Essays on Roots

Journal of a brown boy: It happened again today! So, there was this really pretty girl in class and she was staring at me, so I smiled and waved at her! After class she walked up to me! And my palms started to sweat, and...

Does assimilation into American culture occur easily for immigrants or individuals with foreign-born parents? As the characters in Chang Rae Lee’s novel, Native Speaker, demonstrate, adjusting to the Western world comes with great difficulty and often ultimately results in a sense of alienation and shame....

Abstract: Endodontic failures usually occur due to complex anatomy of root canals. Mandibular 1st molar is most the exposed tooth and frequently require endodontic therapy. It generally has two roots and 3 root canals i.e., one mesial root with two canals and other distal root...

“Violence is as American as apple pie”, that’s not just an abstract statement, but a piece of reality. Violence is woven into the very fabric of the system as a whole, and calling for gun control won’t fix the poisonous roots of the problem: capitalism-imperialism....

The Middle East has been in constant turmoil since before I was born and pretty much has been since the end of the Second World War, however the powder keg was set after World War One. Before World War One the Ottoman Empire held control...

Alex Haley’s 1976 novel, Roots, portrayed the history of a Kunta Kinte’s family as an epic story of survival. Haley presented the history of a man and his family torn apart, but not broken, under enslavement in America. The experiences that ravaged Kunta Kinte’s family...