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The whole idea of overcoming obstacles, helping others and the stereotypes that are produced by concepts such as socio-economic inequality, are critical aspects to consider, when exploring the extensive similarities in the social context of “the Blind Side”, as well as in renowned Langston Hughes poetry. Both the “Blind Side” and Langston Hughes poetry both focus on complementary social contexts, in this case, a Capitalist society built upon the stigmatization of certain races and groups. A…

Day was motivated to join the antiwar movement in protest the Vietnam War, because he didn’t think there was a good reason for the United States to be involved. One of the reasons was that there were a lot of Americans dying in the war, which was broadcasted on the television on a daily basis. Among the Americans who died in the war, was his cousin. Along with American casualties, there…

Reproduction theory attempts to show how and why the United States can be dipicted more accurately as the place where “the rich get richer and the poor stay poor,” than as “ the land of the opportunity”. Many theorectical issues are: the role of education in the perpectuation of class inequality: the influence…

the mindset that it does not affect anybody but the consenting parties, so what is being done to society? Recently in the United States the Supreme Court has passed into law that samesex marriage is legal in all 50 states. This created an uproar throughout the country, and some radical conservatives tried to make a stand. Licensing offices all throughout the southern United States closed their doors the day after the hearing in protest of the new law. One woman in Alabama refused to give a ga…

In the United States the federal government makes the final decision when it comes to the major political problems of our day. Their word is the law, and most of the time it has the desired effect of extinguishing the problems on a nationwide scale. While this has worked many times in the past, it has never worked and continues to fail when dealing with the national education. Students and their educational needs simply span too broad of a spectrum for the federal government to satisfy each…

make them work for him. Upon him choosing to do this, he ruined his beautiful home in the Caribbean. He wrote in a letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, when he thinks of the other lands, “I never think without weeping...the people are in a languid state although they are not dead...those who left the Indies, flying from toils and speaking evil of the matter of me, have returned with official employment.” (Columbus 3). Everything he had tried to do with his new land backfired on him. He…

Freedom by definition is the right to do what you want without anybody stopping you. This however, can mean different things to different groups of people, whether it be a race, religion, or even gender. Three groups of people that had issues with achieving the freedoms most white American men had were, African Americans, women, and immigrants. Each of these groups fought hard for the freedom they have today, but even so they are still fighting the upwards hill of oppression. The meaning…

Police and the Black Community Currently, the actual relationship between the African American community and the United States police is going through a bad time. The reasons for that recent civil disorders in the United States are police brutality and the discrimination acts against black people. While the election of Barack Obama as president had seemed to be a new era in American race relations; the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Trayvon Martin in Sanford…

Kennedy had not used United States Air power in support of the Bay Of Pigs invasion nor had he committed military power in the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Maybe Kennedy did the lack the metaphorical backbone so aptly illustrated in American newspaper cartoons. A comparison of the two man seems to justify a cruise ships opinion of bay and the superior competitors. Kennedy had lived a fairy tale life up to the point of winning the presidency. Born into a wealthy and well connected family, he had all…

able to speak with were two Palestine siblings who study medicine here at Governors State University and a group of young African American boys who attend Crete Monee High School. (I will not be disclosing any names of these participants at their request.) Growing up I noticed University Park was mostly populated with African Americans…