white lynch mob that targeted blacks in Washington. There were 28 public lynchings in the first half of the year‚ and the following summer and fall came to be known as "The Red Summer" of 1919. The Red Summer was the motivation behind McKay’s "If We Must Die." However‚ even without the history behind it‚ Mckay’s poem is still a powerful message‚ universal enough to relate to any person facing their own destruction. The poem start with the speaker establishing that he and his allies are under attack
Premium Poetry Sonnet Rhyme scheme
Legislative History Must be used When the wording of a statute is not clear and explicit‚ then it is difficult to know how a particular statute should be applied. Supreme Court Justice Scalia wrongly clams that legislative history should not be used when interpreting an ambiguous statute’s meaning. He is wrong to state that it is undemocratic to use legislative history because legislators‚ staffers‚ and lobbyists are all a part of the process of the creation of statutes. Legislators often intentionally
Premium Supreme Court of the United States Statutory law Law
for the social loaners who devote all of their time to reading textbooks and writing essays‚ right? Well‚ not exactly. Recent studies have shown that‚ over the past few decades‚ a trend of A-giving has manifested itself in higher education. This process is now commonly known as grade inflation. Similar to inflation in the financial sense‚ grade inflation does have one glaringly adverse effect. Just like the dollar loses its value when the market is flooded with too many of them‚ A’s are being devalued
Premium Economics Education Inflation
In rhyme and meter‚ Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” generally conforms to the conventions of a Shakespearean sonnet‚ but at several moments throughout the poem‚ McKay also strays from the rules of the English sonnet. In composing his poem in the style of the traditional Shakespearean sonnet‚ McKay creates a clear narrative that is both easy to follow and equally artistic. However‚ in deviating from this conventional style‚ McKay draws attention to specific phrases that contribute greatly to the contrasting
Premium Poetry Iambic pentameter Poetic form
RELATIONSHIP MARKETING PLANNING THE SALES CALL IS A MUST! • Strategic customer sales planning – the pre-approach High performing salespeople can be strategic problem-solvers for their customers. Strategic refers to programs‚ goals‚ and problems of great importance to customers. Top salespeople who are effective strategic problem solvers have the skills and knowledge to be able to: Uncover and understand the customer’s strategic needs by gaining an in-depth knowledge of the customer’s
Premium Marketing Sales Selling
‘Home schooling is better for children than mainstream education’ – AGAINST To begin for our motion‚ as the opposition‚ I believe it is necessary to propose the following problems with Home Schooling for pupils. I would first like to begin with briefly addressing the advantages of home schooling. Home school education is good for the child‚ as there is no one to distract
Free Teacher Education School
I’m not the kind to read sad stories about someones life. I praise Ishmael Beah‚ the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy solider. He put the unthinkable into words that were carefully crafted in order to make them perfectly flow from the text‚ to my head. The boy who was between the ages of 12 & 16 at the time‚ lost everything he thought would be his forever. His village was attacked by a notorious group‚ his parents were killed and his childhood was stolen from him. At his age‚ he never
Premium Sierra Leone Civil War English-language films Sierra Leone
True Definition Of Success Throughout our lives‚ we all work in order to someday have a job‚ family and ultimately be successful in life. But what truly defines the meaning of success? One meaning of success is the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors (dictionary.com). Although one can be successful by accomplishing his or her goals‚ true success is attained when one can bring about achievement and prosperity in others as well. In today’s society‚ we see too many people consumed
Premium Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan Basketball
as a result of loving someone. This theme of loss is evident in an abundance of movies‚ novels and other written works. Example of these include the film‚ Life is Beautiful‚ and novels Night‚ My Sisters Keeper and Gone Missing. Innocence is a gift we only ever have once. The novel Gone Missing‚ by Linda Castillo‚ is one text which expresses loss of innocence. This is displayed by Noah‚ a young Amish boy who was forced to remain physically and mentally repressed as punishment for participating in
Premium World War II Elie Wiesel
Symbolic Meaning on the Land in Gone with the Wind Abstract: The study of Gone with the Wind has mainly concerned with such aspects as the historical background of the American Civil War‚ the relationship between slave owners and slaves‚ Scarlett’s remarkable personality‚ and the conflicts between north and south cultures. Many more people read it as a love story. This thesis aims at analyzing the symbolic meaning of the land in this masterpiece to interpret this novel better. With application
Premium