Monarchy of the United Kingdom

With the relevance of racism in the modern day, the question is raised if whether or not treatment of minority peoples in the world has changed throughout history. Originally, schools would be segregated to either all white or all black. Over time, schools began to become integrated and minorities started mixing into the all white schools but these black children were still harassed and treated badly. However, people were against integration and many races are still looked down on. Some might…

Introduction The 20th century has witnessed the transformation of the United States from a dominating white population to society rich with an array of religious, racial and ethnic minority groups. Historically, the country has been dominated by a settler group of ethically and religiously diverse whites. Traced back to the first settlements from the 1600s to the 19th century, most minority groups in the United States were as result of forced immigration to work in the American firms (Du…

Atticus is Courageous Atticus demonstrated courage because he is protecting a black man and the people of Maycomb do not want that. “In ones and twos men got out of the cars. Shadows became substance as lights revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail. Atticus remained where he was.” (Lee 202). It is shown that Atticus is being courageous because when the men got out of the car he just sat there and was being courageous and brave; he is talking to the people in the courthouse. Fortunately,…

The colonies have always been closely connected to Britain. However, with the recent events like high taxation with no representation, I know it is time to seek independence so this unjust treatment ends. We have tried to confront Britain about their unjust treatment to no avail. They seem to hold no value in their connection to the colonies, yet they do not realize our product will still sell without them. So to get the fair treatment we deserve, it is necessary to seek independence from…

The significant role of gender in this essay portrays and highlights Ellison's views of white male racial psychology. Ellison's short story essentially establishes that Caucasian males treat and recognize African American males in roughly the same way males characteristically view and treat females under patriarchy. When reading the short story, I noticed a significant similarity between how the men in the ball room reacted to the white female dancing and the black kids fighting in the ring,…

Will Kymlicka, in his Multicultural Citizenship book, makes the case for inclusion and enabling of special right for certain cultural and national minorities that reside in a larger liberal nation. In essence, group differentiated rights might be counter intuitive to the liberalism, treating a minority group differently by ways of exclusion or special treatment, however according to Kymlicka, group rights should exists in order to uphold the main agenda of liberalism. Kymlicka strongly reasons…

The Industrial Revolution took place in the 18th and 19th centuries, and was a period where most societies around the world became urban and industrialised. During this time, machines were created, making things a lot easier for workers in society. Population expanded, child labour occurred, communication increased around the world, and transport was created. Transport was one of the biggest change that occurred during the industrialisation of the world. Before the Industrial Revolution the…

To my friends & family in Italy, I have only been in America for a few weeks now, it was a long hard journey to get to where I am now but I know it will all be worth it in the end. Leaving all of you in Italy was definitely the hardest part about all of this. After boarding a boat with not one friend or loved one, and being stuck there with them for a very, very long time it was difficult not to want to go back home to my family. But I knew that going to America was the right choice to be…

Roger Gibbins’ article “Political Discontent in the Prairie West, Patterns of Continuity and Change” gives his readers a perspective into the western Canada’s political landscape up to the 1984 federal election. Gibbins uses pass federal elections to point out there has been an ongoing pattern of regional discontent in western Canada, which has not changed since the turn of the century. Economic dependency plays a part in the western Canada regional discontent, along with the lack of western…

Picture a white 12 year old girl living in a rural town in Montana. She comes home from school and turns on the TV. The news is on and she sees that a black man has murdered someone on the Southside of Chicago. She immediately turns off the TV and thinks to herself “Black people are scary. I never want to be around them.” What she does not know is that a white man has just murdered someone in her very own town. However, the media will never report this, as she lives in a predominantly white…