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Do lives need to be lost before people fought for civil rights? 1,134 African Americans have died at the hands of law enforcement officers in 2015 ( Swaine, Laughland, Lartey, and McCarthy). A Movement #BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin 's murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted of his crime. Trayvon Martin wasn’t the only African American who was murdered and had his death erupt with riot and protest. Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Sandra Bland are others whose deaths…

Racism has been around for many years. A lot of people really do not fully understand racism. Does one ever wonder what racism really mean? Racism is around everywhere. As Doreen E. Loury quote “racism permeates every facet of our societal pores.” “Race” was created by Americans in the 17th and 18th century to explain how they are “good Christians.” Joe Feagin quote “one key feature of systemic racism is how it has socially reproduced by individuals, groups, and institutions for generations.”…

to make them feel “inferior” to the other group. The concept of race has been braided in our society so deep, that it plays a role in our everyday life. For example, if a black individual acts proper they will be considered to be acting “white” and if a white individual acts urban they will be considered to be acting “black”, but according to Ann Morning , “no…

slave. chapter 2 is called Fermentation since it is about the occasions that hinted at section 6 to reality, which is called resistance. Development allows you to think then sit and the more it sits, the more grounded it gets. In the viewpoint of people, development generally relates to savagery, when these slaves are maturing they are getting more irritated and madder every second until, they finally hit the breaking…

him. If I were Arnold, I would be apprehensive because Arnold hit Mr. P. Mr. P could be trying to get back at him by giving him false hope, and no one that Arnold knows has left the reservation. Quote- “Come on,” I said. “Who has the most hope?” “White kids,” my parents said at the same time. Page 45, Chapter…

Another moment were an identity was ‘taken’ per se is in Vanna White v. Samsung Electronics America Inc. Samsung at the time--1992--were running a bunch of humorous ads where they implied that there VCRs would make it into the next century. The ad in question is one that spoofed the game show the “Wheel of Fortune.” In the ad there is a robot that is dressed to kind of hint at Vanna White. White was never consulted about the ad. This became an issue because the ad made it seem as though she was…

“A hero or heroine is a person or character who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, displays courage or self-sacrifice. “ When most people think of the word hero, one might think of a person with power helping those who are in trouble, but heroism can be anybody. A hero can be a teacher, a mother or father, or even a person such as myself. Heroes are everywhere you look, you never know what influence you may have on someone. Somethings that can be simple to one…

Guns are not a weapon, they are a tool. Many people around the world believe in the saying that “Guns kill people” for the simple fact that when a human pulls the trigger on the gun it can kill someone but if you think about what was just said “people kill people.” Guns are a tool that help everyone feel safe and at ease. In the stories, “ Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln, “ What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass, and “Runagate Runagate” by Robert Hayden…

observation merely on the surface level of the works, they will not. However, the existence of these two sets of people, the essence of humanity that they embody, is a powerful thing to examine when we observe how each artist arrives at his interpretation of humanity. The first painting is Street Scene by Joseph Hirsch, painted in oil on canvas in 1938. This painting depicts four white men huddled on the street during the Great Depression. The second painting is Workers on the Land (Dirt…

speaking their voice is frowned upon even if their suggestions are helpful and true. The men working in the mine were unsatisfied with the conditions they were working in. The Mexican men and families had much less sanitation as the more privileged white men. So all the workers went on strike after a miner got seriously injured. The men were picketing until they were told they could have their jobs replaced. The women wanted to help and take over the strike but the men didn’t like this idea.…