The Stands

During the 1800s, slavery was going on in the United States. Harriet Tubman fits into this topic of “Taking a Stand”, because she made many actions that were against slavery. She took a job that was dangerous to handle, freed many slaves, and continued of going against slavery during and after the Civil War. When Araminta Ross was born, she was born as a slave on a cotton farm in Delaware in 1820 December(Hale). Her family was owned by the family who runs the cotton farm. The owners decided to…

The Incensario stand is a beautiful sculpture that is carved and shaped with history and community. This piece is 25 11 9 inches, it is sculpted with clay which is turned into ceramics, the geography is in Guatemala and the culture is Mayan. It was painted with natural pigments but over the centuries and environment, it has faded with time. An outstanding vessel that gives insight into the type of sculptures they create. Analysis The composition of “Incensario” is bold and expressive. The…

Taking a Stand Essay It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning and most people are still curled up in bed. Instead, you’re sitting in a classroom with about 20 other students, who are also panicked about the same test you are about to take. The 20 other students in the classroom, however, are all from different economic classes, races, religions, and genders. Despite that, each and every one of you are grouped together to take the same test. The test administrator instructs you to begin, and every…

rather make money than do the righteous thing. That being said, he was very talented, and came up with very well thought out, meticulous arguments That was all the more scary. His point that, even though we may not like the law (in reference to the “stand your ground” law) we must uphold it, is very ironic because such laws are the target of removal for many protestors and civil rights activists. When I saw such laws I mean laws that inadvertently affect minorities at a much rate than whites.…

Sneak a peak game: This game should have a large group of people that will be divided up into teams of four. One member of the group will go see the instructors sculpture, and they have 10 seconds to examine the sculpture. When they go back to their group they have 25 seconds to instruct their group on how to build an exact replica of the sculpture. Then each group has one minute to recreate the sculpture. This activity teaches teamwork and how to communicate effectively. Two truths and a lie:…

Roberto Servin Mrs. Yeater English II 9/15/16 Jared Padalecki: American Actor “Always Keep Fighting” Who would think that those 3 words would have a major impact in the life of many people. But they sure mean a lot specially coming from a person like him. On July 19 of 1982 Jared Tristan Padalecki was born. He was born in San Antonio, Texas. And grew up there as well, he went to High school and was planning on going to college. But after…

“By the beginning of its second season, Saturday Night Live was the talk of television, a national sensation both hot and cool, and the first hit any network ever had at eleven-thirty on Saturday night” (Shales, Miller, 95). From young adults to the senile, Saturday Night Live has had people laughing for nearly forty-one years! This weekly show will go down in television history as one of the most iconic productions of the twentieth and twenty-first century. With every great show comes a great…

At The River I Stand This documentary takes us back to a time 100 years after slavery where the descendants were consigned to the bottom of the economic ladder. Yet, Memphis was spared the upheaval of Little Rock, Selma and Birmingham because of modest gains of access to movies, libraries and lunch counters. Nevertheless, the seething volcano was building up pressure in the public works department of Memphis. Complaints concerning malfunctioning equipment had been an ongoing cause. Although I…

As Kelly Brown Douglas notes in her book Stand Your Ground, one of reasons for perpetuating slavery after the other Western European countries abolished it was due to America’s belief in Manifest Destiny. White Anglo-Saxons assumed they were called by God to rule the “New World”, but also to rule the Africans they had enslaved. In essence, God chose white people over all other races to be the ruling elites who dominate the world. They are the chosen people, in similar ways to Israel, who were…

my platform: My perspective of life has to do with joining together no matter our differences. My platform is “Together We Stand”, my reasoning for choosing this platform is because there are so many things in the world that divide people; however, my opinion on that is that rather than choosing to see our differences as something that divides us, why don’t we use our differences to bring us together? My favorite quote is, “What we do for ourselves alone dies with us, what we do for the…