Sundown

As Michael Morpurgo once said, “Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it’s through writing, drama, or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self worth.” In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino feels that her voice is taken away after being raped by Andy Evans which he is referred to as IT, and Andy Beast. She goes into high school as a young teen, depressed and silenced. Melinda grows stronger throughout her…

“‘Sure,’ cried the tenant men, ‘but it’s our land…We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours…’” (…). This line from John Steinbeck’s famous book The Grapes of Wrath spoke true for countless farmers during the 1930s. Farmers across the nation had to sit and watch as their family farms were destroyed by drought and dust storms. This tragic event became known as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, a term used for both the area affected by the severe…

Mrs. Reidy English 1101 26 October 2016 TED Talk Financial aid is a topic that many American college students deal with. It is something that haunts us for the rest of our lives. A student is very fortunate if they are able to pay in whole for their college every semester, including books, room and board, and tuition. Being from a fortunate family, our parents are willing to pay the first four years of our college as long as we keep hope scholarship. With the use of students loans it is…

In 1987 President Ronald Reagan signed into law the OBRA-87 proposal. At the very heart of OBRA-87 was the effort to create a better quality of life for nursing home residents. Despite this landmark step in nursing home care, 49% of residents have some form of depression (QuickStats 2014). In order to remedy this problem, we must first know what makes some residents satisfied with their lives in nursing homes, while others are not. Based on current literature four common themes occur:…

The 4,000 men who initially made up the unit in April, 1943 had to be replaced nearly 2.5 times. In total, about 14,000 men served, earning 9,486 Purple Hearts for their deeds in Italy and Germany. The unit was awarded eight Presidential Unit Citations (five earned in one month). Twenty-one of its members were awarded Medals of Honor. Their motto was "Go for Broke". It wasn’t until 1945 that some of the Japanese-Americans were released. The Supreme Court still upheld the legalization of the…

discrimination has been indented into society. To start off, the book The Kite Runner shows that the Taliban had a certain perspective on hazaras, “The talibs said he was a liar and thief like all Hazaras and ordered him to get his family out of the house by sundown”(Hosseini 230). The stereotype that Hazaras are liars and thieves gave everyone in Afghanistan a negative perception on them. While the Taliban had a negative perception on hazaras because of the stereotype, it affected Hassan and…

considered runaways if they went off their plantation or their masters land without their master 's permission. These African Americans called slaves were constantly told what to do by their masters and often worked from the early morning until past sundown and were constantly punish if they were trying to better themselves such as learning to read. America was an oppressive state of existence at that time. The point Frederick Douglass tries to make is that blacks have no reason to celebrate the…

The American Revolutionary War of 1775 also known as The War for America in Chapter 7 of “The American Promise” was a war between England and settlers of the thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. The war was the result of the political American Revolution which was triggered by the prosperous goods and natural resources of the territories. In 1775 the colonists overthrew British rule by seizing control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, which obviously wasn’t…

The Childhood and Family Background Leading Up to Bill Monroe, “The Father of Bluegrass” “Families are like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.” That is just what the “Father of Bluegrass”, Bill Monroe did. William Smith Monroe was born on September 13, 1911 on a farm in Jerusalem Ridge, Kentucky. He was born the youngest into a family of eight children. His family was musically talented and presented him with the musical talent to inherit. Monroe…

working nonstop from dawn to dusk. The slaves wake up and are sometimes, not often, fed a “meal” of boiled corn or cornbread, they then work until noon and will then eat their dinner, which is a short meal, they then continue to tend to the crops until sundown. After dark the slaves usually had more jobs to do such as, carry water, chop wood, feed pigs, ex. The slaves would be worked even passed their point of breaking. B2 A Slave Working as a Seamstress Not all slaves would work outside in…