Hands Up Don’t Shoot The Hands Up Don’t Shoot painting is a 48x48 inch piece of art located in the Portland Art Museum and was painted by Arvie Smith‚ recently in 2015. This abstract work is one of the many oil paintings by Smith that depicts his emotions of the way African Americans are treated in modern society. This vibrant piece is full of detail and many unified subjects that it’s difficult to learn its depth by just viewing it for a few seconds. While looking through the museum for the first
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Don’t Text and Drive James Jefferson Jr. Post University In today’s world we are blessed with breakthroughs in technology that allows each of us to have our own personal communications device. They are small enough to go anywhere and give us the capability to communicate while doing anything. Anything unfortunately includes texting while driving. Should anyone be allowed to text of do anything that could distract them while they are driving? It’s obviously not worth the risk of injury or death
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For the event five on my form‚ I watched the movie which named Boys Don’t Cry. The plot of this movie is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena‚ who is a transgender person and who considers himself as a male. The movie begins with the scene that Brandon cut his hair and dresses like a boy. After he involves a bar fight‚ he is evicted from his cousin’s house. Therefore‚ he moves to Fall City to live with his friends John‚ Tom‚ Candace‚ and Lana. Brandon’s body is a female‚ so he
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Don’t get me started on... PUBLIC TRANSPORT! Don’t you just think people absolutely love them? Just don’t get me started on buses‚ taxies‚ trains and planes. I totally understand that public transport is for us and to meet are individual needs and to make are life’s easier but sometimes public transport is not the best source to travel‚ trust me on this one! London‚ Birmingham‚ Manchester all has public transport and they are all horrendous. Don’t get me started on‚ if they are road works
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I chose the song “Don’t Panic” by Coldplay because I strongly believe it reflects myself‚ and my life quite accurately‚ which expresses my beliefs. The song “Don’t Panic” is a pessimistic/optimistic song that can be especially shown in some lines of the lyrics. The pessimistic side of the song shown by “Bones sinking like stones” expresses that we are all going to go through some sort of suffering that we will have to endure. This line relates to a part of my life as a child living in New York‚ which
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“I don’t like pigs‚ I don’t like people‚ I don’t like people who like pigs. Cause I’m a pig‚ I’m constantly bullied just because I’m fat‚ I’m called pig‚ fatty‚ big hungus‚ and all kinds of mean names. All because I’m fat‚ I mean what’s wrong with it‚ why do I have to suffer just because I weigh a couple of extra pounds?” “I hate all my classmates‚ even the ones who don’t do anything to me‚ they are just as bad cause why would they just stand there watching me get kicked to the ground? I wish they
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I have been talking to my Mom about Hip Hop songs she has listened to‚ and after listening to some‚ I heard one that was quite interesting. This song‚ Don’t Fight the Feeling‚ by Too $hort. The song follows Too $hort‚ and his efforts to seduce Barbie‚ a women from the rap group The Danger Zone‚ whom is just not down to be his toy. This song is very explicit‚ but has its own charm to it‚ in very weird way. In the intro of the song‚ Too $hort right away calls this women a ho‚ and tells her that all
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When I read the article‚ “Don’t Spank Your Kids‚ says 50 Years of Research” (Dicker)‚ it took me back to the first time my mother had spanked me. It was the summer time and I had gone to visit my dad in New York‚ while my mother got us settled in at our new house in Delaware. I had found the aesthetic of the punk rock lifestyle displayed on television very interesting and wanted to replicate the way they looked and dressed. As I was only six years old and had no stable job to get the clothing possible
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After the appeal was granted‚ chaos stroke throughout the city of Little Rock; the black community would endure many different types of abuse from the white citizens. The reason for it was that they were enraged of all the schooling their children had missed. The white population needed something to blame and the black people were the target for just about everything. A substantial amount of hate crimes rose as soon as the bill passed; Daisy Bates‚ the head chairman of the NAACP in Little Rock took
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Would you sentence a man‚ the rest of his life in prison because of the way he looks? In the story‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Tom Robinson was accused of many things and got sent to prison due to the color of his skin. However‚ in this time period‚ if a white did all the wrong that Tom did they would not be sent to prison. This is an example of don’t judge a book by its cover. Throughout the story this is the theme that Harper Lee is trying to get across. In this book‚ Harper Lee clearly demonstrates
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