 A Multicultural Nation
In response to the letter you submitted to our community group, we are glad to give you insight on our views regarding your argument. It is true that America has attracted many types of people from all over the world and with them they bring their own traditions, which in-turn people will learn to ....

African Americans Breaking Down Racial Barriers Through Athletics
In March 27, 2008, Fox News reports that the City of Eugene has hired a group called Blacks on Track to teach Olympic Trial volunteers, police, and hospitality workers how to talk to the visiting African Americans. Fox News states that Eugene is currently about 2% African American and that....

True Diversity: Ethics Development, Understanding and Application
Day in and day out, people are faced with making decisions. Whether those decisions are right or wrong is based on ethics. Morals, beliefs and values help determine whether or not a person will make ethical choices. Ethics is defined by www.dictionary.com as "the specific moral choices to be made ....

"The Color of Water"
The book, The Color of Water, by James McBride is about his life and is also a tribute to his white mother. His mother's name is Ruth McBride and she immigrated from Poland with her Jewish family when she was only two years old and she marry a black man from North Carolina. James McBride was born in....

African Americans In the South
As a social and economic institution, slavery originated in the times when humans began farming instead of hunting and gathering. Slave labor became commonplace in ancient Greece and Rome. Slaves were created through the capture of enemies, the birth of children to slave parents, and means of punish....

Allowing the Same-Sex to get married
A wide variety of groups that reflect on gay rights and their popular opinions are truly consequential from these many assemblage. The only major nostalgia that homosexuals yearn for is to have the same rights as heterosexuals, homosexuals want nothing more or nothing less. Homosexuals are a growing....

Bi-racial Struggles
From the Chapelle Show to rap singers and of course white supremacist groups, the word nigger or nigga (the slang version) is used so widely around the world. Many times they dont understand the affect or have any regards for anyone that it may offend. In instances such as the Chapelle Show ma....

Bride and Prejudice
This Bollywood film is a remake of Jane Austens classic story. Mr. and Mrs. Bakshi live in Amritsar, India with their four unmarried and young daughters Jaya, Lalita (Aishwarya Rai), Lakhi (Lucky), and Maya. Mrs. Bakshi is keen to find rich fitting husbands for her unmarried daughters so that they....

Civil Rights and the US Supreme Court
Civil Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court Think of civil rights in the USA and the campaigns of leaders like Martin Luther King, Booker T. Washington, A. Philip Randolph and Malcolm X spring to mind, together with the organizations they headed up, such as the NAACP (the National Association for th....

Civil Rights Essay
Stephanie Rosenbaum English-1302 2/26/05 Civil Rights Movement Rights, equality, and justice, are all words that come to mind when you think of present day America. The liberty to create a wonderful life is the United States. Where opportunity is abundant and where everyone has hi....

Color-Blind At Last? Interracial Relationships
Color-Blind At last? With daybreak yet to arrive one morning in 1967 Perry Loving, a white Virginian, and his African-American wife, Mildred Jeter, were woken by police and arrested. Their crime: being married. At the time in Virginia, as well as in fifteen other states, being involved in an inter....

European Contact with Indigenous population Canada
When Europeans first came to the coast of British Columbia in the late 1700's there were many separate nations of native communities sharing territory. Initially native contact with white men was limited to explorers and traders. The fur traders impact was minimal, they came for furs then left. T....

Fighting for the right of marriage
Since the 1970s gay and lesbian people in the United States have been trying to practice their right to marry. The problem has been that gay marriage has become one of the most debated topics since then. People have really taken totally opposed sides on this issue. Marriage is when two people m....

Gay Marriage
Gay Marriage Gay marriage has instantly become a national controversy. When the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that by denying homosexuals the right to marry, the government is infringing upon their equal protection rights, this issue was immediately thrust into the national spotlight. This was ....

Gay marriage
Currently in the United States there has been much debate over the controversy surrounding the legalization of same-sex marriages. There are many people who are opposed and feel it is morally and ethically wrong and others who feel that same-sex marriages are acceptable. Prior to writing about thi....

Gay Rights
When people think of gay rights they think that homosexual people want to have special rights, rights that heterosexuals do not have, but this idea is entirely wrong. Homosexuals just want to have the same rights as heterosexuals, nothing more, and nothing less. Homosexuals are a growing minority ....

