Mapanuepe Lake Mapanuepe Lake in Aglao‚ San Marcelino may be considered as one of the least recognized spots in Zambales‚ but it has already been featured on Destination of Truth‚ an American TV series. This lake was formed during the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. Flash floods submerged two barangays which later on formed into a lake. Now‚ only the cross of the sunken church is visible—a limpid testament how catastrophic the Mt. Pinatubo eruption was for Zambaleños. The lake looks calm with scenic
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 Jim Crow Laws The name for the Jim Crow Laws comes from a character in a Minstrel Show. The Minstrel Show was one of the first forms of American entertainment‚ which started in 1843. They were performed by successors of black song and dance routine actors. The first Minstrel Show was started by a group of four men from Virginia‚ who all painted their faces black and performed a small song and dance skit in a small theater in New York City. Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ a white
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Trebor Adams The New Jim Crow In the book “The new Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander goes in great about a race-related social‚ political‚ and legal phenomena‚ which is mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is the new form of Jim Crow laws because of its effects are not only similar but in its new form more effective. Mass Incarceration causes racial segregation‚ racial discrimination‚ and hinders the advancement of a people through “a tightly networked system of laws‚ policies‚ customs
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From Wikipedia: Jim Crow laws were designed to prevent blacks from voting in the old south. Voting laws were only 1 type of Jim Crow Law. In general‚ Jim Crow Laws mandated the "Separate But Equal" status of blacks in the south. The laws ensured segregation‚ but not equality. The reason they prevented blacks from voting was so that the Democrats could keep the power. Because if the blacks could vote‚ they would vote for the Republicans Jim crow laws were laws that enforced segregation. Its
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In the novel In the Lake of the Woods‚ O’Brien channels between his life in the present at the lake with his wife‚ and his life in the past‚ recalling memories from the war in Vietnam. The novel begins with a preview into the love life and marriage of John and Kathy Wade. While the novel progresses‚ their relationship begins to deteriorate and as the narrator jumps from his past to his present‚ the impact of his time in Vietnam becomes more apparent as a primary factor in the failure of their marriage
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What It Takes To Be Bad What does it mean to be a teenager? Teenagers are trying to find their identities and fit in. T. C. Boyle’s story “Greasy Lake” has three rebellious teenagers looking for trouble on a summer evening and finding it. Boyle mentions through the narrator‚ that it was at a time when it was “good to be bad”‚ but a closer analysis of the story shows that the three boys are truly lost within their own egos. The story shows the changing culture of the time‚ something these young
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Introduction Jim Crow laws are about power. Power of one race over another. These laws really highlight the flaws and weakness of human nature. One group of people asserting power over another for the pride and vanity of a system of politics that had been defeated at the cost of thousands of American lives during the civil war. The term "Jim Crow" has its origins of interest also. The interpretation was intended to ridicule the African American by white American’s in the position of
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Greasy Lake The saying “what goes around comes around” is the perfect saying for Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle. This short story shows you the exact meaning of that saying. Now would you say that everything that happen in the end was good enough for all of their actions…no; but you can say its karma. Of course you cannot agree with anything that they did and you cannot really sympathize with him but a part of you may think ‘okay I guess they kind of got what they deserve.’ After reading this
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called “Jim Crow” laws‚ and they were designed to stop desegregation amongst black and white men. There are many stories to tell about them‚ and how they degraded black men at that time. They allowed the use of any type of tactic to insult black men. Times really have not changed so much with the law and people of the United States often wonder if they cannot trust the people who are suppose to
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Greasy lake The boys are seeking to gain the respect and honor that man hood has for them. They thought that bad was good of course in that time it was the cool thing to do‚ they went cruising around the strip sixty seven times trying to look like bad boys. Then all of a sudden Digby (one of the narrator’s friends) fought for the wheel because he saw his friend’s car at greasy lake so they thought to play a prank on him they flashed their lights and honk the horn to look like the police. But they
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