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"Warriors Don’t Cry" is a memoir written by Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who play a pivotal role in desegregating public schools in the United States. Melba recounts her story as a black teenager attending Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. She begins by describing her early life, mentioning her birth on Pearl Harbor Day and her family. Growing up, Melba is well aware of the pervasive racial inequality that affects her daily life. On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court strikes down school segregation.
My favorite scene in the novel: “Dragon Hoops” occurs in chapter eight, where Jeevin Sandhu, an important starter on the Bishop O’Dowd men’s basketball team uses support and courage to deal with obstacles such as new environments and discrimination. Jeevin grew up in a suburb near the San Fransisco Bay Area, called Union City - where he quickly fell in love with the game of basketball. However, although the city had lots of cultural diversity, once on the court where he shines, Jeevin is often the only Punjabi kid. Unfortunately, due to his Sikh religion and Indian background, he is often the target of hateful discrimination. One quote that stood out to me is where Jeevin explains how racism against certain minorities has not gone away: “...
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The book Hardball by Chris Matthews gives deep insight about politics. Throughout the book Chris explains different strategies or concepts used in politics, also know as political maxims. He explains how they are used, how they work, and he gives historical evidence showcasing each political maxim. There are many quotes in Hardball taken from history that are used to explain and demonstrate different political maxims. This is a quote used in the book coming from previous president Jimmy Carter.
In the book Warriors Don 't Cry, Melba and her friends integrate into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Melba and her friends experiences troubles as she tries to survive integration. Beals reveals a lot of things that would gives hint to things that we see ahead. The book mainly focuses on the south, light has been shed on events in the north around the same time when the Little Rock Nine (Bars) integrated. This essay will make inferences that show how people in the southern schools will continue to be ruthless and slow acceptance for the nine and for the north schools how whites will except African-Americans more.
“I saw over twelve colored men and women, beat, shot and hung between there and Shreveport,” former slave Henry Adams writes. After the Civil War, the legal institution of slavery was abolished unless used as a just punishment. Additionally, these “freedmen” were naturalized and made citizens of the United States which allegedly granted them equal protections, whatever color or race, would have; and, they were granted black male suffrage. Some may argue that African Americans were free after the Civil War for the obvious reasons of a document stating so. However, African Americans were not free post-Antebellum era because they were deprived of their rights as “Americans citizens” through the institution Black Codes and the continuation of
Did you know it took 70 years for women to get woman’s right? Women's rights is a big deal now. In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand she is very degrading to women. Rand is making women’s rights almost nothing in this book.
Freedom is the right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Everyone in the world has the right to do whatever they want whenever they want, without having to answer to nobody. Unfortunately there was a time when African Americans were enslaved to work fields by the white man. But thanks to the civil war freedom was blessed onto them. The Reconstruction Era was a time of rebuilding the aftermath of the civil war.
Political activist, Lillian Hellman once said, “For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.” People have to fight for their freedom even today. Not everyone has the same opinion, but everyone does have that responsibility. Saying, everyday people are just bystanders. Being a bystander doesn’t make the world 's opinion and stereotypes change in any way possible.
In “To Kill a Man’s Pride” by Mtutuzeli Matshoba, it states “The harsh enforcement of the inhumane laws that results…deceives them into thinking that everybody is satisfied…they camouflage black vexations with brute violence” (229). This is a quote to show the institutional part of oppression. Mtutu explains the harsh enforcement of laws, but it's the laws that allow and make the officers enforce the laws the way they do. The white people are also only able to see what they want to see, which is somewhat caused by the institution. The brute violence is executed by the police.
Have you ever imagined what it was like for an African American person back in the 1800’s when they were considered “free”? Back then, black people were used as slaves, and they didn’t gain their absolute freedom from slavery until 1865 when it was completely abolished. They gave Africans certain rights that weren’t completely fair. It really makes you question whether black people were really free in that time. When all blacks were released from slavery, what rights did they really have?
In the book “The Little Prince”, the prince learns a lesson at every planet he visits. Each one impacts the prince’s life, his journey back to his rose, and how he sees himself and the people around him. What the little prince learns at the eighth planet is that everyone needs someone or something to make them happy. When the little prince meets the girl on Asteroid A118 he learns that there are different types of happiness and that he should strive to make others who are unhappy happy.
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