Diversity in schools: The true definition of segregation
Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies
I grew up in a very small town of twelve-hundred people. Now that I look back, I realize that my town, Greenfield, contained absolutely no diversity; the population was one-hundred percent Caucasian. However, when I'd visit my friends in neighboring towns, they had lots of black friends who...
Quicksand, Identity and Women's Experience
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The thesis explores how issues related to class, race, and gender intersect to help shape Crane's struggle towards attaining autonomy and social stability in the 20th century (French and Allyson 457). It shows how class, race, and gender connect by paralleling the plight of Quicksand as a...
Transatlantic trade (Amos Beyan)
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
The author defines racism to be “the ideology of exclusion or separation of people because of the color of their skin.” This separation was very prominent during the transatlantic trade because so many countries, including those of Africa, were involved in racism, by...
Inequalities in Modern Society
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Sociology
Why are modern societies characterized by social, political and economical inequalities? In other words, why do modern societies arrange people in hierarchies of inequality based on wealth, status, power, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age and physical and mental abilities? The...
Symbolism in Obasan
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Throughout the novel Obasan, Joy Kogawa uses symbolism to communicate short but important messages to readers conveying the various themes of the novel. One main idea expressed through images and symbols includes the deterioration of conditions for the Japanese Canadians as they are stripped of...
Gwendolyn Brooks
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential poets known in the African American community. She challenged minds to expand, by writing truth and real-life situations based on her own experiences. Brooks in a sense helped cope with face to face struggles during the time when racism was...
Caucas-o-vision: White portrayal of African Americans in television
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
With the rising number of television sets in American households post World War II, came hope that this unprecedented tool of mass media would bridge the socioeconomic, racial, and cultural divides splintering the county. However, since television's conception in the late 1930's, it has further...
Multicultural early childhood literature in picture books: Reflections and explorations from the color-blind generation
Essay - 10 pages - Educational studies
Utilizing methods of research, social and historical inquiry, as well as interviews and examination of texts both primary and secondary, the purpose of my senior work project is to interrogate the dominant view(s) of multi-cultural early childhood literature through the lens of contemporary...
Race and gender as structuring factors of election: A typically American reality?
Worksheets - 1 pages - Political science
Does racism still prevail in the US? The last election in the United States was a forceful reminder that race and gender have always played a role in the American elections and, more generally, in the American society. It is only in 1920 that American women were allowed to vote and much...
United Colors of Benetton: An overview
Case study - 8 pages - Management
The clothing market is doing well with a growth rate of 2.5%, even though the market is unstable due to certain aspects (environmental, economic, socio-cultural, etc.), Despite saturation, Benetton is a brand that continues to sell quality clothing. However, given the explosion of mega stores,...
Freedom or Expression or Control?: A Look at Subcultures
Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences
Subcultures have always been seen as a form expressing individuality, making distinctions between different groups of people, and often as a form of rebellion. Subcultures are defined by style, location, purpose, music, and attitude. Through my studies and primary research I have found that...
How women perceive one another across the religious divide from the secular to Judeo-Christian to the Muslim community
Thesis - 8 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Beginning with a macro question, my research is defined by a more nuanced context. Through reflecting on the different positions and sensitivities around how we define ‘others', an examination of how women perceive each other across the religious divide from the secular to Judeo-Christian to...
At War With Race
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Racism has existed since the beginning of time. People have fought hundreds of wars in the name of racial superiority. Racial differences come between almost all people at some point, be it in war or in every day life. Robert Abzug's Inside the Vicious Heart and Philip Caputo's A Rumor...
Sal Paradise and the False Dream of America
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
American literature reveals a counter-culture of identity which undermines and even contradicts the popular optimism of national identity. Part of this undermining takes place in the ideologies of American literary characters, or in their “imaginary relationships…to the real conditions...
Place, race and identity in Langston Hughes' "A Toast to Harlem"
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
“A Toast to Harlem” is an extract from a volume of selections entitled The Best Of Simple which was published in 1961. The author, Langston Hughes, was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902 and died in 1967. He is known as one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem...
