Catholic Worker Movement

Without culture, we would be empty, boring shells. What is culture? “Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts” (Kim Ann Zimmerman). Culture is so influential that it can influence what kind of person you’ll be. Culture is music, sports, traditions, food, religion, language and more. I am a first generation Jamaican-American, which means my parents were born in Jamaica, then…

to fight to correct the situation. After the American Revolution many Americans drink way more than they should. Alcohol played a huge role in society from wedding ceremonies to elections. That was until many became a part of the movement Temperance. The Temperance movement begin to solve the alcohol problem that was spreading because in the beginning it was to help the Americans drink less. By the 1820s it started to urge people to stop drinking period. It was also important because it…

Throwing a Wrench into the Literary Machine: A Poststructuralist Examination of The Monkey Wrench Gang Chapter One: Statement of the Problem An army of bulldozers propels its way through a nearly vacant town, churning powerfully towards the buildings it intends to reduce to meaningless rubble. The remaining inhabitants, left powerless to negotiate with the destructionists, all share an indignant determination to ax the onslaught of the place they call home. As the mechanized gears continue to…

Through this presentation I learned a lot about Theodore Roosevelt and his conservation efforts. Theodore Roosevelt was passionate about conserving our natural resources, because he knew that one day these resources would be exhausted. So he wanted to preserve these resources for future generations. He saw the need to protect these lands, so generations could see the beauty of the natural lands and its wild life. So Roosevelt dedicated not only his presidency to helping conserve these resources,…

GOODBYE POLLUTION Did you know that over 40% of the world is environmentally polluted by water bottles? Bottled water is poisoning the earth and our bodies. In the process of making water bottles, the manufacturing companies use crude oil, which is highly toxic to humans! Water bottles are ruining planet Earth, and are robbing too much money from too many people! Tap water is free of charge and is 1,000 times healthier. We should ban the sale of water bottles in California because bottled water…

racism needs to be confronted by the modern age of technology as more information is collect to allow people to become better aware of their own actions and of those around them. Modern racism should be confronted by a movement in the American people just as the civil rights movement was, but it needs to be confronted out of love and respect for our differences, not to prove who is more American than the person beside…

useful work to push the development of the equal right movement including the politicians. Almost every politician claims that their goals are make every member in this society can be treated equality however the funny thing is most of their declarations will not be complied and this is the real situation for now. Jelani Cobb points out this real situation in “The Matter of Black Lives”, she recalls the history of the Black Lives Matter movement…

when mainstream. If these individual don’t excell to our expectation we cut them down and destroy them because it isn’t part of our personal brand. We forget the humanity of women, the complexity of someone who is expected to represent the women's movement. The dehumanization of women of other women because of the way which they express themselves, branding feminism as a category a stereotype about what “we should be” and not who we are. In her famous Ted talk “We Should All Be Feminists”…

Not only does art and music become hindered when cultural appropriation is shunned, but so does personal expression. For instance, it is a human right in the United States to express oneself freely, whether that expression be of religion, language, or even as simple as hairstyles. In March of 2016, a video taken at San Francisco State University went viral when an African American student confronted a white student with dreadlocks, accusing him of cultural appropriation. The black girl, Bonita…

Industrialization. For instance, Jim Crow laws enabled racial segregation of the African Americans in public places and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 restricted the freedom of the Chinese, one of the immigrant groups. This led to the various social reform movements – which was a respond to the effects of the Industrialization by different social hierarchies. The farmer respond – Populism, working class respond – the rise of the labor and the middle class respond –…