American people of Irish descent

Peter Balakian’s memoir, Black Dog of Fate, was published by Basic Books in New York in 1997. The subtitle—“An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past”—could easily be the summary on the back of the book. Balakian was born in the United States to Armenian parents. His mother was born in the country, while his father was born abroad, specifically Constantinople. His maternal grandmother, her first husband, and their two young daughters experienced the Genocide. Although his grandmother and aunts…

Deion Jones ENG-103 Julian Felix 21 Oct 2015 American Paradoxes American paradoxes are running rapid. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a paradox is a statement or proposition that sounds acceptable, and leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable or self-contradictory. America is consistently engulfed in paradoxes. Individuals believe that Americans are all the epitome of perfection, and deeply connected despite ethnic, religion, body type, and language spoken.…

language, religion and customs that are passed down through time, from one generation to the next. Ethnic groups can span both a broad and narrow aggregation, an example would be that, people living in the United Kingdom are coined as British, however, they can also be more accurately presented as Scottish, Welsh, Irish or English. This is not to be mistaken for race, the number of ethnicities that obtain, far exceed that of race. This is due to the fact that physical features define race, as…

according to Ralph Linton. (Carol R. Ember 225). Ralph Linton emphasized common habits and behaviors in what he considered culture. Which the total way of life also includes how people think and feel about something. In Sociology, all aspects of culture are important. We commonly share cultural traits with our families and people…

fingertips with the means to communicate with people living entire continents away at any given moment. A consequence of this exposure is an increase in ethnocentrism, “the practice of judging all other cultures by one’s own culture” (Kendall 61). Citizens of the United States of America display a particularly strong representation of ethnocentrism, both positive and negative. On the other hand, the realization of our global citizenship encourages people to see others in context, viewing the…

centuries of mistreatment and oppression on African-Americans, labor such as the treatment of Black slaves and laws pertaining slaves have evolved and have significantly impacted the social organization of Black communities. Social organization regards to the composition of a community- politically, socially and economically in regard to the greater scope of society. Labor impacts the social organization of Black communities by oppressing African-Americans, dehumanizing slaves and creating a…

immigrants like the Scotts-Irish. This was because the Chinese came over without their families, and could afford to work for a lower wage than those who would have to support a family (Bodenner). This caused major conflicts between the two groups, and the American government realized that something had to be done to prevent any further violence from spreading. The government came to the conclusion to create the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act stated that people coming from…

meaning is consistently “verified” in social life to the point that it becomes palpable. These ideologies manifest themselves in their inclusion to the law, “which is bound by those rituals that daily create and recreate race in its characteristic American form.”(Fields) Mark Twain’s Puddn’head Wilson sheds light on the artificiality of race while critiquing the extent to which social conventions dominate society. Tom(Chambers), a part black child in Mark Twain’s Puddnhead Wilson was switched…

European descent as their ethnicity by that their family has arrived to the United States. In the 1920’s immigrations laws limited the amount of European immigrants that come into the US, a form of immigration control. Years after this policy the great grandchildren of those families identified as White where they had no connection to their past. The upcoming generations are born inside the US and thus they receive jus solis citizenship and they have the ability to identify as an American. The…

I look up at the sky, and close my eyes. Attempting to imagine myself anywhere else, but on an old stale ship filled with 30 other men for what seemed like decades, although, in reality only measures up to a few weeks. I give up my feeble attempt at day dreaming, open my eyes and look around. Taking in the smells of the salty see and a vague underlying odor of sweat and musk that has accumulated along this never ending journey. But I must admit, I would take this stinky old ship over the…