The Coon

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. was born on October 01, 1924 in Plains, GA. Growing up, his father, James Earl Carter Sr., was a peanut farmer on a small plot of land, and his mother, Bessie Lillian Gordy, was a registered nurse. Carter moved to Archery when he was around 4 years old. There, at the age of 10, Carter started to work at his father's store. As a kid Carter loved watching baseball with his dad, and listening to politics on the radio. Before joining the Naval ROTC program at the to…

Donald Bogle, the author of the book Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film, provides an important framework for comparing and contrasting the portrayal of African Americans. Although Bogle was mainly looking at the character types created for Africa American actors, I believe his five character types also reveal how white filmmakers and Micheaux thought similarly and differently about depicting black people. Therefore, this essay will…

bet was too risky. The first reason he should not take the bet is his dogs were too important. He needs the dogs to hunt. Having been trained so well, the dogs became an excellent resource for food and money. Billy gained lots of meat hunting for coons, and sold the skins for good money. Without the dogs the family would be worse off than before. He worked two whole years for his dogs. Billy learned the true meaning of hard work and responsibility in that stretch of two years. If he lost them…

The first-ever House Board Forum will provide resources and tools specifically for House Boards from those with locally owned chapter facilities to those with unhoused chapters. The forum includes educational sessions as well as access to professionals in the fields of property management, human resources, insurance, legal, and accounting. Attendees will participate in idea sharing and problem-solving, learn about trends that affect House Board roles, and connect with other volunteers, Kappa…

Hardblood painted on its tank, the color of a bruise. Nurses in emergency walk the man behind the curtain. His chin streaked with grease, his back tattooed with a blood dripping swastika. His ear held by eight stitches, opens in the doctor's light. Damn coon, if I ever see him again I'll pull his head off and shit in his neck! Sweat falls, a glass strand of hair across the cheek of a nurse. Her fingers a bundle of corn stalks as she holds…

Phoenix Jackson, the main character in A Worn Path by Eudora Welty (1940), was an elderly woman with more determination than someone half her age. She is a woman living up to her first name! She is on a mission, and she will not allow anything to stand in her way. In this short story, we see a similarity between the mythological bird, the phoenix, and Phoenix Jackson. Throughout multiple obstacles in Phoenix’s passageway to her destination, her strength, resistance, and spirit persisted beyond…

short story by using indirect characterization. Phoenix Jackson is “an old negro woman with her head tied in a red rag.” She’s walking down the pass in the early morning. “ Old phoenix said, ‘out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals!” Indirect characterization is the “process by which the writer shows the character’s personality through speech, actions, and appearance.” Indirect characterization was used to show the reader, Aunt phoenix talking to the…

Although there are many intriguing branches of psychology, behaviorism captured many aspiring psychologists and fresh minds in the 1920s and 1930, and has been the dominant orientation of psychology since the mid 30s. Behaviorism was the radical revision of the method of psychological research. Studying conscious specimens was not accepted at the time and behaviorism called for the ban of introspection, the study of an unconscious mind. Behaviorism is a branch of psychology that started with…

You can trace a variety of different themes through music’s long history, but the one I have chosen to trace and the one I learned the most from is racism. Racism has been an issue in American culture from the very beginning, as shown through history and the horrible issue of slavery. Racism also shows its presence in music as well. Before taking this class, I had never thought about the implications that race had in the musical world besides the obvious use of slang and references to race in…

Goodbye to Forty Eight Street The purpose of writing this essay is to show how everyone moves eventually, but always leaves a part of them at their old home. In this passage White is packing his possessions away into boxes getting ready to move. He knows he is not capable of bringing all his possessions with him so he has to decide what to get rid of. It is hard for him to decide what to get rid of because he has grown a connection to them. When moving away he misses his home and possessions…