Polish American

is an ethnicity. Jewish is an ethnicity (albeit also ethno-religious), African American is an ethnicity. Race refers to the categorization of people based on common appearance and skin color. It is a social construct and has no basis in biology whatsoever. Black is a race, Asian is a race, White is a race, etc.. Sometimes Indigenous is considered a race as well. Nationality is the nation in which you live. American is a nationality, German is a nationality, Irish is a nationality, Kenyan is…

Jackson, Mississippi during the mid twentieth century was highly segregated. Most black women were maids for white families. They were paid to polish silver, wash clothes, and practically raise white children. The Help shows the life of Aibileen Clark and other African American maids who did exactly that in 1962. Aibileen’s life was drastically different than the lives of the people she worked for simply due to the color of her skin. As the story develops, a clearer picture is painted of just…

The Deception of the Dream The American dream—the belief in hard work leading to success—is something that countless Americans look up to; however, some believe that instead of freedoms and equal opportunities, this dream has become a pursuit of material prosperity which does not necessarily lead to happiness or satisfaction. In “The Son from America”, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Singer depicts the differences and changes in values between an old Polish couple and their son caused by the son’s…

The American Revolution helped shape the desires, the expectation and demand of the American patriots that forced the creation of true representative national government by some basis that were ideological and philosophical. These creations were sought up by men who were independent, logically and intellectually sound. The American Revolution is the ideological and philosophical of what we know today. These include The Enlightenment, Common Sense, the second Continental Congress and The…

In the article “That’s Entertainment? Hollywood’s contribution to Anti Americanism Abroad” (2002), Michael Medved argues about the deceptive portrayal of the American society and lifestyle that is destructing the eyes and minds of people living abroad presented by the American entertainment industry. Michael Medved studied at Yale Law School and graduated with honors. He is a political commentator, well-known film critic, a regular writer for the US nowadays, and a progressive and conservative…

that he has seen. In S01E21 the group takes over the distribution of the much sought after chicken fingers in the school cafeteria, with Abed as the fry-cook. The plot quickly turns into a homage to popular mafia movies such as Goodfellas (1990), American Gangster (2007) and The Godfather (1972) as Abed’s voiceover says, “as far back as I can remember I’ve always wanted to be in a mafia movie”. What is notable with this episode is that there is a significant decline in pop culture references, at…

for most African American individuals. The government restricted African-Americans and non-Caucasians from a variety of civil rights. From using a different restroom, to not being able to enter a bar for “White’s only”, and not being able to vote (women), we have come a long way. Over the years, civil rights activists such as Rosa Parks, who refused to give her seat away, or Mary Church Terrel, who travelled around the world to spread the awareness in which the African-American currently live in…

Racism was a noteworthy issue for most African American people. The legislature confined African-Americans and non-Caucasians from an assortment of social liberties. From utilizing an alternate restroom, to not having the capacity to enter a bar for "Whites just", and not having the capacity to vote (woman), we have made considerable progress. Throughout the years, social equality activists, for example, Rosa Parks, who declined to give her seat away, or Mary Church Terrell, who set out the…

to the spanish culture, but the sometimes you aren’t. Therefore, it’s a confusing faze especially grow up Hispanic. Overall, from my perspective about social class and race will always be a issue. For instance, you may be upper class and African American or Hispanic and you’ll still somehow or some way always encounter discrimination. In this society, you have to be the social class and race society wants you to be in order to fit and evidently that’s something out of an individual control.…

The American structure of slavery is recorded to be one of the most cruel in all history, “It was in The United States that a system of slavery evolved that was more cruel and total than almost any other system of slavery devised by one group of men against another…