The racial inequality gaps have been on the rise in the United States. There is income inequality in the country as white people receive higher incomes compared to black people. According to statista.com white households make about $76,057 per household and black families make about $45,438. This means that education in America does not provide the same economic return for...
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As inequalities rose, Benjamin Banneker, the son of former slaves, made an attempt to make a change for African Americans in 1791 as he wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, framer of the Declaration of Independence. In his letter, Banneker relies on repetition and pathos in order to tell Jefferson to end slavery and the inequalities. In his letter, Banneker...
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The term ‘Sociological Imagination’ was proposed by C. Wright.Mills in the 50s. “The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relation between the two within society”. In brief, it is an ability to view and examine the world and to comprehend the connections and the interplays among individuals (private matters) and societies (social issues). Finding the...
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Introduction The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has catalyzed significant discourse across various social, political, and cultural spheres. This essay examines and contrasts the perspectives of Patrick Buchanan, a conservative political commentator, and Hilton Als, a renowned cultural critic, on the BLM movement. While Buchanan often critiques BLM from a conservative standpoint, emphasizing law and order, Als supports the movement,...
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“Great lines of patient people snaking through the dirt roads of towns and cities, old women who had waited half a century to cast their vote, saying they had felt like human beings for the first time in their lives, White men and women saying they were proud to live in a free country at last..., it was as though...
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During the 1800s, African Americans were not the only people segregated against by the whites. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed on the west coast: this prevented the Chinese from working in the U.S. and immigrating to the Country. The Chinese Exclusion Act began when an Irish immigrant by the name of Denis Kearney blamed the Chinese for...
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The Bacon Rebellion is a revolt caused by the settlers of Virginia in 1676. It was a war fought by the native against white colonizers. The revolt caused hundreds of dead whites and Native Amricans in Virginia and Maryland. In the process, Virginia’s capital Jamestown was burned down by Nathaniel Bacon and his followers. The leader of the rebellion was...
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In North American colonies throughout the eighteenth century The Americans start noticing differences between the American and British politics. They start feeling threatened and taken advantage of by the British Government. We start seeing words like tyranny, liberty, equality, and slavery used a lot which gave way to the American Revolution. One of the persons that set path to the...
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In the Merriam Webster dictionary (2020), the definition of systemic racism is broken down into two words. Systemic meaning “fundamental to a predominant social, economic, or political practice”. Racism also defined by Merriam Webster definition (2020) means, “the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another”. I believe systemic racism occurs today. People...
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When I made my commitment to Baylor I was overwhelmed by the amount of mocking and warning I received for committing to what my peers called ‘rape university’. These comments towards Baylor were in response to the Baylor football team rape scandal that took place in 2016. It was the first time I was ever made aware of sexual assault...
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The United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave, one of the biggest powers in the world and the most influential. We live in a society, where success can be achieved if your willing to put in the hard work. We aspire to be successful, to be well off on finances, to be able to...
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It is likely that you have heard or read the phrase ‘black lives matter’. Everyone observes it differently. Some people who are not African-American might want to say, ‘all lives matter’. Some read the phrase and realize that there are problems with how society views African-Americans. The United States has a problem with labeling people based on their skin tone...
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Introduction: The Current State of Minimum Wage and Poverty Neediness keeps on developing in America. The lowest pay permitted by law in the United States is $7.35- every 60 minutes awfully low in the present society. Key costs, for instance, gas and lodging costs, have gone up fundamentally since the lowest pay permitted by law was last changed in 2007....
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The issue of diversity has been present for a very long time and it has been subject to many debates with various leaders taking a different position regarding the matter. The world today as it was many decades ago is a diverse place with people coming from diverse backgrounds in terms of their culture, political and religious views, race and...
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In the work of an occupational therapist, prejudice is very relevant. Prejudice is a big issue in any health sector professions, as professionals are interacting with a wide range of people every day from minority groups. A study done in 1998 of the rates of prejudice among nursing students showed that most of them had a limited awareness of race...
