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This dehumanization is based on gender and racial stereotypes. Race and gender, despite being social constructs, have a tangible impact on how one interacts with society. Specifically, in regards to the intersection of race and gender. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this intersection of race and gender as intersectionality. Intersectionality is highlighted by Megan Thee Stallion in her activism. In the video “Why I Speak Up for Black Women”, she highlights the misogynoir black women face. Therefore,…

throughout history fear has been an effective form of control. From world war 2 Germany and south and the South Pacific to McCarthyism and the United States in the 1950s, fear has been the driving force behind mass hysteria. Arthur Miller 's play The Crucible tells the story of many young women and one being advocate a big girl and a famous guy named John Proctor from the village so this so called girl Abigail Williams was attracted to the John Proctor man which had two children and one lovely…

Question 1. Vernacular Tradition. The term Vernacular refers to stories, songs, or sermons that spoke to a particular community, or group; in this case black slaves. Usually the content was meant for the inner circle of folks that were doing the writing or singing. The folktale, I chose, called “Big Talk” (Hurston, 58) was a perfect example of a humorous tale; a casual conversation between two men/slave friends. The first thing you’ll notice the dialect, the men spoke in a broken dialect that…

Merriam-Webster defines genocide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” However, Andrea Smith may argue that this definition can be expanded to include the destruction of a gender. According to Smith, sexual violence has been used as a mechanism to destroy native communities. From this view, Smith uses theoretical and factual examples to support her argument of how native women are bodily and metaphorically under attack. In this paper, I will do…

The 21st century has seen the rise of an interconnected world, where exchanges of all sorts – whether commercial, financial, migratory or informational – have boomed. Alongside these major features of a globalising planet, terrorism has resurfaced as a crucially challenging threat to today’s societies. When thinking about terrorism, the recent shootings in Paris in January and November 2015, or the airport bombings in Brussels in March 2016 may sound relevant. First of all, the definition of…

Important Information In Los Angeles during the summer of 1955, Doctor Foster had enough patients to secure admitting privileges at a hospital; however, it was not near Cedars Sinai or the UCLA Medical Center. The hospital was near his office and was called Metropolitan Hospital (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309). The majority of the patients were of color, but the hospital doctors were white, with the very few exceptions, Doctor Foster was one of them (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309). Doctor Foster dreaded…

Millions of images representing ideas about women bombard modern human perception every day. The work that goes into creation of these images, ideas, collections, and advertising campaigns is related to race relations and the intersectionality of race and gender in more ways than would be understood by many of the consumers of these images. In a perfect world, the spread of white women and women of color in the fashion industry would ultimately be representative of the industry’s consumer…

Stigma, coming from the Latin stem stigmat- means to mark or brand, especially a slave (Definition of STIGMA, 2016). Although stigma in modern society may not be as clear as a physical marker, it is still as prevalent and degrading. Even in progressive modern society, stigma persists surrounding mental illness, especially Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, more commonly known as OCD. The question, then, becomes why does this stigma persist? The answer however is neither simple nor succinct as the…

Day 1 What Do You Think? Read: Genesis 12-15 Grief by any definition denotes love in sorrow. Sadness and extreme pain is felt with sincerity of heart. The source of grief is the object of desire. The cause of grief is the perception of the source. The feeling of grief is the awareness of love. The consequence of grief is the response of sincerity. Grief responders search for the source believed to be loved with sincerity of heart. What do you think? “When my wife hurts, my heart hurts, too”;…

On Tuesday morning of September 11 of 2001, 19 hijackers by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaida attacked the United States of America by crashing 2 American airlines planes into the north and south tower of the world trade center in New York city. In addition, there was a 3rd plane that crashed into the pentagon and another one that was supposed to crash in Washington D.C but end up crashing into a field in Pennsylvania after its passengers fought with the hijackers. The four planes with more…