The Untold Story Essays

A Great Untold Story If you stumbled onto a great untold story what would you do? Adam Makos started off with an uneventful start to his life. Born in 1981, he had a mother, father and a brother. Though in College he would encounter a journey that would change him not just as a person, but, as an author as well. He would change his rather boring childhood into something extraordinary. Adam Makos is always trying to find the greatest story, from when he was in high school till writing A Higher Call

segregated, which means to be purposely discriminated. This kind of prejudice was common, but still very unjust. In the cases of the Jim Crow laws, this kind of injustice was discussed in the documentary, The Untold Story of Emmett Luis Till. The documentary brought forth horrible stories that African Americans faced

“Mathinna” is a contemporary dance piece that held a captivating performance through the dance style of aboriginal culture. This dance was choreographed by Stephan Page and performed by the Bangarra Dance Theatre. The story line of “Mathinna” was about a young girl who went from her aboriginal culture to a western colonial society in 1833. Mathina (Elma Kris) was six when she captured the hearts of Governor Sir John Franklin (Sidney Salter), an Artic explorer, and his wife, Lady Jane Franklin (Yolande

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till was released in 2003, decades after the murder itself. African American director, Keith Beauchamp, claimed that it took 9 years to make this documentary, the reason being that made he too went through a similar experience as Till when he was young and wanted to give his story justice. This documentary is about a 14 year-old African American boy who was beaten, shot, and

After watching Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroes and taking a trip to the local library, it is clear to me that all oppressed groups are underrepresented in the comic industry. The appeal of superheroes started after the Great Depression, in the late 1930s when the American dream was in shambles, and the general public wanted someone to come in and save them by fixing every issue that they had. Before Wonder Woman was created in 1941 by William Moulton Marston, males dominated

structure was made of red bricks and had a navy blue door. It was two stories tall with three windows on the top story and two on the bottom. Suddenly the right window broke open and a middle aged man yelled “Help, Please help.” Mason saw that he had a small girl in her arms. Mason instantly reacted. He didn’t

close acquaintances, Dillinger was able to escape jail on numerous accounts. Within the short amount of time Dillinger was in jail, he wrote letters to acquaintances who were not in jail to help him execute a successful jailbreak. In Dillinger: The Untold Story, it states “On one side was a complete floor plan...the other side...gave detailed instructions for an escape”. (Citation 1, p 76) Dillinger planned his escapes carefully in order to be successful in not only breaking himself out but his fellow

inspirational actions came from her role as First Lady of the United States. She began the road to her reign as she assisted her husband, Senator John F. Kennedy, on the campaign trail. In Barbara Leaming’s book Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story, the Wisconsin Democratic Primary was known as Mrs. Kennedy’s first major political test (Leaming 99). As time went by, Kennedy would progressively involve herself in as many ways as possible. Evan Andrews’ article 10 Things You May Not Know About

many words I could attempt to use, but none of them accurately capture the absolutely devastating event that took place on November 18th, 1978. The life and energy of the Peoples Temple to their tragic deaths in the miserable heat of Guyana. The story of a group of people fighting for their beliefs, and why their own leader, Jim Jones, lead them to their dreadful end. On May 13th, 1931 , Jim Jones was born in a small town in Indiana. According to Jones himself, he grew up "on the wrong side

From Heroes to Villains: The Untold Story of the Texas Rangers’ Violent Past Between 1846 and 1910, over 6000 Mexicans were murdered or lynched in Texas. Compare this to the much more covered, researched, and taught number of African Americans murdered or lynched during the same time span, about 6500. While the numbers seem similar, there is a striking difference. In the 1910s, the height of anti-Mexican violence in the United States, there were only 250,000 Mexicans compared to nearly 10 million

The interview held the title ' The Untold Story Behind Michael Jackson's Controversial Album'. The family Cascio told the secret friendship with late Jackson which it lasted for nearly 25 years! Without telling anyone about it! He visited them frequently, shared many things with them, he

Book Review: Hidden figures The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. By Margot Lee Shetterly : EPub Edition, HarperCollins Publishers. September 2016 ISBN: 9780062363619. This book is a well-researched non – fiction, history, science and feminism based biography that talks of the phenomenal true story of 3 black female - Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Johnson- mathematicians at NASA. It unleashes how their calculations

Richard Wright – Untold Stories of a Great Writer Richard Wright was an African American anti-slavery activist whose works portrayed the racial discrimination against the blacks in the United States of America especially in the Deep South. He was one of the voices for the black race when racism was still at its peak in the U.S and he spoke about the things troubling the black race of his time strongly in his books especially in the native son. His novels are interesting historical novels about blacks

I concur with King that we play host to anticivilization emotions and this explains why people can crave horror movies. There is some level of darkness in us, but, at most times, this dark side is eclipsed by the increased emphasis on civilization. King (2013) cites the case of emotions related to friendship, loyalty, love, and kindness to show how the society adore civilization and strive at maintaining the status quo. However, this does not entirely suppress the dark side in us. “Anticivilization

The Haunting Retribution of a Tortured Man The “Tell Tale Heart”, published in 1843, is a gothic short story written by the infamous author Edgar Allen Poe. Poe is known for many poems and short stories such as “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” to name a few. “The Tell Tale Heart” is an eerie fiction of an unreliable narrator attempting to convince the reader of his sanity. In doing so, he reveals more about his insanity while he tells the tale of a dark deed. The narrator is psychotic

“Bullet in the Brain” is a fictional short story by Tobias Wolff. The story follows the last moments of Anders, a visceral book critic, in the bank. Anders’ character is identified as a grumpy and cynical man often criticizing and mocking others. The story shows Anders in a bank robbery; after an altercation with one of the robbers, Anders is shot. After he is shot he flashes back to his childhood recalling the moments of his innocence playing baseball. "Inferring character from texts: Attribution

‘Nadja’ the work based on magical realism by Andre Breton’s is positioned somewhere amid the story of the author’s own life and a metaphysical historical imaginary tale with a deep indication of all the attributes of magical realism. Nadja is for sure a beautiful love story in its first level, but the underlying major question is regarding the entity of affection. The straight answer is the imaginary magical character, Nadja, a gorgeous and fascinating lady whom Breton, who is in fact the writer

Throughout the course of their lives, humans form many important relationships, with people, institutions, and society. It is these relationships that impact a person’s life and they way they grow up. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, struggling with the death of his brother and his recent expulsion from school, wanders New York City for several days. As Holden meets a variety of different people, including an old friend, a prostitute and his sister, he struggles with accepting

Salinger, Holden seems to be the ultimate rebel. He is a rebel because he has been kicked out of several school. He has also disobeyed many rules of the society. Later in the novel, Holden learns a few lessons in his story. In “The Catcher in the Rye”, the lesson is to always obey and respect rules that you are given. Disobeying rules lead to consequences. In the novel, Holden learns his lesson about rules and what happened to him when he disobeyed them. Holden was

there are only really two or three human stories. Not only is there a very meager amount of stories to be told, but they have been repeated over and over again as if they were new each and every time. Cather’s remarks can be interpreted many different ways with different variations of the meaning being possible. However, when you break down most types of stories they can fall into the same categories of stories. There is really only two possible types of stories; that of person victory and that of personal