The Amazing Race

Ingrid Rodriguez Discrimination is something that the majority of us have experienced at one point in our lives. Whether it be because of race, skin color, ethnic background, or sexual orientation. This issue exists in the world, but it is also very present in the United States due to the great amount of diversity all around the country. Many have fought to end discrimination but it still has roots which continue to keep growing even though many people believe that it has subsided. This…

In the varsity race that year, I finished in tenth place with a time of six minutes and ten seconds. I still desperately wanted to be on the varsity team. I was the only runner who never missed a practice my junior year. I saved up seventy dollars for a pair of Saucony track and field shoes, despite the fact that I grew up poor. After a few races, I became the ninth fastest runner, finally beating George, the runner that was faster…

Food is simply what people put into their stomach when they feel hungry. However, African Americans who lived under slavery often times couldn't even accomplish the basic task of acquiring food as easily as we do today. Now I am here taking African American Studies class and learning about all the difficulties African Americans had to go through over the years. When we were discussing the conditions of African American families and how they survived under these circumstances through subsistence…

Diversity affects the classroom by race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. It is important to promote difference because it can benefit others. Each individual student has a different background and should be able to feel comfortable in and out of the classroom. My goal as a future teacher is not only to come up with different strategies to encourage equality but create a safe-zone for my students. All students deserve a great education and the best way to help them achieve it is for…

Stereotypes has been in our world history ever since the dawn of times. The way that stereotypes work is that you often possess a knowledge or thinking of some sort of judgement based upon an individual. This could factor in by the person’s race, color, heritage, group, and even the type of people they sort themselves with. For an example, it could play a major roll on how you communicate with different types of people or affect your listening, perception, and thinking. I can filter out and…

photo of my mother, a German woman standing among African Americans, joining their crusade for equality. Her motivational story of overcoming negative social influences drives me to make a positive impact via research on influential factors, race and working memory in Applied Cognitive Psychology at, Claremont Graduate University. Claremont's academic program e.g., Transcdisciplinary Coursework, Oral Examination etc., is tailored for my academic interests and background. Elaborating,…

in me a fear of Caucasian women. Go ahead, pick up Robert A. Gibson's "The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880–1950". After reading how the rhetoric surrounding lynchings frequently suggested they were to protect the virtue and safety of white women, you'd be scared too! I am not even going to mention Lisa Lindquist Dorr's White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960. It doesn't stop there.... Look at these contemporary cases. Amanda Knoxx…

gain attention of listeners. “... and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering.” The amount imagery this quote gives to listeners is incredibly amazing. MLK uses God in I’ve Been to the Mountaintop to show that everyone was God’s child, regardless of their race. This shows imagery because MLK is talking about how so many people are not literally suffering, but instead hurting from the words of the whites. The core meaning of both speeches comes from…

that, he starts standing up for his black community. I like how in Kendrick’s lyrics he says that black people are known to be doomed from the start but then he goes on by saying “Remember this, every race start from the block, just remember that. By saying that, he is showing us that every single race starts off the same and is equal but it’s the people that start taking advantage of the less advantaged. After that starts happening the hatred towards one another starts building…

as similar to a remote nation, a period and spot where compelling social presumptions about racial distinction empowered amazing and severe practices of political and social suppression. History gives a record and elucidation of progress after some time, and understudies may think about how laws and traditions administering race relations, and associations between individuals from various radicalized bunches have changed subsequent to the appearance of Jim Crow isolation.…