I want to start this essay talking on this subject with my understanding and how I view it. I think and feel that people misconstrue and donât understand when this agenda is pushed and protested for. It's being pushed to a racist category when its nothing like that at all. To say that any life matters whether its human or...
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On the evening of May 25th, 2020, George Perry Floyd Jr., an African American man, was brought under police custody for allegedly using a $20 counterfeit bill in Minneapolis. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pinned Floyd down and used his knee to apply pressure on Floydâs neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds, ultimately killing him. Floydâs final minutes...
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African Americanâs have always had a long history with America, but yet, they continued to find ways to be resilient to end institutionalized racism within the United States. Race targeting has been an ongoing challenge for many decades, but as of lately, the excessive volume of violence against blacks have triggered a social stir creating another movement to end the...
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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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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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In the Merriam Webster dictionary (2020), the definition of systemic racism is broken down into two words. Systemic meaning âfundamental to a predominant social, economic, or political practiceâ. Racism also defined by Merriam Webster definition (2020) means, âthe systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of anotherâ. I believe systemic racism occurs today. People...
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It is likely that you have heard or read the phrase âblack lives matterâ. Everyone observes it differently. Some people who are not African-American might want to say, âall lives matterâ. 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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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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Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6th of 1860. She graduated in 1881, from Rockford Female Seminary, and was at the top of her class. After graduation, Addams wanted to take advantage of the fact that she was educated and put her education to use. Addams attempted to study medicine, and after this was unsuccessful she discovered...
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Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf, is a piece of modernist literature that many regard as one of the most groundbreaking feminist works ever composed. Utilizing a stream of consciousness approach, the novel endeavors to explore the complexity of the human consciousness and its internal conflicts, particularly through the protagonist, Clarissa Dalloway, and her daily endeavors. The plot follows Clarissa...
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The Gilded Age or the idea of a better opportunity or quality of life, âcovered in goldâ, brought with it many different representations of people seeking this form of life. Between 1860 and 1900 alone the northern states grew almost fivefold. The bustling cities attracted native countryside migrants, European and Italian immigrants, and even African Americans. Cities like Chicago were...
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In the time period before the Civil War moral reformers and the state of the working financial industry combined to lead many Americans to imagine separate spheres of activity for men and women. Most women of European descent lived lives similar to their European counterparts. They were legally and socially subservient to men they were stuck in a society with...
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âAs a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worldâ - quotes author, Virginia Woolf. In her novel, âMrs. Dallowayâ she focuses on the real world and interrogating her interests of feminist. Woolf informs her audience by displaying key words in the text of her views as...
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In the documentary âLa Razaâ, the history of East LA and the Chicano movement is portrayed as an important part of Chicano history. This movement occurred during the 1960âs and 1970âs, and it has made a significant difference in Chicano culture and how people view Hispanics and Latinos. Their main motive to create this organization was the discrimination against Chicanos....
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The US Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights, are the primary documents that stipulate the rights of American citizens and the protections they are afforded. Adopted in 1789, the Constitution ensures that âno man should be deprived of his unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessâ. Though it is seen as a perfect opportunity...
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In the wake of the African-American civil rights protest that inspired new legislation and laws to be made in order to follow in its own legacy, four more movements (created by different ethnic groups and cultures) emerged in order to fulfill their own demands and ambitions within a given amount of time. One of these groups were Native-Americans, who (due...
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American citizens suffered from discrimation due to their background. The Chicano Movement began in the 1960s when they generation was tired of being discriminated and decided it was time to fight for their rights. During the movement, there were goals that people wanted to do. For example, demand their rights to fair treatment and equal access to education, and as...
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Policing race is something that has been around in the United States since the times of slavery and now exists in the form of the prison system. Itâs been put before us by those in power that some people are more human than others, but this fact isnât something we have to accept, itâs something that needs to be challenged...
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As the great Birgham Young said, âYou educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generationâ. These words could not have better painted the picture of how women felt in America in 1776 amidst the great American Revolution. At the time the ideas of human rights, liberty and independence were being pursued by white...
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Women were not as free as today, in the United States, compared to the 19th century. Women had no freedom to do anything of their own and were considered as someone who would is expected to provide service and pleasure to men while taking on a domestic lifestyle at home. They were restricted to their rights and limitations compared with...
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There are some important questions to ask ourselves as followers of Christ. What types of actions will help us maintain our relationship with God? This question is most simply answered as the 12 spiritual disciplines. I will be focusing on the discipline of service and how Jane Addams was an incredible example of how God wished to see His people...
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Ever since the first human civilization was established, the imperfections of humanity are prone to give birth to injustices amongst ourselves. With the inveterate inclination for humans to take the best of everything for themselves, throughout history, stories of oppression from one party to another are common. However, when the exploited party becomes aware of the inequality, people begin to...
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The ideals of the Declaration of Independence were established in 1776 which was all for equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but were not entirely evident when it came to the re-imagining of a womenâs role. Abigail Adams had been unable to convince John Adams and congress to grant women more rights as they were about to shape...
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Howard Zinn was an American historian, a playwright and an active social activist. He attended college on the G.I. Bill, earning a B.A. at New York University; and went on to earn a masterâs degree and a doctorate at Columbia University. Zinn later on became chairman of the history department in 1956 at Spelman College. Before completing his academic endeavors,...
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As minorities started to populate the United States for better opportunities, xenophobia became prominent throughout America. The objective of the Chicano Rights Movement was to fight against the inequitable discrimination that afflicted Latinos. Accordingly, supporters who wished to eradicate discrimination started to join the movement. As the movement progressed, Latinos were empowered by such a movement and were eager to...
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What is considered to be a hero? A hero is someone who puts his or her life at risk, in order to help those in need. Someone who is fearless into coming out of their own shadow and not knowing what the outcome will be. A hero such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had the bravery and courage to step...
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An issue that has faced society in South Africa is race/ethnicity/culture. The issue that we face is that because there is little understanding of the race/ethnicity/culture of and within the people of the country, those who are rich in these areas are often discriminated against. My dad is Tshivenda and my mom is Xhosa. The first language I spoke was...
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Women were denied many rights that men had and were discriminated because of their sex. They were seen as fragile individuals that were not capable of doing hard work without being hurt or to take decisions having conscience of what was going on. They are denied many job and educational opportunities and are taken away by the dream to be...
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Women made great changes to Canada from 1910-1930, which has made it a better place to live. âI think women can save civilizationâ - Emily Murphy. âCanadaâs earliest efforts to bring about womenâs suffrage were led by a diverse movement of women and men across the country. Beginning in the 1870s, Canadians campaigned for womenâs right to vote on equal...
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Contemporary Feminist Theory is a generalized, wide-ranging system of ideas about social life and human experience developed from a woman centered perspective. Working to describe and critically evaluate the world from the distinctive vantage points of women, Feminism investigates the various situations of women in everyday society. With a history of influencers including Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Marianne Weber, Harriet...
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