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“A faith you have suffered for becomes more precious. The more the Crow Dogs and other traditional families were persecuted for their beliefs, the more stubbornly they held on to them” (Crow Dog 105). This quote, from Native-American woman Mary Crow Dog in her autobiography Lakota Woman, describes the desire that Native people had to hold onto their beliefs until a time where it was safe to live them. In the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s, Native Americans and other social groups fought for their rights…

African-Americans in America was going to be easy especially when you a black man in a white man country but nobody said it was going to this bad either. Brutality on African-Americans lives have been happening and the whites have been getting away with it since Emmett Till in 1955, when a young black man were killed…

race, color, religion, or national origin” (Truman). In May 17,1954, in the case “Brown v. Board of Education” Supreme Court of the United States ruled that segregation in public schools has been unconstitutional. In 1955 during the month of August, Emmett Till has been kidnapped,brutally killed by two white men for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Both men stood trial but had been released. This case became one of the causes for the Civil Rights Movement. In December 1,1955, Rosa Parks…

Visiting the Worcester Art Museum, I was drawn in by the piece Static Variations: Blue x2. The art museum was having a series on her, and had several of her works up, but this one stood out most of all. Static Variations: Blue x2 (fig. 1) is a highly political piece about the Civil Rights Movement. In order to interpret it one must understand the life of the artist, Terri Priest, and the Civil Rights Movement itself. Terri Priest was born in 1928, in Worcester Massachusetts. She spent her…

potential lives that would have been lost if not for bomb; saved more than estimate 75,000 lives. If the atomic bombs were not dropped then more of American lives would have gone. Not only did it stop this war, but it stopped war for a very long time. Emmett C. Stanton states from the article, Was It Right to Drop Atom Bombs on Japan?, “The horror of atomic weapons has prevented all-out warfare for over 70 years based on the concept of mutually assured…

help analyze and piece together historical narratives, they these sources have a major limitation. This limitation is that textual sources cannot produce as strong of emotions for readers compared to non-textual sources. For example, the murder of Emmett Till is painful moment from the Civil Rights Movements that is difficult to grasp from the description alone. However, when you view photos of Till’s beaten and bloated corps, you are overcome with sadness and rage, questioning how humans can be…

With recent fatalities that have claimed the lives of young African-Americans at the hands of white officers, have generated much press and created outrage throughout the world. In the wake of these heinous crimes, white and black people alike are taking to the streets with expressing their frustration and anger through protest that there should be stiffer penalties and programs in place for over-policing in the black community. These horrendous, heinous, cowardly acts have taken us a step…

The American Problem: Fear Fear as existed in the United States of America since before it was an independent country; this fear stemmed from the unknown as well as differences from Europe and “the new world”. As colonization began, the focus of fear changed to that of the British monarchy, then to fear of Native Americans, and finally African Americans, all within a short period of time. Even though the Declaration of Independence, the document that gave the United States of America a voice as…

As Kelly Brown Douglas notes in her book Stand Your Ground, one of reasons for perpetuating slavery after the other Western European countries abolished it was due to America’s belief in Manifest Destiny. White Anglo-Saxons assumed they were called by God to rule the “New World”, but also to rule the Africans they had enslaved. In essence, God chose white people over all other races to be the ruling elites who dominate the world. They are the chosen people, in similar ways to Israel, who were…

JAIMINKUMAR PAREKH 7792906 ASSIGNMENT; CRIME ANALYSIS CASE ANALYSIS OF ZIMMERMAN VERSUS MARTIN USING SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES Sociological theories helps to understand relationships between individual and the society. “Sociological theories are defined as the statements of how and why particular facts are related.... used to analyze and explain objects of social study and facilitate organizing sociological knowledge”,(sociological perspective, 2013). The 2013 case Zimmerman versus Martin is a…