...Scottsboro Boys The Scottsboro Boys is known as a minstrel show. A minstrel show consists of comic relief, a variety of acting, dancing and music by white people in blackface or black people in blackface. This particular show consisted of black people in blackface. However, minstrel shows portray black people as dim-witted, lazy, and careless. The nine Scottsboro boys were accused in Alabama for raping two white women on a train in the 1930s. The landmark of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism, the right to a fair trial, and miscarriage of justice. The cases included an angry murder crowd before the suspects were charged, an entrapment, a completely white jury, and rushed trials. Throughout these trials, the boys received very poor legal representation, and even though there was medical evidence to suggest that they had not committed the crime, eight of the boys were convicted. The youngest, Eugene was given a new trial because he was a juvenile. The other boys were held in Kirby Prison, having their case appealed twice to the United States Supreme Court. During the return of the case to the lower court, one of the girls, Ruby admitted to fabricating the rape accusations and explained that none of the Scottsboro boys touched her or her friend, Victoria. The jury still managed to find the defendants guilty. Another trial, with one black member within the jury, freed four more of the Scottsboro boys. Of those who remained in prison, one was shot by a prison guard...
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...story he is going to tell. “ I could tell you about something that happened, They were kids themselves, but they were crazy in love, this eighteen-year-old boy and this seventeen-year-old girl when they married. Not all that long afterwards they had a daughter. The baby came along in late November during a cold spell that just happened to coincide with the peak of the waterfowl season. The boy loved to hunt, you see. That’s part of it. The boy and girl, husband and wife, father and mother, they lived in a little apartment under a dentist’s office. Each night they cleaned the dentist’s place upstairs in exchange for rent and utilities. In summer they were expected to maintain the lawn and the flowers. In winter the boy shoveled snow and spread rock salt on the walks. Are you still with me? Are you getting the picture? I am, she says. That’s good, he says. So one day the dentist finds out they were using his letterhead for their personal correspondence. But that’s another story. He gets up from his chair and looks out the window. He sees the tile rooftops and the snow that is falling steadily on them. Tell the story, she says. The two kids were very much in love. On top of this they had great ambitions. They were always talking about the things they were going to do and the places they were going to go. Now the boy and girl slept in the bedroom, and the baby slept in the living room. Let’s say the baby was about three months old and had only just begun to sleep through...
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...ten year old little boy watering one of his father’s customers large 86-pound catfish caught on a trip to the Colorado River (Bass, 2009). The father advised his son that his job was to keep the fish watered and alive until the time came to kill and cook it for the family’s weekend barbeque party. Throughout the afternoon, people came to see the “swollen, gasping, grotesque netherworld” and “monstrosity” creature, one being the customer’s son, Jack (Bass, 2009, pgs. 1-2). Jack, a fifteen year old boy, was kicked out of school the year before for fighting. Once all the adults left, Jack approached the ten year old boy, told him it was his father who caught the...
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...[pic]Written by: Michael Richards 'Dead,' said the man, 'just like that'. He stopped the engine. The boy stared out the window. 'Well?' demanded the man. 'Do you think you can do it?' The boy said nothing. The man said, 'If you can't do it now you never will.' [pic]'Yes'. said the boy, 'I can do it.' [pic]'If you can't do it now you never will.' They left the car sprawled across the crest of the road. They walked into the paddock. The boy lagged. [pic]'Don't walk behind me,' said the man. [pic]The grass glistened in the early morning sun. The boy stretched hard to keep up. The wet grass was cold on his legs. Grass seeds stabbed through his socks and prickled his ankles. Flat seeds stuck to his skin. The soft hairs on his legs were soon matted and tangled with the sticky dew and the seeds from the grass. [pic]The man stopped. He said, 'Watch'. [pic]He raised his rifle. It cracked and the first kangaroo flipped into the air and fell down. The second kangaroo froze, staring directly at the man. He fired. The second kangaroo flipped and fell in the grass. [pic]They walked to the bodies. The boy was slightly behind and on the man's left. As he walked his rifle wavered. [pic]'Watch where you point that,' said the man. [pic]The first kangaroo lay on its side with its head in a puddle of blood. Its forepaws were curled like small hands. It lifted its head to caress the boy with its large limpid eyes. he was surprised how peaceful it looked. The man squatted beside it...
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...lay a boy. Just above the flat, cloudy plane there lay a boy. Awhile he has been there, yes, but he spends most of his time here. At arrival he is always afraid as if he never was here; as if this place doesn’t exist, yet it does. At long last, he awakes. Rain, like cold steel, strikes his forehead and he begins to twitch. Raindrops trickle down onto his eyes in unison as he opens them, and with a thrust upwards - he sits. Confused and dazed, he remains in position. Like always, he notices the fog first. Seemly impenetrable, the fog stands like a wall. A border between him and whatever is beyond. He can hardly manage to see even six feet into the dim veil of cloudy fog. Struggling, he lifts himself up and works his way to the wall....
