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Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter movement is a well-known campaign which was formed by the African American community. The community rally together to protest against police brutality, racial profiling, and civil inequality of African Americans. The “Black Lives Matter” movement has drawn attention to racial issues that we face as a race of people and to the needs of our community. However, The Black Lives Matter movement is becoming less important than it really is because some don’t…

Summertime is the season for water-soaked fun and there's no better way to have a blast than to arm yourself with the daddy of all water guns, the Super Soaker®! With its ability to shoot water farther, faster, and drench your enemies more accurately than earlier squirt guns, it became the ultimate summer fun for kids when it was introduced in 1989. Even big kid Michael Jackson named the Super Soaker as one of his favorites toys. So who invented this summer classic? Lonnie G. Johnson, the same…

Brandon Hooks English 1101 Narrative Essay Basketball Championship? The day was February, 15 2003. After all the dedication and hard work, I’m finally a champion. So much sweat and blood put in to a sport to finally feel untouchable. The beginning of the 2003 basketball year I made a dedication to work harder than everyone else so I can have the edge and try to win that ring. But still I was a little worried on how everything would pan out. I had a good team but I was the leader and…

one I am most passionate about. When I first started playing soccer, I was about five years old. Even though I was only five I still deeply enjoyed playing games and practicing. Then when I was about six, seven, and eight I played recreational soccer with a lot of my friends. I had a lot of fun with that team and all of my friends on that team. We were not a bad team either, but I really wanted to play more soccer, also play more competitively. Along the way, one of my friends named Nate wanted…

Harper Lee Harper is actually the middle name of Nelle Harper Lee, the woman who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Her life long friendship with another Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist is just incredible. Her friend, Truman Capote, and she used to write short stories on a typewriter Lee’s father gave to her. She, tougher than most of the boys, often stepped up as Truman's protector. Truman was picked on because he liked very few things the other boys his age were…

Big Al is the mascot of the University of Alabama (UA) Crimson Tide, in Tuscaloosa, AL. Big Al is an elephant, they say in 1930 when UA’s first football team was entering the stadium a fan yelled “hold your horses, the elephants are coming” and has stuck with them ever since. UA went on to win the Championship that year. In 1980 there was a vote on campus and Big Al stayed the mascot and received the name “Big Al”. That same year the mascot was first brought out on to the field as an elephant…

A waging war between LGBTQ+ advocates and a group of worried general public battle between the passing of the Bathroom Bill. LGBTQ+ advocates see this as an act of discrimination and inequality, as well as a hateful crime towards their identity and comfort, while worried public see it as a gateway for predators to easily prey off the defenseless. Each side holds valued points as to if the Bathroom Bill is preventing of danger towards the weak or an act of discrimination. In general,…

“Macbeth” is a Historically well known and famous work by William Shakespeare. It was written in time much different than today when life was completely different and seemingly had no comparisons to today’s time. However, I believe that Macbeth can be related closer to today’s time than people might realize. Lady Macbeth (Macbeth’s wife) in the play seems to replicate a psychopathic nutcase that in no way resembles anyway in modern society. However, She in many ways resembles a modern day…

wife lived of the rest of their lives. Mary Maverick Who- Pioneer and diarist. Serverd at Ladies' Parish Aid Society for over 20 years. Was a prominent member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the San Antonio Historical Society. Where- Tuscaloosa County, Alabama When- Born on March 16, 1818 and died on February 24, 1898 of an age of 80 Why- She did many helpful things to the community to Texas she naturllay became popular. What- She promote the annual Battle of Flowers celberation…

29, the day the law went into effect, to learn that many of his employees were missing. Terrified and worried, he drove an hour and a half north to Tuscaloosa, where many of the immigrants who worked for him lived. Rhodes, who does not speak Spanish, struggled to get across how much he needed them. He urged his workers to come back. Only a handful of employees did. “We couldn’t explain to them that some…