The law of apartheid
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
In the 1950s, the fight for equal rights has mobilized many Africans, who until then had never spoken out for or against or their rights, is born the people's congress campaign, and Africans are invited to submit their grievances and aspirations would become the basis of a document-from all...
The Effects of Racial Discourse
Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Introduction Racial discourse is a process that has notable ramifications for society. However, for individuals that are part of the majority race in a community, the reality of issues such as racial prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping are almost nonexistent. This is because the majority...
Cultural competency of adolescent ethnic minority females: Theory, research and practice
Thesis - 9 pages - Social sciences
As the land of immigrants, the United States is arguably in the most need of a culturally competent society. Yet, internationally Americans are increasingly regarded as US-centric (Berzonsky et al., 2003; Fullerton, 2005; Pew Research Center, 2005). Given such issues as teen pregnancy,...
Amnesty and illegal immigration
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The contentious concept of amnesty for illegal immigrants in US is one that is deep rooted in the history and culture of the American nation, a fact authenticated by the fundamental foundation of the nation by early European immigrants and “melting point” phenomena. The word amnesty,...
Defense of equality
Thesis - 3 pages - Civil law
From the very beginning of the formation of American democracy, it was designed to give equal power and equal rights to all American peoples: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that...
The politics of race and female empowerment in wide Sargasso Sea
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
Miscegenation, an act that was illegal in America until the 1967 ruling of Loving vs. Virginia, is not uncommon in literature and not limited to the human species. We know of Moses marriage to an Ethiopian woman (King James Bible, Numbers12:1); in the Arabian Nights we know of King Shahryar's...
Why the cocks fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the struggle for Hispaniola
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
For hundreds of years, the Dominican Republic and Haiti have endured constant conflict between their countries, often marked by violence and political upheaval. This conflict is deeply rooted in racial stereotypes and racism, made worse by the manipulation of national leaders who desire...
The emergence of new forms of nationalism between 1848 and 1914
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
Defining nationalism before considering its development and emergence in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th is useful because it offers us a good base for a greater comprehension of the phenomenon during this period of time. As Michael Hughes correctly points out in...
Describe and explain the varying significance of the Far Right in the French Fifth Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
April 21st, 2002, the first round of the French Presidential election, was a clap of thunder in the political landscape. Jean-Marie Le Pen, candidate of “National Front”, the Far Right leading party, won a staggering 16.86 % of the votes, eliminating from the run-off the outgoing...
The Ways We "Other"
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
Othering occurs every day; sometimes we become so accustomed to it that we cease to notice it or its effects. However, for something so common, othering is surprisingly difficult to define, but we know it when we see it. To me, othering means to exclude someone because of a perceived or real...
Carpe Diem? Try Tomorrow
Essay - 2 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Initially, I sat in front of a blank page contemplating how to start the introduction, how to draw the reader in. But after an hour, it became clear to me that I could not easily conjure up a stylish lead-in with the subject matter. So here I am addressing the issue flat out. Does this make me...
Songs of Caged Birds: life and its ups and downs
Book review - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is her first book dedicated to “all the strong black birds of promise who defy the odds and gods and sing their songs.” The cage represents a life of racism, poverty, illiteracy and dysfunction. The black birds represent the certain...
The civil rights movement - From counters to subs
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery (speech by Lincoln Sept.23nd 1862 ? 13th amendment in 1865); the 14th amendment declared everyone equal and the 15th gave the right to vote provided some very restrictive conditions were met. Between the Civil War and the 50's, however, the South...
Africville: The destruction of a community in the name of urban renewal
Essay - 4 pages - Social sciences
Africville was a black community located on the outskirts of Halifax, built by Loyalist descendants, and destroyed for the sake of urban renewal in the late 1960s. Canada has always prided itself on its race relations, often comparing its own history with that of the United States. However, this...
Church and State in Franco´s Spain
Essay - 9 pages - Journalism
“In the last sixty years the mutation of the Spanish Catholic Church has been extraordinary. It is as though we had been watching a play of several act, complete with changes of scenery, of the plot and of the personality of the characters and even the emotional tone: furious in the...
