Monday, May 9, 2011

The Things They Carried: Chapters 15 & 16

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In a sense, I lost a bit of respect of Tim O’Brien after finishing up these two chapters. In chapter 16, O’Brien was explaining how Norman B...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Always Do the Right Thing

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In the novel Native Son , Richard Wright explores the complex relationship between whites and blacks in the 1930s. The majority of the white...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Moving Forward in the Civil Rights Movement - "Robert Kennedy and the Assassination of Revered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

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SUMMARY New York Senator Robert Kennedy was a huge particpator in the fight for freedom and civil rights among the blacks living in America...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Beloved: Memory, Rememory, & The Power of the Past

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Thus far in the novel, memories, specifically of the past, have played quite a large role. It is quite evident that the character's of b...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an individual that truly believed in the importance of the individual, and how society as a whole would rather be fi...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Quran Burning: Thoughts About 9-11 & The First Amendment:

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Most people would think that the ninth anniversary of a day in which our nation was brutally attacked would be in a day in which our nations...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Who Are They? - Response to "Whatever Happened to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence" & "Bold Men in Ruffled Shirts"

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How would you picture the men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Whenever I have seen pictures of men signing the Declaration of In...