The article, “The 16-Year-Old Who Fought Segregation” brings back to life the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of...
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Biden, the New President

Joe Bubar, the author of “Biden Is Sworn In as President’ wrote that in the past 20th of January...
A Trip to the Past?
In the article, “A Titanic Do-Over” I learned that mistakes during the build of the ship were made as...
Selected Poems Of Langston Hughes

Selected poems by langston hughes The Selected Poems Of Langston Hughes makes me feel “educated” (in a sense) because...
The Unknown

Milly, the protagonist in Finding Miracles has a few traits that influence her relationships with others. One, she is...
Substance Abuse and Addiction in Native American Communities

Click on each of the links below to see a series of Adobe Spark Pages I made about substance...
Historical Trauma

Native American communities face many obstacles, one being a huge mental health crisis. Native Americans have endured a brutal...
Struggles and Injustices

I chose to use this fact because of how surprising it was to hear for the first time. I...
The Intersection of Culture and Cuisine

When asked what the American cuisine is, many will respond by saying “french fries,” “hamburgers,” or “high cholesterol.” Others...
An Inherited Immune System

In the last decade, Neanderthals, the now extinct homo sapiens who inhabited Eurasia around 40,000 years ago, have proven...
How the “History Of Septa” Represents My Neighborhood

The mural I am doing in my neighborhood is titled the “History Of Septa.” It is located near Cottman...
Is storytelling still the same today as it once was?
Storytelling (in a straightforward sense) was once important to humans. We used storytelling to connect, entertain and pass along...
China Goes Back To School
In the article ¨China Goes Back To School” by Javier C Hernandez he talks about although China was the...
Poems By Langston Hughes

Recently, I read Selected Poems, by Langston Hughes. I relished the thought of the ingeniousness Langston uses in his poems....
The crimes against humanity are the greatest and the most momental events in history as the era of the...
Basically during World War 1 there were lots of executions and it was basically Jews being executed. This war...
What Does it Mean to Be an American?

Being an American is always staying open-minded and welcoming to others. America is filled with so many different people...
Riot- Walter Dean Myers plot
Recently, I read Riot, by Walter Dean Myers. I appreciated and enjoyed this play. I appreciated being able to...
Riot by Walter Dean Myers
The book I am reading is called “Riot” by Walter Dean Myers. The book is in the form of...
A Letter to My Cousin about COVID-19 in America

Dear Cousin Saidou, How are you doing? I hope everything is going well for you during these difficult times....
Confederate Monuments of America
The removal of Confederate monuments from our cities and gathering spots is necessary for our country to move forward...
What you need to know about the atomic bomb

In the article “6 things to know about the atomic bomb” it was talking about how much things have...
Young people are mostly the ones who are more into smartphones and technology. It is not completely true that...
The Impact of George Floyd

In the article, “George Floyd’s Death Sparks Massive Nationwide Protests” by Patricia Smith, I learned that the upsetting of...
Ramadan And The Different Rituals

"Suffering creates creativity"
Shrek 2: Cinematic Perfection

Everybody loves Shrek. It’s an amazing film. However, Dreamworks achieved perfection with the next installation of the franchise, Shrek...
Native American Cultural Revival Campaign

The topic which I chose to research about are issues which affect the Native American community, problems such as...
Here’s how Russia’s new weapon would leave us defenseless.
Ever since the beginning of the Manhattan project in 1942, humans have been obsessed with the inhalation total of...
Two Parties | One Country

The U.S. political system is set up for two major parties, because it awards seats in Congress and the...
History Not Left Behind

Racial profiling in the United States has become really serious, not just now but back in history. No small...
China’s Big Secret
For a while now, I’ve always noticed that countries with totalitarian Governments like the Soviet Union and North Korea,...
The CIA Wanted To Kill American Innocents, And May Have Killed The Man Who Stopped Them

More conspiracies have been confirmed than you might think. Take examples such as Watergate and MK-Ultra. Today’s conspiracy is...
To Leave or Not to Leave

Immigration and refuge have always been part of America’s history. There is not a person in the US that...
Edward Hopper originally trained as an illustrator but then focused on painting between 1901 to 1906 under the watch...
The author of “The Witch Continues tto Enchang as a Feminist Symbol” begins this article by discussing a recent...
Andrew Jackson was born in the backwoods of the Carolinas in 1767 where he received sparse education. At age...
Which Witch?

