The Equalizer

perspective of a self-taught slave as an argument to all of those who support slavery, his argument is that slavery is wrong. Frederick Douglass makes his argument compelling by exposing the means of knowing; and revealing education as the great equalizer; in the absence of education and knowledge enslavement is fostered while to enslave, its unnatural tendencies require instruction. Throughout Narrative of the Life…

The one size fits all ideology is not one that genuinely works. When a consumer goes to a department store they look for the size that fits them and makes them comfortable. there is not only one size that fill the racks. This is done because all people are made in different shapes and sizes. In the same light not all students learn the same, especially students with learning disabilities. There are two policies that have been applied to the educational system, which are high stakes testing and…

segregation has been passed generation to generation. Affirmative action can be a way to correct these past injustices through new opportunities for the present generation, and help those still affected by institutionalized racism. It acts as an equalizer to help eliminate racism from both college and workforce…

Opportunity, which is defined as a favorable combination of circumstance, time and places, seems to be one of the biggest drawbacks in today’s society, because there is no “equal” opportunity. While Mann stressed that education was the “great equalizer of opportunity”, the lack of, is something that greatly effected not only the way we function within our educational system but societies as well. Mann belief that education was a ‘right’ and something that was passed down from generation to…

100 Miles per Hour, Upside Down and Sideways Rick Bragg’s 100 Miles per Hour, Upside Down and Sideways was a true story about the author, who was a young boy at the time. It seemed at a young age Rick Bragg was a lover for fast muscle cars, he loved everything about the cars, the rumble of the engine, the speed and the burning of the rubber when he punched the gas. Using vivid imagery through-out his story to show his memory from that summer before his senior year for the reader to get a clear…

Run, hide, bribe, pray, cheat, it wont work with death, it is the single greatest equalizer of man kind. The pneumonic plague spread though the Eurasia continent infecting and killing anyone who came in contact with the illness, making it a key example of how death is truly unbiased. It is often believed that the “Black Death” was an epidemic contained with in the European continent, over the years the plague has become localized to England, Italy and Germany. This illness was not an epidemic it…

He believed that the great equalizer for opportunity, was education. Mann stated that education is going to be what brings poor people up to the level of people that had capital. The great equalizer in society, where everyone had an opportunity to enjoy life and share life benefit from the product of their labors. I strongly agree that everyone should have an equal…

I love how when you were discussing pretty woman that you pointed out that she would not only be treated so royally in reality, but would also be potentially abused by her client in some form. This alone does a great job of exemplifying the horrifying reality that many prostitutes face on a day to day basis. In many popular films that glamorize prostitution, the prostitutes are taken out to fancy restaurants and spoiled with expensive gifts; conversely, prostitutes in reality are often drugged,…

One important aspect of this story is its location, placed in the middle of the story of Jesus’ healing of Jarius’ daughter. The story of the hemorrhaging woman’s healing interrupts that of the rising of Jairus’ daughter as Jesus makes his way to Jairus’ house. After the woman is healed, the story of Jairus’ daughter is continued and concluded. Since all three synoptic gospels keep the placement of the hemorrhaging woman in the middle of the story about Jairus’ daughter, it can be assumed that…

Abraham Lincoln was not the great equalizer that history has portrayed him to be. Although, he thought slavery was wrong, he supported colonization of freed African Americans. He was a supporter of the founding colonies like the Republic of Liberia. The Civil War was fought to free the slaves, but Lincoln did not know what to do with the slaves after they were freed. This creates his support for sending them back to their homelands. He did not think treating human being as property was…