Education in the United Kingdom

Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a white police officer Darren Wilson, after shoplifting from a convenience store. This incident sent a shockwave throughout the community and began to draw attention to the racial discrimination all around the United States. Since then, stories have surfaced relating the mistreatment of the African-American peoples of our nation by white officers. Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin have become household names, and riots are breaking…

Black feminist thought can be thought of as an understanding behind the intersectionality of race and sex. The assumption that race and sex can be divorced and examined separately prevents many people from grasping the concept of black feminist thought. African-American women are a part of a minority race and minority sex, which they must live with on a daily basis. Therefore, examining race and sex separately is a distorted, biased, and inaccurate view on African-American women in society. As a…

College is a time for students to come and find themselves, to get a higher education and to meet new and exciting friends. Just from the first semester here at Harris-Stowe I believe I have done so. My college career actually started in the summer with the Summer Math and Science Academy here at Harris-Stowe. I also moved in a week before everyone else did for soccer pre-season. Right off the bat, Harris-Stowe was a culture shock for me. In the summer math and science academy, I was the…

Comparing Victoria to other cities in British North America, it stood in stark contrast to urban centres in the United States. Victoria was remarkably nondiscriminatory against Blacks for the period.13 In Victoria and in the entirety of Vancouver Island, Blacks held civil rights and were free from segregation.14 Though it is certain that some Victorians harboured…

The renowned pamphlet Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a landmark in the world of persuasive literature. It called upon the American people of all social classes to work and fight towards independence from the British Empire. Paine methodically, yet passionately dismantled the legitimacy of the British monarchy and its actions in the Colonies. With impressive eloquence, he destroyed any basis the British Crown had in Biblical scripture. He used historical examples and simple, yet robust logic…

The 1960 British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan once gave a speech in South Africa known as “The Wind of Change Speech”. Macmillan said, "The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it” (Baker 179). Macmillan was reinforcing that decolonization is taking place in Africa. Most of the European powers had African…

that live in fear by treatment they receive from education, police, and society due to the color of their skin. Another factor would be how blacks are excluded and targeted from the system all over America. This is a tremendous case that is happening currently in America in which the role of the pipeline is taking its part of. Statistics demonstrate that blacks that dropout end up in jail or are victims of police brutality. The form of education called pipeline can be viewed as exclusion in a…

“Compare the way two texts you have studied represent the same idea or same group.” Introduction: The Help and No Sugar both represent the same ideas of racism and inequality in a society with the mistreatment of African-American and Aboriginal people from white people. No Sugar is a play written by Jack Davis and is about the Millimurra family’s stand against government ‘protection’ in Australia during the 1930’s. This play portrays the inequality between aboriginals and white Australians.…

Throughout history, humans have constantly held the desire to achieve more, to find more, to be more. Greed sparked this desire in humans and as a result humans have achieved amazing feats. Greed contributed heavily to the idea of the caste system; greed began exploration, exchange, and encounters between societies and new land. Along those lines, greed was the catalyst that set off the rule of the British Raj, the fleet from Great Britain sent to colonize India in 1857. The greedy British Raj…

“So you think, so you become.” When ignorance, and poverty struck a whole nation, and the elite makes a call to god… “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Many have witnessed or heard about act of terrors in Haiti on the name of “Zombification,” causing by a group of undercover criminals. It is by itself a broad topic full of stupidity, but this idea is important to introduce what I want to tackle today.…