Lights, Camera, Violence! "Packed with nonstop action and adventure!" We hear this quote all the time when previewing movie trailers. It seems all they show on these trailers are the violent scenes, for example, the blowing up of police cars, the gunfights, and sometimes even worse than that. W...
Martin Luther Kings" I Have A Dream speech made a great impact on the American culture. His speech impacted our thoughts and our way of living. Through careful thought and consideration King found ways techniques to appeal to his audience, making sure the nation can feel every word he was saying Th...
Without the visions of many other very inspired people King could not have viewed his goals in the same way. Martin Luther King Jr choose the role he played in our nations past because of a racial standpoint that is unapparent to the unsegregated. From Thomas Jefferson's United States Constitution...
The novel "Black Boy," written by Richard Wright takes you back in the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by hard discipline. It seemed that the more Richard had gained in life, the more he was hurt. Richard was alienated from his environmen...
When I was a young girl, my family and I would all cram around the television set to watch The Cosby Show every Thursday evening. The Cosby show was a television sitcom about an upper middle-class African American family living in Brooklyn, New York. On each episode, the main character Heathcliff Hu...
Ignorance is one of several things in life that is very damaging. Many people have heard the saying "ignorance is bliss;" this is the same as saying "boys are stronger than girls." Both sayings are said on a regular basis, but are misleading. Ignorance is the farthest thing from being bliss. It is a very destructive facet to many people's lives. ...
In the stories "Raymond's Run" and "Gorilla My Love," Toni Cade Bambara, writes about unusual heroines - both called Hazel. However the character in "Raymond's Run," is known as and is referred to as Squeaky, mainly because of her voice, and because of the way that she is presented. To the reader, i...