Gay Rights
LAW (Gay Rights/Legislation) Constitutionality of Same Sex Marriage in the United States of America The proposed legalization of same-sex marriage is one of the most significant issues in contemporary American family law. Presently, it is one of the most vigorously advocated reforms discussed ....

Global Communications: Problem Solution
Global Communications is facing many problems. Due to high competition in the telecommunications industry, Global Communications stock prices have fallen drastically over the past three years. Many of its competitors, mainly the cable companies, are offering a variety of products in demand. Global C....

homosexual rights
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 among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men... (Jefferson) In ....

How far was Martin Luther King responsible for the Civil Rights Movement?
A key debate in the civil rights movement is the importance of Martin Luther King. Clayborne Carson contends, if King had never lived, the black struggle would have followed a course of development similar to the one it did. T the figure most closely associated with advances made by the civil ri....

Importance of Law Enforcement and Main Causes of Crime
Every day on the news there is always a story about someone getting murdered, an officer getting beat up by a suspect he or she is trying to arrest, or there is a murderer on the loose. Why? How come there is so much crime? What is causing all this? Is it hate or is it something someone likes to do....

Influence of the Environment on Children's Learning
Learning is a basic human activity, and it occurs all the time. But the early years of childhood are the most significant period of life in the context of learning, because during this time, children learn motor co-ordination, language, the making of social adjustments, the setting of work habits an....

Inter-racial relationships
Would you let society decide if its right to date outside your race? He or she may believe that you should only date within your race. I believe that you should be able to choose who you want to be your significant other, without being judged for it. When I see interracial relationships I think no....

Interracial communication
Interracial Communication Growing up in India, I never came in contact with people of different races and ethnicities. Then my parents and I moved to the United States. All of sudden, at the age of thirteen, I went from being the majority to being a minority. Coming to the United States was a....

Interracial Couple
When looking at the photograph of the interracial couple by Bruce Davidson, I was quickly hit by how I see people. As I looked at the picture I notice that everything I'm seeing is familiar. Two people together from different backgrounds, walking along there own path. They might see the others watch....

interracial relationships
African Americans and whites in the United States have witnessed a large amount of social and cultural desegregation of. Through years of desegregation, however, social and cultural differences still exist. They exist in the institution of marriage. Americans have been and are continually moving slo....

Interracial Relationships and Marriages on the Rise?
Increasing amounts of interracial marriages and relationships have increased ever since the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional (Fletcher, pg.2). There have been many trends regarding this trend itself because it also has found that interracial relationships are more com....

It doesnt matter if youre black or white
Within the last couple of years, the United States has been faced with an interesting and extremely controversial question: Should homosexual couples be allowed to marry? This topic has been extensively covered in the news and the magnitude of the situation has been growing. In two states (Connecti....

Jack Johnson: Black Hope
Jack Johnson was a man who forever changed the history of African Americans in sports, as well as helped shatter the ignorant thoughts of white supremacy in America. In 1908, Johnson became the world's first black heavy weight boxing champion. His success as a boxer triggered a worldwide hunt, tai....

Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson, who was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 and dieing on October 24, 1972, broke the color barrier in professional baseball. Robinson was not only a great baseball player; he was a great American and a patriot to his society. He was a civil rights advoca....

Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
Background of the People's Temple: This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (1931-1978). Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not a Fundamentalist pastor as many reports in the media and the anti-cult movement clai....

KKK
How was the behavior of the Ku Klux Klan similar at the time of its organization to today? The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain white supremacy. After the Civil War local ....

Love Gone Wrong in Lolita
It all started with two people named Adam and Eve. Sex, that is, has been around since the beginning of time and has morphed into many different forms since then. There has always been the traditional sexual relationship between a man and a woman where respect, faithfulness and love come into play....

Love's Tragedy: Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story
Loves Tragedy: Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story There is nothing new under the sun Book of Ecclesiastes 1:9 When people around the world read or see any of Shakespeares work, they soon discover that throughout the annals of human history, human nature does not change, and that �....

Lyndon B Johnson
Johnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, near Johnson City, Tex., the eldest son of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson. His father, a struggling farmer and cattle speculator in the hill country of Texas, provided only an uncertain income for his family. Politically act....

