Irish American

disobedience has changed us as a society for the greater good. Irish author Wilde claimed, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress is made…” Wilde’s claim is valid because acts of disobedience such as the American Revolution, the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and the Civil Rights movement changed society for the better. First of all, an example of disobedience is the American Revolution. During the late 1700’s of…

One of the major issues relevant today in regards to race, ethnicity and migration in American history in the period following the Second World War is that white people are still seen as “more than.” For instance, in Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter, and Pam Jenkin’s book, Left to Chance, white people are seen are more important than the black people who have their homes completely submerged under water from Hurricane Katrina. The book focuses on two black neighborhoods in New Orleans, both of…

While starting to read the materials for the course the very first sentences grabbed my attention. “The United States is a nation where people are supposed to be able to rise above their origins. Those who want to succeed, it is believed, can do so through hard work and solid effort.” (Collins, Anderson. 2015) This was actually disturbing for me to read because it so far from the truth. We live in a society that has chosen to not change their views and ways of thinking about race. This system…

“Orchestrated by Capone, the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre was one example of numerous murders committed by mobsters in their quest for territory to distribute illegal booze” (Prohibition and Crime). The massacre consisted of several men from an Irish gang getting shot to death by some of Capone’s men dressed as police officers. Even though Capone was never charged for the murders almost everyone knew that he was the one behind it but because one of the members shot wouldn’t speak,…

Fox Butterfield’s 1995 work, All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence, analyzes the cumulative effects of racism and oppression upon five generations of an African-American family (Butterfield 1995). It achieves this through the careful study of Willie Bosket, a young man who embarks on a lengthy criminal career at a tender age despite having considerable potential. Indeed, he began assaulting and robbing subway passengers at the age of five but largely got…

De Crevecoeur emphasizes the exciting new American life/culture that he is now apart of and consists of the industry and equality for all. Differentiating that from Europe is suffering from poverty, conformity and cogniscience. De Crevecoeur was extremely prideful of this land, he sees it as everyone has a good heart and are good people. Everyone in the continent were considered as one.Everyone united together even when the did not have to. They did not unite together because they were blood…

women and the young people, have made use of the mechanisation and consumerism, adapting to the change; whereas the others have lost out due to the virtue of their skin colour, nationality or politics, for example new immigrants, Black Americans and the Native American Indians. In the 1920s speaking simply, the rich got richer and the poor got poor. The 1920s were the age of mechanisation, when most of the industries grew and expanded. For the big industrial owners the new technology meant that…

A Comparison of Death in Milwaukee during the year 1907 and the Environmental and Cultural Changes For this project 247 deaths certificates from the city of Milwaukee reviewed. The birth and death date, age, ethnicity, gender, primary cause of death and secondary cause of death, occupation, duration of illness, and marital statues of each individual was recorded and analyzed. Every individual in the data set died in the months of October or November in the year 1907. The average age of death…

meaning is consistently “verified” in social life to the point that it becomes palpable. These ideologies manifest themselves in their inclusion to the law, “which is bound by those rituals that daily create and recreate race in its characteristic American form.”(Fields) Mark Twain’s Puddn’head Wilson sheds light on the artificiality of race while critiquing the extent to which social conventions dominate society. Tom(Chambers), a part black child in Mark Twain’s Puddnhead Wilson was switched…

It goes without saying that African-Americans or other minorities for that matter have gone through all sorts of things. Why them? Why put anyone lower than another person? I guess we will never know. Anyone who has read “A Raisin in the Sun” have felt the heart sinking feeling when the reader finds out that the insurance money get stolen. There must have been a million thoughts running through their head like, “if he would have done what mama said to do with the money with the family in this…