Whitney M. Young is a Chicago Public school in the city’s Near West Side neighborhood. Bordering that neighborhood is East Garfield Park‚ one of the most violent neighborhoods in the city and a neighborhood that saw three schools close in the massives school closing policy that included over fifty public schools in 2013. I attended Whitney Young and was privileged enough to be able to help a local elementary school in the Near West Side‚ Victor Herbert Elementary School. During an assembly where
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark‚ New Jersey‚ on August 9‚ 1963 to gospel and R&B singer Cissy Houston. “By age 11‚ Houston was performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at her Baptist church. As a teenager‚ she began accompanying her mother in concert‚ and went on to back artists like Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan” (Huey‚ Steve). Houston is now described as one of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Over her twenty-seven years in the spotlight that began in 1984‚ Houston
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identity‚ nationally and internationally. A nation or land is where people have established their life‚ their culture and their heart; sadly it has happened where people have been forced out of their homeland. Great opening sentences. Mary Louise Pratt‚ Kenji Yoshino and Edward Said all present very good methods of maintaining one’s national identity in their essays. In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay Arts of the Contact Zone she gives examples of people who are in a contact zone. Contact zones are where
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Baker is saying that those who attempted to write of their experiences as a slave faced the daunting task of not offending the white culture or risk not being heard. This was the basic conclusion that I came to when I first read this text‚ but it was not until later that I came to understand this societal pressure to write in a certain way is still just another form of oppression. To define this type of oppression‚ I reference this section from Mary Louise Pratt’s "Art’s of the Contact Zone": "
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Whitney Houston Some may know Whitney Houston‚ then there are some who has just heard of her. Well there are people like me that see’s Whitney Houston as a legend. But even as this historical figure we see her also as living proof that everyone has their own way of life. She’s the type of artist that isn’t only famous for her music. So let me just give you a little bit of this history. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born August‚ 9‚ 1963 in Newark‚ New Jersey. Her parents were John Russell Houston
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The Whitney family’s disappearance is due to the intense grief the family felt when the son died. W.A Whitney marries Vicky Whitney between the time of May 21‚ 1972 and October 7‚ 1972. The evidence for this is on checks 4676 and 4683. Check 4676 was a check signed by W.A Whitney to an Oshman’s Sporting Goods. To the top left corner of the check‚ it is visible that W.A Whitney is not married because the checkbook is only for him not for him and a spouse. Check 4683 confirmed that W.A Whitney marries
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U.S. History--Presentation for 10/25/11 on “Eli Whitney and interchangeable parts” In the late 1700s‚ in addition to inventing the cotton gin‚ Eli Whitney also came up with the idea for interchangeable parts. This was the pre-manufacturing of machinery pieces that could be quickly assembled to make a functioning piece of equipment‚ such as a gun. Before Whitney‚ each gun had to be handcrafted‚ and each one was different in its assembly. This meant that it took a long time for them to be made or
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Addicted to Incarceration is a research book that was written by Travis C. Pratt‚ a professor at Washington State University. The main purpose of writing this book was to point out that the USA imprisons more of our population than any other nation. Pratt says‚ "On the one hand‚ we have constructed the biggest prison system on the planet… On the other hand‚ the United States has also been‚ and continues to be‚ the most violent industrialized nation in the world…. It is apparent‚ therefore‚ that our
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A person who has had a significant influence on me in my life would have to be my former foster mother‚ Miss Barbara Pratt. Ms. Pratt was a foster mother to many children before myself and she had had wonderful success with most of them. I had been in an extremely abusive relatives home before I had been placed in Ms. Pratt’s home. When it was discovered that I was in an abusive home I was first placed in a group home in Cincinnati. Social Services worked very hard to find me a home that would
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American society still touch base with the minority community today and have a tremendous impact on our lives both individually and collectively. According to Pratt‚ race undermines equality. On one side‚ emphasizing individuality distinguishes one person from the other‚ but having to recognize race then leaves out the individuality part. Pratt believes that recognition of race runs the risk of becoming identified with racism. When thinking of race‚ many attribute the idea with racism‚ prejudice‚ violence
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