Totem pole

Freshman year was one of the hardest years of my life. It was the first year that I wasn’t the top dog on the totem pole. I was one of those freshman that was annoying, immature, and cocky. That all changed the first day of high school. It changed for the better, because I am now a lot better off with my attitude. From freshman year to senior year I have changed a lot not only physically, but also mentally. I might still be cocky still, and I can be annoying and immature still, but it's…

As the diversity of the American Colonies rose, as did its ideas and stances. The Great Awakening, a term used by historians to refer to points of religious resurrections or reappearances, began to rear itself during this time. In the time period of 1689-1763, more and more religions became prevalent, leading to the spreading of ideals and faiths. Within New England, education for the youth had been widespread. The Puritan settlers found it best to use the Bible as their primary educational tool…

India is still one of the countries that determine a person’s position in life based on the status of their parents. This position is inherited at birth and can’t be changed. There are five main categories that people are born into. Most people today have differing opinions on the ethnicity of India’s caste system and some wonder how such a thing could still exist. There are reasons why India’s caste system has been around for more than three thousand years. The caste system in modern day…

overrated school systems in the United States of America. Based on several factors such as decreased spending, lack of sex education, and other careless mishaps, the Texas school system is slowly working its way further and further on the public school totem pole. In order to see any changes surface, it is imperative that we become more involved in the success and well-being of those still in school. According to Texas Politics Today, Texas’s public school enrollment ranks in the 2nd percentile…

are needed for their ability to play specific instruments for entertainment to those who wish to hear their talent. Performance per instrument appears to be on a need basis. A violin concert master is compensated with a fee of $6,970. Low on the totem pole is of performers is Violin II, who receives a compensation of $1,178. Obviously, the concert master is going to receive more pay than a general violist. However, what does that say about those who are violinists and their pay ranges from…

for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish, till death do us part Although the author, Zora Neale Hurston, utilizes a varying array of symbolism, imagery, irony, and a magnitude of other literary techniques in the short story “Sweat”, it is the grim themes of marriage, abuse, and karmic irony that are the driving forces throughout the story. The protagonist’s role in her emotionally and physically abusive marriage was a reflection of the meager…

and taunted because of the color of their skin and the texture of their hair. Based on my research, color has played a significant role in our lives dating back to the time of slavery. African American people are known to be at the bottom of the totem pole. For centuries, several shades of black were not considered beautiful, but rather dirty and filthy. In addition, Light skin people were considered superior and dark skin people were not. There was a time where black people were compared to a…

unconventional ways of becoming rich exist. People from all different backgrounds get to all different areas of life, some college students never graduate and end with low paying jobs, whereas a hard working man or woman can start at the bottom of the totem pole at a company and over the years, through long hours and hard work, become the CEO. Cases such as this can and do happen. So the differences between rich people in the end are rather complicated to define since there are many…

the modern outlook. By portraying white people as multiple animals and ones that are higher up in the animal kingdom, and black people as a misley crow, Bakshi suggests that all African-Americans look-alike and that they are lower on the societal totem pole. This racism also can pertain to the modern issues of 2018, such as the tension between African-Americans and the police. This is demonstrated during the riot that Fritz starts in Harlem that results…

Not much has changed since the ancient times; women are still oppressed and are treated as if they are at the very bottom of the pyramid and no matter how hard we work, nothing seems to change. We are still not treated with respect and we still are not paid the same as men. In Homer’s, The Odyssey, Homer examines the roles of both men and women and the jobs they must fulfill. Many may argue that men and women in The Odyssey are treated equally and have parallel amounts of power, however, this…