...Nancy Torres Mrs. Dejong Honors English 10-7 27 April 2015 The Great Migration The Great Migration was a movement in which a large number of African Americans relocated from the rural south to urban cities in Northern and Western United States. This movement lasted from 1915 to 1970 and approximately six million African Americans left their homes to move to urban cities. African Americans suffered greatly in the rural South. White people had some type of superiority over black people. Journalist Isabel Wilkerson shows the superiority of white men over black men in her book The Warmth of Other Suns: African Americans Chicago became one of the most prominent destinations for these African American migrants. Chicago’s demographics changed...
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...Injustice is defined as “the lack of fairness or justice”, while boundaries are physical or social limitations which can lead to unfairness. For example, Harper Lee’s not-so talked about character, Tom Robinson faces a huge injustice in chapter 21 of To Kill a Mockingbird: He’s found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. In The Untold Story of Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are found not guilty of the murder of Emmett Till even though there is some pretty damning evidence against them. In A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon, Carolyn Bryant’s home life is riddled with little gender boundaries. The difference between boundaries and injustice aren't that different from each other when living down South. Being Black in the South, especially in Alabama, in 1935 is bad enough, but when you throw being accused of raping a White woman on top of it you’re already dead. Tom Robinson’s verdict is one of the biggest disappointments in the book, even though it’s known from the get-go. The jury chooses Bob and Mayella Ewell’s word over Tom’s even though they are seen as the scourge of the town, as implied when Atticus Finch tries to sell his...
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...nickname was “Gwendie” and her family and friends called her that, and it stuck with her for the rest of her life(biography.com). When Gwendolyn Brooks was six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago as part of the Great Migration (biography.com).Gwendolyn Brooks attended 3 high schools. She attended Hyde Park High, Wendell Phillips Academy, and Englewood High School (biography.com). After high school, she graduated from Wilson Junior College and began to write (biography.com). After college, she started her writing career and many started to publish her books. Gwendolyn Brooks had a great school education and had a great start to her writing career. She was well-educated throughout her early life. Her first published collection, A Street in Bronzeville (1945), reveals her talent (Britannica.com). Next, Gwendolyn Brooks had many contributions to society including the poems she wrote. At age 13, Brooks published her first poem in a children’s magazine (biography.com). At age 16, she had written and published about 75 poems (biography.com). She began to submit her work to the Chicago Defender, which was a leading African-American newspaper (biography.com). Brooks once said, “I felt that that I had the need to write (The Washington Post.org). Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge,”(biography.com). Some of her major work, included ballads, sonnets and free verse, drawing on musical rhythms, and the content of inner-city...
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...Chap Heap’s Slumming, is a historical book that reveals the reality behind sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Provoked by the Gilded Age in the U.S. and all of its technological innovations, urban areas began to develop into commercialized spaces with new demographics: as the middle and upper class whites were moving out, new immigrants and lower-class workers were moving in. This new, ethnically diverse population lived in tightly packed conditions referred to by many as slums. Beyond the cramped tenements and unsanitary living conditions that existed, the slums had much more to offer. Here existed an array of nightlife attractions including “red-light” districts, saloons, dance halls, nightclubs, cabarets and opium dens. What made these areas so much more exhilarating was the fact that the middle and upper class used them to travel beyond the borders of their own neighborhoods and unveil their sexual curiosities through the nightlife of the slums. According to Heap, the conceptualization of sexuality, race, and urban life was altered through this act of slumming, in which the higher class people stepped beyond their boundaries into the world of the lower class and engaged in behavior far more experimental than the more conservative lifestyle that people were used to. Heap divides his book into two general sections. The first focuses mainly on the spatial organization and cultural geography of slumming, as well...
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...perspective on racial problems and influence a lot of the stories she wrote about growing up. When Brooks was 13 she published her first poem titled “Eventide” which appeared in American Childhood. By the time she was 17 she was frequently publishing poems in the Chicago Defender, which was a newspaper serving Chicago’s black population. (“Gwendolyn Brooks”.) Once Gwendolyn graduated from Wilson Junior College she worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and also worked as a secretary, while continuing to grow as a poet. In this time Brooks attended many poetry workshops and began writing the poems, that focused on urban blacks, that would eventually be published in her first collection titled, A Street in Bronzeville (“Gwendolyn...
