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- 4561: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990's
- ... 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 inequality on the basis of her race ... Page 767. 6. The Ethnic Moment, By P. L. Fetzer. Page 234. 7. Constitutional Law Cases & Essays, By S. Goldman. Page 784. Bibliography: Fetzer, Philip L. The Ethnic Moment, The Search For Equality In The American Experience. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1997. Goldman, Sheldon. Constitutional Law Cases & Essays, Second Edition. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Marable, Manning. Beyond Black & White. New York: Verso, 1995. Zinn, Howard. A People's ...
- 4562: Surrealism
- ... sade is a virtual embodiment of artaud's principles of theatre, and it can be argued that the whole 1960's "be in" scene is a not too distant cousin of the these same principles. american beat writer william s. burroughs' technique of fold-in writing is very similar to tristan tzara's scandalous 1919 rally where he pulled words out of a hat and called them a poem, and modern american film makers like gus van sant -- director of 1989's drugstore cowboy -- use a number of surrealist techniques in their work. it can be plainly seen, then, that surrealism was no mere flash in the ...
- 4563: Man's Attitude Towards Nature as Being Superior
- ... man and animals as equals. Everything was shared, there was no claims of ownership, especially land. The two most significant events in our conquest of the planet was the creation of agriculture and the industrial revolution. The development of agriculture gave us control over what we grew and ate. Mass amounts of land were cleared in order to make room for new crop fields. Science is considered to be knowledge, knowledge is power and therefore science is mastery. The continued advancement of science created what is known as the industrial revolution. This is where our over consumption began. We were now able to drill into the earth and extract unrenewable resources and make them into many new products. This attitude of power and control over the ...
- 4564: Answer America's Call
- ... sit some of them down on a computer and do just as much damage. With computers and the viruses that go with them, people can destroy the economies of whole countries without wasting a single American life. Countries can crumble with the push of a few simple buttons on a keyboard. But to understand all of this new technology requires a great deal of knowledge. Not just anyone can sit at ... how to defend people. With this new knowledge of technology comes not only power but defense. The nation's defense and individual's defenses. With the new technology comes new medicine and ways of prolonging American's lives. But for America to even begin to produce new medicine, someone has to discover it. Once again America cannot turn to just anyone off the street. America is going to have to look ...
- 4565: Society's Influence on Morals
- ... the norm', people will find a way to justify it and follow it despite the evil implications it might entail. Humans have faced these situations throughout the last two centuries numerous times. For example, the American slave trading was totally acceptable to the southerners because the blacks were perceived to be lesser human beings. The slave owners did not mind controlling and abusing a slave like it was an animal since ... mind the slave was comparable to an animal. This was true in Germany with the only difference being that the Anti-Semitics thought the Jews should be eliminated. A more recent example would be the American's attitudes toward the Russians during the Cold War. Children were taught that the Russians were evil and while the Russian children were being taught the same ideas about the Americans. Propaganda was used by ...
- 4566: Gangs
- ... of crime after being released. Gangs are spreading across the country and are not just limited to major cities. Bernard Friedlander, a University of Hartford psychology professor and a violence expert, says, "This is an American problem, not an inner-city problem.... It's spreading slowly.... On one level it's simple fad imitation... but on another level the isolation of youth is just as profound in some of the more ... group was at the bottom, they formed gangs -- the Jews, the Irish, the Italians." Gangs offered status, a sense of self-worth, and protection. Today, most gangs are racially segregated (54.6 percent are African American and 32.6 percent are Hispanic). Blacks and Hispanics constitute the largest numbers of youths arrested for gang offenses today. The all-black rival gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, have an estimated 70,000 ...
- 4567: Homelessness
- ... from 11 to 65 years of age. Most studies show that homeless adults are most likely to be male that female. The homeless population is made up many different ethnic backgrounds, the majority being African-American. The majority of homeless children and females are victims of domestic violence (NCH, 1998). It is estimated that there are 200 000 homeless people who live on the streets of Canada (Globe and Mail, 1998 ... Physical and Mental Health............. 3 Help For the Homeless................................................. 5 Conclusion............................................................ 5 Works Cited.......................................................... 7 WORKS CITED Bassuk et al. "the Characteristics and needs of Sheltered Homeless and low income housed mothers, " Journal of the American Medical Association 276 (August 28, 1996) "Homeless Familles with Children "NCH Fact Sheet #7, Internet, May 1998, Available http://nch.ari.net/families.html "How Many People Experience Homelessness?" NCH Fact Sheet #2, Internet, May ...
- 4568: Sex in Black, White and Mulatto
- ... pleasure. Unfortunately, for slaves in antebellum America, this was not always the case. Rape, slave breeding, married slave couples being split up at slave auctions were all forms of sexual tensions found on nineteenth-century American plantations. Their owners did not often treat slaves as people, but instead as property. If they were treated as people, then the slaves could be seen as equal to their master. However, as property, slaves ... pursuit of my father
And the penalty followed: one hundred lashes on the bare back, and to have the right ear nailed to the whipping-post, and then severed from the body."6 Nineteenth-century American law did not even protect slave women from male slaves. In 1859, George, a male slave, was found guilty of raping a slave girl who was under the age of ten.7 The Mississippi court ...
- 4569: The Increasing Prison Population
- The Increasing Prison Population The care and feeding of one million American prisoners is a big business. Privately managed prison beds are increasing about 35 percent a year, and the demographics of inmates are changing rapidly. More prisoners are women or elderly, and have drug problems, AIDS ... in large part to a national wave of tough anti-drug laws. While those laws removed thousands of drug dealers from America's streets, they also created a huge and rapidly growing industry funded by American taxpayers. The private sector is heavily involved in prison management, and prison privatization is one of the country's hottest industries. Some companies manage entire prisons, while others specialize in particular operations such as health ...
- 4570: The Civil Rights Movement: Some Progress Is Better Then No Progress
- ... was used to exploit the poor immigrants in order to make up for a diminishing labor force in Virginia until 1619 when African Americans were brought over and treated as indentured servants. However this African American servitude quickly progressed into slavery as tobacco became more of the backbone of the economy. For many years the issue of civil rights for African Americans was left unanswered. Until slowly African Americans and abolitionists ... mainstream society. Another idea to separate African Americans from White Americans was to segregate both races. This idea was strengthened with the Supreme Court case Plessy versus Ferguson in 1896. In this case an African American citizen by the name of Homer Plessy refused to sit in the "black section" of a Louisiana train. The ruling of this court was that he had violated the restrictions of the state laws. Although ...
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