The new black

Since its beginnings, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, as a decentralized, international activist movement, has been largely misunderstood in the public’s eye mainly due to the media’s distorted portrayal of the BLM movement as well as due to the movement’s inability to control its narrative and perception in the world. Since February of 2012, the nation’s African-American community has been in a state of upheaval over the tireless and numerous killings of unarmed African-Americans at the…

D. Roosevelt (FDR) got elected in 1932, beating Hoover. He believed in relief, reform and recovery, the steps to end the Depression. To do this, he created the New Deal, a collection of things the government would do to help get out of the depression, for example, Social Security or the National Youth Administration. Although the New Deal did not go as far as it should have and cover minorities, but it was a success because it provided relief and helped to end the…

The Great Depression, starting in 1929 on Black Tuesday, was the crash of the United States economy. During that time, 25% of Americans were unemployed, and millions lost their savings due to bank failure, leaving them poor and frustrated with the government. Causes of the Great Depression include the overproduction of crops and the deduction of consumer spending. After WWI, the demand for crops dropped 40%, lowering the prices of food, and forcing farmers to produce more to meet their budget.…

every voice. The media is a major part of modern America and as time goes by it will only continue to grow in it’s role in American lives. Media is often the loudest voice modern Americans hear because it is all around. There is social media, the news, T.V., etc. and the media often drowns out every other voice. In The…

Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is about a tradition where the villagers must make a sacrifice in order for their crops to have a good season. Tessie Hutchinson picks the slip of paper with the black coal mark in the center and she is the one to be sacrificed which means the villagers, even her family, must stone her to death. The theme of this story is that traditions can be good or bad. Traditions can result in lots of different scenarios. Tessie wins the lottery and she gets stoned…

According to Document 1, families and teenagers were served by the new laws proposed by Roosevelt. Family incomes boosted and the teenagers were able to find jobs and help support their families. The President solved the problem of households not having enough money or else a lot of people would have lost their homes.…

During the early career, Mendes Correia had been in good terms with the government of the Republic. When the new regime of Estado Novo and the Salazar Dictatorship gradually emerged from the 1920s to 1934, he adjusted himself to such political shift. The physical anthropology’s shift of interest towards the colonies accompanied such political development. His academic career was totally successful; publication of numerous articles and monographs, opening of the colonial exhibition in 1934, and…

Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, foods, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The exchange not only brought gains, but also losses. European contact enabled the transmission of diseases to previously isolated communities, which caused devastation far exceeding that of even the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe. The neo-Columbian exchange denned the Greater Caribbean…

2001, had went from a normal day in New York City, to a tragedy. The day had started out sunny and warm with the birds singing, but it had all went down hill very quickly. The early morning was a blur for long time firefighter, Shane. It's now mid-afternoon, and all that's on his mind is finding and saving the helpless victims of the attacks, with the rescue dog owned by the fire department, Corny. People covered every inch of the street, making it seem like Black Friday, but this was no sale or…

acknowledged to be one of the richest and most profound of the New Testament letters, the depth and grandeur of its concepts, the richness and fullness of its message, and the majesty and dignity of its contents have made this letter precious to Christians in all ages and in all places. Its profound truths and vivid imagery have deeply penetrated into the thought and literature of the Christian Church. Ephesians was the first of the New Testament letters that I read when I began to first read…