english summative assessment 
Mia Bolgioni
Junior English P6 september 26, 2014
The Idea Behind Decisions To one person, they might only see objects within a painting. To another person, they might see emotion and a story behind it. Every individual sees their own perspective based off of their experiences and values in life. Martin Luther King Jr, exclaims an African American perspective in a
Stride Towards Freedom.
Suzan Shown Harjo writes on behalf of native americans in the passage of the
Last Rites For Indian Dead.
These two articles show how race influences decisions. People base their decisions off of their perspectives such as race, gender, generation etcetera. Native Americans have gone through some pretty tough times, and they really have not yet been heard. Their land was taken from them. They were torchered, by the New Americas.
Many of us know this already, but what most do not know is that they still face a racism issue today. To this day, many of their ancestors remain on display in museums, and neglected a proper burial. America must come to terms that the “bodies of dead american indian people are not artifacts to be bought and sold as collector items” (Harjo P289). Sports organisations use
Native Americans as Sports Mascots (such as the Washington Redskins and Chicago
Blackhawks), making Native Americans feel more like objects than people. The decision to change these practices are strongly influenced by the history of their ancestors. They are taking these issue to Washington DC.
In Ferguson, Missouri, African American’s are currently referring towards violence in order to be heard. While the shooting of an innocent Black male sparked the riots there, many of them have taken the opportunity to voice their opinion on concern that history has not changed that much. Racism still exists. When talking about violence, martin says “It seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understand” (King Jr. P2). The African Americans at
Junior English P6 september 26, 2014
The Idea Behind Decisions To one person, they might only see objects within a painting. To another person, they might see emotion and a story behind it. Every individual sees their own perspective based off of their experiences and values in life. Martin Luther King Jr, exclaims an African American perspective in a
Stride Towards Freedom.
Suzan Shown Harjo writes on behalf of native americans in the passage of the
Last Rites For Indian Dead.
These two articles show how race influences decisions. People base their decisions off of their perspectives such as race, gender, generation etcetera. Native Americans have gone through some pretty tough times, and they really have not yet been heard. Their land was taken from them. They were torchered, by the New Americas.
Many of us know this already, but what most do not know is that they still face a racism issue today. To this day, many of their ancestors remain on display in museums, and neglected a proper burial. America must come to terms that the “bodies of dead american indian people are not artifacts to be bought and sold as collector items” (Harjo P289). Sports organisations use
Native Americans as Sports Mascots (such as the Washington Redskins and Chicago
Blackhawks), making Native Americans feel more like objects than people. The decision to change these practices are strongly influenced by the history of their ancestors. They are taking these issue to Washington DC.
In Ferguson, Missouri, African American’s are currently referring towards violence in order to be heard. While the shooting of an innocent Black male sparked the riots there, many of them have taken the opportunity to voice their opinion on concern that history has not changed that much. Racism still exists. When talking about violence, martin says “It seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understand” (King Jr. P2). The African Americans at
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