The American Spectator

for years has been notorious for its gangsterism that literally exists on almost every street corner. The crimes include murder, rape, and armed robbery. The gang groups in Cape Flats consists of The Hard Livings, The Clever Kids, Thug Life, The Americans, with the most notorious being the 28s and the 26s. The Cape Flats is well known for its gang-life in the form of audacious daylight drug deals,…

Obsessive fans. Owns three days of the week. The Superbowl. America’s favorite sport. What comes to mind? The NFL. There are not many Americans that do not love football. We live for the big hit and the memorable plays that change the game. Along with those big hits and memorable plays come concussions. Lots of concussions. Concussions that are happening way more often than most people think. They are ruining the lives of players. As a female high school senior, I have an incredible love for…

my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin, one of our Founding Fathers, had a very interesting life in a way of writing and inventing. His passion for writing always took him from one adventure to another. However, these are not some ordinary adventures that we may experience in our lives. These are adventures that made him write Poor Richard’s Almanac, create the US Postal System, and contribute to write the United States Constitution. If we were to seek one major theme to…

Looking Back at Yesterday to Understand Today. When you explore the ramifications that result from the prejudicial mentalities that continue to plague modern day societies, it is without a doubt obvious that there is a continuous and active issue. Through the lenses of analyzing Spikes Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing, the fundamental question that is presented that corroborates this perception is how does the racial politics alongside racial tensions of the 1980’s era still resonate within…

Sports play a big role in many peoples’ lives. In fact, according to a 2014 poll by TV show "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair magazine, 90 percent of Americans watch sports. Many of those people have participated in some sort of sport, sometime in their life. Chances are, those 90 percent of people are watching sports like football, baseball, soccer, and golf. What many people don’t know is that there are many different sports that include horses. Barrel racing and show jumping are two very different…

sport they called “ball town”. The first football game took place on November 6th of 1869 in Brunswick, New Jersey between the Rutgers and Princeton. One hundred spectators gathered to watch a game with no helmets, uniforms or developed scoring system. The Rutgers won the game with a final score of 6 to 4. Walter Camp, the father of American football, later evolved the rules of the game as a coach and athletic director at Yale. Today, most football teams use a well-developed point system along…

In the United States, regardless of the type of sport being played many people often enjoy watching and cheering for their favorite sports teams. People that share an affiliation and passion for a certain team come together to watch their teams perform either in person or on the television. And forming a bond with a specific sports team can also become a way for people to identify with places they live or have lived at one point in their life. Even in cases where there exist bitter rivalries…

It was the night of December 16, 1773, 342 chests of tea that belonged to the East India Company were thrown into Boston harbor by American Patriots. Americans were throwin this tea into the harbor because we were going to lose money. Britain was selling this tea for a low price so they can make more money for themselves. Ships carrying the tea were refused permission to dock in New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. By these men doing this it showed the British what all the colonist thought…

making the spectators feel sympathy for the way these slaves were sequestered. He starts off by comparing segregation to manacles and chains to discrimination. He says that the state of segregation can compare to the feeling of being shackled…