Angela Davis

The 13th is a documentary by Ava DuVernay, who provides a realistic representation of our current criminal justice system and the people in it. The documentary follows the chronological progression of events that lead to our current criminal justice system, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century and ending in modern times. Representatives from both sides of the issues presented were brought forth and their stories were told, even Newt Gingrich had progressive things to say about…

Samuel Wetherill Arguments and Persuasion Professor Ana Hartman 19 November 2017 Fabricated Stratification and its Effects on Society The idea of race and the perception or belief in subjective superiority based on superficial genetic features has been around as long as human civilization. We have made great strides as a collective global society in equality, and mainstream racism throughout most of western culture and beyond has been abolished. Children from a young age are taught in school to…

In Amber Stark’s TEDx Talk “New Standard of Beauty” she suggests that beauty should be diverse instead of homogenous. She states that beauty is a cultural construct, more specifically it is a collection of thoughts and ideas that are created by generations and cultures and reinforced through media and television. Starks goes on to reveal her early encounter with beauty standards. She shares that like many of the Disney Princesses and Barbie dolls or the girls who are seen playing with them on TV…

Book Summary Richard Wright’s Native Son is a Harlem Renaissance era novel which utilizes a unique type of protagonist that, unlike most characters from social justice novels at the time, exhibits a very violent demeanor. From the very first scene, Bigger Thomas, a 20-year old African American man living in 1930s Chicago, is shown to be aggressive towards his family and friends. He and his gang make their living by robbing the people in their neighborhood, taking advantage of the fact that the…

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” said Aretha Franklin, a woman who used her voice to support the small and major causes she believed in by following her drum. Aretha Franklin, while born in Memphis, Tennessee, was raised in the city of Detroit. Her father worked for a church and her mother moved away…

Racial profiling is any use of race, religion, ethnicity, or national origin by law enforcement agents as a means of deciding who should be investigated, except where these characteristics are part of a specific suspect description. As Professor Angela Davis has noted, “The practical effect of this deference [to law enforcement discretion] is the assimilation of police officers’ subjective beliefs, biases, hunches, and prejudices into law” (Fisanick 57). Violence’s continue to happen…

Children are our pillars for tomorrow. It is therefore important to study children in different ages. The main goal of this project is to understand child development by using case study method along with child observations and parents interview. Given the circumstances of long distance, Skype is used to observe the child and parent interview. Matthew, who is born and raised in Hong Kong, is an outgoing and smart 7th grader. He is a 10 year-old Chinese boy growing up in a middle class family…

The Business of Being Good: The Aristotle Analysis Angela R. Davis Fresno Pacific University BUS-442-BBK79/OB107-META The Business of Being Good: The Aristotle Analysis Many times those in search of inspiration have looked to the past and examined the classical philosophy of ancient Western civilization. Tom Morris, the author of If Aristotle Ran General Motors, is one such individual. The author highlights many practices that business leaders are getting wrong, and offers solutions to…

In 1960s America, women began to react in a new way to the building oppression that had taken decades to create. The double standards set up by society were finally boiling over, and women felt the need for an Equal Rights Amendment, which was originally proposed in 1923 by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. This inspired Shirley Chisholm to give her 1969 address to Congress, Equal Rights For Women. The speech expressed the irritations of women from the last century. Women were constantly…

She argues that it is not fair if we just portray the post-colonial women as ignorant, poor and uneducated, oppressed, victimized, family oriented etc. to agree with Mohantay, it will not be untrue if we say that western feminism just talk about their own women. White women consider the third world women as the other which indicates their conservative thinking on the one side they are talking about women rights on the other had they are considering white women have right to live.Taliokng about…