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    is a film produced in a lower class neighborhood in Brooklyn,New York.The film is about the struggle and criticism people of color face in their every day life as they try to survive.The film also proves that people of color who makes it out the ghetto have to choose between class at a certain point of time.The sociological concepts I choose to apply to this film is Cultural Relativism, Discrimination, Gender Inequality, Race, and double consciousness. Cultural Relativism According to the…

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    Some might say that history might be repeating itself with everything that is going on. There are many things going on in this world with the Syrian refugees that can be compared to what happened in the Holocaust and the Japanese being put in the internment camps. The things that are happening in syria right now and the refugees wanting to leave is similar to what happened with the Jews in Germany. The Holocaust was a very difficult time for the jews. Adolf Hitler was…

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    The movie, Schindler’s List, is a dramatic and historical film about one man’s heroic actions in a time horror during World War Two. Over a six year span, this film follows a businessman named Oskar Schindler, on his quest to save more than 1,200 Jews from becoming prisoners in work and death camps across Europe. Through this film, Oskar Schindler’s mentality changes, as he comes to realization with the spiteful, horrific treatment the Jews endured due to the Nazi’s. Not only does this film…

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    the Ghetto, as well as inclining to befriending Satan. Jewish families living in Warsaw ghettos during the time of World War II experienced a great amount of hardships and difficulties. Diseases, starvations, and instances of unemployment were generally common throughout these communities. Selling of trades was the most efficient way to survive, along with smuggling food. Germans hoped to conform Jews and isolate them in these secret cities. Living conditions were unbearable. “The ghettos were…

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    the other factor is religion, since they cluster in order to be close to a synagogue and to other Jewish religious functions (1997, 2). The truths point out the Jews’ essential problems in the period in which the novelist has lived. Then, the term ghetto illuminates the Jews’ bondages in the nineteenth century. The term and the Jews’ conditions in the time show the accepted forms of knowledge on them by the nineteenth century…

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    “ If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step to real humanity”. This quote was once said by a man named Nelson Demille. In the 1930s, in the south's social injustice system of Jim Crow Laws impacted lives of not just blacks but whites as well. It caused many disputes and problems between the two races. To this day we still have racial tensions in the air but not with just these two groups. But as the years…

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    1. How do the descriptions in these articles of the Upland South support or refute the picture drawn by your text’s authors? The Book gives us insight into The Appalachian region of America centered on the “Blue Collar” worker that conducts skilled labor to make a decent wage, and supports his family. He is a spiritual man with deep held beliefs, and an unwavering faith in his country, with facts based around the growth of the region, and emerging industry that is rejuvenating the working class…

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    Beginning with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the start of World War II in 1939, Jewish people, along with others deemed “undesirable” by the Nazi Party, were persecuted and punished throughout Germany and rest of Europe. Many were forced into ghettos or sent to concentration camps where they were forced to perform labor or were instantly killed. Though the Nazi party kept a tight hold on their power through the use of the military and secret police, many resistance movements were formed across…

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    The movie truly paints him in a heroic light. Placed in the late 1930s-40s, Oskar Schindler was a Czech man that bought Rekord Ltd, a previously jewish owned business. With that business, he employed over 1000 jews from the Krakow ghetto. Later, numerous Jews of the ghetto were being liquidated to Camp Plaszow. In order to avoid the deportation of his workers, he bribed the officers and established relationships with them and succeeded. In order to make his company running and useful to the war…

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    ¨Ghostface, catch the blast of a hot verse, my glock burst, leave in a hearse, I did worse¨ (Ghostface Killah, Bring da Ruckus). Gun toting, murder, and drug abuse are tropes commonly associated with hip hop music and it's culture. Rappers, and those who follow them, are labeled as thugs, ignorant, or downright dumb. They are chastised and outcasted from the mainstream for the mood of their art. However, hip hop and it's culture is incredibly complex. The lyrics that compose the songs tackle…

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