The American Spectator

soon after George Bush became the new president of America, and not long after followed the Iraq war. This war caused thousands of deaths within the United States leaving some people to become anxious. When writing the song American Idiot Billie Armstrong wrote it from a spectator point of view because he lived through it and watched it everyday on television. Throughout the song he voiced his own comments and concerns on wondering how society was going to be able to move forward and away from…

African American discrimination would be the “. . . best to achieve equality. . .” (African-Americans). The perceptions of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey will be compared and contrasted in regards to their individual approach to race relations of the African-American people. Educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, is one of the most influential civil rights…

and in particular the american medias and cinema directors and producers have on the spectator ( viewer) as well in American society but also internationally. I did the researches, read the books, trying to think in American way, and I suddenly realized, that the influence of the media in the case of racial dispute between white and black americans is crucial and destructive, not only for the representatives this this both races, but on the future development of the american society. When we…

During the time when many African Americans were fighting for civil rights, Martin Luther King jr., put himself in position to fight for equality. While Dr.King was working towards peace and diversity, he lead countless nonviolent protest such as Montgomery bus boycott and also the Birmingham campaign to make the issue of injustice known. Many Americans were not confident in his approach on change. While Dr. King was in jail he wrote a letter responding to religious leaders in the south who were…

adventurous activities, and art. In the American culture, different races find favor in different forms of entertainment and this defines how people live in the society. Many young African Americans prefer rap music especially when the singer is black. In the United States where there is a large settlement of the African Americans like in Texas, it is common to find a group of young African Americans listening and enjoying music from their fellow black Americans. The Whites on the other hand,…

There is no better association of the events that take place in Absalom than what happens on the stage of a theatre. Faulkner compares the collapse of the American South to a theatre of violence, injustice, bloodshed “and all the satanic lusts of human greed and cruelty” (207). Sutpen’s legend can be performed on stage and the main actor is the white race which tries to dominate, seal, and subtle the voice of the black race. Joseph W. Reed argues that Thomas Sutpen’s dramatic downfall reaches…

would have been juxtaposed with the idea that a person is insignificant but still one of many, the café setting used in this setting is isolating to its core; the street was dusty, the café is quiet, and the two waiters are not so much characters as spectators of the man’s lack of existence. Indeed, the setting is important because as one waiter says “He can buy a bottle and drink at home”, and if the old man had been drinking at home, isolated in his sitting room, the theme of meaninglessness…

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened its doors on September 24, 2016, for its visitors to exclusively acknowledge the documentations of African American lives, past and present. Although the museum itself does not provide an extensive collection of stories of bygone eras, the contemporary stories that the museum provides have a lot to tell in regards to the African American history, culture, and community. However, the stories themselves are not the only…

Assata an autobiography tells the story of Assata Shakur and in doing so shows the many facets of white supremacy within the American culture. White supremacy is not just the Ku Klux Klan spewing rhetoric of being a superior race and all other races being inferior, it more than this because it can affect how one views his or herself within a certain society. Also, Assata Shakur tells what happed in her trial and she recalls her childhood through her college years to show the extent of white…

through” (28). Both of these scenes are implicitly uncomfortable for Agee and Walker and the African Americans that they encounter. In each instance, Agee depicts them as invading their spaces and disrupting their lives. While he has similar concerns with the white families he encounters, he is able to overcome these issues to finish the documentary and impose himself into the stories both as a spectator and, at times, an active participant. It could be argued that Agee is aware that in black…