago, leaving only the aspects that white people can embrace in order to deny that they forced the death and assimilation of Native Americans. Native American culture has become lifeless culture losing everything but what the dominant culture deems to be profitable. The binding classification of being a Native American in a society where Native American culture is devalued and made into costumes forces the modern Native American to play a part in…

Title George F. Kennan, an american diplomat and political scientist, once said, “Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” We often think that being a hero means someone who is fearless. This is not always true as we see in Homer’s The Odyssey. We may think that to be a hero you have to be strong and fearless, but really, a hero is someone who does not give up and perseveres - even in the toughest circumstances. Odysseus is faced with countless and potentially fatal obstacles throughout…

I taught my lesson first thing in the morning after the students had entered the classroom and watched the morning announcements. While the students were seated at their desks, I asked them to get their South Carolina textbook and journal. Once the students had their materials ready I called them by their tables to sit on the carpet. I then asked the students to turn to page 160 in their textbooks. Next I talked with the class about what we just finished learning about in our last social studies…

Bradbury theorizes what society will look like in the future, while adding references to the Holocaust throughout the book’s contents. Bradbury wraps up society into several identities. In reference to the Holocaust, Bradbury recites a character's rant, “[w]e must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A…

Most people who know me are aware of the fact that I don’t listen to newer musical artists, with very few exceptions. I do listen to new music, when it’s made by an old artist (Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, and Steely Dan are a few of my favorites that released new material this decade). People always pester me with questions asking why I only listen to dinosaur rock, and accuse me of being closed-minded. So now I’m going to answer the question “Why don’t you step out of 1975 and listen to modern…

Advocate, Sojourner Truth in her persuasive speech, Ain’t I A Woman (1851) argues for her rights and for the rights of women who have worked all of their lives for the life that they are leading instead of for the women who have not worked a day outside and have been “pampered” by the world. She supports her claim by first addressing the demand by women of the North and African Americans for equal rights and claim to the workings of the world, then she states her credential and hard work that…

Huck Finn: Colonel Sherburn 's Speech In Mark Twain’s book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapters 21 and 22 tell us of a harmless town drunk (Boggs) who meets his untimely demise. Boggs is gunned down by the town 's ruthless and lawless lawman (Sherburn) for slandering his name. The society is full of hypocrisy, who looked on and watched Boggs laid dying in the streets. Huck Finn also was a witness to this heartless act of violence. Sherburn returned home as if nothing happened moments…

Being a decade apart is a tremendous age difference between my brother and me because no matter how closely related we are, we will always see through a different pair of lenses. I try to understand his stress compared to mines, but sometimes, it just does not make any sense. Whenever he plays his violin, all I hear is lack of responsibility, his aim for social status, and my mother’s failure of not giving him the golden spoon. Then again, I learned that the stress endured by his generation,…

Unplug- Or So We Tried: An Informal Essay on Using Less Television “MOM! MOM! MOOOOOMMMM!!!” Me and my sister yell in unison. We are attempting to get our mother’s attention. This is always a worrisome thing to do; never knowing when she would become furious with us for interrupting her show. It is so inconvenient, since she wears headphones it is always a big production when trying to get her attention and often times it infuriates her. Is her show really that interesting? It wouldn’t be so…

Nothing Much To Do begins with Beatrice moving from Wellington to Auckland to live with her cousins Hero and Leo while her parents work in Australia. Hero and Leo's parents, a lesbian couple, are on a belated six month honeymoon, so the teenagers and Leo have the house to themselves. This is already a big difference to Shakespeare's text: Hero and Beatrice are not in Leo's custody, although he likes to play the protective older brother. Beatrice is an emancipated girl who is able to make choices…