Wiley College

Growing up in Marshal, Texas in the 1930s, a group of powerful students from Wiley College, an all-black institute, began to leave their mark on this old segregated town. Conquering every debate team in their path, little Willey College soon faced Harvard, the school of the elite, so they say. From determination and perseverance this small group of kids defeated the odds becoming the reigning champions in the south at the time. While some critiques feel that this film is racially melodramatic and fabricated, I argue the film The Great Debaters dramatizes the humiliation and persecution of how blacks felt by explicit depictions of lynching and abuse. One way the movie The Great Debaters dramatizes the humiliation is in the lynching scene. Stephen…

The Great Debaters chronicles the journey of Professor Melvin Tolson and his four debaters which end up being three. Professor Tolson is a brilliant but volatile debate team coach. He utilizes the power of words to shape a group of underdog students for a small African American college in Wiley, Texas. In 1935 he led Wiley College debate team to a historically run. James Farmer Jr, the son of James Farmer Sr. I believe James Farmer Jr was looked as the weakest debaters out of the team. However,…

own emotion or using someone else’s against them, it has the potential to persuade a dissenting audience. In the film, The Great Debaters, Samantha Booke and James Farmer Jr. proved that utilizing emotion in an argument is effective for African-Americans to persuade a Caucasian audience during the 1930’s. Emotion was the only way for blacks to successfully challenge the beliefs and ideas of white people, because it created an opportunity for the Whites to empathize blacks, highlighting what…

The painting by Kehinde Wiley, Officer of Hussars, shows a black man in contemporary clothing on a horse in a deserted battlefield. At first glance the modern day man appears stuck in time because of his pose, and background. Kehinde Wiley’s Officer of Hussars appears just like another painting made in 1812 by Théodore Géricault named Charging Chasseur. As said in an interview with Audie Cornish, Kehinde Wiley’s style takes historical paintings and puts a subject he finds off the street in the…

Kehinde Wiley: A Twist on Urban Culture Kehinde Wiley’s art work gives a twist to urban culture, and highlights a group of people who is usually persecuted for their beliefs, looks and culture. His exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art left my mind in “aha,” and in fact, inspired me to dig deeper into his works. My intriguing curiosity led me to his website http://kehindewiley.com/about . The streets of Harlem awakened Wiley’s keen eye to the natural-raw form of the brown skinned man; and…

In “Black colleges need a new mission”, by Jason L Riley, Riley composes an Informative article about HBCUs Colleges which was published September 28, 2010. Through statistical data and comparison of HBCUs and other institutions, Riley reveals how even the better HBCUs colleges are not close to reaching the standards of non HBCUs respectable institutions. Riley proves his argument through a series of comparisons of statistical data. Riley shows that HBCUs are 20 percent points below the…

children. She attended Le Moyne High School, a private Methodist school started after the Civil War to offer education for African Americans. She won the Memphis city women's tennis singles championship while she was in high school. She attended North Sumter, majoring in mathematics and graduating Cum Laude in 1935. After receiving her bachelor's degree, she taught high school and college for a short term,…

In high school, I had been passed up for a few leadership positions, so when I got to college I was dying to get into a position where I could show my skills as a leader. I applied year after year for a position as a resident advisor and for a position as an orientation leader. Year after year, I was denied the opportunity. Because of this I created my own spirit club after a club at school called the Bleacher Creatures. They were a group of people painting up for football games and having…

Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In addition to serving as the long-time editor of The Family Journal, Jon is the author of twenty-five books in the areas of family therapy, marital enrichment, consultation, and Adlerian psychology. Some of his best-known works include The Intimate Couple, The Disordered Couple, Brief Therapy with Individuals and Couples, Health Counseling, Theories and Strategies of Family Therapy, and Time for a Better Marriage. Jon has also developed and produced…

a platform of resources and information to be transferred to the students and their parents based on their needs. Conclusion The film has compounded many particulars when it comes to the needs of school social workers within the community. Many challenges that are discussed in classes and colleges around the world are thus mentioned in this film. The film briefs with one black student of Little Rock Central High class of 1962 by the name of Dr Sybil Hampton who defied the odds. She explains…