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- 4511: Natural Hierarchies in Society
- ... literally, modern day types of slaves. The servants usually do the 'dirty' work of washing dishes, cleaning the house, gardening, looking after and cleaning pets and other tasks as such. Their pay if converted to American dollars is well below the working class standard for the work they do. However, they do not complain, as this is what has been done in Zambia for so long. They are not forced into ... slaves individuality, can cause them to act harshly with slaves. For example, if we look at slavery in the United States, we can see that because only one sort of person was a slave, (African-American), a stereotype was formed causing racial divide. Due to the earlier typography of a black person being a slave they are still treated similarly to slaves even though slavery had been banished for a while ...
- 4512: False Advertising
- ... like me feel strongly positive impulses of friendship for blacks and that those same admirable impulses are effectively eradicating racial differences , rendering blacks and whites the same."--Benjamin Demott. According to Demott advertisements such as American Express commercials that show an elegant white couple and an elegant black couple sitting together in a theater that appear to be happy. Or advertisements in magazines of a white model and a black model ... has often been known to have an advertisement in which there are many different nationalities that are represented. I came across an advertisement in Glamour magazine in which there are five female models two African American, two Caucasian and one Asian. All of the models are close together hugging one another as if they are friends. The variation of the different races doesn't seem odd to me especially due to ...
- 4513: Did Immigrants Have to Leave Behind Their Cultures?
- ... forced the immigrants to migrate to the New World in the nineteenth century, or any other time. Even in special cases where they were forced, they should have not fallen prey to the weight of American culture. If their cultural and familial bonds were strong then a move to America should not have broken them. Vecoli pointed out that the nuclear, as well as the extended, families of Italian peasants were ... yet they were in a new country now and they needed to learn to carry on traditions and cultures where they were the minority. On the other hand, these immigrants added their cultures to the American society; thus none were forced to give up their roots. If immigrants were not ready to start a new life then they should never have come to America. If they left behind their cultures, it ...
- 4514: Environmental Pollution Concerns Come To Forefront
- ... s no confirmed connection between EID's water and illness in El Dorado County, county officials say. The problem at EID, state health officials say, is that after the district filters water drawn from the American River, it stores the water in small reservoirs open to the elements. Most other water districts use closed steel or concrete tanks. Only a few other California water districts currently store treated water in open ... addressing this problem," said Hetland. "Maybe not as fast as they'd like, but we have been addressing the problem." Until 1990, he said, the district didn't even filter its water. It simply pumped American River water to the reservoirs and treated it with chlorine. The state put EID on a four-year schedule to cover its reservoirs, a job that EID board member Raymond Larsen estimated would cost $30 ...
- 4515: Teenagers of the Sixties and Today
- ... were rioting on college campuses, African Americans were rioting in the streets and an unpopular war was going on in Southeast Asia. There was the Free Speech Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the sexual revolution. Marijuana and LSD, illegal drugs virtually unheard of a decade before, were becoming commonplace among teenagers. The country was in turmoil and on the brink of revolution. College students were rebelling as evidenced by growing their hair long and wearing tie-dyed shirts. Have teenagers changed in the last thirty years? There are no more campus protests. Tie-dyed shirts seem to ...
- 4516: The Rwanda Refugee Crisis
- ... that lost their loved ones will never forget what happened. Do they not deserve some sense of justice? Yes, an international tribunal was set up, with hesitancy from the part of the French, Belgian and American governments. Most of the evidence gathered on the genocide is kept by foreign governments again France, Belgium and the American governments. The tribunal has many difficulties trying to obtain this information which is vital. They can not achieve any form of justice without it. A lack of funding delays the process of justice and it ...
- 4517: The Ku Klux Klan
- ... should be a federation or a confederation; and whether the institution of indentured labour - in effect a lighter form of slavery - should be allowed to continue or not. Together these two issues led to the American Civil War, which can be counted as one of the great turning points in American history: it set the new nation against itself, the South, supporting confederalism and indentured labour; against the North, who favoured federalism and the abolition of slavery. Great White armies fought each other and finally decimated ...
- 4518: Leaders of the Progressive Movement
- ... reforms accomplished. They banded together and formed the National Women's Suffrage Association, which was instrumental in gaining women the right to vote. Each of these three women made a unique and enduring difference in American society. Even in the time before women's suffrage, Jeanette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives. During her time there, she worked tirelessly for all kinds of legislation to help women, while never ... as graft, for the sake of individuals (such as George Plunkitt) or for the sake of the commercial spirit. To me, Steffens is not strongly condemning corruption, but seems to equate it with the new American practice. Even the competition between St. Louis and Chicago centered around "loot". Pride became about who controlled the most votes and speakeasies. Worst of all, Citizens were complacent about this change, not seeming to notice ...
- 4519: Pornography Can Lead To Violence toward Women
- Pornography Can Lead To Violence toward Women Domestic violence and sexual assaults on women continue to plague American culture. According to Ms. Magazine, a woman has a seven times greater chance of experiencing a sexual attack in the present time than in 1933. This statistic indicates major changes in male attitudes about sexual aggressiveness toward women. It seems that men have an increasingly lower esteem of women. Why do women experience abuse now more than ever? One may look to American culture to explain the continued oppression of women. Sadly, aspects of our culture teach men to regard women as objects rather than human beings. For example pornography, a multi-billion dollar industry in the United ...
- 4520: Feminism and Gender Equality In the 1990s
- ... two decades later, the president of the United States is pushing to take that right away. It seems blatant that society is bent on putting women in their places. From the above examples, it appears American culture prefers women as non-professional, non-intellectual, homemakers and mothers. This mentality is not easily resolved, because it is introduced at a young age. Alice Brooks experienced in equality on the basis of her ... s History of the United States, By Howard Zinn. Page 499 4. Beyond Black and White, By M. Marable. Page 40-41. Bibliography: Fetzer, Phillip L. The Ethnic Moment, The Search for Equality in the American Experience. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1997. Goldman, Sheldon. Constitutional Law Cases and Essays, Second Edition. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. Marable, Manning. Beyond Black and White. New York: Verso, 1995. Zinn, Howard ...
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