Switchblade

Benjamin Spock once said, “Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal” (Goodreads). With the minority in the United States, the majority never knows how tough lives of minorities can be. Wesley Lowery writes a book on the discrimination of police brutality and what he saw through his own cultural lens. He is an African American journalist for the Washington Post. Lowery attended Ohio University…

In the last few years one of the most prominent topics in the news has been police brutality. Unfortunately, a direct result of this brutality is the killings of many innocent black people. Through this, organizations like Black Lives Matter have been created to help bring attention to this topic. Black Lives Matter is an important movement for the black community because it forces us to examine institutional racism, police brutality, the deaths of innocent black people, and general racism more…

been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection are.”(Hinton 12) Johnny was the most innocent and harmless of the gang, yet in greaser society that got him jumped, changing him. It caused him to fear everything and carry a switchblade for defense. It made an even better reason for the greasers to hate the socs even more than they already did. Johnny was the guy everyone could talk to and he had heard many problems of anyone in the gang. He would listen to you as he knows…

“Oh, my fault. Damn! I wasn’t supposed to know that, was I? I knew from day one sum’n wasn’t right about you, I just couldn’t put my finger on the shit. Mama always told me to follow my intuition. And the vibe I always got from you was fucked up.” Cuzzo paused to hit the strong a few times, blew the smoke out of his nose and continued. “Well, I decided to do a background check on you to see what your past was like, and to see if my instincts were really on point and the result are finally in…”…

The Black Lives Matter movement has swept the nation ever since the unjustified murdering of Trayvon Martin in 2012. During this time African Americans and other minorities were vulnerable and frightened yet came together across the world to make a drastic difference for the justice of these innocent young and old lives. This harmless phenomenon has been recently targeted as being “racist” and a “hate group” yet the whole meaning of the name and purpose is to remind everyone that black lives…

Juror Five was a reserved and quiet man. He was apparently ashamed of his slum-dwelling upbringing and hesitant at first to speak up at first. Juror Five displayed a critical thinking characteristic by practicing restraint, controlling his feelings rather than being controlled by them and by thinking before he acted (Ruggiero, 1975). The unique trait Juror Five possess was he was familiar with the background of the defendant. The defendant was beaten by his father, grew up without a mother,…

his first sight is Johnny, and Johnny tells him “I had to. They were drowning you Pony. They might of killed you. And they had a blade (56)…” The thugs were trying to drown Pony in the nearby fountain but Johnny had killed the muggers with his switchblade that he always carries around in an attempt to save Ponyboy’s life. The ultimate act of loyalty, “ I hadn’t realized Johnny was behind me all the way. (108) Pony didn’t realize how strong of a bond he had with his friend Johnny and he found out…

Nicholas Georgiadis collaborated with MacMillan on multiple occasions throughout his career. His set designs along with John B. Read’s lighting design creates a “vast production” (Thornhill). However, the “core component” of the vast production is “the evolution of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, from their initial shyness to their final moments” (Thornhill). Georgiadis’ designs create an “evocative, visual history of [Romeo and Juliet] and the dancers who created it” (Brown). In keeping with…

We had gone to bed late that night. At least, we thought it was late. And some nights some of us just didn't sleep. I felt rested enough already, so at what I thought to be midnight, I climbed three flights of creaky, old stairs. I was on the fourth floor. There were six in all. I was glad Jett hadn't tried jumping from that high. Jett was suicidal. Harley an I were the only two who knew, too. We were so afraid for his well-being, some days we would forget to take care of ourselves. Of…

The Unknown Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel filled with the persecution of innocent people represented as mockingbirds. The Author, Harper Lee, created a community of people who are persecuted, judged, and attacked despite their innocence. Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol of innocence. In the book she says mockingbirds are innocent and commit no evil act. The birds only sing their songs for people to hear. The people of Maycomb are no exception, they live out their days…