The United States of America is often seen as a melting pot. A metaphor that describes the many different nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities that make up this country. This all started when Europeans and many others fled their countries because of crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine. America was seen as a land of economic opportunity...
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American who worked for racial equality and civil rights in the United States of America. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. From my perspective, King brought to the world’s attention how unfairly blacks were treated equally to white people. Letter from Birmingham jail can teach contemporary leaders a lot...
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Introduction Ageism is a kind of stereotyping, inequity and preconception against people based on their ages (WHO, 2019). Ageism can be divided into two types of negative behavior towards older adults in different age ranges (WHO, 2019). One is the wrong consumption and attitude about older people who are still working as a result of the social age construction. For...
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For many years, women have been the “submissive” gender and the minority, while men have been the more dominant gender. Women used to stay home to take care of the children and the house, while men were the ones who worked. Women did not have many rights back then; some could even say barely any. They could be abused by...
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I live in the United States, so I call America home. However, it would not have been home if it were not for my parents. 5 years ago, my parents told me about their journey to America. According to my parents, about 20 years ago they arrived at the United States to start a new life here. They came to...
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In the civil war between the North and South, Frederick Douglass was not a soldier or a politician, but he is a major figure. In the abolition movement, he was known to be the leader and an early champion for women’s rights. Douglass was born in talbot county, Maryland. He kept the idea that this was a war not just...
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Brave New World is a dystopian fiction book published in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and printed in 1932. Mostly set in the futuristic World State in the year 632 AF, after Ford, in of genetically modified citizens in the intelligence-based social organization, the book explained large technological developments in the reproductive technology, sleep-learning, mental influence, and classical conditioning that were...
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We are living in a world where it is more important to own an iPhone 11, than to have a plate of food in our homes. Lars Eighner and Anna Quindlen have both written personal essays about consumerism and materialism. In Eigner’s personal essay “Dumpster Diving” he portrays how he can make a living by searching dumpsters, and how people...
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“The abuser’s desire to abuse is not created by the child, it is there before the child appears”. This great phrase was spoken by Carolyn Ainscough author of ‘Help for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Generally, the term ‘abuse’ is surrounded by intentional acts which result in physical, mental or emotional harm to the children and it is awful that...
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In Sinclair's book, The Jungle, we are given the sights and experiences that are faced by Jurgis and his family when they migrate to America. They move out from their homeland in Lithuania to pursue the America Dream for a better life after hearing how a man made a good fortune in America. With the struggles that the family face...
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People are different in many dimensions. Some of these dimensions include age, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation among others. While society continues to embrace the growing diversity, it is clear that integrating certain differences still faces significant resistance. Lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people constitute one of the groups that still face rejection in the modern society...
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Introduction Social inequality is a multifaceted issue that encompasses various dimensions, including economic disparity, racial discrimination, and access to resources. Among these dimensions, the challenges faced by illegal immigrants on American soil present a poignant illustration of social inequality. The topic of illegal immigration is often fraught with controversy, as it intersects with national security, economic interests, and humanitarian concerns....
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I recall boarding an airplane when I was only four years of age in the year nineteen eighty-nine. I had little knowledge as to what was going on. As well as little to no knowledge of any other country other than Cuba. And now I was on my way to the United States through a 45-minute flight. My mother was...
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Introduction to Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book that was authored by Michelle Alexander. The author’s argument in this book is that overcrowding that is experienced in America’s prisons is as a result of latent racism in America’s criminal justice system. Alexander defines mass incarceration...
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After reading the first chapter of A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, I immediately made a connection to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I decided to reread the trial from To Kill a Mockingbird and compare it to the trial in A Lesson Before Dying. The obvious connection is that black men are convicted of crimes...
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Throughout history, gender has been a big issue among Human beings. Women have come a long way, protesting against abuse to gain equality. Unfortunately, gender has led to inequality within diverse societies of the world. Disadvantages in professional life, as well as cultural benefits, are factors accompanying gender inequality. Many talented writers were critics after World War One known as...
