In times of injustice, a nation must accept the necessity of change and embrace new ideas that will create justice in the system. For the United States, some of these changes have occurred through the process of amending our Constitution to match the changing times. In 1789 it was the rights of the people, in 1865 it was the abolishing of slavery, and in 1920 it was giving women the right to vote. However, those ideas did not stop there. For example, abolishing slavery was not the end of the fight for the rights of African Americans, and a Bill of Rights did not stop the people from arguing for more rights, such as same sex marriage.…
To show fairness in the society, the government requires that all above-average citizens must wear a handicap at all times to limit their abilities that average citizens can not possess. The problem with this is that making everyone…
Equality Within the comforts of the modernized human civilization that we all experience upon a daily basis, a person can easily forget how privileged they are to be existing in such a time of human equality and take that for-granted. However, times were not always as pleasant as they currently are; different diversities of people were not only shamed for their race, gender or ethnicity, but they were abused for it. In addition to that, abuse of this kind happened less than a hundred years ago during the times of when countries all around the world were placing the African American people under racial segregation. That being said, if things like human trafficking and racial discrimination can still be found in today’s modern world, then unfair…
Well in the story”Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. tackles this head on. The government in the world of “Harrison Bergeron” that Vonnegut Jr. achieved all this equality by:”All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of the agents of the United States Handicapper General. ”(38) and how the Handicapper General had to manipulate everyone to believe her. The handicaps it talks about are like a headset that interrupts smart peoples thought with a noise about every twenty seconds, and by putting weights on strong people.…
Reconstruction ended well after 1877 marking the first of a pair of attempts at social equality in the US. It is bookended by the only good war that the US has been involved in that allowed the US to explode on to the world stage as a super power that is only now in its later years of dominance. In the nearly sixty-five years between the years of 1877 and 1945 the United States underwent dynamic changes in many respects. Its social framework for many of its citizens and immigrants changed radically, both in the roles that they functioned with in society but also in the changes to their political incorporation and disenfranchisement. Economically the United States was equally striking in its changes where the differences in the roles that…
1.What altered ideas about society and government in France are reflected in this excerpt from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen? P 612 text Many of the statements in this declaration deal with changes in the law. For one, statement number five states the need for improved laws in dealing all crimes, and the need to take precautions so that the law isn’t abbused wrongfully. Secondly, statement number 7 states that “No man may be indicted, arrested or detained, accept in cases determined by the law and according to the forms which it has prescribed.” Thirdly, number nine is very important because it states that all men shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty, without this statement many more people would have been punished for…
Plessy V. Ferguson “The law is not an end in and of itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right” (Aaseng, 8). After the Civil War, in 1865, the US continued to remain a union divided. Although slavery was abolished, African Americans did not have the same rights as Whites. The new laws that were continuing to be passed limited the so called “freedom” that African Americans had.…
What would you do if you woke up in a dystopian world? A dystopian world is an imaginary place where everything is bad and everyone is dehumanized. Dystopias are a very popular type of literature and is in many books. Some of these books are Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut or The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. These two books are very popular dystopian literatures and the point both of these books were created is too highlight real world problems and the consequences they may have.…
Jim Crow laws are defined as any state or local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States between the 1870s and the 1950s. One law that is counted as a Jim Crow law is the Separate Car Act of 1890. This act was passed in Louisiana, and many people disagreed with it, particularly black people. One man named Homer Plessy challenged the constitutionality of this law, and ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986. Plessy claimed that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, but Justice Henry Brown decided that segregation was allowed as long as the facilities were equal.…
violating the Equal Protection Clause. The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment stops states from denying anyone living in that state equal protection of the law. What it means is that the states must treat all citizens in their jurisdiction the same no matter what the race is, affording them all the same experiences. This clause does not state that there is equality among all people or races, but it does protect the how the law is applied. How the law impacts one does not matter as long as there is no discrimination when applying it (Law, n.d.).…
Following my thoughts, after reading Kristen v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a name and how it affects getting a job, I came to the conclusion that the system needs to string from discrimination. There essential is a need to being justice in our system and we have to learn to become equal amongst each other. Discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping possess hate and mistreatment because of a simply name. Parents who name the child black-sounding names have the freedom to choose their kids names. Black name discrimination has an effect on the injustice system.…
Barbara Young Welke, a professor of history and law at the University of Minnesota, in her book, Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States, discusses how law constructs borders through creating a legal place for the other. The author primarily studies and writes within the areas of 19th and 20th century legal history, as she continues to present in this book. Barbara’s purpose for this book is to provide an educational foundation of historical policies and legal practices for why racism and discrimination is so present in the United States today. Welke particularly focuses on the groups of racialized others, women, and disabled persons by providing the legal precedence for those groups along with personal narratives from those individuals. The author produces her argument over the construction of law and borders of belonging…
The narrator describes the handicaps when they state, “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else” (1). This text shows that the technological advance called a handicap was created by the government at an attempt to achieve human equality. Handicaps can vary from weights that a person must carry to equalize their strength, to a mask intended to cover up a person’s beauty.…
Equality. An idea that Americans believe is present in today’s society. The truth is that inequality can still be found throughout the US most of which is pertaining to multiculturalism. Racial inequality has come a long way since the 19th century but in no way has it been eliminated from society. Stereotypes and societal standards about race block this road to full equality and cause racism and discrimination to still exist.…
I have shown that due to the fact of skin color, one is more likely to be pulled over and serve a longer sentence than that of a non-Hispanic White man. I have shown there is inequality structured within the structure. I have broken it down into three separate races describing what they are most convicted for, how long they are sentenced, and how long they serve their sentence. Racial inequality does exist. This inequality stems from the time of slavery when diversity was not accepted.…