The American Spectator

the evening of the speech, a small crowd had gathered to hear FDR speak from the rear of an open touring car. As he finished his speech a surge in the crowd led to pure pandemonium. Six shots were fired into the crowd with five spectators hit. Out of all the spectators, the Chicago Mayor was hit in the stomach, which was…

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, but there are some disparities on country level, such as the United States of America where Basketball and American football are the most widespread sport. Copa America is a men’s soccer tournament of South American countries, this tournament has started since 1916 between 12 to 16 countries have been attending including invitee countries not from South America. Uruguay come first with fifteen trophy and Chile with back to back is the current…

Hip hop culture is connected with oral rivalry called “playing the dozens”, which joins diverting put-down and oral aptitudes in a battle to shock and finally quiets one's enemy. An extraordinary ace of this expressive test was Muhammad Ali, who utilized short rhymes to demonize his opponents and paralyze intellectuals. In hip hop the "humble groups" framed into the custom known as "engaging," in which rappers conflict against each other to see who has the best verses and grow stream. Engaging,…

In the twentieth century, American poetry seemed to stagnate as the romantic genre appeared drained. Wolfgang Karrer explains poets avid to relay a different and powerful message to the American society could thus either rally the “renaissance” movement which attempted to reinvent new forms of poetry revitalizing older poetry styles or “remain with the domestic or local color realism” (130). Claude McKay decided to opt for the latest and will often use Black music and dance as a framework to…

During World War II Asian American were locked up even though they were citizens of the United States. There is even racial profiling within the same race, for instance, upper white class people calling lower class white people trailer trash. Lower class black people sometimes call…

Christopher Reeves uses diction and detail to capture the emotions of the audience in order to convince them to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act. First, Reeves used diction such as family and value throughout his speech in order to show that he thinks that America should unite as a nation and recognize if someone is hurting. He believes that if America comes together as a family, they can overcome this situation. Reeves thinks everyone has value and should have equal rights. He uses…

Football hooliganism Among all the games, football is famous for its large groups of supporters. The funs of this game are mostly men and youths. Over the years the passion of the game has gone overboard as there have been incidence of funs committing suicide after the team they support lose in a march, others have killed other funs who support the opponents team. New programs and initiatives like sports gambling have greatly attracted new funs to football .Surprisingly, this days females have…

20th Century Football American football was formally created in the early 20th century, starting collegially then later becoming the National Football League (NFL) that we enjoy today. It took many years for the sport to grow the popularity that it needed to become the huge multibillion dollar corporation that it is currently. Players, coaches, and spectators who all enjoyed the game helped it grow and prosper into American football. Football developed from humble beginnings into the corporate…

Written in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro provided a platform of discussion in terms of the debilitating state of African-American education during the 20th century. The thesis’ author, Carter G. Woodson, relays information about the education system of his time and how that same system has propelled blacks to seek lower-level positions on the social-economic totem pole. Though, this thesis was written many decades ago, the black community is still suffering; I personally believe that many…

Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African…