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In the last decade, Americans have become increasingly aware of the opportunity and wage gaps between racial minorities and females and their Caucasian, male counterparts. One of the areas most affected by this prejudice is the film industry in Hollywood. In this industry, talented members of minorities receive significantly fewer speaking parts and smaller wages than members of the majority. We must put an end to this troublesome trend because every actor deserves to experience the same chance…

The 13th is a powerful documentary on the 13th Amendment of the American Constitution. The documentary starts with discussing 13th Amendment which slavery in the U.S. unless it is a punishment for a crime one has been found guilty. This technicality in the Amendment legalized some form of enslavement in the American institutions. In fact, it has been exploited as a tool for mass incarceration and criminalization of the blacks. The 13th is a historical analysis that links slavery to current…

com/international/2014-international-spending-team/). Orioles’ fans are concerned by this because about one-sixth of all top 100 prospects from 2010-2015 fell into this category and one would think that not using their bonus pool to the fullest would hurt their efforts. This begs the question of how the most expensive, and therefore highest ranked Central and South…

competitors which are Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines. Delta Airlines is an American airlines with its headquarter in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. Delta's brand campaign, “Keep Climbing” is a declaration of the company's commitment to making flying better and a celebration of where the brand is and where it is heading. American Airlines is a major U.S. airlines…

African-Americans have had the burden of dealing with oppression since slavery was introduced in the colonies in the 1600s. Until the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery was the primary vehicle of this oppression. This system clearly emphasized physical bondage and regarded African-Americans as property. Segregation would continue to provide a physical barrier as Jim Crow laws were introduced. The mental bondage and psychological abuse were also present and in many ways still exists today. W.E.B.…

Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution, he rhetorically asks, “how many Americans today know what the pyramid and eye on the Great Seal mean” (99). While most Americans today may look past these icons, both sides of the Great Seal signify the distinctly American thought of a constitution being a work in progress laid upon a strong foundation. The motto featured on the eagle’s scrolls states, E pluribus Unum, translated “out of many, one.” This view is a clear indication of the American colonists…

College athletics have gained extensive popularity among Americans over the past few decades. This has resulted in an increase in cash flow for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The enormous amount of money being made off of college sports has led to the question whether students should be getting paid for their performance. The NCAA, as a whole, makes $6 billion annually. But the players themselves don’t get a dime of the money. These athletes devote about 43.3 hours per week…

What is the Hipster Culture Really All About? What word first pops into your head when you first hear the word “hipster”? Some think high top converse, coffee drinker, others think cigarette, beanie wearing, politics lover. No matter what word we think of it always comes back to the millennial version of a hipster. No one really thinks into how this culture started and the background of it all. They first started in the 1940’s when the label was a “beatnik” hipster instead of the known…

from there I was promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair and goods preparations…… I have built my own factory on my own ground.” This quote is from, Madam CJ Walker.This demonstrates she started from the bottom and made it up to the top where no one thought she could be. Cosmetology is the professional skin beautifying the face, hair, and skin. The study of cosmetology has greatly evolved in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The study of cosmetology has greatly evolved in…

minimal information to link slavery to the reason why the majority of African Americans are in economic trouble as of today. Even if the African Americans had it the worst, the fact that many other races that were mistreated or enslaved have jumped back up to a good economic condition. In WW2, the Italian and the Japanese were forced into internment camps and had, many pieces of their property confiscated and sold by the Americans in WW2. Many holocaust survivor relatives reside in America today…