The Coon

Anxiety is an emotion to which most people will attest having experienced. That feeling of worry and uneasiness about an upcoming event is a feeling almost everyone can relate to. In fact, despite how negative it may be to experience it, anxiety is a very useful mechanism that helps people prepare for dangerous situations. But what happens when that feeling becomes an issue for the person who experiences it, or even the people around them? When it no longer becomes something a person experiences…

focused on stereotyping and racism. As a result there is little to no examples of prejudice. This is not the case in Remember the Titans however, because there were many examples of all three categories. For example, when coach Boone was called “coach coon” which shows racism, as well as the time Gerry Bertier called all black people crazy and said that they are all monkeys which shows prejudice and…

Media has infiltrated every aspect of everyday life. Society turns to mass media for the news, to enjoy a movie, listen to music, or watch a TV show. But these various forms of media are not solely for entertainment. Instead, media texts reproduce and circulate a variety of ideologies. Croteau and Hoynes assert that an ideology is a system of meaning that helps define the world while also making value judgments about that world (152). In the film Remember the Titans, produced by Jerry…

Recently I moved into a new state and with that a new community. I live in a small city outside of Augusta Georgia. Here the population is just under 30,000 comprised of a heterogeneous community. Although the population is rather small comparted to many other cities, the area is rapidly growing. There is not a police department dedicated to our town, however, the police are through the county, Columbia county. Police presence is very low, and here is where I believe the problem lies.…

Bully, a verb. By dictionary definition it is when superior strength is used to influence and intimidate someone else. How can a five letter word cause so much pain for so many people? Bullying can happen to anyone and often does, according to the article "The Issue Of Bullying.", “I in 4 teens are being bullied” while a child is getting bullied every 7 minutes.” As often as it happens, it is common for it to go unnoticed or be brushed off. The effects and importance to stopping bulling has…

“The New Negro” is a self-expression that speaks for itself meaning “a new type of negro” or black person. In the north during the Harlem Renaissance, black people were becoming independent. They started branching off making their own art, music, and poetry, and opening their own businesses and forming their own new communities. Now there was a “New Negro” as opposed to the “Old Negro”; a black man with a slave mentality. The “Old Negro” was a black man who viewed himself as inferior, the black…

The book “The Worst Hard Times” written by Timothy Egan is a story about the survivors of the Dust Bowl. Throughout the novel, you see several people’s stories and the ups and down they faced leading up to and during the Dust Bowl. You see how these families faced the challenges with their living arrangements, economic struggles, and family fatalities. The main objective of this novel is to show the importance of this historical event that changed the way every single family lived and to show…

When scanning through the daily news articles, you can find many examples of Indigenous Australians that have to deal with racial discrimination. In 2008, there was a group of non-Aboriginal youth getting around calling themselves the KAC (Kill All Coons). This incited racial hatred and intensified the violence (Ferguson, Koori Mail, 2008). Another example is the racial experience from 17 year old Tjimarri. He’s a young Aboriginal sports player and when he first joined a club six years ago with…

In life everyone has journeys to travel filled with numerous obstacles. For those who have goals that they want to achieve, they will deal with extra obstacles throughout their journeys in the story worn path, Ms. Phoenix is one of these people. In order for her to accomplish her goals of obtaining the medicine, she had to travel though paths filled with numerous obstacles and endure many challenges. In the beginning of the story, Ms. Phoenix had to endure the cold weather in order to arrive…

Racism is the prejudice against people regarding the country they came from, the colour of their skin, and the language they speak. Racism is a theme that is seen all over the world and also plays a big part in our modern history. In the novel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the film ‘Remember The Titans’, the racism prevalently between black and white Americans is dealt with in a numerous amount of ways. The novel is not a true story but is based on life at the time whereas the film is based on…