Almost a hundred years ago, Jazz music fills the streets, flappers smoking outside while cars bustle down the streets. It is the roaring twenties. A time of joy and an ever-growing culture. Compared to today’s culture of technology and millennials, it feels like we have changed drastically from simpler times. However, that is far from the truth. While we no longer have jazz music sweeping […]

The 1920’s is still considered one of the dynamic periods in US history. From all the crazy money people like Rockefeller were making while others faced the great depression. To the temperance movement rocking society in both good and bad ways. To the explosion of culture that at the time had never been experienced before things like the Harlem Renaissance penetrated society and created actual […]

Before the widely known Great Depression, there was an era of great economic, political, and social transformation: the 1920s. This was an equally important period; however, it is discussed less often than the following years of devastation. The involvement of people and the changes they were making during this time significantly developed the social world. Most importantly, the twenties were a dynamic period that roared. […]

In America today, individualism is at the core of American culture. In America, the ideal is for all people to be able to make their own decisions freely. We teach that individualism gives you the freedom to pave your path, make your own choices based on your morals, as well as the responsibility to accept the consequences of your actions personally. From the time a […]

Race is one of the correlates of crime receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Roughly eight-in-ten blacks with at least some college experience (81%) say they’ve experienced racial discrimination, at least from time to time, including 17% who say this happens regularly. Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the […]

I chose to write about the Black Life Matters movement. The movement’s creation is what caught my attention, The African Americans population was going through a time where young black men were falling victim to police brutality and officers were not being held accountable for excessive force. Also, the movement was portrayed by the national media as a very hostile movement with riots and protesters […]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau who once said, “All men are born free”. However, this frankly doesn’t apply to those in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, as well as African Americans in this modern day. Throughout the novel, Orwell uses aspects of the government controlling everyone and their rights. Although they can challenge Big Brother they are stopped by the fear of becoming an unperson. No […]

Protest movements have sprung difficult conversations in order to create social change, and the impact social media has made on these topics has allowed conversations to be talked about in new ways. Since the shooting and killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin by police officer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, led to an unforgettable movement that sparked viewers’ attention from all over the U.S. The […]

Coming from a different background or race, one will always come into contact with being racially profiled or discriminated. Many Americans today are dealing with being racially profiled because of one simple thing the color of their skin, especially African Americans. In fact, it has come to a point where many black people are being targeted and used deadly force on by a police officer […]

Patriotism is devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country, while youth is the time of life when one is young. In the two articles written by Walter Thompson-Hernández and Jacqui Shine, these two topics are deeply investigated through the customs of Americans. What makes a person patriotic? An exceptional way to show patriotism is to support others. Ways of doing this are to use […]