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The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston can largely be considered a work of resistance. Janie Crawford’s quest for fulfilment, freedom and autonomy, the development of her personal voice and the use of voice throughout the text, showcases the power of black people- particularly black women- to define their own futures and harness their voices. The...
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In the U.S slavery has grown to be a huge economic value and has changed more than we all want to realize because even though it is illegal it happens every single day right under our noses. Although it started at the ancestors of African Americans it did not end there after laws were passed, but instead became an equal...
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In our world today there are a lot of people who deal with depression according to ADAA “322 million people worldwide live with depression. In 2014, around 15.7 million adults age 18 or older in the U.S. had experienced at least one major depressive episode in the last year (6.7% of adults in the U.S.)”. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte...
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The idea of child poverty and its effect on New Zealand emerged after seeing the documentary on YouTube. This thought arose from my curiosity regarding the effectiveness of attempts to eradicate and reduce child poverty in New Zealand. My hypothesis was that the child poverty rate in New Zealand was not so bad as compared to other countries. Nevertheless, I...
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One of the most controversial topics in America's society today is racial profiling. Racial profiling is singling out an individual based on their race, religion, or color. Racial profiling occurs in many ways and people don't even realize it. Although racial profiling is sometimes associated with people of color, several other factors including a person's ethnicity, religion, or national origin...
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A Raisin in the Sun is an all-time classic and has been around since 1959. This book was written by Lorraine Hansberry and inspired by a poem named “Harlem” by Langston Hughes. Both “Harlem” and A Raisin in the Sun are about African-Americans in the 1950s with big dreams. It spotlights the Youngers family who is poor and about to...
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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide valid avenues of and specific examples of animal abuse, and how our laws regarding animal brutality fall short of solving the widespread problem. This paper also indulges on ways we can begin to call for a change and fight for stronger laws to be created and enforced. Introduction An animal is...
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Since 1998, the estimated number of women sexually assaulted in the United States is a staggering 17,700,000. The percentage of alleged perpetrators that have walked free is even more alarming at 99%. Why are these numbers so incredibly high? What is causing this problem? Unfortunately, modern-day society has normalized sexual assault and rape on innocent victims through media and popular...
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Today, women are and will continue to be rising up the ranks in culture. Unfortunately, this was not the case for women of the 1800s as seen in Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s shorty story, 'The Yellow Wallpaper”. The story is narrated by, as well as told about an upper-class, a married woman who has been diagnosed by her husband John, a...
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Giridhar Dayaneni had to make a choice. He had to immigrate to America for a job or he could have stayed back in India and continued his life there. But he decided to leave his family and friends so that he could begin a new life in the United States. Migrating to a new country can be a difficult process,...
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From the beginning, men and women alike voyaged across oceans to reach the land of opportunity and independence. A place that ensured that all men were created equal, that “certain unalienable Rights” including “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” could not be stripped from them. That they would no longer be under the thumb of an overbearing ruler, and...
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Human rights are rights given to any or all persons by birth, irrespective of gender, position, place of residency, sex, ethnicity, religion, color or class they belong. Thus, human rights are non-discriminatory. It implies that all persons are entitled to human rights and can't be denied access from having them. Since all persons are entitled to human rights, not all...
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The Aboriginal people for me, were barely spoken about over my years of learning history. What use to be a large population of Australia became a very small percentage over time and I wanted to know why. After studying the topic of Eugenics and observing how it affected this now dying race by separating their mixed race children or “half-casts”...
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Deviance is a path taken away from the social norms of certain societies. Deviant people tend to commit illegal crimes that are against these norms. Some people view certain crimes as deviant, while others may not. Crimes can be separated into two different categories, deviant and non-deviant. Non-deviant crimes are crimes that, although may be illegal, do not go against...
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