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...One of the boys named Michael went in the front of the class pulling a pail of toys saying it's time to play. I finally got him to move from the front of the class and to put the toys away. The three other boys still misbehaving, and I send one of them to Ms. Acord's classroom. The other two boys I had them stand in the corner with their back against the wall until I can explain the math concept to the small group. The boy in the back corner still looking at the class making faces and talking loudly disturbing the class. Thus, now the students laughing loudly I still haven't had any time to teach. The boy in the back of the room was in the Corner for five minutes. Therefore, three ladies came into the classroom only one introduced herself informing me she was there to assist a student. One lady pulled out her phone took a picture of the math problems on the board and both ladies left the classroom. Afterward, I send the boy who was in the back of the room to Ms. Acord's classroom. Furthermore, I told the other boy to stand in the front corner of the room his back was against the wall. This boy was in my small group he refuses to do any work and was talking very loudly disturbing my small...
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...Flies, by William Golding demonstrates that the isolated boys on the island get corrupted through their primal instincts of their savagery. The savagery that are explained in the novel, are divided into three levels, first level is the good potential, next is experience, and the final stage is savagery. First of all, in the novel the kids are full of pride and full of education and morality. The oldest boy out of all is 12 years old, which is a good year for knowing how the world works around them and how to behave properly. Through the supervision when the boys were back in England, they describe themselves as noble beings. “’We’ve [the boys] got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re [the boys] not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.’” (40). in this discussion, Jack Merridew, the choir boy implies their pride of being English and that they should not spoil themselves from nobility to savages. There is irony used because throughout the plot summary, Jack Merridew becomes the most cruel out of all the boys, and him saying of that they are ‘not savages’ gives an ironic effect. It wasn’t just the authorization and rules that are mentioned, but the emotions for caring for one another made another sense of feeling in the beginning for hope and survival for the kids. “Simon found for [the littluns] the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.” (56). Simon...
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...One day a little boy about 10 or 11 was walking home from school. He was walking alone and he felt scared. As it became darker while he was walking the long road home some older boys started to follow him. He got scared and he didnt know what to do. Qucikly he looked all around him and he spotted the one place he knew that he would be save. In a instant he took of running for the landfill up ahead. Once he made it into the landfill he was looking around for somewhere to hide that he knew he would be safe. In a quick motion he was got. Running as fast as he can toward the back for corner of the dump. He had just made it to the back when he saw a man. The man was not a normal man, no he was the keeper of the landfill and he looked at the boy and asked him what he was doing there. The boy looked up at the man and told him, " I am running from some mean boys that want to beat me up!" The man looked at him in concern and told him he could make himself and home and stay until the boys were gone. By this time it was already goign on 7 o'clock at night and the little boy was sure his mom would be worried about him. Then he realized that his mom had yoga class and wouldnt be home till 10. So the boy made himself a comfy little spot to sit and grabbed a paper and started to read it. The boy sat there for about two more hours before he thought the coast was clear. He told the man that he was going to go home because he figured the bullies should be gone by now since he did wait in the...
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...After reading the book, I came to a conclusion that the main theme of the story is to keep following your dreams no matter how hard the journey will be. Santiago, the young boy, had a very hard journey to achieve his personal legend. Although he lost everything once, he never gave up on his dream on reaching his treasure at the pyramids of Egypt. The conflict of the story was the boy’s journey because he went through the ups and downs of it without stopping. Enhancing the theme by never giving up until his dream of completing the rough journey is met. As the story unravels, it reveals many ways the boy never stopped no matter how rough the journey was. For example, at first he gave up 10% of his herd of sheep to the old king and another 10% of the treasure to the gypsy as soon as he got his hands on it which is much to give away before even starting his journey.As the story continued, the boy lost everything near a marketplace to a boy who was a...
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...miniature jeans, the sweatshirt bunched beneath the seat belt’s strap, the hiking boots dangling off the floor like weights. “You OK?” he said. “You have to pee?” He slowed and drove the car onto the shoulder and the boy got out to pee. He looked at him standing on that rise in the brome and the bunchgrass, his little hips pushed forward. When the boy walked back to the car he swung the door open for him, then reached over and pulled the door shut and bumped out on the empty road. Not much had changed, really. A half hour out of Hoquiam he began to see the clear-cuts through the firs: a strange, white light, as if the world dropped away fifty feet out from the pavement. He hoped the boy wouldn’t notice. The two of them had been talking about what to do if you saw a mountain lion (don’t run, never run), and what they’d have for lunch. Twenty minutes later they were past it, and the light behind the trees had disappeared. He’d been at the house by dawn, as he’d promised. He sat in the driveway for a while looking at the yard, the azaleas he’d planted, the grass in the yard beaten flat by the rain. For a long time he hadn’t wanted her back, hadn’t wanted much of anything, really. He went inside, wiping his shoes and ducking his head like a visitor, and when the boy came running into the living room he threw him over his shoulder, careful not to hit his head on...
