Stonewall riots

Transgender The social justice topic I have chosen to work on is transgender. The transgender community faces much discrimination and adversity. With this group of people, people do not accept or even understand the concept of being transgender. People do not understand that transgender people face problems with gender identity. They are born into one gender, but they feel like the other gender. People feel like they were born into the wrong body, so they make efforts to transform into the…

General “Stonewall” Jackson led the Confederacy to victory. From the start of the rivalry, if war were to break out, the North was in favor to win quickly and easily due to their industrialized lifestyle and well-developed economy. Before General Lee decided to side…

challenges: acting, costume construction, modelling, fashion forwardness and more are assessed by a panel of judges, including host and titular drag superstar, RuPaul. Drag queens have always been central to the lgbtq rights movement, tied to the Stonewall riots and existing as hypervisible queer folk, so queens occupy a political space that questions gender, performance, identity, and art. As a consequence of this, sometimes these projected voices drown out and actively harm other members of…

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2014), 1,561,231 persons were arrested in the United States in 2014 for drug abuse violations such as selling, manufacturing, or possession. Drug abuse violations in 2014 made up the highest number of arrests in the United States (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], n.d.). The legalization of marijuana differs from marijuana decriminalization. Marijuana decriminalization means that a state has repealed or amended its laws to make certain acts…

History in all of its hundreds of thousands of years known to man tends to erase the stories of those not in control of their freedom. Whether it be the stories of slaves in the Americas, the ruthlessness of colonialism, there is always a group whose voice is not heard. In today’s society that group is the LGBTQIA+ group, specifically the T, or transgender for the purposes of this paper. Transgender or third gender communities have been a part of history in a variety of countries and cultures…

(Carp, 1998) Rather than split up families, child welfare reformers worked to prevent the factors which caused a family to break up. Reforms resulting from these movements included establishment of the U.S. Children's Bureau in 1912, creation of juvenile courts, and enactment of Mother's pensions. It was around this time that social work become professionalized, as case workers were utilized in family preservation and prevention. Social workers denounced unregulated adoption, and lobbied for…

Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…