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They Called Us Enemy is a graphic novel written by George Takei, a famous actor from Star Trek and one of the japanese people enclosed in the internment camps during World War II as a child. The book is about his experiences in the camp primarily. The main messages of the book are as follows:Continue reading “They Called Us Enemy”

Hello there! ProfessorZik-Chil here with my next blog post. It’s been a long apocalypse, so to keep our minds off of the current existential dilemma, we will instead turn our attentive to an equally serious but far more normal dilemma fast approaching. Fascism. Unfortunately, much like its sister term, Nazism, Fascism has lost a lotContinue reading “Since we’re stuck at home due to the apocalypse, we might as well wallow in existential horror for a bit. Have a taste!”

Heyo! No time no type! So, I was assigned to blog about a photo from the Great Depression. Here it is: So, a little background about it: The photo is titled Along the Highway Near Bakersfield California, Dust Bowl Refugees. It was taken by photographer Dorothea Lange in the November of 1935. No other relevantContinue reading “The Great Depression and the New Deal”

With the 2020 election rapidly approaching, one subject has popped up time and time again: poverty. Candidates on both sides claim to be actively fighting against it, but they have very different approaches. As it happens, these approaches reflect similar approaches back in the 1932 presidential race between President Hoover and Governor Franklin Roosevelt. ForContinue reading “1932 and 2020: Economic an Private vs Social and Governmental Approaches to Poverty”

Heyo! Prof Zik-Chil here with my first blog post. (I’m not actually a professor; this is just the alias I use on the internet in general; dress for the job you want as they say.) Death in a Promise Land is a book by Scott Ellsworth on a bloody massacre committed in Tulsa, on theContinue reading “Death in a Promise Land”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”