Irish immigration to Puerto Rico

Briona Whitehead Professor Long English 101 20 November 2016 Lights, Camera, Where’s The Diversity “Lights, Camera, Action,” is a saying that many have heard when it comes to films. The film industry has been around since the late nineteenth century. It has made way for people to express their thoughts and or ideas through some form of media and it is able to reach many people. Since the beginning of time, the film industry has not represented everyone fairly. From “blackface” all the way to not…

Police Brutality Law enforcement officers have so many issues to deal with, and all of the are usually a joke. There are so many protests and issues with racism that the police officers always do some thing wrong. There are so many cases where police brutality is the key factor and people including media make the police officers look poorly. As a future police officer, it is hard to see a good outcome of the job when others don 't respect them and don 't trust them. There are good cops and bad…

Chapter 7 from Spring talked about multiculturalism and the failure of the common school ideal. In this chapter it talked about educational segregation/discrimination regarding Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, native Americans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans. Segregation issues could affect the future of America even in the twenty first century. Being aware of these issues is very important in educational settings, and making sure that there is not discrimination in schools is very…

Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Programs Introduction Manmade and natural disasters have the potential to cause great loss of property and loss of life. Disasters can also occur anytime and this is why mitigation is very important. Hazard mitigation is activities or measures that reduces or eliminates the effects to people and properties of natural or manmade hazards (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2016). According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), mitigation is…

narratives, but in Puerto Rico it is the ultimate popular music. In talking about the folk qualities of plena music, there is evidence that Western African slaves were the first to perform plena music (Banning). These West African songs were often songs were often in call and…

Romeo and Juliet, except instead of the Capulets and Montagues, it’s the Puerto Ricans and the Anglo-Americans. The migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States in the 1950s led to an influx of new community members and as a result, another component of diversity in the “melting pot,” that is the United States. With the introduction of West Side Story came a new, yet unsatisfying, portrayal of a group of people labeled as “Puerto Rican Migrants”. West Side Story is a critically acclaimed film…

Both the novels Long Division and Invisible Man introduce the idea of perpetuating racial stereotypes in front of white people, yet they both have differing perspectives on this issue. Coach Stroud instructs City not purchase watermelon in front of white people, so that he does not reinforce racial stereotypes against their race. City plans to buy a watermelon for his grandma and his friend MyMy who comes along with him. However, when he tries to purchase a watermelon from his former coach,…

In a choice held in 1951 the general population of Puerto Rico embraced the bundle. The understanding gave Puerto Ricans self-sufficiency in inner matters, programmed access to U.S. citizenship, and direct access to the administrations of the national government. Puerto Rico would have full control of the legal and the lawmaking body. In 1967, when the matter of the protected status of Puerto Rico was because of be considered by the United Nations, another submission was held…

Oppression against Native Americans has been the longest held racism in the United States. The horrors that Natives endure span hundreds of years from the first arrival of European settlers to the modern era in which they have to protest for their right to clean water. Native Americans continue to persevere and face tremendous challenges to cope with the disadvantages history has left them. To this day, Native Americans are the most harshly affected by relocation, institutionalized racism, and…

“Passing” was a story about a race that was there physical appearance to pass off another race. The story talks about two light skinned African American women, Irene and Clare, trying to pass off as white people. The story starts off by Irene receiving a letter form Clare, a friend of hers that she wants no part of. From here the story goes into a flashback to Irene’s summer vacation, when she run into Clare in the Dayton, in Chicago. They are both in an all white restaurant, which they got in…