The article “Modern Witch Hunts” emphasizes how “witch hunts” have always been used to persecute already vulnerable and oppressed...
The Age of Jackson saw an almost fervent spread of democracy: widespread political engagement, shrinking power to the rich...
Andrew Jackson’s election in 1828 marked the first modern campaign in American history. After a bitter defeat in arguably...
Who’s Wendy?

My name is Wendy I was born on December 9th, inside a hospital. I am currently living in New...
Witches: Fact or Fiction?

“Commentary: Beyond Halloween – the real story behind witches, devils, trials and executions” from the Salt Lake Tribune is...
Andrew Jackson was a completely different type of presidential candidate from anything the young American nation had ever seen....
I remember

I remember waking up from my bed to go to school late, as always, back in Albania, even though...
I Stand With Angela

The Alabama Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) rescinded the Fred Shuttlesworth Humans Rights Award from Angela Davis because she...
Why Does Marijuana Get Such A Bad Rep??

Why Does Marijuana Get Such A Bad Rep?? Have you ever wondered why marijuana has such a big stigma?people...
While reading 1984 I saw many problems that are happening in our world today. The most startling one for...
Americans and Their Values

What does it mean to be an American? Americans live in America, but there is something deeper than just...
I believe the American Creed values are exercised in the educational system

The American Creed consist of many values. These values are exercised in every aspect of our lives including the...
Some people think historic buildings stand in the way of progress. Historic buildings have been standing for years, and...
Language, Power, and Society

How were all these words created?(vocabulary, language, grammar, writing, spelling, term) power colonialism, How did people use to...
Why do many people look at Childish Gambino’s video, “This Is America” as a message to society?

When the video starts the camera zooms in on Childish Gambino, he turns around and starts to dance ....
Black Success in Weeksville: Incline or Decline?

Recently in Current Events, we´ve been studying Weeksville. At first I thought about the project buildings wondering why we learning...
What It Meant and Still Means To Be American; White

For the larger part of American History, to be an American meant to be white and to view those...
Is it ethical to use data from Nazi experiments?

Kaly guerrero period4 Is it ethical to use data from nazi medical experiments? I believe that it...
Othello Analysis

1.3.208-218 Paraphrase: Desdemona: My dear father, I do face a difficult challenge: To you I am grateful for life...
Middle East: The Opression of its Women

The issue that is discussed in the video is the oppression of women residing in the Middle East. I’m...
The topic of my video is the “Polish Death Camps” Law. It interested me because I’m from Poland, and...
Students S(it)tanding Together

On March 14, 2018, students all across the country walked out of their schools at 10:00 AM in order...
Henrietta Lacks’s Family

Why should Henrietta Lacks’s family be compensated to use her mother cells? if they are getting consent and money...
Henrietta lack’s family should be owed money.

Do you think the family is owed money for the sale of the HeLa cells? Well in...
Did you know that the Nazis performed experiments on thousands of twins? Josef Mengele was a handsome but cruel...
Back in the early 1930’s the U.S. Public Health Service teamed up with the Tuskegee University to study the...
Where I’m From

I am from Nestle Crunch bars, from Airstream and Herman Miller. I am from the crystal-clear panels that let...
What Rights Should All People Living In The US Have?

What rights should all people living in the US have? I believe that people should be able to have...
How Multi Level Marketing Has Failed in the Past

This article by Stacie Bosley and Kim McKeage examines the diffusion of multilevel marketing and the risk of pyramid...
Oakland’s Police Department Untold Story

Oakland’s Police Department Untold Side “Did you know that African-Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be...
Monuments and Their History

Proper education on the statues and names of confederates on buildings or monuments is needed to teach future generations...
How does society deal with tragedy?

In society, people often deal with tragedy in different ways. Many use prayer to cope with it, ” “It’s a...
Trump has ruined empathy for strangers. As a society we have become unable to listen and understand the other....
What it Means to be American?

