Saturday, 7th February 2009 was one of the darkest days to dawn upon the whole of Australia. But mostly towards the people of Victoria, it is now known as Black Saturday. Black Saturday was a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across Victoria during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in Australia 's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire.…
There are more than seven billion people that live in this world; therefore, you have more than 7 billion different types of culture. The diversity-religion, language, race, politics, etc- greatly vary amongst us all. Say a girl grew up in family that had everything work out well for her and she had life pretty good. Now place her in a different family situation. The things that go on in her life and the way she turns out to be can be completely different than right now. Her education she received and economic class she is in easily could have changed. The tradition she carries and the food, including the way she eats, could have been unlike the way it is today. She could have grown up speaking differently and dressing differently than she…
In the novel Vineland, Thomas Pynchon, exposes corruption within government agencies misusing their power in order to benefit their own parties’ interest as seen in American citizens’ public life from the 1960s to the 1980s. Brock Vond, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Intelligence) agent and federal prosecutor who operates throughout this whole period, relies on his connections with various government agencies to set-up civilians in order to prosecute them later on. Brock Vond's fascism mirrors President Richard Nixon’s repressive term of office with manipulation of citizens, abusive police power, and over-zealous drug raids. In Political Repression in Modern America From 1870 to 1976, Robert Justin Goldstein explains Nixon’s abusing the intelligence agencies as a form of political repression triggered by dissenters. In the article, “The War on Drugs: How President Nixon Tied Addiction to Crime”, Emily Dufton describes how Nixon shifts America’s perception that withholding drugs are illegal, which enforces the creation of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), an organization that investigates and prosecutes anybody who possesses drugs. As an authoritative figure, Vond abuses his power to justify his actions in order to get what he wants. Many citizens in the text, such as Frenesi, members of the PR3, and Zoyd, are affected by Vond’s intentions and actions. All the events in the text depict real life events as seen through every government agency’s prosecuting a character.…
Black History month is celebrated each year during the month of February. During this month, the United States along with Canada and the United Kingdom, remember the important people and events in the history of the African people as they moved from their original homeland to other locations around the world. Having its origins in “Negro History Week” which was created by noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher, Carter G. Woodson, this became a month-long celebration in 1976. February was chosen as the month during which this celebration would occur to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.…
Throughout history, cultural and religious clashes and interests have been always the source of conflicts around the world. Those kinds of clashes, conflicts, and beliefs have always led to colonialism, racism, and superiority complex. In the film "Black Robe", the story of the first contacts between the Indians and the Jesuit missionaries from France who came to convert them to Catholicism. This movie focuses on the religious and cultural clashes, and it illustrates some similarities and differences between the Indians and the Jesuits.…
Twenty five years have passed and all the lost boys are older now they are thirty three through forty three. They have jobs and they want to go to school they all know what they want to major in. The lost boys are a family they have each other and try to help each other.Abu and baku know what they want to do with their life they both want a family and want to know if theyre other family is still alive the want kids and want to go to america they want to experience different things.They have grown up other and They miss their mom, dad, and little sister the wonder if they know they're okay and if they are trying to find them and if they have been all this time.…
The analysis of Traditional, Hegemony and Black masculinity the requirement for power is absolute. Power “is not a thing, but a relation.” (michel-foucault.com). Power is created by some entity generating a condition that overpowers another individual or group. The power creation generates different types of power. Sovereign power is the obedience to the law central authority (michel-foucault.com). There is a Sovereign powers display in every visual media piece. The sovereign power displayed in visual media is suppressive to the greater good. The Birth of the Nation film created or captured the narrative that Black men are dangerous. The danger is completely linked power. The power to take is the true concern. All the Black males at one point in time wanted to take something from the central power.…
