http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/25/zero-dark-thirty-cia-oscars http://marvel.com/universe/Iron_Man_(Anthony_Stark) These two articles have to do with one real event and made up events about war in movies. The first one is about the new movie Zero Dark Thirty and its reviews. The movie if you have not seen it is about the tracking down and killing of Osama Bin Laden and one woman’s (Jessica Chastain) lone quest to achieve this almost imposable mission. It is an edge of your seat thriller but all of America knows the end anyway since it is almost like a documentary of the great moment that will go down in American history for hundreds of years. The other article is about the action packed soon to be trilogy Iron Man. The stuck up super hero Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jr. Beats up all sorts of Terrorists and guys that want to take his awesome teach. This movie is kind of impossible to be real at this point at time but it really shows the want of Americans to be free of terrorism and major threats.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1605015-jackie-robinson-day-2013-how-sports-world-is-honoring-mlb-icon http://www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813 Baseball is a true American sport played by the best in the Nation. It was 1947 when the Brooklyn Dodgers first played Jackie Robinson; he was the second African-American to start on the field since 1880. At least 95% of the MLB were white men, making Jackie Robinson leaving a large impact on a lot of African Americans. These 2 articles showed me how Jackie Robinson came a long way. Jackie Robinson was not accepted at first by teammates, or fans. After Showing his true raw talent the League very well liked Jackie. There were more viewers, and also more Dodger fans. Jackie Robinson was known for breaking the color barrier. Jackie had a .311 life time average, winning Rookie of the Year in 1947. And was the MVP in 1947, also arriving and playing in 6 all-star games. Jackie Robinson will always be well remembered of changing the Major League Baseball forever.
The articles I found this week corresponded the recent topic which discussed of urban violence. A conference was held in Greater New Haven, CT to discuss the rising violence in urban communities.city officials where urged by African-American Affairs Commission to get involved in violence issues plaguing urban communities, while also hearing about initiatives targeting shootings and encouraging racial equality. The topic of violence reduction couldn’t have been timelier: Police responded to a homicide in another part of the city as the meeting was being conducted. I can relate this to the commission to end urban violence in the civil rights movement because it is the same effort recreated in both campaigns. In the civil rights era the crimes where definitely more racially motivated and now that their are civil rights, the crimes are probably mostly gang or gun violence related.
The articles that I read discussed the gun violence that is an ongoing problem in Chicago. Every day it seems like there is another murder in Chicago. In the first article it discusses the shooting that occurred yesterday. In a span of about 10 hours overnight 20 people were shot and 3 were killed. It seems as if when the weather gets better then more trouble starts. In Chicago violence is not something that is rare and that is portrayed mostly by the lyrics its big rap star Chief Keef who is one of the lucky ones who is trying to make it out. In the other article it was also discussing the violence in Chicago but, was talking about the murder of a 15 year old boy who was killed about 4 blocks away from president Obama’s house on the South side of Chicago. Both these articles are telling about the horrible urban violence that is going on in Chicago. This is like back during segregation how violence always broke out. Even though this isn’t about skin color it is about color. Most of the murders that happen are gang related. Each gang has its different beliefs and that is usually what causes the violence. Just like back in the 50s when different beliefs in segregation caused lots of violence
Since the 1950s culture in the u.s has changed a lot compared to day. Today be watch action and vulgar movies. Also music has changed a lot compared to the days of elves and the blues we now listen to kid cudi and a whole wide virility of music. Since the 1950s we have had large amounts of immigrants from all over move the America which has changed our culture completely from what it was because everyone has their own ideas. We now don’t have many racise cultures in the u.s either we are now more acceptant of other racise. The main thing that made so much of a difference from now the then is that there is way more electronics that we us in our everyday life and they had little to no TV or electronics some of us could not even live a day with out them.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/america-gets-outraged-only-when-gun-violence-hits-whites http://www.wbur.org/npr/172594513/justice-in-the-segregated-south-a-new-look-at-an-old-killing the 2 articles that I read are about the segregation that has always been a present situation between white and blacks. Although the law might say so this segregation is not yet over. This segregation has been happening for hundreds of years and is still around. In the first article I read it is about this woman that lives in the heart of a major U.S. city. She was a college student that was striving to succeed in life and make it out of the ghettoes. She was walking down the road with her 4 year old son and stopped at a street corner where she was waiting to cross then road not know that she was seconds away from being brutally slaughtered. Randomly as that woman stood there on the street corner she was shot several times and was killed. But we never knew about this because she was an African American woman, in the city living amongst Hispanics and other African Americans. This is why this never ended up on the news or in the papers. This article shows that although by law segregation is over it is not completely extinct.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/america-gets-outraged-only-when-gun-violence-hits-whites http://www.wbur.org/npr/172594513/justice-in-the-segregated-south-a-new-look-at-an-old-killing There has been segregation between whites and African American for history. It has been present in the 1800s. the 1900s, and i some areeas, into the twenty-first century. One example is in the 1900s in South Africa, apartheid happened, this imposed strict segregation laws.
