Racial tension refers to the underlying or overt hostilities that exist between two or more ethnic groups. In other words it is just a deep hatred for one or more ethnic groups that is different from your own. Things like racial tension and racial discrimination have always been a serious problem in our world, it […]
Sophocles’ Antigone displays a wide variety of issues within a government. Comparing these issues with present day issues is an effective way to see how society still struggles with conflicts that were going on as early as 440 B.C. Feminism is defined by Mirriam-Webster dictionary as “the belief that men and women should have equal […]
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Get startedAfrican American civil Right Activist Who led the voting drive. Fannie Lou Hamer Was A civil right Activist that fought Racial segregation in the south through nonviolent. Fannie Lou Hamer dedicated her life to the fight for civil rights working for the student nonviolent coordinating committee. Growing up in Mississippi as a black woman was […]
The city of Newport Beach, California has been deemed to experience a previous pattern of minority growth within ongoing racial diversity, and its community. But, there has been possible implications to both positive racial/ethnic diversity, and negative social development with regards to housing loans and impediments within specific fair housing opportunities. This depiction can be […]
“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient,” said James Johnson. Racism has existed been in the United States even before its formation and continued to grow unchecked for over a hundred years later. Legal privileges were given to white Americans, while privileges were denied to all other races in a system […]
Throughout the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry a very prominent theme is poverty. This theme is exhibited through the difficulties the Younger family have balancing all their needs due to financial difficulty. The author starts to show how poverty affects the Younger’s from the very beginning of the play. She does […]
Did you know that in 1968 the minimum wage was worth $10,96 of todays dollars, and the todays minimum wage is only $7.25. Unfortunately that is true. So Today, I would like to persuade federal policy makers to increase the minimum wage as a way to easy the economical gap in America. To do it […]
Minimum wage is huge factor to why poverty rates nationally are high and will stay high for a longer period. This has led to a national crisis of people losing their homes even though they might be working three jobs at a time. In fact, Florida has 2.8 million people that live in poverty as […]
Police brutality occurs when police officers use excessive physical such as shooting beating, and fatally choking the individual. It also includes the use of force as well as verbal assault on an individual. Citizens and the police have different definitions of police brutality From the citizen’s point of view of police brutality, the citizen believes […]
Police are not flawless. There are occasions where the police commit unethical behavior. They have their times of being accused of police brutality, misconduct, and corruption. Sometimes the use of force is necessary for police officers but the question becomes how much is enough force to control the situation? There are situations where little to […]
Hurricane Katrina was one of the top five deadliest natural disasters that have occurred. There were approximately 2000 deaths; however it was not just the storm that caused all of these deaths. There were many other reasons for deaths during Katrina and one of those was police brutality. There were multiple incidents that occurred which […]
Some may argue that there is a rise in police brutality towards blacks since the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Members of the Black Lives Matter movement believe that police officers are targeting black men during routine traffic stops or for other reasons. Heather MacDonald compiled a list of statistics that may prove […]
An African-American male was driving down an urban street in Savannah after work one day. As he knows it, it is just a regular day, however, for the Police Officer who passed him at a red light, it is about to become his worst nightmare. The cop, who already had a previous disposition about African-Americans […]
“Protect and Serve” has lost its meaning in mainstream society. The phrase is more often the punch line of a joke than a serious promise to the citizens of the United States. This erosion of the term’s value is not new but is, perhaps representative of the country’s history. Police brutality is ingrained in the […]
Police brutality remains one of the most serious humans right violations in the United States. Over these past years police have acted out in brutal ways that makes us question our own police force and the safety of all citizens especially African Americans. Many police officers break procedure by abusing power fatally chokings suspects, and […]
I believe that black lives matter when I watch the news, I see that cops are not killing innocent men because of color or race. We are equal in law but when it comes to having police brutality there are 258 people shot and killed by police in the U.S. And, do you know what’s […]
In April of 1992 a jury in LA comes together to declare a mainly non-guilty verdict on al charges against the police officer that beat Rodney King. In what begins as a peaceful rally against this verdict turns into a three day long riot in the streets of LA. A few years later a woman […]
Police brutality is a complex phenomenon, which has widespread effects on today’s society. In recent years, the police have come under serious scrutiny for police brutality, and this has been underscored by the presence of video camcorders. Accompanying this issue, I will provide several examples and recent cases, as well as the related decision making […]
Unfortunately, nowadays the people who are supposed to protect us and help us when we are in need, can’t be trusted. Police brutality has always been a problem, but there’s been a dramatic rise in police murders and brutalization of citizens. “Police Brutality is anything from harassment from a police officer to being murdered by […]
The Civil Rights Movement was arguably the most important thing to ever happen in the United States. This movement pushed for equality between whites and African Americans. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was almost 100 years before this movement, the African American people still were nowhere close to having equality with white people. Many leaders […]
The civil rights movement was one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century. Black churches at the time of the civil rights movement were very powerful bases for African Americans. Many important figures for the black churches or the community in general to name some are Martin Luther King Jr and James […]
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s required a great deal of effort from numerous sources. The federal government being one, while contributing a significant amount of support and aid, did little to contribute to its success and more so towards its failings. Many of the policies and actions of the federal government did not […]
The Brown Board of Education was a great stride for the Civil Rights movement. The schools were unequal, and the lack of resources and opportunities meant that the kids at all black schools would be less likely to be successful in their future. The ruling helped end federal tolerance of racial segregation and it also […]
The civil rights movement in the 1960’s was a struggle by the African Americans to achieve civil rights equal to those of the whites!. The Civil Rights Movement was enacted in order to create a legal equality in which African Americans would get the same legal treatments as the white population. Leaders of this movement […]
Over the course of the civil rights movement many great leaders arose and employed many different strategies to get their rights. They used the power of song. Over time everyone in the movement knew that peaceful protesters would be beaten or even killed in many of the states. They found that this could be used […]
The 1950s and 1960s was a time of many great changes. Many social and economic reforms were passed, including women’s rights reforms and educational reforms. However, the most important reforms passed during this time period was due to the Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement gave African Americans more equal rights, such as equal […]
Gun violence in the U.S. can exhibit many different aspects from the modern liberal theories of Kant, Locke, and Smith. First, Kant’s exploration of social criticism can play a key role in why people participate in gun violence. Not all, but many perpetrators who use firearms to harm people in their community feel victimized or […]
Bowling for Columbine is a documentary by Michael Moore about gun violence in the United States. In the movie, he explores the possible reasonings leading up to the massacre at Columbine High School and many other mass shootings. His research takes him across the country from Hollywood to visit influential celebrities, Canada to compare differences, […]
“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you”, in Englewood words can get you killed. Gun violence in America is one of the leading causes of death for individuals under the age of 34. When words can escalate to bloodshed, change is long overdue. Some of the violence in these […]
The world seems to be changing faster than we can keep up with it. The youth of today is much more knowledgeable about drugs, sex and weapons than ever before. The second amendment of the United States Bill of Rights protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Does this mean that […]