Black History month at one time held an important part in our nation’s history. It was a time when blacks were treated poorly and not given equal rights. They were discriminated against at every level. They were denied entrance into Sports, Colleges and even some churches. They were never recognized for any of their accomplishments. A black person was considered less than qualified in several areas. Black history month was originated to make people aware of the accomplishments of several black personalities. Over the years as the Black people began to excel and be accepted as equal persons. The need to have a separate day has, in my opinion, lost its value.…
Black history month is a time to remember the path that African Americans have created in order for us to succeed. Many people feel that celebrating this month is unnecessary…
Temptations come in many different shapes, sizes, and forms. Giving into these temptations can have a lasting effect on the human mind. In The Man in the Black Suit, Stephen King used multiple literary devices to support his central idea, that once a man turns away from good and journeys into evil, that man will forever be impacted. Kings story started with an old man in a nursing home writing a journal about his childhood encounter with the Devil. The old man, Gary, began his story by going back to the summer of 1914. One afternoon, nine year old Gary went out fishing after he completed his chores. Before he left, Garys parents avidly made him promise not to go too far into the woods, and not beyond where the water splits. (King 782). Gary…
Daniel Goleman, the author of Vital Lies, describes an outsider as a threat, because they have the ability to destroy a group's core schemas, which in turn would destroy the group. An outsider recognizes the faults of a group, because they are not deeply entangled with the group’s schemas, and they do not participate in groupthink. In the novel, 1984, Julia and Winston are considered the outsiders, because throughout the novel they hope to understand more than just the false reality that their government has provided for them. Eventually Julia and Winston are punished by their government, and are forced to believe the false facts that their government is supplying. Our government today does not necessarily force outsiders to believe group schemas, and the false facts of a group, however you are shunned, and hated by the overall group if you are an outsider. For example, news programs that cover information that Donald Trump would rather keep hidden, repressed, or misinformed, are called “Fake News.” Actors, celebrities, and everyday people that speak out against Trump are also made fun of, mocked, or overall just tormented as well. Although written in 1949, George Orwell's 1984 flawlessly demonstrates our government, and how our government handles the control of history in the public mind…
Malcolm X was a man of strong words and beliefs and was a major contributor to the black societies across the world. He fought for what he believed was right and would give equal rights to his community. Never the less he also educated the young. Though his early life was difficult, he had to overcome the death of his father and his mother mental breakdown which caused her to get hospitalized for twenty-six years. Along his tragedies was denied the opportunity to grow up with his siblings who were all separated and placed in different foster homes. “With his father still father still urging the African American race to take control of their live, he was murdered in 1931”(Pendergast). Malcolm’s father…
The Jim Crow era began in the late 1870’s and originated from American pop culture (Gale). Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated in most southern and border states, but not exclusively (Pilgrim). A man named Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice performed a song that was a mocking imitation of a black plantation slave (Gale). Rice was the first person to ever wear blackface makeup, he used burnt cork to darken the color of his face (Gale). Jimcrow or jimcrowing refers to the injustice of segregating blacks to lesser facilities (Gale). At the start of the Jim Crow era, laws were put into place to enforce racial segregation (Urofsky). These laws extended to parks, cemeteries, theaters, schools, and restaurants to…
In the United States, the inequality of many different types of races and genders is very clear. Many people are treated unjustly whether it's from the police, the judicial system, or society itself. A lot of people are prejudiced towards others because of their appearance, skin tone, or who they are and it's a very serious problem. The media that we have today is arguably being used as a tool to make certain groups of people look inferior to others. Many people feel this way because of events that have happened in the last few years across the country from Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown repeatedly being depicted as thugs in the news to racist advertisements in the 1900s. Black masculinity is being manipulated by the media to fit a certain…
In the nineteen fifties black communities across the United States were suffering under the heavy burden of poverty. Unemployment, incarceration, drug use and numerous other conditions of poverty were all significantly more prevalent amongst blacks then whites. At the same time blacks across the country were struggling against the oppression of general racial discrimination and Jim Crow segregation in the south. From this turmoil a multitude of black rights movements were created to struggle for equality and better living conditions for blacks. On the forefront of this undertaking was the non-violent Civil Rights Movement led by Baptist Minister Martin Luther King Jr. and the “by…