Deforestation Harming Indigenous Communities

Via Ingram Today, the environment is facing many changes in climate and temperature, and those feeling its most prominent effects are the poor and indigenous communities who live in natural, self-sustaining ecosystems like the Amazon Rainforest. Currently, the indigenous people are facing many threats to their way of life from deforestation, large scale agriculture, and river pollution. The trees in the Amazon Rainforest are being … Continue reading Deforestation Harming Indigenous Communities

Analysis of The Red Shoes

Via Ingram Your best friends, the people you admire, your greatest desires, and your personality— all dependent solely on your point-of-view; what people have shown of themselves to you, and what parts of the world you’ve seen, as well as the viewpoints you’ve made and continue to experience the world while carrying based on other things within your viewpoint. The world can only be as … Continue reading Analysis of The Red Shoes

Beowulf: the Hero vs. the Exile

Li Chen He The debate between Unferth and Beowulf from lines 499 to 606 provides a sharp contrast between the hero, Beowulf, and the ‘antihero’, the exile, Unferth. Beowulf completely undermines Unferth’s argument and in turn is able to insult Unferth, which shows the capability and mental fortitude of the hero. On the contrary, Unferth completely ruins his reputation and seems foolish. This section of … Continue reading Beowulf: the Hero vs. the Exile

Analysis of excerpt from James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Johnathon Hao Excerpt: Perhaps the reader has already guessed why I was so willing and anxious to play the accompaniment to this violin solo; if not—the violinist was a girl of seventeen or eighteen whom I had first heard play a short time before on a Sunday afternoon at a special service of some kind, and who had moved me to a degree which now … Continue reading Analysis of excerpt from James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Irish Couch Potatoes: Fact or an Idea Perpetrated and Spawned by the British?

Cole Greene British colonial activity in Ireland led to the oppression of the Irish population, who were forced to remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. This created widespread poverty in Ireland, and was both a result of and a problem that perpetuated racism and religious intolerance against Irish Catholics. This begs the question, to what extent did Great Britain control Ireland … Continue reading Irish Couch Potatoes: Fact or an Idea Perpetrated and Spawned by the British?

Stuck between an Island and Internment

Grace Li NHD Senior Individual Website: Regional Champion and State Finalist Full Title: Stuck between an Island and Internment: How Bay Area-Native Japanese Americans were Wedged between Two Clashing Identities When Japanese Americans living in the Bay Area were forcibly removed to internment camps during World War 2, despite legal resistance and civil disobedience, they were forced to endure having their rights taken away, but … Continue reading Stuck between an Island and Internment

J’aime la France

Louise Bernard La France est une belle chanson, Qui chante l’art et les traditions. Des peintures, la musique et les scènes artistiques, La culture est sa caractéristique. La France est comme une delicate gourmandise, Avec ses macarons, ses eclair et toutes ses friandises. Dans les rues de Paris, l’élégance danse, La mode en France, une éternelle cadence. L’architecture française, chaque bâtiment est expressif, Notre-Dame, le … Continue reading J’aime la France