http://www.theroot.com/views/quiet-bias-racism-2013 http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/05/brooklyn-building-owners-discriminated-against-black-applicants/ There has been prejudice, bias views and discrimination against minorities, especially black people in the US for a very long time, even in today's world. It might not be lynching or laws that discriminate, but instead it is refusal to sell them apartments, or getting arrested or taken by the police purely on suspicion due to bias of color. Professors at princeton said that research shows that you are 50% less likely to get a job if you're black if a white person is applying as well. Not only is there prejudice against blacks, but many other minorities as well. In Boston after the bombings, a Saudi man was detained by police due to him being Saudi, he was later released. Prejudice has never left the country.
From the 1950's the culture has made a major change. Back in the 1950's things were more conservative and a bunch of rules now we put less value on that. Also after the end of World War II, the service men returning home had a effect on society boosting the economy and families.They were trying to create a normal safe area for the soldiers again.This is when the suburbs started,which back then you had to have a certain range of money but now we have apartments and smaller homes in the suburbs.Next, things like music changed. Back then you had musicians like Elvis Presley who united the music world blacks, and whites enjoyed it just like today.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/living/wilcox-integrated-prom/index.html http://www.wcnc.com/news/editors-pick/Charter-schools-more-segregated-than-traditional-public-schools-207008151.html In the one article i chose is about prom being segergated between whites and blacks. Instead of the school hosting a prom the parents and teens would have there own proms white people would have there own and blacks would have there own. Alot of people were shocked to hear that there proms were segergated. The students decided to have a prom with all kinds of race. when people started hearing about this people were shocked that they still did segergated proms in 2013 and started to donate dresses and music and a bunch of other prom stuff. In the second article i chose is about a school is 97% of this kids are black and only 3% are white. During open house when white parents would go by just seening how many black people were there they aid they didnt want to go. By reading theses articles it showed me that there is still segergation between blacks and whites. i dont get why people care so much. i think in the prom article its cool how the kids wanted to become united because thats stupid to have 2 different proms because of the race you are.
America has a lot of cultural things that fit into place. A very unusual cultural act in the 1950s will be the use of cigarettes. Cigarettes today are frowned upon in the United States, but in the 1950s, smoking cigarettes was a common as drinking coffee. In the first article it said by the late 1950s at least half of the population of industrialized nations were hooked on smoking tobacco. Cigarettes started to boom during the massive marketing period, becoming very cheap. It was very modern or causal, to always smoke it. You were allowed to smoke cigarettes in the school bathroom, restaurants, parks, and any other public places. In the second article it said, the tobacco industry soon became invincible, until it was the number one problem of lung cancer. The US Public Health Service (PHS) noticed the increase of health problems in America, mainly the cause of Lung Cancer. The PHS wanted to limit the use of tobacco. That’s why today, you can only by cigarettes at the age of 18, and you can only smoke cigarettes in certain areas. Second hand smoke is the main reason behind this. America cares for their children’s health so they put a limit on tobacco. While the Tobacco Industry slogan was “We get Rich, while you get sick” really changed the use of cigarettes being a big part of American culture.
The articles that I read about talked about how a man wants to increase Sony’s profit margin in Japan and he wants to expand their investments in other countries. It also explains how Sony is going to can the culture by expanding there sound or business to the grocery store. They’re trying to do this by putting better music systems in the store so that they can play different music to slowly change the culture. This relates to class because I’m sure that in the civil rights movement the racist whites play music that offended the blacks or annoyed them trying to get them to go away. The second article that I read was about how the UK is trying to stop people from watching pornography and they are trying to get them to stop drinking Jack Daniels. So the end result was the Ukrainian people to start fights and protest in front of buildings. This relates to class because it talks about commercialism and right now we are talking about black people at sit-ins and the Black Panthers are another form of protest.
Segregation has always been a problem in our history. Obviously present day isn’t as bad as it was 60 years ago but it’s still around. School segregation seems to be the most well known. Both of these articles have to do with school segregation today. The first article talks about how a school in Georgia has segregated Proms. They’re literally called White Prom and Black Prom. This school has never had a single prom for all the students together. It’s always been either just the white students or black students. The article also talks about how a mother feels. She actually started crying and asked,” What’s the difference? There is no difference”. The second article just talks about a school in Texas that’s segregated and they know it. 90% of the black community goes to a nonwhite or poor school. Also, the white community is the smallest so the fact that schools are segregated shows that they would have really planed a lot to make sure it’s that way.
