Three Days Before the Shooting

talked about in society. With each of the weekly readings came a weekly paper. The papers weren 't too bad to write. I can actually say that I enjoyed writing a few of them because the topic was something that would interest me on any given day. There were three topics that stood out to me: race/ethnicity, deviance and norm, and social class. When I first saw the syllabus, I instantly knew paper four would interest me the most which was on race and ethnicity in America. This was a topic that…

crew had caused hundreds of passengers their life. On the tenth of April, the Titanic set out for New York. Many different people had boarded the momentous ship: painters, presidents, novelists, middle class citizens, and immigrants. On the second day a steamship, The Californian, had sent warnings that they were stuck and surrounded by ice. The Titanic’s reply was, “‘Shut up shut up; keepout. I am talking to Cape Race; you are jamming my signals.’’ Later that…

heaved the rock with all their might, trying to beat the record. Most struggled just to lift the massive stone and were only able to lunge it forward about five feet. While interesting to watch, I had no interest in participating. I wanted to spend my day at Oktoberfest, not the hospital with my back thrown…

One of the major ongoing problems in the United States is racism and discrimination. This dates all the way back to when Native Americans or Indians were forced to migrate to other lands by the Europeans. In this society, every minority, mainly African Americans, Native Americans, Islamic and Muslim people, are the target of some type of discrimination and unfairness. Unfortunately, it is only getting worse. Since the time of the Trail of Tears, this type of discrimination has changed. This…

themselves that wouldn’t be attainable anywhere else. As proven by a number of new immigrants, success is surely possible in America. However, according to Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, the dream is an ongoing challenge in present day. Coates claims that the American Dream is all a lie throughout the book and that the dream is out of reach for minorities, especially African Americans. Similarly to Coates, many other African Americans believe the American Dream is a lie.…

detrimental act for the better of the future. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the main character, George, had to kill his friend, Lennie, for the better. The novel is about two men who travel together, acquiring money, hoping to one day afford to live on their own ranch. These men are known as George and Lennie. George caters to Lennie because he is incapable of living on his own due to being mentally retarded. In the end of the story, George shot Lennie to keep him…

Black Lives Matter How many times have you heard of a police involved shooting? How many times have you heard that an African American man has been shot and killed by a police officer? In reality we can not name how many times, all we can say is, a lot. But the killing that struck hard was the one of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, a white man who was on neighborhood watch back in 2012. While driving through his community on watch, he spotted what seemed to be a suspicious black man…

A story like the Chapel Hill triple homicide is at the bottom of the page in small font, even though it was a day before, Why? It’s simple every reporting channel has its own notion or view that they want the audience to have; they want your opinions and thinking to match theirs. Another media bias is bias by omission which is used unpredictably; bias by omission…

concentrates on the aftermath of what it means to survive, and to continue to believe at the edge of your faith. Hey Nostradamus! By Douglas Coupland is four stories united by a single tragic thread. It opens with a Columbine High School-style attack by three students at a fictional Vancouver high school in 1988. the main character Jason is tragically affected by the death of this secret…

The day I have been waiting for. I remember waking up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday. The morning was chilly but, I was prepared. Time to see if all the weeks of preparation and hard work would pay off. My dad and I went out for hour’s that day and did not see a single deer, not one! I remember feeling very disappointed. After going out five times braving the elements that…