White people

Jan is a close friend of mine I interviewed about the mental health of her grandfather and cousin. She’s a 18 year old african american female from Athens Georgia. Her and I have been close friends since 4th grade, going to the same elementary school, middle school, high school and now college. Over the years I’ve grown closer and closer to her family which made the interview much more interesting. Both her grandfather, Vincent, and cousin, Mark, were in the military which affected their mental…

one of the Socs to push Pony into the fountain and set his head on it after they suggested that Pony needed a bath. Here are some representatives that were being said to the two people: Bob insulted the greasers as "white trash with long hair" while on the other hand, Pony insults, right back at him by calling them "white trash with Mustangs and Madras”(55). At this point, everyone thought Ponyboy was going to fade out until he remained cautious. Johnny kills Bob afterward, but the inquiry is,…

changes can make a big difference. She refused to give her seat to a white man, nothing else. Still, as Obama told The Independent in 2005; Rosa Parks changed America. She showed us how there is always something to do, and it is always within our power to make the world a better place (Carissimo, 2015). She proved that it is possible to make a stand against an unjust law (Ifawley, 2010). With her protest and the bus boycott, people learnt that one could rebel against the authorities without…

Discrimination has been a problem throughout society for many years. As shown in the book To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and the movie The Help directed by Tate Taylor, discrimination can affect people of all ages. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the narrator, Scout, is a young girl that lives in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. Scout lives with her older brother Jem, her father Atticus and Calpurnia their maid. Maycomb is a small southern town surrounded with…

Oppression, which is unfair treatment of a person or people over an extended period of time, has been experienced by various groups since the beginning of civilization. There are several ways to combat this issue, but unfortunately, not all of the strategies are effective. Some attempts have resulted in intensified injustice or absolutely no change at all. Despite that, multiple instances throughout history have shown that fighting and even ending oppression is possible, but it is important to…

“The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling was wrote in 1899 to promote imperialism. Rudyard Kipling states “send forth the best ye breed,” talking about white men. He is saying that White men are the best breed, or the best of humankind. It is a poem written in encouragement of the European sense of superiority over other races. In “The White Man’s Burden.” Rudyard Kipling is describing what his opinion of the burden of a white man is. He describes the intelligence of a white man being that…

Africa and the conflict in Argentina, as well as the way how the four concepts intermix with each other and influence each other. In South Africa the liberation movement of the oppressed majority was seen by the government as an uprising of groups of people who should not have the same rights as the ruling minority. The rationale for this way of thinking was provided by the racial differences.…

Elliot who taught little children and adults, a lesson of discrimination. The film has three parts the documentary, a reunion of the third graders, and the exercise with the correctional officers. She wanted to find a way to really get through to people what discrimination is because you don’t know what something is until you go through it. So she came up with this mechanism called the “blue-eye/brown-eye exercise because it played a role in demonstrating what prejudice and racism truly is. The…

also witnessed in King Leopold’s Ghost when Hochschild describes a rebellion by the Budjas, an African tribe. He states that the European force assigned to quell the rebellion contained fifty African troops and only two white officers. The harshest treatment came not from the white officials, but the African troops who were in charge of instilling discipline and order. Due to their higher position, the ethnic kinship that connected them to their rebellious kinsman was gone. They began to see…

from a young boy confirms the shocking extent to which this patriarchy has impacted upon the society. The Bluest Eye presents a realistic view of the options for African-American women in the 1940’s, which includes either getting married, working for white families, or becoming prostitutes. Growing up, Pecola witnesses a limited and idealistic view of women’s power and role in a marriage, displayed through Cholly’s oppression on Pauline in their abusive relationship. The highly descriptive…