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George Zachary Schuppan. He was born without a father around, causing him to suffer with depression from a young age. He grew up strong,and independent. He was intimidating no doubt, but that's because he felt he needed to be. He went looking for his father in his early 20’s, he had always been told that his dad was not a good person, but he wanted to find him regardless. Upon arrival his step-mother feared him, he was a big tall army guy with a gun collection, so there was always tension. One…

Moments in history tend to stick out the most. Pearl Harbor, D-Day, 9/11, and Independence Day survive so prominently within our history as singular days. What made the twenties so notorious in our history? It was the first time our country saw a massive change in culture, ways of thinking, government policies, and the rise of organized crime. The most well-known piece of legislation that came from the 1920’s was the passage of the 18th Amendment. Ratified on January 16 ,1919 he amendment, also…

their more notorious black contemporaries, the Scottsboro Boys of Alabama, who themselves became shorthand for the kind of racist eruptions punctuating our history manifested in episodes such as the Emmet Till murder, and the Rosewood, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma massacres. The same forces aligned against the Scottsboro Boys ineluctably targeted the…

article “Does America have a plan for my life?” America is a nation that stands for freedom, yet, as Lebron shows blacks don’t know when their life may come to an end. Such as the case with a father of four, Terence Crutcher, leaving his class in Tulsa Community College he experienced car troubles where later police officers arrived and he was shot to death. Mr. Crutcher was unarmed and was not a source of intimate danger, yet, he was shot and killed by Officer Betty Shelby, who is suppose to be…

Having a connection to a book is a great (thing) for people to have as it allows them to connect their world with someone else’s, whether real or fiction, and different people can gather different meanings from books based on the readers own personal experiences and values. Teenage fiction writer S.E. Hinton’s most popular novel, The Outsiders, is an influential book that has been incorporated into many school’s curriculums and has impacted many readers as it is capable of teaching values to all…

those years they reached the Sweet 16, and in 5 of the seasons they reached the Elite Eight. Kansas, however, is not the only team Self has had tourney success with. Bill is one of six coaches to take 3 different teams to the Elite 8. These being Tulsa in 2000, Illinois in 2001, and Kansas in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016. With Kansas Self has reached the Elite Eight on nearly 50 percent of his Seasons. Furthermore, Bill’s Kansas team has never not received an NCAA tournament berth.…

groups and separation between classes. We have all experienced the difficulties of not being accepted by everyone. The book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a great example of how being different can trap you in a certain group. The novel is set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1963 and follows the gang of greasers and the daily troubles they face as being outsiders. The term “greaser” is given to those in the lower class on the East side for their greasy hair. The greasers are in constant conflict with the…

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…

Racism has been around for many years and it is an issue that has never been fully resolved, although some may believe that it has. It is not uncommon to see crimes being mentioned everywhere but thanks to the media, we have seen the many incidents occurring recently involving white cops and black men, hence we have come to realize how racist we really are as a society and how big of an issue racism actually is even now. In the textbook Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, we are…

The purpose of this study is to examine the intersectionality of race and gender for African American women working at predominately white institutions as faculty, staff, and/or administrators. Many Black women working in higher education often experience marginalization, social exclusion, and lack effective mentoring in academia. Using a theoretical approach, I will use the critical race theory and black feminist thought as the framework to explore the effects race and gender has on African…