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The Industrial Revolution was an era that ranged from the 18th century through the 19th. During this process, machines and new contraptions began to emerge, the idea of future modernization and inventiveness was beginning to enter its prime stage. Industrialization affected the globe with its arising pragmatic ideas. It enhanced several aspects such as the restructuring of societies, money, resources,...
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The tremendous number of nearly 3,000 victims traumatized the worldwide society in the morning of 11 September 2001. This event led to the instantaneous reactions of significant figures: “Nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love”, wrote the Queen Elizabeth in her...
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The industrialization era brought many types of technology that made farmer’s lives much easier but in the progressive era we try to help workers from factories and children from mines make their lives safer, by giving children an opportunity to go to school and my adding safe fire exits for workers. The horrific tragedy occured on March 25th, 1911. The...
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Because the world developed, the industry in the United States had to change to catch up the development of the world. Thus, the industrialization era appeared and revolutionized the old industrial ways. However, there were many problems occurring in the process of the industrialization. The problem was closely related to the workers during their jobs. Therefore, the progressive era fixed...
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This white privilege essay is about the main point of view that McIntosh discusses in her work, focusing on white privilege. “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”, this is one of Peggy McIntosh famous quotes in her article ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’. There...
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Homophobia is defined as dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people. People being homophobic is causing children across the world to go through pain every day because of their sexuality. Most of the pain and suffering is caused by bullying in schools. Making children feel welcome in schools should be a priority, not a choice. Students can not feel welcome...
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One culture factor that influences social changes is communication through music and art. The Civil Rights Movement in United States was infused with religion and lead by a social group of people to share the interests of equality. The Civil Rights Movement began between the Harlem Renaissance era (1910- 1929) to the Chicano Mural Movement (1951-1964). Both eras created murals...
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June 16th, 1976; fire and ash riddle the air, smothering the masses, the physical suffocation however, is insignificant in comparison to the oppression endured by those who suffered the trials of the apartheid regime. This marks the day the oppressed youth of Soweto took a stand, sacrificing the little they had to ensure a greater future for all South Africa...
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The Growing Concern of Gun Violence in the United States In the recent years, the conversations of gun violence are increasing dramatically because of some homicide cases. Truly, the gun violence has been the one of biggest elements which threat both personal safety and national security in the United States. According to one of the article from Philadelphia government website,...
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When I think of gun violence the first thing that comes to mind is the recent upsurge of mass shootings in the last 20 years. The first mass shooting that particularly stands out is the columbine high school massacre in 1999. I was in elementary school when that took place and I remember how much it shook this country and...
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Video games are an amazing escape for anyone, they act as a story that you can control and can help you fully understand a character and empathise with them better than in any other media such as book or film. If you ask a person who plays video games, a moment that stuck with them for example a death of...
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By looking at women activists during the Progressive Era we can discern both the problems of the period and the different roles that began to emerge for women. Reform, combined with a wider job market and changing lifestyles, gave rise to a new women’s movement. Up-and-coming big businesses created new job opportunities for women; women were now able to become...
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Diversity is an everlasting factor of society. Diversity within a company is more than just hiring diverse people. Diversity raises important ethical and social responsibility issues that most individuals do not think about on a day to day basis. Diversity can be defined as: dissimilarities of differences among people due to age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background,...
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Have you ever been so into a video game that you were playing you were literally spaced out of reality? Have you ever played a video game so long that you lost track of time? I know I have on more than one occasion. Have you ever wondered why you get so into a game and almost have to be...
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Thomas Jefferson has long been casted in a positive light as one of the nation’s most accomplished and esteemed founding fathers, yet not all of Jefferson’s actions are worthy of warranting such praise. There were often times when Jefferson appeared to renege on his preached virtues, which may cause some to characterize as hypocritical, but Jefferson never strayed too far...
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