Ward Cleaver

In Leave it to Beaver, Ward Cleaver; the father, is the dominant head of the household and carries multiple patriarchal roles. He is the sole provider for the family, making June his wife, inferior. This connects to Robert Rutherdale’s article on fatherhood and masculinity following the baby boom of the 1940s-1960s. Rutherdale argues that “while most baby boom fathers struggled to get a foothold in the vastly improved economy of the 1950s, their successes as wage earners became a central part of their self-concepts and contributed to the generational perspectives they held of being self-made men” (1999). Rutherdale discusses that post World War, many women as men came back from war, left their jobs to raise their families; inheriting the stay at home model. With this…

Guardianship is not the same as being adopted. My foster parents were never able to fully adopt me because my birth mother refused to give up her rights. Due to her actions, I was considered to be a ward of the state. When I tell people that I spent 16 years of my life as a ward of the state, they think I have been in prison since I was a little toddler. I cannot even fathom what they could possibly be thinking that a little five year old did to wind up in prison. I can usually tell by their…

which included her other adopted son who was four years older than me. When I would sneak upstairs to see my sister I was chased and beaten then thrown back into the basement. My foster mom would let me come to family events, and other places like church but as soon as we got home I was sent back to the basement without a thing in hand, I have no doubt in my mind that the only reason she did this is so that people would not become suspicious of what was really going on behind closed doors. These…

In light of the uniqueness of being a black woman in America Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “Intersectionality” in the late 1980s. Recently, as the keynote speaker at WOW – Women of the World festival 2016, Professor Crenshaw gave a brief summary of Intersectionality; it’s inception and definition. WOW’s, “mission is to champion gender equality, celebrating the achievements of women and girls everywhere and examining the obstacles that keep them from fulfilling their potential.”…

influence spread (“10-Point Program”). The initial implementation was the start of many other forms of literature being used as catalysts for the growth of the Black Panthers. The Panthers published the recognizable Ten-Point Program in their newspaper. The 25-cent paper was a way to reach the followers across the country. Half of the profits went to printing, and the other half went to various chapters of the party (Workneh, Lilly) The paper also included moving and meaningful artwork. In…

The Black Panthers Party Rise and Local Influence It was the 1960’s in America and racial segregation was unbearable. Black people were being terrorize, brutalize and murder by the police in their communities. There were high depression levels of unemployment in the Black community, people of color lived in poverty where 40% of men that lived in the ghetto were paid less than 60 dollars per week. Making it impossible to support their families or bring up their children in dignity. Health care…

Women helped with maintaining many programs such as the Clinicas and the Free food and Breakfast Programs. Women also defied society then and represented strong, gun holding women The Black Panther ended in 1982 after all the Black Panther leaders began dying one by one. Huey became disillusional and addicted to drugs.He began getting into drugs because of all the how hard it was etting to maintain a group when the FBI was constantly attacking them. On August 22, 1989, Newton was shot dead on…

Modern warfare one is a first person shooter game but it was never called modern warfare. It was called Call of duty four modern warfare. This was the new game series modern warfare and the last call of duty but this call of duty was not based off of world war two. This game was based off the modern world. This was announced on April 12, 2007www.wikia.com 2001. The game was released on November 5, 2007. The call of duty 4 modern warfare game play was published by Activision and developed by…

Call of Duty began its saga with Call of Duty 1. The most famous one is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Call of Duty 4 came out in November of 2007, and it was the most popular Call of Duty that ever existed. The design of this CoD was unbelievably amazing, the company who made it, Infinity ward, got millions, even billions of dollars for it. (www.eurogamer.net, 2014) The best thing people liked about Call of Duty 4 was the multiplayer, which allows you the ability to play online with players…

Description of Harriet Tubman: Biography: Harriet Tubman was born in March 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S. As a young girl, Harriet Tubman was raised in terrible conditions, and was whipped constantly. At the age of six, she began to work as a slave. Harriet Tubman was a rebellious young girl, and for that she was whipped plenty of times and traded off to many people. As early as the age of twelve, she realized that being a slave just wasn’t right and this caused her to be seriously…