Essays on Dark Ages

With further investigation into turn of the millennium Europe, it appears that the years that are commonly referred to as the “dark ages” were anything but dark. In fact, for several reasons, they should be considered quite the opposite. Contrary to what the term “dark...

In The New Jim Crow, by associate professor Michelle Alexander, Alexander adamantly fights for her readers to recognize the severity of racism entrenched in our social and political systems. She does this by describing how Jim Crow laws of the past have disguised itself into...

The Dark Ages In the fifth century, the barbarians took advantage of the Roman Empire’s peak of vulnerability and weakness and plundered one region after another until they completely took over. After the fall of the Roman Empire, there was a serious decline in culture,...