winning the right to vote in 1920, and ever since then women have been fighting a battle to be treated equally. However our society still practice the culture of women being in second place to men. “This is an important issue for American feminism, and its place in American culture, the question that is, of what material, what contests, what symbols, the media and culture in America can handle, project, or celebrate.” (Cacoullos) The minority group of society is slowly attempting to convince the…
campaign. Many factors go into Trump’s rise to fame. A few factors include that many Americans do not have views that align with a specific party or ideology, many Americans believe that they are losing jobs and opportunities to immigrants, and Trump is saying what many people want to hear. Even with these ideas, it is still difficult to pinpoint a reason for Trumps rapid rise to the top candidate. Most Americans fall somewhere between being liberal or conservative, but…
Summary Rocky Nagra Portrayal of African Americans in the Media: An Examination of Law and Order Shannon T. Isaacs, McNair Scholar The Pennsylvania State University McNair Faculty Research Advisor: Julie Horney, Ph.D. Professor, Crime, Law and Justice Department of Sociology The Pennsylvania State University all conducted a research on the Portrayal of African Americans in the Media: An Examination of Law and Order. Law and order and several other crime tv shows a blend between…
Think like Jerome, Act like tom is a series based on the dichotomy of what we think vs what we say. Told through the eyes of an African american man living in white America. Ta'quan “Smith” Jackson, our lead, is an early to mid 20’s, African American Male; unsure of what he would like to do with his life after graduating college. Takes on a 9-5 at a predominant white accountant company called Richard and Associates. In an attempt to keep his overbearing mother off his back and loan monster…
color of people range from light white to dark black and different shades of these colors within each color. Although there is beauty in these difference there also comes hatred, racism and a division of what colors are inherently good and which are bad. For hundreds of years it has been engraved in the American mentality that dark skinned people are less than those that are light skinned. From 1619 to 1865 black people were mere objects to whites. Enslaved to the white people because they were…
“你好” “Merhaba” “Hola” “Hello”. American schools have been housing more than one race, accepting students of different ethnicities. With a total population in America of 311, 591, 917, 14.8 million teenagers will be attending high schools. 60% of those students attending high schools are of multiple ethnicities, most of which being Caucasian, African Americans, and Hispanics. Amongst these students grows a tendency to prefer being surrounded by their own race, this tendency is called ethnic…
introducing Asian American theaters in an amazing ways. Rather than learning different histories and cultures from the boring and lengthy books, to me theatre indeed makes them become…
Recently, a lot things like Trump temporarily banned immigration from 7 countries, he also wants to build wall on the U.S-Mexico border makes me thinking about Patrick Buchanan’s essay “Can Diversity Destroy Us?” and “A.D. 2041 – End of White America?”. He mentioned “That America is gone forever. Last week we learned that in the last seven years 10.3 million people, almost all from the third world, entered the United States, more than half illegally.” (Buchanan) Is this one of the reason why…
Researcher, Lauri Johnson, conducts a study testing how white teachers reacts to a racially diverse classroom. According to Johnson majority of teachers in today’s classrooms are white, and when asked about teaching racially diverse children they would respond with “I don’t see color” (Johnson, 2002, p, 154). The goal is to get teachers to see race being that they are teaching racially diverse children. Additionally, Johnson goes on to state that, because many people of color are not teachers,…
Because of the history of immoral acts towards African-Americans, trust issues still exist in the physician to patient relationship. Laws and policies have been created to protect patients from the abuses in the past but there are still disparities. The Health Care Reform allows minorities more access to health care, it also provides opportunity for minorities to find a provider they trust. The cases and stories presented here represent the unethical treatment and abused suffered by…