Civil and political rights

Does American teacher get the right training cultural sensitivity training they need? In my early days at school, I thought I wasn’t good enough. My k-12 teachers said that I had a learning disability that I had to take extra time to do class assignment and homework assignments. However, since starting at South Seattle College I notice I begun to achieve my educational goals. I have begun to understand how the American educational system works. As a Pacific Islander (PI.) commissioner in the…

To sing America is to be American, therefore I am America. What does this mean to the average person? To understand this statement one must understand the “American Experience”. Langston Hughes’ poem “I too sing America” serves as a patriarchal representation of the minority experience in America. There are many historical undertones that are present in this poem in addition to symbolism and foreshadowing which instills hope into the reader. The poem starts with the line, “I, too, sing…

PART 1 Human Rights are fundamental legal entitlement. They are rights and benefits granted by law to all human beings despite gender, socioeconomic status, nationality, geographical location, cultural background, language or any other status (Ohchr.org, 2017 ).They are based upon moral guidelines in order to recognise and respect people's dignity (Human Rights Commission,2017). Human rights support the fact that all persons are entitled to their human rights without discrimination, and are…

Mission: NAACP What is the group's mission? The mission of the NAACP is simply to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality for all people regardless of the race. The NAACP’s mission is to end racial discrimination in several aspects (NAACP.ORG). What causes do its members support? The members of the NAACP support several causes such as the following: • Criminal Justice: The NAACP understands the imminent risk of criminals and therefore recommends for smarter criminal…

What role did education play in the efforts of civil rights leader Septima P Clark to help African-Americans in the south gain independence from whites? Activists like Septima P Clark ,are largely kept out of the American history books. Although her contributions are rarely mentioned. She dedicated her life to the struggle. But how is Septima P Clark remembered by the rest of the world? What legacy did she leave Behind? It is an extraordinary one,to those closest to her she was a wife, mother,…

human rights in connection to autonomy and community. Butlers struggle finding the right balance between the two in order to achieve success in the political arena connects greatly with the ideas of Appiah in Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections, and my own personal experiences with the law. Throughout Butler’s essay, she struggles with the concept of balancing autonomy and community when it comes to human rights. Butler discusses the struggling that is fighting for our rights…

Is it ever acceptable to sacrifice the civil rights of many in order to avoid the perilous activity of a few? The stereotypes that place people into categories cause others to develop the idea that it is necessary to group those that share similarities. In classifying the populace into divisions, we describe a group with certain characteristics because of the mistakes an individual has made. There are billions of others in that same category who are worthy of respect and deserve to have…

might have committed a serious crime as a way of bringing justice and cleaning up society. However, with time, these Robin Hood intentions morphed into a way of targeting society’s outcasts, minorities ––which in this essay references those who lack political, economic, and social power––or anyone who society may deem as “undesirable” including; the homeless, petty criminals, sex workers, drug addicts and/or drug dealers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and street children, which this essay…

Restricting freedom has only strained people’s lives; henceforth, motivational figures, such as Rosa Parks, have contributed towards the ethical effort to protect the rights of every citizen. Before Parks became an African American civil rights activist, the laws in Montgomery, Alabama were still complex and segregated, requiring blacks “to pay their fare to the driver, then get off and reboard through the back door ” (Dove). Nonetheless, Parks refused…

ordeal trials, and ritualistic killings are all common. These violate natural rights that are supposedly given to everyone. By definition on United States History, natural rights are “the rights of life, liberty and property” conceived by John Locke and they “belong equally to all men at birth and cannot be taken away”. According to this definition, does culture or religion have the right to take away natural rights? To answer this question, the role of culture and tradition in life needs to be…