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don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.” This comes from the fact that all humans have different ideas; how things should be organized and carried out. This same reality is true for the Green Party and the Republican Party. The left-leaning, Green Party focuses largely on environmental issues. One of the issues addressed by the party is energy consumption. As the name suggests, the party seeks more environmentally friendly, efficient, and sustainable…

Final Essay The three stories I will be writing about are Devil in a Blue Dress, A Lesson Before Dying, and Fences. Devil in a Blue Dress and A Lesson Before Dying are told from the perspective of an African American male. Although fences is not told from the perspective of an African American, due to it being a play, its story is centered around an African American family. All these stories focus on segregation and hatred towards African Americans in different ways. The main characters in…

For the past two decades, we have had presidents who have fallen miserably in the same status quo, following the same guidelines from presidents of previous elections. This is where Bernie Sanders steps in to show his uniqueness and to change the tide in the presidential election of 2016. This unique candidate is the type of person who will approach issues in a different manner. He has stayed devoted to many of his own aspects that other presidents or candidates have not throughout their…

The Midwest, a place in the world where communities are closely aligned to one another. These small, rural communities rely on every person in order to create that community. It seems as though that knowing everyone around the small communities was what made a person successful in life. Additionally, these communities valued hard-work and honesty when it came with almost everything they did in their lives; whether it was working in the farmlands or spreading information throughout the…

The pharmaceutical industry has very little fear of repercussions and the best example may be how OxyContin competes for sales with black market heroin. OxyContin is a synthetic opiate that is supposed to be prescribed strictly for severe pain. As you may remember, OxyContin used to be the drug of choice for the former drug war advocate Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh’s story clearly touches upon some of the hypocritical aspects of the drug war. Mind you, he was a fully functional drug addict who harmed…

Reconstruction began throughout the nation but mostly in the South following the civil war in 1865. It had many widely positive and negative consequences within the period that were felt both short term and long term for the North and the South which would ultimately lead to the ending of Reconstruction period. In this essay I will compare and contrast the many sides of the Reconstruction period from Presidential changes, corruption of government, freedoms of blacks, rebuilding of a nation and…

“If my name ever goes in \to history it will be for this act”. A quote said by Abraham Lincoln who was one of the most famous and remembered presidents in history. For his actions that recreated America entirely. He created the emancipation proclamation which saved most of the enslaved african americans. And furthermore saved America from the civil war.”Emancipation” by Russell Freedman and “ O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman portray Lincoln as a fierce and capable leader through symbolism…

President Barack Obama announced his Inaugural address, on the 20th of January, 2009, outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America, and as the first African American president of the United States of America. This was a great achievement for the country as well as Obama with racism and other inexcusable prejudices. During his speech Obama, in a way, comforted America about their past, and reassures them for the future.…

The highly anticipated Democratic convention of 1968 has finally come to an end, but there still seems to be some animosity between the democrats involved in the convention. I believe the reason for the hostility between the democrats would be that power beat the majority. Even though they did not have the majority of the convention on their side, the more powerful democrats found a way to win the polls. My theory behind the voting is the powerful democrats with the most voting influential…

Topdog Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks’ play, Topdog Underdog, includes many imagery, symbolism, and metaphors. She uses symbolism in the names she assigns for both actors. Imagery is used to show the type of lives that both characters live in. The characters’ name of Booth and Lincoln symbolizes the President Abraham Lincoln, who fought for African American rights. The final scene, where Booth kills his brother is set up as a metaphor. John Wilkes Booth is Lincoln’s assassin, and was a racist man who…