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...bottles, and wildlife appease their thirsts’. Many do not understand the importance that this river holds in everyday life. Now that winter is right around the corner, they prepare for themselves what the elders are saying to be the coldest winter in over 100 years. Many of the young people disregard these notions and continue to play and fish. Only until they awaken the next morning and meet up to go down the river. On their way down to the infamous river spot one of the boys slipped on a frozen patch of water. Confused by what had just happened the others helped him to his feet and continued on their way. Usually the hike down to the river was full of life squirrels leaping from limb to limb of the trees and birds quarrelling over the better branch; but not today. Not an animal was in sight bringing about an odd silence for this time of day. To their surprise, the river was no longer flowing. It was a stagnant frozen wasteland where fish were trapped until it thawed. “They warned us,” said the boys in astonishment. After coming to the realization of what they were witnessing, they decided to see how thick this ice was. After thrashing away at the ice for a half an hour with large sticks they concluded that the river was completely frozen, top to bottom. Devastated by this news and now unsure of what their day might hold, they began a new...
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...public school system for the decline of academic success among boys. However, this assumption is incorrect and the decline in academic success is due to more obvious reasons. Public school systems allow both genders to receive the same education so the “gender disparity” Ann Hulbert presents is false. What holds boys back from academic success is simply their engagement in sports and videogames, the fact that girls are more encouraged to rise above, and most importantly the boundaries boys place on themselves. In our society boys are expected to be involved in a sport and spend endless hours playing videogames. These activities have become more accepted and now have taken up the time that boys should be using to do school work or studying. Paul Theroux, author of “Being a Man”, says “I was told to take up a sport, get more fresh air, join the boys scouts and I was urged not to read so much” (1985). The fact is, sports are more important than school in boys’ minds. Also, in order to be “masculine” and get girls’ attention, boys assume they should not be academically successful. “In a nutshell, the girls liked the jocks the best, and sometimes decide to give the time of day to the other team, the computer nerds” (Walker, 2004). After playing sports and videogames the last thing boys want to do is crack open their books and study. Sports and video games contribute to the decline of academic success among boys. While boys have become content with average academic performance, females...
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...Victim”, about how I could find the race and gender by just people’s bones! So I took my own photos of the marks on the bone and sent some to my good friend, Billy Bass. We both concluded that the remains may have been of a 10-15 year old child. When they finally brought the remains to my office I cleaned them and inspected the skull. Midway through the inspection I noticed that the child was going through puberty. I found this out because their forehead was starting to slope back. I then got a call from Bill, and he said...
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...happen But I don't know what If that means, what I think it means, we're in trouble Big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say I'm not taking any chances You were just what the doctor ordered [Chorus:] I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God All my people from the front to the back nod, back nod Now who thinks their arms are long enough to slap box, slap box? They said I rap like a robot, so call me rap-bot [Verse 1:] But for me to rap like a computer must be in my genes I got a laptop in my back pocket My pen'll go off when I half-cock it Got a fat knot from that rap profit Made a living and a killing off it Ever since Bill Clinton was still in office With Monica Lewinski feeling on his nutsack I'm an MC still as honest But as rude and as indecent as all hell Syllables, skill-a-holic (Kill 'em all with) This flippity, dippity-hippity hip-hop You don't really wanna get into a pissing match With this rappity-rap Packing a mack in the back of the Ac backpack rap, crap, yap-yap, yackety-yack and at the exact same time I attempt these lyrical acrobat stunts while I'm practicing that I'll still be able to break a motherfuckin' table Over the back of a couple of faggots and crack it in half Only realized it was ironic I was signed to Aftermath after the fact How could I not blow? All I do is drop "F" bombs Feel my wrath of attack Rappers are having a rough time period Here's a Maxi-Pad It's actually disastrously bad For the wack while...
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...the loss of her family. (BS-2) Then regains her hope and by that starts to make her own decisions and makes a plan to find her remaining family. (BS-3) Lastly she takes back control over her life and is able to speak again. (TS) Najmah loses her voice in a literal way and in a way where she had control over her life because her remaining family has died, she soon regains her hope and voice because of the possibility that her brother and father are still alive. (MIP-1) Najmah loses her voice and “say” in her life because she has lost her family. (SIP-A) An...
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