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These two articles have to do with one real event and made up events about war in movies. The first one is about the new movie Zero Dark Thirty and its reviews. The movie if you have not seen it is about the tracking down and killing of Osama Bin Laden and one woman’s (Jessica Chastain) lone quest to achieve this almost imposable mission. It is an edge of your seat thriller but all of America knows the end anyway since it is almost like a documentary of the great moment that will go down in American history for hundreds of years. The other article is about the action packed soon to be trilogy Iron Man. The stuck up super hero Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jr. Beats up all sorts of Terrorists and guys that want to take his awesome teach. This movie is kind of impossible to be real at this point at time but it really shows the want of Americans to be free of terrorism and major threats.
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Baseball is a true American sport played by the best in the Nation. It was 1947 when the Brooklyn Dodgers first played Jackie Robinson; he was the second African-American to start on the field since 1880. At least 95% of the MLB were white men, making Jackie Robinson leaving a large impact on a lot of African Americans. These 2 articles showed me how Jackie Robinson came a long way. Jackie Robinson was not accepted at first by teammates, or fans. After Showing his true raw talent the League very well liked Jackie. There were more viewers, and also more Dodger fans. Jackie Robinson was known for breaking the color barrier. Jackie had a .311 life time average, winning Rookie of the Year in 1947. And was the MVP in 1947, also arriving and playing in 6 all-star games. Jackie Robinson will always be well remembered of changing the Major League Baseball forever.
The articles I found this week corresponded the recent topic which discussed of urban violence. A conference was held in Greater New Haven, CT to discuss the rising violence in urban communities.city officials where urged by African-American Affairs Commission to get involved in violence issues plaguing urban communities, while also hearing about initiatives targeting shootings and encouraging racial equality. The topic of violence reduction couldn’t have been timelier: Police responded to a homicide in another part of the city as the meeting was being conducted.
ReplyDeleteI can relate this to the commission to end urban violence in the civil rights movement because it is the same effort recreated in both campaigns. In the civil rights era the crimes where definitely more racially motivated and now that their are civil rights, the crimes are probably mostly gang or gun violence related.
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The articles that I read discussed the gun violence that is an ongoing problem in Chicago. Every day it seems like there is another murder in Chicago. In the first article it discusses the shooting that occurred yesterday. In a span of about 10 hours overnight 20 people were shot and 3 were killed. It seems as if when the weather gets better then more trouble starts. In Chicago violence is not something that is rare and that is portrayed mostly by the lyrics its big rap star Chief Keef who is one of the lucky ones who is trying to make it out. In the other article it was also discussing the violence in Chicago but, was talking about the murder of a 15 year old boy who was killed about 4 blocks away from president Obama’s house on the South side of Chicago. Both these articles are telling about the horrible urban violence that is going on in Chicago. This is like back during segregation how violence always broke out. Even though this isn’t about skin color it is about color. Most of the murders that happen are gang related. Each gang has its different beliefs and that is usually what causes the violence. Just like back in the 50s when different beliefs in segregation caused lots of violence
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Since the 1950s culture in the u.s has changed a lot compared to day. Today be watch action and vulgar movies. Also music has changed a lot compared to the days of elves and the blues we now listen to kid cudi and a whole wide virility of music. Since the 1950s we have had large amounts of immigrants from all over move the America which has changed our culture completely from what it was because everyone has their own ideas. We now don’t have many racise cultures in the u.s either we are now more acceptant of other racise. The main thing that made so much of a difference from now the then is that there is way more electronics that we us in our everyday life and they had little to no TV or electronics some of us could not even live a day with out them.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/america-gets-outraged-only-when-gun-violence-hits-whites http://www.wbur.org/npr/172594513/justice-in-the-segregated-south-a-new-look-at-an-old-killing
ReplyDeletethe 2 articles that I read are about the segregation that has always been a present situation between white and blacks. Although the law might say so this segregation is not yet over. This segregation has been happening for hundreds of years and is still around. In the first article I read it is about this woman that lives in the heart of a major U.S. city. She was a college student that was striving to succeed in life and make it out of the ghettoes. She was walking down the road with her 4 year old son and stopped at a street corner where she was waiting to cross then road not know that she was seconds away from being brutally slaughtered. Randomly as that woman stood there on the street corner she was shot several times and was killed. But we never knew about this because she was an African American woman, in the city living amongst Hispanics and other African Americans. This is why this never ended up on the news or in the papers. This article shows that although by law segregation is over it is not completely extinct.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/america-gets-outraged-only-when-gun-violence-hits-whites http://www.wbur.org/npr/172594513/justice-in-the-segregated-south-a-new-look-at-an-old-killing
ReplyDeleteThere has been segregation between whites and African American for history. It has been present in the 1800s. the 1900s, and i some areeas, into the twenty-first century. One example is in the 1900s in South Africa, apartheid happened, this imposed strict segregation laws.
