American Indian Movement

Rastafari and Vodou are two major world religions that are both intertwined with a long history of oppression, persecution, and connection to the African people. While not as well known as the other more “traditional” religions like Christianity or Islam, Rastafari and Vodou are both religions with followers numbering in the millions. They have had extraordinary impact on the cultural and political scenes in their respective countries of origin. While not everyone agrees with the beliefs of…

Alice Walker’s Meridian is a historical novel covering much of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-to-late twentieth century, and although much of the novel is focused on societal conditions regarding race relations, Walker also explores sexual relations in place at the time. Sexual politics play a key role in setting the foundation of Walker’s argument, and is staged through her use of characterization, especially with regards to Meridian and Truman. These characterizations also shape an…

Board of Education in 1954 to late 1968, Niebuhr published articles and editorials, and held public conversations interpreting the Civil Rights Movement’s ongoing actions to abolish juridical segregation and anti-black discrimination. As with the movement itself, these writings and discourses exhibit moments of optimism, celebration, misfire, disappointment, and reassessment. Niebuhr engages in what might called moral publicity, reflecting on many of the landmark and tragic events in ethical and…

In 2006, Goetsch and Davis stated that if customers are people who receive your work, only they can determine what quality is, only they can tell you what they want, and how they want it. “The customer is the only one who can decide whether the quality of the product and services that supply the satisfactory” (Hoyle, 2007). To increase the sales of environmentally sensible products, company must increase consumers’ awareness of green products, improve consumers’ perceptions of eco-products’…

1800’s and early 1900’s, American society was viewed as corrupt and disrupted. When the public was unsure of what to blame this corruption on, they blamed alcohol. Reformers, or people who advocated for change, began forming unions to end the production, transportation, and distribution of alcohol (Benson, Brannen, and Valentine). This Temperance Movement, which advocated Prohibition, began with the intention of correcting America’s corrupt tendencies. Shortly after the American Revolution,…

However, his impact on the environmental movement continues to influence how people think about the nature. His books, articles, and journals promote the uniqueness and magnificence of nature despite difference in time frames between now and then. Muir’s activism helped set a precedent for future…

Chicana struggles with their identity and they communicate through art and literature. Individuals in the Chicano/a community face isolation when dealing with Mexican and dominant culture. In my interpretation of what the dominant culture is it’s the American culture. Both cultures have different believe system and it is hard for the Chicana…

Despite the lack of attention on the topic, the role that women played during the Prohibition Movement in the early 1900’s goes well beyond surface level protests and advocating. Women may very well be the driving force behind the installment of the Eighteenth Amendment as well as its repeal thirteen years after its inauguration. The results of their activism both for and against the Prohibition Movement are still seen in our society today and impacted the direction of our nation economically…

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a temperance movement existed in Canada that attempted, with some success, to change the legal regulations regarding the consumption, manufacture and sale of alcohol. While often overshadowed by the seemingly more important American temperance movement and eventual prohibition in the United States, the Canadian temperance movement held a great deal of significance for the shaping of both the Canadian legal system in relation to the use of alcohol and…

group of individuals to fall into this form of abuse typically because of their lack of association. Cesar Chavez, a great coordinator, and leader in fighting for farm workers’ rights was chief executive of the United Farm Workers Union. As a Mexican-American, he would become a noticeable labor organizer and union leader who was toughened by his early years as a migrant worker who founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 . His union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organization…