Walking by a store in Vietnam and peering into the window, sitting in the glass cabinet, there are beautiful works of art carved in a piece of white material. That is ivory. People would believe it is a fabulous and magnificent piece of art, but not many people think back to where it came from. […]
Category: Humanities
Homeland or Death – A Voice from the Cuban Revolution
Pedro Hernández was a sugarcane cutter who grew up in a loving family in Cuba. Because Batista poorly ruled the country, at the age of 24, he decided to join Fidel Castro to fight Batista’s regime. He joined the M-26-7, and with their fearless, hard-working, and dedicated spirit, they were able to fight against Batista […]
The Cuban Revolution in Five and a Half Minutes
In this video, it introduces the Cuban Revolution that has taken place from 1952 to 1963. On the small Caribbean island, not far away from Florida, USA. It all starts with the dictator — Batista. Because of the corrupted government, many began to revolt against the Batista regime. In the course of the next 10 […]
The True History Behind the HeLa Cells
This literary non-fiction book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot writes about how Henrietta, an African American woman from a tobacco farmer’s family, her cells became the most important tool in medicine and how her cells had been helping the development of vaccines, studies of cancer, genes. Her cells have become the […]
Contemporary Fiction “The Sun is Also a Star” Book Talk
This is a book talk about the book “The Sun is Also a Star”. This book is about a magical day of an undocumented Jamaican immigrant Natasha and Korean boy Daniel. They are both 17 years old and looking for their path in society. As two teenagers from completely different backgrounds, one from a poor […]
Am I a Humanist?
Am I a Humanist? by Lilian Overall, I think I am pretty much a Renaissance Humanist. I rated 21 out of 25, which I am 84% a humanist. I agreed that how humanists believed that every human has unlimited potential and should be valued. Everybody should be able to determine themselves through their ability, not […]
Found Poem-The Left Open Door
In the story “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, the main character Roger has an internal conflict of a difficult decision between if he wants to run away from the open door of Ms. Jones’s house or, does he want to just stay. I used Microsoft Word and Canva to create this found poem. Roger […]