Double majority

ambiguity by removing Jackson from the $20 bill? I think that Jackson's horsey face and streaked mane on the bill should remind us, instead, that democracy has always been a double struggle. Democracy is a struggle against aristocracy and special privilege. Jackson is a symbol of this particular struggle, among the great majority of the American population. And democracy is a struggle against mad bigotries and anti-minority persecutions. This second struggle will have to be symbolized by someone…

of their economy to a higher level. The socio-economic benefit is also large, many indigenous people get benefitted through palm production. Global demand forecast it will; double by 2020, which southeast countries are the major producers now. The detrimental aspect which is major due to this production is that, vast majority of tropical forest is destroyed for creating land for palm production. Huge hectares of forest were deforested to make space for palm cultivation. Deforestation is major…

the new legislation given that their number of incarcerated for drug offenses increased by 828 percent—which consequently was double the increase compared to African American men and triple the increase among white females (Hutton, 19). Although remanence of protest pulsated across the US in waves of calls of injustice, the legislation remained widely popular among the majority of…

Double Standard At about 5 or 6 years old, I remember running behind my mom after hitting my younger brother. He swung at me and she caught his fist. “Stop that Chippy. Don’t hit your sister. Boys aren’t supposed to hit girls.” Although it didn’t dawn on me at the time, or for most of my childhood, I later came to realize that it was perfectly fine for girls to hit their male counterparts without it being frowned upon. This newfound privilege filled me with a sense of power and…

directly experience the tragic situation in the story and feel the helplessness from the character. In 1984, the reason why the totalitarian rulers suppressed rational individuals was to maintain their absolute power. Individuals are forced to have “double thinking” and are trained to overcome their memories and accept any lies. Totalitarian rulers rely on a variety of social organizations to monitor and control social activities in order to control the individual's rational thought. Winston and…

the US society can be explained as the salad bowl societies, where different cultures exists in one place, but they don’t overrule each other. One of the most important of these groups are Chinese Americans. However, being in a community with a majority of Chinese students attracted me to gather information and understand their movement to the US. As a result, I have decided to mention them in this paper, and mention where do they live in the US, the population of Chinese Americans, their…

hands. While the rest of the Mexican majority struggle in poverty by serving the PRI. This was one of the main reasons why the poorly paid police began accepting bribery and committing corruption to supplement their incomes. While the legitimacy of the PRI in the…

a high school degree or less fell by 5.6 million. Based on economy and job projections calculated by Georgetown University, in 2018, approximately 63% of jobs will require some college education or a degree.” As you can see, in the near future a majority of jobs will require college education and the jobs that don’t will most likely be minimum wage. “ On average, a college graduate with a bachelor’s degree earned $30,000 more per year than a high school graduate or about $500,000 more over a…

decision to make Nelly the primary narrator is considered to be contrasting of the time it was written in as a person of a high social status was perceived as having more power than someone with a low social background, however here Nelly is given the majority of the narrative making her more knowledgeable and influential than Lockwood in the sense that she has a better understanding of the characters as she is more involved in the…

regarding the financial conditions of the Founding Fathers exhibits the engineering and planning behind the creation of the United States. The blatant double-standard regarding slavery and equality in the Declaration of Independence becomes even more vulgar when considering that “69 percent of the signers… held colonial office under England,” the majority of the Founding Fathers owned slaves, and that “equality” only included white men (Zinn 70). These factors exhibit the true motivating factors…