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...Southland, Chapter 27 & 28 Biographic Information: An English novelist born in Japan (1969- ), Nina Reyovr had been an Edgar Award finalist, and the winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. She writes about racial justice of the past & present in the bestselling novel, Southland. Summary: [CH.27]: This is a story about an African American named Victor Conway, who lived in Watts or previously known as Mudtown, a small country village. The story takes place after the Japanese internment in 1942. After experiencing tribulations that came with racism in 1943, he left to Little Tokyo. He returned to Watts to reminisce what he had lost in a ghost town. The story starts out with Victor being newly married late of 1942 to Janie. He worked at a shipyard like most black men in the neighborhood. As though struggling through life with a dead end job and making ends meet with graveyard shifts was not bad enough, he was also under the oppression of white men. White people would constantly glare at him with discontent. He had to endure insults and the pestering of white people. In a community, where associating with blacks was considered more than a taboo, but a travesty; a white woman would try to seduce him, disregarding his marital status. He desperately tries to avoid her attempts because white men were breathing down his neck with fiery eyes. Her attempt to try to befriend Victor resulted in the white community’s punishment towards his love one. His wife...
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...THE REAL ChicagoPublicSchools High School Football Power 25 RANKINGS Coach Tyler Reports 1 Phillips 3-0 (0-0) Won vs Simeon 29-18 1 2 Simeon 1-2 (0-0) First defeat vs CPS school since 2009 2 3 Curie 3-0 (0-0) 160 points scored; 14 against for the defending City Champs 3 4 Solorio 3-0 (0-0) Academy for Urban School Leadership team means business 4 5 Al Raby 3-0 (0-0) Beat Hubbard friday night 38-26 7 6 Dunbar 1-2 (0-0) Won against #20 Harper 50-12 6 7 Julian 3-0 (0-0) 40-0 win over Bogan 9 8 Whitney Young 3-0 (1-0) 63-0 blowout win vs Roosevelt 10 9 King 2-1 (0-0) Won Thur night thriller 24-20 against Lane Tech 13 10 North Lawndale 1-2 (0-0) Lost at Quincy 15-35. Prepared for city? 5 11 Lane Tech 1-2 (0-0) 20-24 lost vs King. QB a real issue or not? 6 12 Steinmetz 3-0 (1-0) Overlooked Streaks matchup vs #8 WY Dolphins 9/17 NR 13 Robeson 1-2 (0-0)...
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...Braxton’s family initially arrived on the South Side, lived on the West Side, and moved back to the South Side in later years. He stated: “My mother’s parents moved to Bronzeville first, then to Central Park and Roosevelt, and finally to Finn Town on 89th and Normal.” While I do situate the West Side within the context of the Black Belt to get at the ways in which the Black Belt—as a metaphor for spatializing Blackness—relocated— it is here that I shift my attention to the containment of Blackness on the South Side for the remainder of this chapter. As I stated in the introduction, this is not to dismiss nor discount the history of a wide variety of Black Chicagoans particularly those on the West Side including Black house kids like Todd and Ray. The containment and spatialization of Blackness penetrated the West Side in similar and distinct ways as the South Side that also deserve close attention. However, the...
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...* Definitions: community, health, partnerships, capacity * The power of collaborative partnerships * Who should be involved? * How to build healthier communities: A model for community and system change * Factors affecting the work of community partnerships * Ten recommendations for promoting community health and development Most of us want the same things from our communities. We want them to be safe from violence and illness; we want neighborhoods that are alive and that work well. And we would all like to have people who care for us and whom we trust. But how do we develop a community like that? Our belief is that communities are built when people work together on things that matter to them. In this section, we'll talk about what we mean by that, and explore our idea of how we can get there from here -- what might be called our "model of change" or "theory of practice." We'll start this section with some definitions that will help ground the ideas we are trying to get across. Then, we'll look at the advantages of collaborative efforts: why we believe it makes sense for people to work together to solve problems they share. Next, we'll look at key partners in community efforts, and then, we will describe the model of change that is the focus of this section. We'll supplement that model with principles and values that we believe should influence how community efforts unfold. Finally, we'll close with some broad recommendations for working together to help...
