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Drugs, crime, unemployment, crowded living conditions, and segregation infested early 20th century Harlem. Many of which still remain today. All of these hardships in 20th century Harlem are excellently described in Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. Baldwin shows us what African American people went through in Harlem. Baldwin describes Harlem as a very dark place and often repeats the darkness of Harlem throughout the story. This darkness he describes is the living condition in Harlem. The…

For thousands of years, people have encountered language barriers. Even in today’s global society, they still exist; one of the main issues concerning Pope Francis’s visit to the United States was language. The Pope needed to choose a language to address the people without diluting the strength of his message; all the while, choosing a language he was proficient enough in to avoid a faux pas. Pope Francis came to the decision to speak in English, the unofficial language of America’s majority.…

child or stay in childish innocence forever because he is “confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour” of adults which he refers as ‘phonies’. Holden yet tries to accept the adulthood by experiencing what adults do by ordering “a scotch and soda” but society rejects his attempt, thinking that he is “under twenty one” and won’t sell him “any intoxicating liquor”. This societal rejection impacts his desire to transition and wishes to “just be the catcher in the rye and all”. The…

those bad years, but came to realize that perhaps the jacket wasn’t so bad after all. The narrator also accounts, “But that L-shaped rip on the left sleeve got bigger, bits of stuffing coughed out from its wound after a hard day of play. I finally Scotch-Taped it closed… .” Though the narrator is convinced that the jacket is his inanimate nemesis, he mentally toughens up and doesn’t use the rip as an excuse to get a new, better looking jacket, showing that he might regard the jacket as having a…

Individuals convicted of a felony are not eligible to vote while incarcerated, on parole, or on probation. Voting rights are restored a couple years after the completion of all supervised release. Felons who have served their sentence and have followed protocol should have the right to vote in less than two years. Voting is vital aspect of our lives. Being confined for so many years, deprived of freedom and a few rights taken away, an individual would love to vote in a major election like this…

Theo sits in his office a glass of scotch in his hand, his dark brown eyes jumping from place to place looking for these supposed cockroaches. One happens to crawl past him on his desk when he looks for it he can’t seem to find a trace of its very existence. What angers him even more is that he seems to be the only person who can see them. Sometimes he even used to see on or two creeping out of his wife’s sleeves, yet an other thing about her that makes his stomach churn. He still can’t figure…

Rousseau a Discourse on the Arts and Sciences Casey Froese Rousseau’s discourse illustrates the trickeries that are the arts and sciences, which have been produced by powerful people to disguise their evils and to distract us from our weaknesses. 1) It is written in Budo, - ''there were two fools walking upon a straight path; they claimed to be explorers,'' our society’s current social order inspires this. We must get an education, buy a house, have a family and make tons of money. We are bound…

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when gluten is removed from the diet. However, they do not test positive for celiac disease. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease caused by a reaction to gliadin; a gluten protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and sometimes oats. The history of why and when wheat and thus gluten has changed, affecting our bodies differently, can be traced back to a man by the name of Norman Borlaug. Borlaug had good intentions to help feed the world. He genetically modified the wheat crop to produce high…

Alfalfa’s Shadows “Give me an R” a loud man yells at the front of the theater. He now has everyone in the audience’s attention. “R,” the crowd yelled back at him. “Give me an O!” “O!” “Give me a C!” “C!” “Give me a K!” “K!” “Give me a Y!” “Why,” the crowd answers back sarcastically. It was show time. The leader of a theater group, Paul, successfully got everyone in the crowd to pay attention. We had been practicing for this night for about two months. I could already feel the sweat drip down my…