Minorities

interrupted as acumen, a quote referring to an individual who holds themself accountable because they are responsible for responding appropriately at any and all times. We Americans continually respond to minorities in our society inadequately as a result of a lack of communication, minorities from African Americans, to Hispanic and Latino Americans, and even those in the LGBTQIAA+ community. America was founded on Christian ideologies and the concept of its entire people having freedom,…

I would consider myself an underrepresented minority in the field of nursing because I am a Black male. First off, in 2011, 9 percent of all nurses were men, while 91 percent were women. In 2013 nurses from minority backgrounds represented 19 percent of the registered nurse workforce. African Americans made up only 6 percent of the minority population. In 2014-2015 nursing students from minority backgrounds made up 30.1 percent of students in entry-level baccalaureate programs, 31.9 percent of…

Danica R. Manabat ABM 12-E Minority Report Reflection Paper Minority Report is one intriguing movie that piqued my interest and left me thinking. The movie presents a new style of law enforcement of the police division called ‘Precrime’ is set in the future in the year 2054. The concept of precrime stimulates the idea of our future being predetermined for the reason that they seemingly arrest individuals who they have only predicted will commit murder in the near future. Through the use of the…

hate among a single human race. Racism occurs when a majority group of a society feels that culture and values of a minority group brings disintegration and delinquency to said society. As time progresses, so do new generations of racism; in this case, a model minority becomes a standard of racism. Therefore, a model minority holds American culture together but in…

out” or just realizing that aspect of yourself. This can be very difficult for people whose sexual orientation is anything but hetero. It can also be harder on those are not only part of LGBTQ+ but also are a racial minority. This study set out to uncover what impact being a sexual minority youth has on social interactions between peers, specifically if homophily plays a part in this integration. Homophily in the module as when “adolescents who are similar to one another choose to spend time…

are more often than not, of residency in the old cobwebs, at the back of the minds of the hoi polloi. The participation of minorities in the Canadian forces during World War II had been an obvious defining moment for Canada as demonstrated through the…

Identity for minority groups is formed through the dominant white society’s view or criticism of that particular group which oppresses them. When Arnold goes to an all white school, he ends up falling for Penelope, a white girl, and looks for advice from his best friend Rowdy. Rowdy advises, “The first thing you have to do is change the way you look, the way you talk, and the way you walk”(Alexie 81). Rowdy gives Arnold advice that says he needs to change who he is in order for Penelope to like…

leaving out the minorities. When popular white based shows do show a minority on screen it is important on how they are portrayed. Television is seen by a wide range of audiences and when television gives us an inaccurate ideas of minorities, it may impact viewers indirectly. Watching the television programs called, Seinfeld and 2 Broke Girls made me noticed how the portrayals of minorities have changed over times. As well, they have the similarities and differences on how minorities are shown,…

Political Philosophy Reflection; Standing Up for Minorities For my reflection, I decided to use two philosophers instead of just one. I decided to go with Wollstonecraft and Dubois. Both wrote papers that stood up and helped show the true strengths of the minority groups, hence why I decided to group the two and use both of their papers as inspiration for this essay. Wollstonecraft was known for her papers that talked about women in a very positive light. For the time, this was seen as very…

The Future of Technology Essay In the movie Minority Report, technology is quite advanced. Humans are also used as a technological object. The movie makes a prediction of what the United States will be like in about 50 years or so. Minority report also shows how technology shouldn’t be abused and how we shouldn’t take things for granted. As I had stated previously, humans are used as almost a sort of technological object. These are called “Pre-Cogs”. Pre-Cogs are a triplet of mutated humans.…