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activities (Chambliss, 2014, 266). In other hand, the Roughnecks were known to be the troublemaker in and outside of school. They made the conclusion that saints carried being wealthy and had an outstanding performance in life (Chambliss, 2014, 266). The rednecks would have a life filled with crime and hatred. Throughout the article, it takes a turn when they start to showcase the deviance on the saints and the roughnecks (Chambliss, 2014, 271). When a saint made a wrong behavior claim, they did…

From 1973 to 2014, one hundred and forty four people on death row have been killed. Out of the one hundred and forty four people, four point one percent of the people actually were innocent of the crime they were killed for. Death row is a harsh punishment for accidental crimes but, the right thing to do for crimes purposely committed. The Life of David Gale and Dead Man Walking have many similarities and differences. Directed by Alan Parker, The LIfe of David Gale is about a college…

Electoral College Process With the upcoming presidential election in November 2106, I believe that it is important to understand our government, and how the leader of our country will truly be selected, come election time. Most people think that their vote personally effects who wins the presidency, but what they do not realize, is that there is a system in place called the Electoral College. I am a firm believer in educated voting, and knowing how the system works plays hand in hand with being…

Losing My Dad At the age of six I was a child without a father. My dad was my hero and my favorite person to be around. I was daddy’s little girl or his redneck princess as he liked to say. Losing my dad so early in my childhood years has and will continue to impact my life. Growing up without him in my life has caused many problems in my life. When I lost my dad to diabetes the life of a daddy’s girl drastically changed. In 2004 I lost my dad. He was only thirty nine when he passed away,…

Race as A Classification Of Social/Human Construct Nigger, cracker, redneck, and hillbilly are all words people use to classify people of skin color, dialect, culture or ‘race’. The use of such terms have been established as a result of discrimination on the basis of classification of race by social and human constructs. John Glover Roberts Jr., the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States stated, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the…

A president allies with the line cutters, making you feel distrustful, betrayed. A person ahead of you in line insults you as an ignorant redneck, making you feel humiliated and mad. Economically, culturally, demographically, politically, you are suddenly a stranger in your own land” (Hochschild 222). When one is assaulted from all sides, sometimes one has to stand his ground and hit back,…

innocence” discussed in The New Yorker article is explained as “liberal racism” in the TheGuardian.com article. This article talks about “liberal racism in America,” it is important to note that the racism in this film does not come from “southern rednecks or neo-Nazis (Bakare, 2017)” but people that you would feel comfortable interacting with daily; your white teachers, your white friend’s parents, any white person who loudly proclaims that they aren’t racist, but continues to treat black…

Paula Deen Public Relations Advice In 2013 celebrity chef Paula Deen admitted under oath that “Yes, of course I’ve used the N-word”. This happened just after Deen’s former employee Lisa Jackson sued her, and investigators found "evidence of systemic racial discrimination and harassment at the operations” of Deen’s Atlanta restaurant “Lady & Sons”. The race claims were dismissed from the case, but matters just got worse from there for Deen. She lost several endorsements, book deals, and her…

NASCAR has a demographic problem. The motor sport’s top-level Sprint Cup series holds the current title of having the oldest, most politically conservative and least diverse fans of the major professional sports leagues. It feels as though NASCAR has always been this way, as if a requirement of outlaw country culture is included in the team regulations. However, over the past decade NASCAR has suffered from a steady decline in television ratings, forcing the association to change in order to…

A Movie Analysis: “American History X” Introduction “American History X” was directed by Tom Kaye and released 1998. It is a story “partly based on the life of reformed skinhead Frank Meeink, who served three years in prison for charges related to white supremacist beliefs; now an accomplished anti-skinhead author and lecturer.” (Sean Hutchinson; Mental Floss, 2015) The setting is Venice Beach near Los Angeles, California 1998, where a growing number of immigrants chose to reside after…