Civil wars occur a lot more than most may think, and with as much media coverage that there is nowadays, it doesnt seem rare anymore to have a terrorist attack. These are two very sad events. A civil war is defined as a war in which the main participants are within the same state, such as the government and a rebel group (pg. 237 of textbook). Terrorism is defined as the use or threatened use of violence against noncombatant targets […]
Universally as a whole there are very few people who advocate for human trafficking. Overall it as seen as a problem that needs to be stopped. So the counterarguments come from the justifications of traffickers themselves. Why they feel as if what they’re doing is in some way justifiable and society acceptable. The five justifications that Reyes Cazzies article The Mind of a Trafficker state are distortion, rationalization, social comparisons, blame shifting and dehumanization. Disorientation makes the trafficker feel as […]
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Get help with your assignment8,759 cases of human trafficking were reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline last year. Despite popular belief, modern slavery is an extreme social issue in today’s society. Each year, human traffickers acquire billions of dollars by forcing people to provide labor or partake in commercial sex against their own will. As a resident of a city through which a major interstate runs, human trafficking is more prevalent to my life than I ever imagined it may be. As a […]
Josh Hawley, an American lawyer and politician, once said More than 150 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is not abolished – not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern -day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It’s called human trafficking. Slavery is the action of owning a slave. Slaves were forced […]
I think I speak for a majority of us when I say that my parents are immigrants. They moved here in hopes of a life with an excellent education and greater opportunities. In 2009, Natalia arrived in the United States from Ghana, as a young girl under the impression that she would be working part-time for a family and getting an education. Instead, the family that hired her forced her to do housework and watch their children for no pay. […]
Germany’s most known and devastating historical event happened between the years 1941-1945, the period of time where the Holocaust occurred. The main perpetrator was Adolf Hitler, but the people of Germany allowed escalation beforehand. The Holocaust was a terrifying experience for anyone who wasn’t a part of Hitler’s “Aryan” race, but was mainly directed towards Jewish people. Hitler and his followers attempted to sentence all Jewish people and other non-Aryans to death, killing them on a mass scale (genocide). The […]
Introduction Globalization is described as the interconnectedness of people and places. While there are pros and cons to this ideology, it has been proven to create a sense of a global community. Globalization has been said to be both voluntarily and involuntarily responsible for the rapid growth of human trafficking. Human trafficking is described by the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat […]
When a person thinks of the word trafficking automatically they refer to the definition of trading something whether it be an item, animal or humans. Human trafficking is defined according to the Polaris Project (2016) as a form of modern day slavery where people profit from others’ loss of freedom. There is not just one particular citizen that fits this description. Everyone can be affected by this action especially children in the sex trade industry, adults over the age of […]
Racism is evident in all cultures. Looking back on history, it would seem that racism has always been present through the developing of our societies. The most common type of racism that we see is called casual racism. According to the AHRC, casual racism occurs when behavior involves negative stereotypes or prejudices about people on the basis of race, color or ethnicity, while racism focuses mainly on the belief that one race is superior than the rest. (Casual Racism, 2014) […]
Have you ever feared the possibility of police brutality because your skin tone happens to be black? Police were once known to be the peacekeepers, but it seems that law enforcement have been abusing that exact power. In America, police brutality has been used to suppress black people for years to preserve their power over them. Black people have endured all kinds of violence that result in assaults, beatings and even shootings that end up taking someone’s life. Police brutality […]
When people think of terrorism they usually think of the use of violence, or a state of fear and submission produced by terrorization. In the memoir When They Call You a Terrorist, the author Patrisse Khan-Cullors, defines terrorism as a form of racism. Patrisse naturally describes racism this way because of how it has affected her and her family. From a young age, she, her brothers, and her loved ones were singled out by law enforcement officers for nothing more […]
Shootings of unarmed African Americans by law enforcement have exacerbated rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum and has sparked an activist movement. There have been marches and protests as a response to police officers not being held accountable for the slaughter of unarmed people of color, and the social movement that has emerged as a result is exemplified by a twitter hashtag #Blacklivesmatter. This civil rights movement is housed within a particular discourse of American society. The idea […]
Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by a white police officer on February 26, 2012. The very same officer was acquitted on July 13, 2013 after claiming it was self defense to an all female jury. Following this acquisition, three black organizers created the movement known today as Black Lives Matter, all by creating the new hashtag #blacklivesmatter. Though they officially coined the term, there is no official leader, no rulesheet, just a call to value black lives for what they […]
Since before the time America became a nation and developed its own standards of living, racism has consumed the social environment and only gets worse as time progresses. Throughout the years, African Americans have been lynched and unfairly forced to work as slaves for white men on plantations. However, progress has been slowly made over the years. By 1870, the Reconstruction amendments were added to the Constitution. These amendments were crucial to the beginning of the end to the racial […]
Racism is not a new issue by any means. It has been plaguing humanity since its beginnings. Societies of all cultures and from all corners of the world have experienced racism. America, a country that claims to be one of the most civilized, has dealt with discrimination on a huge scale. Minority groups in America have struggled for equal opportunities and the rights and treatment of first-class citizens. African Americans, more than any other ethnicity, have suffered under the power […]