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There has been prejudice, bias views and discrimination against minorities, especially black people in the US for a very long time, even in today's world. It might not be lynching or laws that discriminate, but instead it is refusal to sell them apartments, or getting arrested or taken by the police purely on suspicion due to bias of color. Professors at princeton said that research shows that you are 50% less likely to get a job if you're black if a white person is applying as well. Not only is there prejudice against blacks, but many other minorities as well. In Boston after the bombings, a Saudi man was detained by police due to him being Saudi, he was later released. Prejudice has never left the country.
From the 1950's the culture has made a major change. Back in the 1950's things were more conservative and a bunch of rules now we put less value on that. Also after the end of World War II, the service men returning home had a effect on society boosting the economy and families.They were trying to create a normal safe area for the soldiers again.This is when the suburbs started,which back then you had to have a certain range of money but now we have apartments and smaller homes in the suburbs.Next, things like music changed. Back then you had musicians like Elvis Presley who united the music world blacks, and whites enjoyed it just like today.
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In the one article i chose is about prom being segergated between whites and blacks. Instead of the school hosting a prom the parents and teens would have there own proms white people would have there own and blacks would have there own. Alot of people were shocked to hear that there proms were segergated. The students decided to have a prom with all kinds of race. when people started hearing about this people were shocked that they still did segergated proms in 2013 and started to donate dresses and music and a bunch of other prom stuff. In the second article i chose is about a school is 97% of this kids are black and only 3% are white. During open house when white parents would go by just seening how many black people were there they aid they didnt want to go. By reading theses articles it showed me that there is still segergation between blacks and whites. i dont get why people care so much. i think in the prom article its cool how the kids wanted to become united because thats stupid to have 2 different proms because of the race you are.
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America has a lot of cultural things that fit into place. A very unusual cultural act in the 1950s will be the use of cigarettes. Cigarettes today are frowned upon in the United States, but in the 1950s, smoking cigarettes was a common as drinking coffee. In the first article it said by the late 1950s at least half of the population of industrialized nations were hooked on smoking tobacco. Cigarettes started to boom during the massive marketing period, becoming very cheap. It was very modern or causal, to always smoke it. You were allowed to smoke cigarettes in the school bathroom, restaurants, parks, and any other public places. In the second article it said, the tobacco industry soon became invincible, until it was the number one problem of lung cancer. The US Public Health Service (PHS) noticed the increase of health problems in America, mainly the cause of Lung Cancer. The PHS wanted to limit the use of tobacco. That’s why today, you can only by cigarettes at the age of 18, and you can only smoke cigarettes in certain areas. Second hand smoke is the main reason behind this. America cares for their children’s health so they put a limit on tobacco. While the Tobacco Industry slogan was “We get Rich, while you get sick” really changed the use of cigarettes being a big part of American culture.
The articles that I read about talked about how a man wants to increase Sony’s profit margin in Japan and he wants to expand their investments in other countries. It also explains how Sony is going to can the culture by expanding there sound or business to the grocery store. They’re trying to do this by putting better music systems in the store so that they can play different music to slowly change the culture. This relates to class because I’m sure that in the civil rights movement the racist whites play music that offended the blacks or annoyed them trying to get them to go away. The second article that I read was about how the UK is trying to stop people from watching pornography and they are trying to get them to stop drinking Jack Daniels. So the end result was the Ukrainian people to start fights and protest in front of buildings. This relates to class because it talks about commercialism and right now we are talking about black people at sit-ins and the Black Panthers are another form of protest.
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Segregation has always been a problem in our history. Obviously present day isn’t as bad as it was 60 years ago but it’s still around. School segregation seems to be the most well known. Both of these articles have to do with school segregation today. The first article talks about how a school in Georgia has segregated Proms. They’re literally called White Prom and Black Prom. This school has never had a single prom for all the students together. It’s always been either just the white students or black students. The article also talks about how a mother feels. She actually started crying and asked,” What’s the difference? There is no difference”. The second article just talks about a school in Texas that’s segregated and they know it. 90% of the black community goes to a nonwhite or poor school. Also, the white community is the smallest so the fact that schools are segregated shows that they would have really planed a lot to make sure it’s that way.