Multiracial

and was history in the making. Personally, I feel more connected to the Pachuca women, everything they had to endure only for the desire of freedom and control of their lives. Despite some negatives, this era proved to have one of the greatest multiracial interactions. Undoubtedly, because this was an era filled of war, both men and women were wanted to contribute. Men would enlist in the military, and as some woman felt it was their patriotic role to occupy their jobs and take the leading…

The peer-reviewed article I chose to read about was “Fake It ‘til You Make It”: Why Community College Students’ Aspirations “Hold Steady,” written by Kelly Nielsen. The article focuses on people who come from low-income families and are also in the lower class of society and how their aspirations of attending a four-year university might change while attending a community college. The purpose of this research is to find out the reasons why people’s aspirations of attending a four-year university…

Intertextuality is the defining component that allows the musical to be a valid literate activity transcending into the lives of those who occupy marginalized communities within the United States. Analyzing hit songs within the play was essential to proving Hamilton as an integral piece of literature that's causing a social shift in society. One of the many hit songs presented within Hamilton is, “My Shot” which references Alexander Hamilton’s quick rise to American success and whether or not he…

The book I chose for my leadership essay is The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, P. This book was recommended to me by a former Ohio State University Military science professor Ret. LTC Mike Lear. Through the ages Attila the Hun has been branded as a barbarian that just leaded from fear and concurred by destroying every living thing in his path. That is far from the truth. Attila was a skilled leader that instilled many of what we would concise modern value into his…

While many claim that long tradition of racism in the United States ended with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Today, African-American are disproportionately imprisoned by racist drugs laws, denied access to the economic and educational benefits, and robbed of their civil rights and human dignity by a general white supremacy that lurks just beneath the surface of our so-called democracy. Our criminal justice system creates a situation in which African-American men have greater than a 1…

other party. Also, because they come from different walks of life, signs and meaning might differ greatly; what could be an innocent gesture in one culture can be very unpleasant in another, and this will cause a lot of tension especially in a multiracial workplace. Another common cause of interpersonal conflict in the workplace is individual ideas about personal success. Some employees might have a strong drive for work-related achievement, and that always tends to clash with those who do not…

Irish-twin sister and my parents, travelling to countries like Hong Kong and Thailand for vacations and consistently coming together as a family to pray. Gathering for daily tea time as a family demonstrates how I was raised, while growing up in the multiracial…

In the United States when a baby is born it is assigned a sex based on the genitalia seen and the chromosomes present in the baby. The baby, seen as either male or female, is then treated as such: molded with stereotypically male or female characteristics. However, more than 3 babies of every 500 born will identify with the gender opposite to which they are assigned at birth, society defines these people as transgender individuals. From a neurological perspective transgender people experience…

Alice Lou Ms. Nava Honors Am. Lit, Period 4 7 April 2017 Race, Gender, Relationships American Minister and author Norman Vincent Peale once said, “Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.” Zora Neale Hurston, in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, illustrates the complex dynamics of African American life, portraying the political and gender inequality present even in an increasingly progressive world. Journalist Robert Wright critiques Hurston’s novel in his…

Sociological Imagination enhances life’s quality I developed sociological imagination in my childhood from my experience of growing up in a multiracial family and in different European countries, often travelling to different Nations for vacation time or, in adulthood, for job reasons. It helped me to cope with racism, and gender discrimination. It provided me with conceptual tools to understand that, although different, we are all inter-connected and social structures influence our lives…