For about 250 years we had slavery in America, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal, and 35 years of racist housing policy. All these years of racism and discrimination has brought not only individual discrimination between one person and another, but also institutional discrimination carried out by social institutions. One of the worst policies introduced by a social institution, that still affects us today was, the Federal Housing Administration that was introduced in 1934 and […]
Every society forms different cultures and social norms of how people behave and constructs stereotypes and expectations of people based on their physical appearance and cultural backgrounds. Once set, social norms are unlikely to be changed over time. This social construction decides which group will have benefits or privileges and which ones won’t. Most of the time, white people are seen as the race that receives these benefits and privileges, these social norms are based around them and their culture. […]
Discrimination is extremely prominent and critically important in American life. It has significant and detrimental effects on the health of many Americans. But there isn’t too much being done about it. Within this “Free Country”, we face discrimination in many forms. When dealing with police, employers, buying houses, doctors, slurs and much more. Gentrification is one of the big issues throughout the country. Gentrification is a general term for the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a […]
Streets are being flooded by masses of signs that read we care and stop the hate that are being held up high by children, adults, men, and women of all races. These are citizens that stand chanting by one another pleading for the U.S. to step away from the ignorance that the country has fallen into. The President has provoked citizens to discriminate against other racial groups by expressing his personal opinions; although they are platforms of free speech, Trump […]
“The novel titled, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a story set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the depression in the 1930s. The story is told by a little six-year-old girl, Jean Louise Finch nicknamed Scout. She is a rebellious girl who has tomboy tendencies. Scout lives with her elder brother Jem, and her father, Atticus, who is widowed. The book follows the family for three years where it discusses the arrest and eventual trial […]
Sexual assault has been an issue throughout the Army for a long time. It seems that with every passing year the number of sexual assaults increase within the organization, causing further concern for the morale and the safety of the troops. Regardless of the zero-tolerance policy and the multitude of trainings and briefs given on the topic, the number of sexual assaults in the Army continues to rise. It is likely that this perceived escalation in numbers is not due […]
In this essay I will be talking about Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention and why the numbers of sexual assault does continues to increase in the Army. Of all the acronyms that the army has this one is known has SHARP. There are a lot of cases each month that directly or indirectly involve in SHARP. With this essay the reader will be able to understand how to report a case, how it works and some of the ways to […]
There are still many questions concerning on what exactly does federalism do, and for being against discrimination – what does it do exactly to improve today’s world views? Federalism is all about taking away some power from state governments and giving it to the federal government. This is a change of balance of power of these two different levels of government is federalism, where the Civil Rights Act of 1964 relating to federalism. What does this have to do with […]
At some point in ones life they probably encountered a troubled person, Usually known as a “bully”, the one who tears down one’s self, mentally and physically. Online, bullies have access to many platforms to find their victims and harass them. A study showed that about 10 to 20 percent that youths experience the most bullying and victims are more likely to have a low self esteem and turn to substance abuse. Because of the tremendous effect on cyberbullying, young […]
When I first started high school, I witnessed a cyberbullying incident that put one of my classmates behind bars before their life even started. The student had created a fake Snapchat page that was used to expose the nudity of other students around the school. I assume the kids who had been posted felt embarrassment and also a bit of intimidation at the school after that. The person who started the page was arrested and charged with child pornography and […]
The life of African Americans is not pleasant. Southern African Americans established a hard lifestyle due to the denial of equal rights because of racism. Most problems are centered in the South, which is not surprising for their racist devotion for decades. African Americans encounter with racism started a Southern rebellion against the issue. Ernest J. Gaines’s novel A Gathering of Old Men connects how racism affects the Southern United States. One of the effects of racism in the novel […]
Since the beginning of time people have always been looked down on because of the color of their skin or their race. It is unfortunately in our human nature to not like people for specific traits that they have. Many will argue that we are no longer discriminating against different races but how can you be so sure? Since the early 1900’s white children and families in the United States were often taught and told that they were more important […]
The social issue of racism is one of the biggest problems facing the world and has been for ages. Racism is discrimination against a group solely based on race. Racist people believe that they are superior to the other races. Discrimination against races can happen to any race; however, in America it occurs most often against African Americans. For hundreds years, African Americans have been oppressed and discriminated against. Racism is a theme in many books, movies, poems, and other […]
As we all may know racism has existed ever since any of us were ever born. We know the history of African American racism, Japanese racism, Jewish racism, and many others. All of these races have their known and unknown stories. Unlike all these stories many of the people in the united states do not know the history and origin of Hispanic racism. In this essay I want to discuss a little bit about some of the history of Hispanics […]
It is fairly common for the average American to misidentify a turbaned Sikh man as a Muslim person. And ever since the tragedy of 9/11, negative stereotypes have perpetuated throughout the United States about people from South Asian and Middle Eastern countries. This is a topic that I was eager to do my project on because I am a Sikh myself and it disheartens me to hear about Sikhs being killed and harassed or any religious hate crimes in general. […]
