Nelson Mandela said “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” This quote […]
Nelson Mandela once said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love,” This quote proves that while discrimination is a hard reality of society, it can be […]
Our editors will help you fix any mistakes and get an A+!
Get startedA total of 637 black people was shot to death by the police from the year 2017 to 2019. According to the most recent statistics from Statista Research Department (2020), 205 of those cases happened in 2019. Police brutality has been one of the leading causes of death for young black men in America. “Study […]
In “The Tokyo Medical University entrance exam scandal: lessons learned”, an article published on Wheeler International Journal for Educational Integrity in 2018, author talked about some actual problems, which caused by gender discrimination, still keep impacting Japanese modern universities education. Tokyo Medical University (TMU) was reported that it kept using ignoble methods to control the […]
The play Angels in America written by Tony Kushner depicts the harsh reality that homosexual men faced during the 1980s: the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The play follows the journey of two distraught relationships: one which involves a closeted gay Mormon named Joseph and his wife Harper, and the other a gay man named […]
Racism is the belief that a particular is a superior or inferior to another , that person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. In the novella , Heart Of Darkness , by Joseph Conrad. Marlow dehumanizes africans , he uses racial slurs , and wants everyone in their […]
Television has always been is primarily heteronormative. In TV shows, it can be seen that men are most commonly portrayed as the head of the house, while women normally have less power. People who believe in heteronormativity not only believe in the gender binary, but also believe that heterosexuality is the default sexuality. Also, they […]
An Aging Workforce As an aging population continues to correlate with an aging workforce, ageism, or age discrimination, has become a noticeable loss exposure for many companies. The trend of baby boomers working past the normal retirement age and into their 70’s has been a catalyst for age discrimination suits in recent years. The number […]
“The Great Depression starting in 1929, was a horrific event of crimes, loss, and total downgrading of the country.” (“Crime 1920-1940”). This period named The Great Depression was a blend of the Stock Market crash, a storm called the Dust Bowl, and the crime/discrimination that followed. Once the Dust Bowl hit and the stock market […]
The world is becoming a global village which means interaction of people from different races, ethnicities and cultures. One of the most important pillars of one’s life is good health. Therefore medical anthropology tries to look at how culture and race affect the well being of an individual in terms of health. Countries like the […]
Youth suicide in Australia is said to be mostly associated with extreme depression and most of youths who have been victims of this horrible situation are said to have tried it in the first time. According to the research the rates of youths committing suicide have increased due to psychological differences such as mental illness, […]
The world perceives people differently based on their appearance, discriminating different co-cultures every day. One of the biggest forms of discrimination is gender, this is otherwise known as sexism. Merriam-Webster defines sexism as “prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially: discrimination against women”. There are many ways that society discriminates against women, but the main […]
Sexism is a phenomenon embedded in our society. According to the 2020 Best Countries report, more than 20,000 global citizens were surveyed in the study about the gender equality. The result showed that the worst country for gender equality is Arab nations following with Qatar and Saudi Arabia (“The Best Countries in the World”, 2020). […]
Sexism is a term best defined by Webster’s as being prejudice, stereotyping and or discrimination against the opposite gender typically women. To me sexism is pointless and isn’t the reason why women are discriminated against, my thought is that if women think that they are being treated unfairly is because of their ability to do […]
Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave gives a shockingly accurate and detailed account of the common slave’s experiences and hardships in the pre-Civil War South. Northup is the son of an emancipated slave and born a free man, he lives and works in New York where he marries and has two children, he is also […]
Conrad’s heart of darkness has sparked all types of reactions and opinions from people. For example, Chinua Achebe believes the book is racist and shouldn’t be studied. But there are people, like Edward Said, who argue that who that Conrad wasn’t trying to be racist but was trying to dig deeper on the topics of […]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood takes place in the dystopian society of Gilead. Offred the story’s narrator lives in Gilead and was taken against her will to become an Handmaid. The woman in Gilead have lost their freedom and are succumbed to the strict orders of Gilead. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the class divisions […]
A Raisin in the Sun, like other stories in Chicago, suffers considerably because of discrimination. Racism reaches privileged families like the Youngers. Lorraine Hansberry, playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, paints a vivid picture of life in this hot Chicago where tempers of xenophobia explode into conflict. Since discrimination was common in this era, […]
Gender equality is a very sensitive and delicate topic in society today, whether it be in the workplace, school, or just the basic roles of living life. Gender inequality happens when men and women are not treated and/or thought of equivalently in any situation. Although there are many laws to control this issue, there is […]
Hero a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. In many stories, there is a hero. Someone who swoops in to save the day at the last minute; someone who everyone looks up to. At the very beginning of this course, the class as a whole made a list […]
This skepticism fashioned an fundamental phase of Luther King’s psyche. Despite his shut adherence to the church’s teachings, he observed himself questioning now not simply the regulations of religion, however the strict policies of the lifestyle in the deep south. He wondered the coverage of racial segregation, and claimed that lots of the USA would […]
“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?” In many parts of the world, there is censorship of television, news, and even books. Although this seems far from home, this censorship isn’t as far away as we would think. It even affects schools in the […]
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, there are two types of characters. There are the powerful and the powerless characters, with the powerless constantly being discriminated against, by the powerful and societal standards. The powerless characters are all different and are discriminated against for different things, but the one thing that […]
“The massive effort to desegregate public schools across the United States was a major goal of the Civil Rights Movement (Library of Congress).”Remember the Titans is historically accurate. After the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1970, laws were passed to prevent segregation and discrimination based on race. However, discrimination in everyday […]
Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who was a victim of WW2. The Germans took the freedom away from the Jewish because of what they believed in. The Jewish couldn’t do anything fun such as theaters, cinemas, and other stuff such as entertainment. I’m going to be answering a few questions about the Holocaust. […]
African-Americans have a long history of racial discrimination in America. Their rights, as well as identities, were degraded for over 400 years during slavery. Even after the Union won the American Civil War and slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment, African-Americans still experienced racial discrimination and were denied their civil rights due to laws […]
“When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before”(Brad Meltzer). In the essay, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses personal experience, people of the past, and events from the past to strengthen his argument for the need of equality and […]
In Othello’s plays, we have already noticed the racial discrimination against Othello in the white society of Venice. However, it can be stated that Othello has the desire of cultural identity for the white society that discriminates against him. The cultural identity of Othello in white society, as well as his own psychological condition and […]
Many people believe the Cold War was an actual “war” however, this war was an event that included a sequence of divergent competitions. The Cold War was caused by several events, which took place at the Yalta conference. This conference lead to the Cold War by allowing the Soviet Union to have control over the […]
Zootopia offers moral instruction by outlining an allegory relating prey and predator to the prejudices in America. Often discussed is how impressive Zootopia handles the concepts of prejudice through Nick’s role, and showing parallels to the discriminated in “Purity of America.” The film centers around Judy Hopps who aspires to be recognized as much more […]