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...Community Development Vol. 41, No. 3, July–September 2010, 298–322 Incorporating social justice in tourism planning: racial reconciliation and sustainable community development in the Deep South Alan W. Bartona* and Sarah J. Leonardb a b Downloaded By: [University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY)] At: 06:29 3 November 2010 Social Sciences, Delta State University, DSU Box 3264, Cleveland MS 38733, USA; The College Board, Chicago, USA Tourism can serve as a vehicle for sustainable community development by contributing to equity and social justice. This happens as tourists learn about marginal groups through educational tourism, engage in development projects with host-area residents, undertake pilgrimages that bring greater meaning and cohesiveness to an ethnic identity, or encounter stories that transform their view of social injustice and spur further action to reduce inequities. Tourism planning can produce a sense of reconciliation when it brings historically divided groups together. An example is found in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, where a group of white and African American residents are collaborating to develop tourism projects designed around a narrative of reconciliation, while they use the process of tourism planning to work towards racial reconciliation within their community. This case illustrates strategies tourism planners employ and challenges they face when they envision tourism as more than merely a means of economic growth...
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...Detailed Fare Information All Aboard! This map gives detailed information about Chicago Transit Authority bus and elevated/subway train service, and shows Pace suburban bus and Metra commuter train routes in the CTA service area. It is updated twice a year, and available at CTA rail stations, Metra downtown terminals, visitor centers, airports, or by calling the RTA Travel Information Center number below. Regional Service Overview CTA runs buses (routes 1 to 206) and elevated/subway trains serving the city and 40 nearby suburbs. Most routes run daily through late evening, every 10 to 20 minutes. Sunday schedules apply on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. PACE runs buses throughout the suburbs (routes 208 and above), and many routes connect with CTA. Major routes run daily through mid-evening, every 30 to 60 minutes. You can use your CTA Transit Card, Chicago Card®, Chicago Card Plus®, or certain CTA Passes to ride. METRA runs 11 suburban commuter train lines from several downtown Chicago terminals. Rush hour service is frequent; otherwise every 1 to 2 hours. Most routes run daily. Fares are separate, but a Link-Up Pass is available to Metra monthly ticketholders for use on CTA (weekdays 6am–9:30am and 3:30pm–7pm) or Pace (anytime). SOUTH SHORE LINE runs commuter trains between downtown Chicago (Millennium and Van Buren stations) and South Bend Airport in Indiana. Daily service. Fares are separate. For...
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...Starbucks Shared Planet - Our Responsibility MY CUSTOMIZED REPORT CREATED AT WWW.STARBUCKS.COM/SHAREDPLANET ©2009 Starbucks Coffee Company. All rights reserved. https://test.starbucks.com/SHAREDPLANET/customGRPage.aspx (1 of 108)6/1/2010 2:23:02 PM Starbucks Shared Planet - Our Responsibility Mission Statement Our Starbucks Mission To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Here are the principles of how we live that every day Our Coffee It has always been, and will always be, about quality. We’re passionate about ethically sourcing the finest coffee beans, roasting them with great care, and improving the lives of people who grow them. We care deeply about all of this; our work is never done. Our Partners We’re called partners, because it’s not just a job, it’s our passion. Together, we embrace diversity to create a place where each of us can be ourselves. We always treat each other with respect and dignity. And we hold each other to that standard. Our Customers When we are fully engaged, we connect with, laugh with, and uplift the lives of our customers— even if just for a few moments. Sure, it starts with the promise of a perfectly made beverage, but our work goes far beyond that. It’s really about human connection. Our Stores When our customers feel this sense of belonging, our stores become a haven, a break from the worries outside, a place where you can meet with friends. It’s about enjoyment...
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...C h a p t e r 1 Prewriting GETTING STARTED (OR SOUP-CAN LABELS CAN BE FASCINATING) For many writers, getting started is the hardest part. You may have noticed that when it is time to begin a writing assignment, you suddenly develop an enormous desire to straighten your books, water your plants, or sharpen your pencils for the fifth time. If this situation sounds familiar, you may find it reassuring to know that many professionals undergo these same strange compulsions before they begin writing. Jean Kerr, author of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, admits that she often finds herself in the kitchen reading soup-can labels—or anything—in order to prolong the moments before taking pen in hand. John C. Calhoun, vice president under Andrew Jackson, insisted he had to plow his fields before he could write, and Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and other novels, is said to have cried on occasion from the sheer dread of sitting down to compose his stories. To spare you as much hand-wringing as possible, this chapter presents some practical suggestions on how to begin writing your short essay. Although all writers must find the methods that work best for them, you may find some of the following ideas helpful. But no matter how you actually begin putting words on paper, it is absolutely essential to maintain two basic ideas concerning your writing task. Before you write a single sentence, you should always remind yourself that 1. You have some valuable ideas to tell your reader,...
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