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In “Black Men and Public Spaces” by Brent Staples he explains his experiences being an African American male in America. He decides to start this essay, with an influential but ironic declaration " My first victim was a white woman..." When I first read that line, I thought the worse, I thought he killed her or did something to her. When in reality he was the actual victim and not the women. Staples was a victim of her prejudgment and racist ways. She stereotyped Staples because of the way he…

In today’s society, we live in a world of cultural differences. In the newspaper editorial “American Flag stands for Tolerance” by Ronald J. Allen, it talks about people from different backgrounds and whether they support the burning of the flag or are against it. In the story “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret, it talks about how one boy reacts around someone who comes from a different culture as he does. In the video My So-Called Enemy by Lisa Gossels, it shows how…

Author, educator and antiracist essayist, Tim Wise examines in his book, White Like Me Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, his life story of racism, white privilege and whiteness. Wise uses his life experiences as Southern Jewish man and the fight against the establishment that created white privilege, the imperfections of the invisible “golden ticket” of equality, freedom from prejudices and fairness that is bestowed only upon whites, at birth, while “withheld from people of color” (Wise…

Adelman raises the question about what Iago’s true intentions were with Desdemona’s love life. She states that Iago becomes enraged with Othello because he feels that Othello has something that he lacks in personality. Criticism of Iago shows that he tries to use Othello’s black race to turn him into “blackness” and make him evil. Adelman demonstrates Iago’s reasoning for his plan when she states her thoughts on why Iago is angry. “Othello is everywhere associated with the kind of interior…

Wars are remembered by the losers and documented for history by the winners. As war has evolved throughout time the need for the media to be proper documenters of history has increased. However numerous things fog the lenses of journalists to be fair documenters of history. Biases and nationalistic pride can cloud the objectivity of journalists. It is revealed during the Iraq War the struggles journalists face in their quest to find the truth. Prior to the inventions of radio, television, and…

Black Lives Matter is making a difference because of the new possibilities that social media offer. In the short span of a year, they moved from demonstrations to policy proposals: Campaign Zero, a movement offshoot, has put forth a comprehensive set of recommendations for potential remedies, and activists recently met with Democratic presidential candidates. This is possibly a tipping-point moment in terms of addressing killings by police. In terms of how social history happens, there is an…

There were 58,220 American lives were lost, during the war. The loss of our soldier's lives is tragic, but compared to the 1.1 million North and 20,000 South Vietnamese men and women who died we should be thankful. Between all of the bloodshed not even the civilians were spared. Over the course of 20 years over two million civilians, both American and Vietnamese, were murdered according to the Encyclopedia…

The movie that I decided to watch was Crash. The reason I picked this movie was because of the actors in it and I felt that this movie would be a good movie to watch for this diversity class. There were numerous racial issues in this movie. First, was Ludacris’s character (the Black man with braids) who believed that all white people were racist and especially towards Black people. Second, was Sandra Bullock’s character (white woman who was married to the attorney) who was racist towards people…

The US started building South Vietnam as an independent state under the dictatorial and corrupt rule of Ngo Dinh Diem. It was universally believed that Ho Chi Minh’s party was certain to win the elections. Diem’s government, on the US advice and support, refused to comply with the decision to hold elections. The US started building the South Vietnamese army to resist the North Vietnamese army and crush the South Vietnamese guerrillas.In spite of US support, Diem’s government was on the verge…

you can have a nice warm drink when it gets cold with their lows of 50-60 but if you're in the north where it is the hottest part of brazil where it gets up to 100 degrees where you will definitely enjoy a nice cold beverage. But if you're in the south where it is only 80 to 70 degrees with low wind and not that much humidity you might like to go for a walk, more toward the west where it rain more and is a little colder you might like to have a bonfire by the beach or something around that…