The Once and Future King

Two score and ten years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered the words of the “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The speech is richly endowed with context as it came five score years after President Abraham Lincoln’s iconic “Gettysburg Address”. Lincoln’s proposition and steeled by Martin Luther King’s vision that our “nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”, could not long endure unless we make good on…

Gold King Mine was originally discovered in 1887 and has been running on and off up until 1922. The mine was a huge economic resource for the state of Colorado for it shipped 711,1144 tons of gold and silver. Also it provided many jobs for the residents in the area. In 1991 the Sunnyside corporation took over The Gold King Mine and promised to plug the mines and to treat the abandoned mines and creeks. Sunnyside kept to their word but later on the responsibility was transferred to Gold King.…

Shadi Kamaei Margaret Di Marco ENG 3U1-07 December 4, 2016 Macbeth gains his position as king because of his ambition. He had greed as a motivator and as a result of this Macbeth has lost all sense of morality, and humanism. So, ambition, like greed has destroyed Macbeth. This is a result of his internal conflicts, as shown by examining how Macbeths ambition has lead him to murder king Duncan, commit several other murders, and is so powerful as to override his guilt. The translation of…

Throughout America's social revolutionary epoch of the 1950s and 1960s, a great “superiority complex” not by economic status, social class, but the simplicity of pigments of the human skin took action. Thus, once a master and his slave, we have a continuity with roles being renamed towards “white” and “colored”. Though, America, a land of immigrants of various tongues and colors, a central focus on a black and white nation. Great leaders in these times lead groups of all different purposes on…

Melissa Dibene Westbrook Professor Davis English 102 2 April 2018 Binary Oppositions Oedipus the King and Antigone are two of Sophocles surviving plays about the Theban saga. Estimated to be written in 441 BC and 430 BC. Oedipus the King and Antigone were not written in chronological order of events within the stories; Antigone is actually the last play. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus has fathered four children with his wife who is also his mother. Oedipus has killed his father just as it was…

that I looked into was that Revelation eleven does not point out any of the prophets, but maybe just two “ordinary” Christians. All of these options are very valid interpretations of who the Two Witnesses might be, but only one will come true in the future.…

was in shambles. Haiti was left to defend itself and many were still hostile about the situation and many just wanted to forget it. But still, does who wanted something better for Haiti decide to change history and give the people of Haiti a better future. Alexandre Petion processed a trait that fueled his position to be a great leader. It attracted many people to be inspired by his never ending fight to being democracy back to Haiti. Like many leaders Petion clashed with other political ideas.…

Luther King Jr. was one leader involved. I once met Martin Luther King Jr, who is great with speaking; he inspired me and others by standing up for what he believes in. We met in a huge office in Montgomery, Alabama when I was being interviewed to be Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal assistant. Our first interview is 1, 1955. I don’t have much time because they are planning to start the boycott on December 5,1955. I need to go over my interview as much as I can if I want to be Martin Luther King…

Jazz didn’t start out as Jazz, it was once called Ragtime. This was a composed piano style and was the first major black music style. Jazz was an innovation from Ragtime, they had similar music in them like the piano, but Jazz added sole and also added more brass instruments. Ragtime started in Sedalia Missouri where artist like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton got their taste of fame in the music world. Scott Joplin was an African-American pianist and composer. He was born into a musical…

Gandhi like figures to radical extremist figures. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian man who believed in the nonviolence strategies of protest. On the other hand there was Malcolm X who was a Muslim who believed a real man would resort to violence in order to achieve change. Later in the movement the Black Panther Party formed which followed the ideas of Malcolm X and openly called for violence. During the movement Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X where killed. The two men’s deaths were…