Oscar Micheaux

 Oscar Micheaux is known as an author, and -black-filmmaker. He is not just any black filmmaker. He is the first black filmmaker to have his own movie in an white-only movie theatre! Wow, that must be amazing. I am going to tell you the story of Oscar Micheaux. It will be mainly about how Oscar became what he is known as today and his goal in life. 

First of all, his life started to shape when he began to write stories in an all--white area of the state South Dakota. That was when he began his own publishing company. After that he started to make his own film company. The motion picture industry was the key to making Oscar decide to be in the filmmaking business.  

Oscar had a very important goal in life. He wanted to make Hollywood equal. He did not just want Black films in all black theatres, and white films in all white theatres. He wanted a mix of both. Soon after Oscar joined the filmmaking industry, he was the first black producer to have his movie in an all white theatre. In some ways he did accomplish his goal. The method he used to make his dream happen was the autobiography elements he included in his movies. This method is basically a story plot. The plot has parts from the author or producer's life.

 Later on he died in North Carolina. He was an amazing filmmaker. Many people define him as an independent black filmmaker. Oscar had a couple good quote,these were (There is no barrier between success which diligence and perseverance can handle)-Oscar Micheaux, and (One of my greatest has been to teach the colored man he can be anything)-Oscar Micheaux. He is an unsung hero because of what he did to the filmmaking business. He helped make Black films and White films in the same theatre but does not get the recognition for what he deserves. 

Oscar accomplished so much. Now I realise not everyone needs to be known to be a hero. Before I thought people  had to be really famous to be a hero but they don’t have to be really famous to be considered one. 

 

NAACP | NAACP History: Oscar Micheaux https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-oscar-micheaux/

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Should we have paper money?

 ¨ Where is my wallet?¨ Dang, it fell in the drain.  Now you can use money apps to store your money so you can’t lose it anymore. There are many pros about money apps that I am going to tell you about.

To start off, you can buy anything you want with these apps. For example, stores like Target and Walmart will accept paper money. When stores have you pay with paper money instead of on these apps, you have to spend time counting up your money. If you count how much money you have, and realize you don’t have enough money, you can not pay for the things you need. But, if you have apps for money you will have all your money in your phone. You can get anything at anytime.

Sometimes  people yell at you for being so slow in the checkout line. Now, with money apps,  you won’t be slow  wasting other people's time in line, because you do not have to count all your money.  That way when people are in line they won’t be yelling at you to be faster.  This could mean that if you are waiting in line at a place like Starbucks, it won’t take as long to pay and get what you ordered. 

Another pro of a money app is we would not be wasting trees. Money comes from paper as you know and paper comes from trees. So, if we don´t get rid of paper money we will always be cutting trees down. This would be bad for the environment.

Finally,  paper money is outdated. As years start to pass, we need to evolve. Paper money has been around for hundreds of years and if we don´t get rid of it, we don't evolve.

After thinking about getting rid of paper money, I  think it is a good idea. However, it would take many, many years.

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