Introduction Surpassing slavery rates, mass incarceration has become the most critical modern affairs in the “land of the free”. Ironically, the United States is currently leading in the world’s largest imprisonment rate with a large majority of the population being incarcerated (Tucker, 1 pg). The growth rate has rapidly escalated throughout the recent years, predominantly […]
The Great Depression was the most extended and severe recession in the Western world. It lasted from 1929 to 1939 and began after the stock market crash of 1929, the crash sent panic throughout all of Wall Street and wiped out millions of investors. This caused consumer spending and investment to drop, which led to […]
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Get startedThe primary purpose of this assignment is to showcase my developing knowledge on sociological topics and more specifically the process of socialization. Let’s begin the assignment by answering the question “Who Am I?”. I often times wonder what it is that makes me who I am. Is it my choice in career? Is it my […]
The “Autobiography of Malcolm X,” is a book that talks and mentions Malcolm x’s life on how race and gender played an important role in his life and what turned him into who he was and how it had an effect on his later decisions on his further days of his life. Race has always […]
Mohandas Gandhi and Malcolm X were both strong activists for social rights. They led in similar yet different fashions. These men both used their beliefs in religion to create change in the world. The well-known Mahatma Gandhi and Malcolm X left behind legacies that still have an impact on the world today. One of the […]
As, Frederick douglass and Malcolm X write in their experiences literacy is empowering because it helps you understand more about your social context and communicate with the world. Malcolm X begins to teach himself how to read and write in prison. He would go through the difficult stages to become intelligent person. For example, he […]
In Malcolm X’s autobiographical essay How I Discovered Words: A Homemade Education, Malcolm X emphasizes the meaning of how education is more than just a college degree or job skill. Education granted Malcolm X the feeling of freedom. Without being restricted, he finally had the power to express himself. He has the potential to strongly […]
In the 1960’s, two great civil rights leaders: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, held two opposing political philosophies. Following in the tradition of Gandhi, King did not believe in violence in order to have his thoughts heard; Malcolm X was an advocate for violence and brought out guilt in others so that he […]
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 […]
In the perspectives of both, each philosophy made sense, but in this day and age, Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy is the obvious choice for most Americans. The trauma in Martins life was one thing that was thought to inspire his motives to his philosophy. Martin had to experience the death of his grandmother and […]
Literacy is interconnected with any aspect of human lives: it is about both getting information and providing it. While all the people nowadays can read and write, some of them are still better in literacy which provides them with numerous advantages. Two essays, written by Malcolm X and Vershawn Ashanti Young, prove the impressive influence […]
In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as Malcolm grows up, he goes through situations in his life that mark him as a person. He starts with a name and then he gets called another name and finally ends up with another. I think that each of the names he got represented him and who he […]
The racial pressure to achieve a desirable “light” complexion and acceptable appearance has compelled many of the dark skin-toned individuals within society to adopt beautification strategies. This comes with an intent to make themselves more attractive to society. Malcolm X, one of the influential characters of the black movement, was once affected by the racial […]
Message in the Grass roots is a discourse which was composed to convince the dark individuals of America to set their disparities aside and join against the American supremacist deceptive culture and shield themselves , so they can remain in America by framing a dark country. Proof of this is the point at which he […]
Dr. Martin Luther King has always spoke in a way that made you want to listen to what he had to say. When he spoke, you could tell that his voice was deep with passion and emotion for what he was speaking about. He spoke with vigilance and purpose. This speech is worded in a […]
In the Post-Reconstruction Period of the late 19th and early 20th century in the American South, the struggle for civil rights of the African American population had a variety of leaders and approaches. Early leaders like Booker T. Washington championed a concept of selective acceptance and upliftment upon meeting certain social and economic criteria, an […]
In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King called for the United States to be a country with freedom and equality where all races should unite and that the true happiness of the African American society will only be gained by getting rid of persecution, suffering, and hatred. Martin Luther King’s successful persuasion […]
Human rights are rights to which all human beings are entitled, regardless of ethnicity, religion, skin color, or sex. One can defend the essential human rights of all people by being politically active. Martin Luther King jr was a minister and civil-rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States […]
The Bishops Pawn by Steve Berry was a book about the death of Martin Luther King Junior who died in 1968. The main question asked is why was Martin Luther King Junior Murdered? There are so many unanswered questions that have not yet been answered. Steve Berry tries to answer these questions in a shocking […]
Martin Luther King Jr has provided many new ways of fighting for what is right in life. Today, many people are still fighting for equality. In a world divided through a race, religion, and political parties, King’s teachings still echo through the 21st century. MLK was influenced by teachings of Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau. […]
Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, for many many decades, African Americans were still being oppressed by any means necessary by whites. The 1950s and the 1960s ignited the beginning of the civil rights movement making racial uplift and social change a prominent concern. All our leaders wanted the black race to upswing above oppression, however, […]
After receiving word of the necessity of a direct action program in Birmingham, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, arrived with staff members to advocate desegregation. They performed nonviolent demonstrations in order to call out racial injustices and provide support for their affiliates. His plan was to create tension […]
“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 […]
The rights for equality came for a man with a dream. He never liked how the world was so split up. He lived in an area where it was highly segregated. He went to school where he wasn’t aloud to do the same thing as the whites. The colored people weren’t aloud to do many […]
Have you ever woke up late and had to think about what you are going to wear because you did not lay your clothes the night before? There are several reasons why uniforms should be required in school but I only touch base on a few like bullying and unsuitable clothes and money. Schools should […]
The Holocaust was a genocide caused by Nazi Germany and the result is the murder of 6 million Jjews. This event destroyed the Jjewish population, two thirds of the Jjewish population in Eeurope was killed. We will be looking at the stories of three people that were affected by the Hholocaust. Leon Kusmirek was born […]
The world that we know has not always been the way that it is today. The way that we live our daily lives has been impacted greatly by the Holocaust. First, the United Nations had to include events such as these in their patrols. Secondly, the Holocaust has transformed the way nations deal with genocide. […]
Upon different generations we have seen numerous genocides occur in all areas around the world. One of the most famous genocides was the Holocaust. Though the Holocaust was made aware to the public and caught the eye of people all over the globe, it still fell through the cracks for many years just like a […]
Queensborough Community College(QCC) located in Bayside,Queens provides a Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust center that is free to all and as an art & design student I have been in the holocaust center several times over the past Two years. However, I never took into accountability how tragic these events were until I had to do paper […]
For my political event I went to the Holocaust museum in Dallas. I argue that my political event relates to American politics through foreign policy. America during the 19th century was isolated from the rest of the world and had little involvement in the Holocaust. As a means of tightening security immigration into America was […]