I believe what it means to be American is not to be so ignorant. We’ve been ignorant our...
Is Monogamy Natural for Humans?

It seems strange to question this social norm we as human beings have conformed to for the majority of...
Hip-Hops Purple Reign

Warning: This article contains explicit content on the use of codeine in Hip-hop. Coarse Language involved. Nowadays drugs and rap practically...
Geography and Political Opinions

It seems that people tend to have similar beliefs as those who live in the same geographic area as...
My thoughts on In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle. Summary: In the book, In Dubious Battle, the story takes place in the 1930s,...
History passed, but discrimination hasn’t

Recently, I have noticed that certain parts of society still have a hesitancy to accept people that are “different”...
The National Anthem Is Racist

The National Anthem is racist, people shouldn’t stand for it. The National Anthem we sing today is edited. It...
Discrimination in History classes

Throughout the years Oakland schools have been teaching European history to students of color. Did you know that in...
Asian American Activism

High School textbooks don’t have anything on Asian Americans during the civil rights era. There were a lot of...
Learning From the Past

As a society, we have failed to learn from our past mistakes. We are still repeating the past, in...
Neocolonialism in Africa

To Whomever Cares to Listen, “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third power,”...
NeoColonialism in Africa Video

https://youtu.be/B-HlbLzaL_I
Montana is a gorgeous place. Millions of years of Mother Nature’s harshest weather and catastrophic geothermal events have...
History of Pretzels

Pretzels are my favorite snack. They come in all types of sizes and shapes. Some say that...
A reason why Shakespeare is still studied in schools today is because he is realistic about the things, problems,...
Evolution of Early Christian Teaching and New Traditions

Abstract: Christianity has the biggest religious population of the Earth with nearly one in three people being a Christian. Within...
German and Japan Recovery

Abstract- Germany and Japan recovered from World War II because they both had help from other countries while recovering....
How Did Our Nation Become the Most Powerful?

Today, the United States is arguably the top superpower in the world. For much of its history, including today, our nation...
The Fire Next Time: Baldwin is Making Generalizations

“White Americans seem to feel that happy songs are happy and sad songs are sad, and that, God help...
Safety PIn

The safety pin stand up to trump article made me look at people different cause people actually care about...
Safety Pins

There are lots of people around the world, who has started to wear safety pins. These safety pins represent...
The Mother of the Holocaust, a True Hero: Irena Sendler

A nurse named Irena Sendler from Warsaw, Poland was living her normal life until the threat of the invasion...
Legalizing medical marijuana also has its downsides. Some believe that the effects are far worse than if marijuana were...
Few projects have had such a profound and lasting effect on the world as the Manhattan Project. Today, after...
My research so far has brought many interesting revelations. The issue of the bombing on Japan is very complex,...
In my research on the Gale database to find information on a polarized and partisan media, I found one...
After looking through some Gale resources I discovered that the curse of the Hope Diamond dates back to the beginning...
Hip Hop’s origins

This is a summary of what I have learned through my research and use of the Gale Literature Resource...
How Japan and Germany succeed

Japan has had great success in the technology industry and is using that to have a +15 billion profits...
Effects of Incarceration

After reading Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean, and picturing the inmates on death row in 1995, I...
My topic is about how America became the superpower it is today. I’m interested because I wonder how...
Women in the Victorian Era-Main Ideas

Virtually no rights-rights given to husband at time of marriage Bodily ownership became husband’s “Representations of ideal wives were...
The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons....
Christian Persecution Then and Now

In the Gospel of John, Jesus proclaims to his followers and disciples that “If the world hates you, remember...
The Fox and the Wolf (Remixed)

This project is based on a moral “The Fox and the Wolf” by the Brothers Grimm which was adapted...
The Monstress

This is an animation that was made by me on Scratch. THE DESIGN PROCESS: Story plot: Before I could move...
I feel _________ now that Donald Trump is President

I’m not sure if this news has sunk in yet… I’m still in shock that Donald Trump is...
The Chamber

I am weightless, and the darkness roars and rushes past me like walls closing in. The image of a...
Institutional Racism

Dear Madame/Mr, President, In this letter, I would like to address institutional racism, one of the largest problems facing...
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