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receive a long-term sentencing comparable to violent offenders. Most of these males start selling drugs, and getting arrested at a young age, which happens to be during secondary and post-secondary education. Being imprisoned, they are deprived of rights, education, and are unable to receive reasonable…

this paper is to analyze sexual harassment and its relation to power. Sexual harassment in the workplace has existed since the entrance of women into this setting. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act deal with sexual harassment in the workplace. Women were undermined and considered unworthy of many positions. Therefore, men in superior positions took advantage of their power. Ultimately, workplaces had to establish stricter rules to…

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry Alveda King once stated, “Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit” (Brainy Quotes). In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family lives in South Side Chicago and faces racial discrimination. The entire family…

Video: “Rape in the Fields” in retrospective. Frontline, Univision, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting partnered a year long investigation, to tell “the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families”. Their collaboration resulted on the hour-long documentary “Rape in the Fields” that aired June 25, 2013. The video shines a light one the…

into play. The idea of equality of result is that they get a head start in equality so they can stay equal with men and the majority. Men have always had a head start in society; women rights have always been a big issue and a fight. Astonishing that the U.S had to create the 19th amendment to grant women the right to the vote. Women have always been fighting to get equal pay as men; I believe women tend to work harder than men so they can prove themselves in the workplace. Even…

ago in the Equal Pay Act of 1963, mandating an ‘equal pay for equal work’ standard, and addressed it again the following year in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act” (Pay 3-32). On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act…

The fallacy of meritocracy holds no true weight when considering years of gatekeeping, social inequalities and discriminatory practices perpetrated against poor young African Americans. There can never be a colorblind society if biased SAT’s, affirmative action and multicultural competency programs fail to be effective on university campuses across the nation. The notion of diversity is only an idea in theory, never to be fully instituted or absorbed into the social fabric of American culture.…

Reinhold Niebuhr was a Civil Rights ethicist. From Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 to late 1968, Niebuhr published articles and editorials, and held public conversations interpreting the Civil Rights Movement’s ongoing actions to abolish juridical segregation and anti-black discrimination. As with the movement itself, these writings and discourses exhibit moments of optimism, celebration, misfire, disappointment, and reassessment. Niebuhr engages in what might called moral publicity,…

impact. The fourth problem Jensen writes about it’s: “the endpoint of the logic behind simple living as a political act is that we will cause the least destruction possible if we are dead”. As I stated before, it’s inevitably for humans to cause destruction. But thanks to small changes and culture shifting, we are able to minimize harms. All in all, living simply as a political act may not change the world on its own, but it is a symbolic start to a larger…

housing discrimination based on race, gender, disability, religion, country of origin, sexual orientation, or any characteristic other than how qualified they are to buy or rent the property. Also, the laws that we have put in place like the Fair Housing Act need to be enforced more solidly because housing discrimination is still a problem today and causes the same problems as 50 years ago, just in more indirect ways. To…