Memes and Whatnot

 Honestly, this has been a very good English class so far. I enjoyed the variety of books, plays and short stories that we read together as class. Likewise it was to fun pickup books that I had a personal interest in reading. There's no doubt that the literature that we read together and discussed had a larger impact than that of what I read on my own; knowing that I'll have to actively engage in discussion upon completing a text meant that I put more effort and care into what I was reading. That quality was often lacking in my personal reading books as it was more for enjoyment and less of analysis. My prefered type of reading isn't novels or plays or anything like that. I find articles and research papers that are tailored to my interests in politics and engineering to be far more interesting. These texts provide information in a easily digestible manner — unlike the convoluted English found in the texts we read — and I enjoy that.  I thought that the work for this class ...

To understand the situation in the Hill District during the 50s, it's absolutely necessary to understand the factors that created said situation. The two main factors were the Housing Act of 1949 as well as the Great Migration. Together, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement enabled Troy to get his promotion as a garbage truck driver, rather than a lifter.  The Housing Act of 1949 was the brainchild of the president at the time, Harry Truman. The conditions in which he was brought up and his early career choices helped to shape the choices that he made during this presidency. Truman was born to a father who was a farmer and livestock dealer; he was clearly not brought up in anything more than lower-middle class conditions. This was no more evident then when he had to drop out of college in his first year due to insufficient funds. He was able to secure a job with his meager business college experience, but made no where enough to afford adequate housing, and thus, spent most o...