Selma

“When Life Asks for Everything” In this editorial, David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, provides us with the insight for two models of human development. The first being what Aristotle called, “ The Four Kinds of Happiness”. This theory simply states that our happiness comes from specific interactions with people and material goods. For example, material pleasure including having nice clothes or a fancy car will ultimately yield far less happiness than helping someone obtain…

Have you ever taken a dare? Have you ever done anything selfish? Maybe you have done both of those, but have you ever stood up for somebody? Taken on a bully to protect your fellow students? Not many have. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes about courage’s three stages in life. Harper Lee claims that Courage starts from when people prove they are not a chicken, to courageous acts for selfish purposes, to finally performing activities that can or will hurt them, their reputation…

celebration. The movie tried to get away from the ‘good and evil’ paradigm trying to make Grendel more humanistic. But in doing so, necessary actions were taken to make people less human, drawing Grendel and humans closer. In the movie, the added character Selma has “relations” with Grendel and at the end of the film has his child and raises him. Even if may seem distasteful to the audience and viewers, it serves as a connecting point in order to make Grendel seem more…

Introduction: The Butler by Lee Daniels, is a movie loosely based on the truth regarding the extraordinary story of an African American man named Eugene Allen, amid the Civil Rights Movement. Allen was employed as a domestic servant or butler at the White House during a time when cultural diversity was not accepted. Allen is portrayed by a fictitious Cecil Gaines (actor Forest Whitaker). Cecil grew up during a tumultuous time in the 1920s in Macon, Georgia, and was the son of a sharecropper. As…

hoses. The events that took place attracted the attention of President Kennedy and led to the national Civil Rights Act. Prior to the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the president of the SCLC, another victory was attained through the Selma campaign. This campaign gained the support of President Lyndon Johnson’s passage of the Voting Rights Act of…

Race Relations: Social Movement Paper Wilmington University Jamie Cole-Neicen Shanna Watson What does the term social movement mean? This question cannot easily be answered. I have learned that it cannot be considered a mass fad or trend and it is not an interest group that has access to political powers. Social movements are not unorganized, fleeting and without goals. Social movements are usually people involved in conflictual relationships with other people, linked…

In 2015, the police killed about 920 people. The counted, a research project, reports the number of individuals who have died due to the police brutality in the US. During police brutality, the Black American victims ' probability of being armed is half compared to the whites. The Guardian, reports that 325 of blacks who are killed by the police, in 2015 were not armed unlike15% of the whites and 25% of Latino and Hispanic. The most common police misconduct forms are the usage of excessive force…

Merit of Standardized Testing There are countless stories of students who are bright in the classroom, but “do not test well”. Students at any level could be excelling in the classroom, but when it comes time to sit down under pressure with a time limit, they cannot recall certain information effectively or quickly enough. Bronwyn T. Williams writes about his twin sons. One excels on standardized tests while the other does not. The one who does not test well, blossoms in the classroom and is a…

Victor Davis Hanson’s “Introduction” and “What Is So Different about Mexican Immigration?” Victor Hanson’s presents his historian viewpoint of California's immigration issue in “What is So Different about Mexican Immigration.” Hanson goes into depth on how Mexican immigration into the United States has changed over the course of a century and how it is different than other countries immigration. . He supports his argument with four key points that explain his viewpoint and how Mexican…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., born on January 15, 1929, grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, the heart of the racist south of the United States. King, throughout history, is known as the leader of the Civil Rights movement with his peaceful protests and marches, and powerful voice during his speeches. But growing up the son of a pastor, he was sensitive kid in the comfortable middle class of African Americans, but was well aware of the Jim Crow laws that separated him and other black people from the…