Brent Staples hold a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago and often writes about the African-American experience in his essays‚ which have appeared in such publications as the New York Times and has published the autobiographical Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White (19947) for which he won the Anisfield Wolff Book Award. Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponder’s His Power to Alter Public Space 1 MY FIRST VICTIM WAS A WOMAN-white‚ well dressed‚ probably in her early twenties
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Ashley Tran 9:00 AM History 1301 Lori Lehtola John Brown John Brown was an abolitionist who had a big hatred over slavery. His feelings of hate were so strong over slavery that it led him to seize the United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry. John began a huge massacre along the Pottawatomie Creek along the Kansas territory. It all began on the month October and the year of 1859. Brown had a psychotic way of thinking and doing things. John’s great plan was to arm slaves for a future rebellion
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Cocaine Cowboys Before the seventies Miami‚ Florida was the hotspot for drug smugglers to smuggle marijuana into America because South Beach was virtually unwatched land for miles. Cocaine eventually rose to become the drug of choice for people in Miami and was more expensive then weed‚ causing it to replace marijuana imports with more profitable cocaine imports. Cocaine became so popular with the club scene and celebrities and other wealthy people that its demand raised Miami‚ Florida to be
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The way things are now are very different from the ways they did it in the past. Cowboys led their cattle more than 25 miles a day. Wars with Native Americans started by land and cattle. Agriculture and cattle was how you got money. Another big part of Texas is its oil. Before oil was found in Texas‚ there was only one oil rig in the whole world. Scientists believed that there was no oil in Texas. In 1900‚ a team was hired to drill for oil. Oil in Texas had finally been discovered. On January
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Self “Beauty when the dancer is the self” written by Alice Walker is a well written and thought provoking essay that makes the reader reflect the meaning behind beauty. As a young child Walker lost vision in one of her eyes and in doing so lost her confidence and self-esteem. The essay is made up of different memories that come together to tell her personal story of how she learned to accept herself and her abnormality. As a little girl Walker thought beauty was in the attention and complements she
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Kara Walker Producing mural-sized‚ paper cutout silhouettes to create a dense caustic narrative of nineteenth-century‚ way slavery. She details the black-paper cutouts with stereotypical characters ’ pick of mammies‚ slave mistresses‚ and masters. My first impression of her work is that she elegantly portrays scenes from African American plantation life; however‚ I became aware that sexual‚ violent‚ and mistreatment of the images are represented repeatedly in her landscapes. Her expressions
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The photographer I chose to do my report on is a man by the name of Walker Evans. He was born on November 4th‚ 1903 in St. Louis‚ Missouri. He was from a wealthy family and attended the Andover Academy as well as Williams College studying literature. He didn’t finish his studies. Instead he left school and moved to New York. It was here that he found himself socializing in the art and literary community. He was associated with many well known writers‚ poets and artists and became close friends
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The Walkers (?) I saw her from the distance; her eyes a sickly green‚ and her hair the palest it had ever been. But nevertheless‚ it was Juliet Walker‚ and I hadn’t seen her for months. “Julie! Jules!” I called to her. I shut my locker‚ lunch in hand‚ as her head slowly turned and we locked eyes. “Kennedy‚ hello!” She drifted across the packed school hallway toward me. “It’s been too long. I am sorry that I haven’t talked to you in a while.” I shrugged it off. The last time I had seen Juliet was
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MUSC 1113 11:45 Reflection in Sound The movie Midnight Cowboy‚ which was released in 1969‚ fully embodies the themes and the issues that were coming to the forefront of society and films during the new Hollywood era of the 1960s and 1970s. John Schlesinger’s film follows the story of a young man who leaves his home in Texas to become a male prostitute in New York City‚ and the trials and tribulations he encounters along the way. The soundtrack accompanying the film does not entirely consist of
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The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story Of a Remarkable Friendship was written bye Malcolm MacPherson‚ and was published in 2001. The story begins by describing what a cull is and that the lone survivor of the cull is called "The Storyteller". The first chapter is not accurate as nothing is known of what happened to the elephant until the point of the cull. It simply describes basic behaviors of other elephants in the same region. Later in the first chapter the cull begins‚ which is the slaughter
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