Middle management

Well, one of my own personal life changing occurrences happened in my late elementary years and early middle school years. It was a life changing event, one I may never forget no matter how hard I could ever try. Not many people know about this particular story, but I am willing to speak about it. After two years of being in the U.S., my mom started dating…

Atlantic Slave Trade, a four hundred year time span where Africans were kidnapped from their homelands and sold into a world of hard labor. A major part of this Slave Trade was the Middle Passage, the journey from Africa to the New World. Many of the stories that we hear about the Atlantic Slave trade are about the Middle Passage. The experiences were dreadful but the way the slaves were treated varied depending on the ships that carried them. There were two types of slave ship captains: ones…

“labour” power, whereas the owners pay the wages of the workers, which give them the power over the workers (What is social class, n.d.). Even though Marx did talk about the two main classes, he did state that there was a third category, the lower middle class or as he called it, petit bourgeoisie. This class are owners and workers of small businesses (What is social class, n.d.). Another sociologist, Max Weber (1864-1920) disagreed with the economic side when it comes to class. He expressed…

a niqab, and all the men were wearing traditional dress called a Ghalabeya. While this is a part of the culture this isn’t a societal norm. When discussing Arabs it is extremely inappropriate to represent them by one image. The Arab world and the Middle East vary so much so that they can’t be classified into one stereotype. In the film there wasn’t a single Christian or Coptic Arab. This is absurd since countries like Egypt and Lebanon are filled with Christian. If they included Christian Arabs…

Yik Yak was founded in November of 2013 by two college graduates of Furman University. This app allows users to make anonymous posts for every within a five-mile radius to see. When you post a Yak the users get the option to up-vote, down-vote, and comment on any post within those five miles. A Yak can get as many up-votes as it can get, but if it gets negative five votes, the Yak gets deleted from the feed. Yik Yak is an app used by many to ridicule and make fun of people, but what can you do…

The development of a middle class created great opportunities for education and democratic participation. The greater the democratic participation the more likelihood for a powerful movement to occur for social…

Evidently females at that time were being treated like property. As a result women were striped of basic human rights, and freedoms that they deserve. Hence, women that lived in the Middle Ages were almost always married off, especially if they were form a wealthy family; as it was important for them to have a male heir to continue their family legacy. In addition 20% of these women died from childbirth often at a young age, as a result…

I remember my kindergarten days, when most of class time consisted of learning phonics in class. I recall doing this as the whole class repeating the sounds of letters in unison. We would all go “st, st, st” as we learned how different sounds came together. The alphabet also started becoming relevant in kindergarten. A fair amount of time was spent tracing letters of the alphabet and remembering how to scribe each one. We would also do rainbow writing, where we traced the letters in all kinds of…

& Culture” by Herbert F. Tucker when he is talking about the nation coming together as one: “What the exhibition represented was the ascendancy of a middle-class economic and cultural platform, masquerading as a great national expression, over the previously dominant ‘agricultural interest’ of landed classes” (Buzard 452). Buzard is saying that middle class people- those who had a good job and were able to support their family with their means, were dominating society. They were the ones who…

history. Preceded by the Middle Ages, a time considered to be miserable for many, the Renaissance seemed as if it was the beginning of a new era. But was the difference between these two time periods really so distinct? The short answer is no. In reality, the changes that occurred during the Renaissance (social, political, and economic) were more of a gradual progression from medieval times, rather than a sudden transformation. II. Social Aspects of the Renaissance and Middle Ages A. The…