The 10th Kingdom

Being different is something that people in society do not understand, and it frightens them. Society has standards and expects something out of us all. Racism is one of the main argued topics about “being different”. Racism has been something that goes way back, and has been the reason for many laws. From the slave days, the KKK, Martin Luther King, all the way up to today, racism unfortunately still exists today. Although there have been laws made, bringing about an impact, it still continues.…

On Friday, October 21, 2016, I attended the play Day of Absence/ Happy Ending. This play consisted of two short one act plays. Both plays were set in the mid-1900s. Day of Absence was set in the south and Happy Ending was set in New York. The first play was Happy Ending. I did not enjoy this production. The actors played their characters very well. I appreciated how well the actors committed to their role. However, I did not like the idea that the characters justified stealing from their boss…

The country as we know it may be dividing, a civil war based on race is closer than we think. The numerous protest rallies, routine traffic stops and riots are the end result of cops violently killing innocent blacks, creating a nationwide issue that hasn’t been solved.The police department and numerous others are in a sense targeting suspicious criminal based off skin color, this stereotypical false judgment is resulting in numerous violent altercations instead of peaceful interactions. The…

nt Exploration Worksheet #1 Watch: “A Class Divided” Parts 1-5. Find it at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html 1. What was the most surprising thing you learned or saw in this documentary? Nothing about this documentary was very shocking for me. The most surprising thing to me, was how little people, especially the adults, were willing to push back and stand up for themselves when they were in discriminated group. I would have assumed a group of grown…

The relationship between the American Colonies and Great Britain were changed economically and politically after the seven years’ war (1756-1763). The conclusion of the war led to more events that began with The British Empire restriction on the expansion on settlings of colonists towards the states that were abandoned by the French colonies. The Great Britain won the war, so they went into deep debts which led to unfair taxation of the colonists. The real shift in mutual relationship is rooted…

It was 13 years ago when we came to America and everything changed. It was only my parents, my two brother and me. Everyone else was still in the refugee camps in Somalia a week after our arrival my parents announced that I would be going to school. At the time I didn’t know what school was but I soon found out that it was something I didn’t like, plus school was very hard. My parents didn’t know english or the american culture. I didn’t have any guidance, I didn’t speak the language and I…

Learning a new language is one of the most difficult things I have done in my life. My whole life has changed since I moved to the United States. I did not know how to speak English when I arrived here. It is difficult to survive in the United States if you did not know how to communicate or understand what the other person is trying to say. I had to learn English by reading books and watching movies. I had a friend of mine who helped me with learning English as well. I am getting better with my…

“National Center for Education Statistics’s Common Core of Data, declines in the level of exposure to students of other races have occurred more rapidly in the suburbs of our largest metropolitan areas than in the cities”. Followed by “In the past 25 years, the number of Latino students in U.S. schools has more than tripled”. This isn’t right, when I was a student at my old high school we would have international night where people would make displays with food or small items from and…

The American Revolution The American Revolution started in 1765 and ended in 1783 after the French and Indian War. The reason why the American Revolution occurred was because the colonists were tired of the British monarchy and aristocracy. The colonists had the right to revolutionize against the British. During this time the British Crown had no idea how the colonists lived and the rules he was suppressing on them seemed unjust to the colonists. At first he sent men to settle the land and…

Published in 1952, Ralph Ellison ' s Invisible Man is the story about a man in New York City who believes himself to be invisible to American society because of his black skin. Entire the book reflexes the author 's stands about relationships between black identity and Marxism as well as his anger toward racial issues. Chapter 3 of the book tells the trip of narator, a black man, and Mr. Norton, a white man having alcohol dependence problems to the Golden Day bar. This is the typical…