Riot

Many of the elements in Parable of the Sower reflect what was occuring in Los Angeles at the time. There was racial tension between the Black/African American and White/Caucasian communities especially in L.A. where the riots took place. Black people felt that the brutality inflicted by White police officers was racially charged and so tension arose between different racial groups. The police force was corrupted. Officers participated in unprovoked beatings or beatings…

Ann Bausum’s book, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, covers the events of the Stonewall Riots and other important topics brought up by gay rights. The book goes through events going a bit farther back than 1969, when Stonewall occurred, until 2013 in modern times. Bausum recounts the events leading up to the Stonewall Riots, the riots themselves, what it was like to be gay at the time, the aids epidemic, and where we are now in modern day with gay rights. Besides the events…

The late nineteenth century witnessed the most violent labor conflicts in the nation’s history. Strikes and worker relations were so bad that many feared that class warfare between workers and management was imminent. Management held most of the power in struggles with organized labor due to the vast surplus of cheap labor and many workers believed they were being taken advantage of and fought for certain privileges. Unions such as the Nation Labor Union and the Knights of Labor advocated…

Sylvia Lee Rivera was a Venezuelan/Puerto Rican Stonewall veteran and transgender activist. Born in July of 1951, Sylvia Rivera was born in New York City as Ray Rivera. She was abandoned by her father, José Rivera early in life and became an orphan at three years old when her mother committed suicide by ingesting rat poison. Rivera was then raised by her grandmother, who did not agree with her behavior and fretted her femininity and sexuality and often beat her for being a “trouble maker” . At…

During the first decades of the 20th century the United States had been seen as a racist state. Racism is defined as prejudice and discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on one’s belief (Webster). Racism during the years of 1900-1930 was very crucial. Laws were developed to try to limit the racism but Whites still found a way to treat others as if they were beneath them. Racism usually existed in the inner cities and that’s where racism reached a high peak. One group…

Americans facing unemployment and new taxes in the early 1990s definitely caused George H. W. Bush to lose his bid to be re-elected in the 1992 election. Many U.S. citizens felt betrayed after Bush agreed to a tax increase despite his promise: “read my lips, no new taxes!” This hurt him a great deal. Not only that, but Bush, a very rich man, seemed very unrelatable toward the American people. He was glaringly out of touch because he had been government for decades, losing touch with day to day…

The 1960s had such a huge impact on policing. Several chains of events sparked the impact. Starting with professionalizing the police. Both thru administration and academic degree requirements. They came to the realization that the justice system required more professionalism in order to maintain the peace as well as enforce the laws of the land. Laws always have to be followed but keeping the peace was police main goal. Following those events, they also added a systemic approach to crime.…

Overtime In the United States, freedom of speech is a right inscribed in the laws which govern and protect the land. Meaning we, as citizens, are entitled to what would be considered a privilege in many other countries. It is this right, however, which has prompted the violence and divide seen in college campuses. Not the unification much anticipated. Freedom of speech has been made the villain, it seems, standing in the way of the Leftists at Berkeley. Protest groups and their need for “closed…

people died in a fight between fans of rival teams at a soccer match. Security at the gates were questioned as fans used knives, clubs and other weapons in the brawl. (http://www.infoplease.com/ ). They also say that the most common sport to start a riot is soccer and this happens in other countries other than the United States. This shows that sport fans go way too far with sports, because people were angry and furious with the other team's fans that became into a very bad fight where people…

events of contemporary venezuelan history: the "Caracazo",also named "sacudon" (big shake). Its trascendence is such, that still now Venezuelans live under its shadow: it is still mentioned and specially feared. It consisted in a series of protests, riots, shootings and lootings due to population's turmoil. The name "Caracazo" is because most of those events took place in Caracas, the Venezuela's capital, but the protests started in Guarenas and Guatire, some cities near Caracas. Then, they…