Makings of the Filipino. Reaction paper to Authentic though not Exotic
by Monica dela Paz Makings of the Filipino Reaction Paper on Fernando Nakpil Zialcitas Authentic Though Not Exotic: Essays on the Filipino Identity Who are we? The question of the Filipino identity has always been an issue and debates have always risen from it. Most, if not all Filip....

Malcolm X
Its just like when you have some coffee thats too black, which means its too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you wont even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, i....

Moralirty's Fickle Mind
If someone were to ask what morality is, what would one say? Some may think of it as integrity and decency, and others may see it as honesty and candor. However, by contrasting what was moral, and immoral in the past, one can clearly see that peoples concept of morality changes over time. Under w....

Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism What is Multiculturalism? The Encarta on-line Encyclopedia defines multiculturalism as to be of more than one culture: relating to, consisting of, or participating in the cultures of different countries, ethnic groups or religions. It also defines it as supporting integratio....

Nazis attempt to master a human race
I am going to be answering the question: "How far in the period 1933 - 39 was Nazi social policy an attempt to engineer a master race?" The use of the term "how far" in the question implies that I must make a judgement on the extent to which I agree with the statement. To reach this judgement I w....

Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux was born in 1884 and died in 1951. He was a successful filmmaker and a novelist. He organized a film corporation in 1918, where he made more than 35 films. The organization was called the Micheaux Film Corporation. It was known because it was the longest and made the most films for a ....

Othello
Racism is the discrimination by one group to another group that have different race. Racism is the belief that one race of people is better than the other because of their skin colour or even because of where they come from. It is also A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits ....

Othello vs. Guess Whos Coming To Dinner - Comparative Essay
"In transforming an old text into a new one, a composer selects what to include and what to exclude. How have these choices been made in Othello and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? What new meanings have emerged from this transformation?" 1200-1500 words In transformations, the choices ....

Overview of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Nelson Mandela has been called both "the world's most famous political prisoner" and "South Africa's Great Black Hope," by journalist Tom Mathews in Newsweek. A leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC) insurgent movement during the 1950s and 60s, Mandela had been jailed by white governme....

Prejudice beliefs
The scientific study of the reciprocal influence of the individual and his or her social context(Myers,D). Social Psychology revolves around how society influences one another. How are our beliefs and actions shaped by the people around us. It could also be looked as how we want others to perceive ....

Racism in Capitol Punishment
Racism in Capitol Punishment White racism is widely believed to play a factor in capitol punishment cases. The U.S. charts and graphs in publications show what seem to be race-influenced decisions involving the death penalty. Based on research of both pro and anti opinions on and raw data, one c....

racism then and now
There are many problems that exist in our society today that are lingering effects of events that took place back in the early history of this country. Though taking place many years ago these historic events have been both positive and negative influences on what are society has become today. One....

Reconstruction
American Reconstruction Reconstruction, the period that followed the Civil War, is perhaps the most controversial era in American history. It is usually seen as a time when vindictive Radical Republicans fastened black supremacy upon the defeated Confederacy, Reconstruction has come to be....

Reconstruction
DID RECONSTRUCTION ACHIVED THE DESIRE GOALS? This question has been in the minds of many historians and also the millions of slaves that believed in the principles of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln. "The newly freed people, who had long yearned for freedom, gre....

Rosa Parks
The laws against segregation in the South were changed in the early 1960s and progress was made but some white peoples hearts have not. These are the thoughts of Rosa Parks, a catalyst of the civil rights movement. There is a history behind Rosa Parks well before the Montgomery Bus Boycott that b....

Same Sex Marriage
It is the institution that provides automatic legal protection for the spouse, including medical visitation, inheritance of a deceased spouse's property, as well as pension and other rights. Society has become accustom to what they believe is normal by their traditions and religious beliefs. Man....

Save the Last Dance
The movie, Save the Last Dance, goes along with all of our discussions and conversations about the visual difference between the black and white cultures and the stereotyping that Hollywood does of the two cultures. The movie shows the difference in the two cultures, according to Hollywood.you have....

Snow Falling on Cedars
The Affect of Racism In a community of "five thousand dam souls" (Page 5 Parg ?) as described by David Guterson in his novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. A community that concentrated a variety of ethnicity, among them was both Whites and Japanese. As a result of the racial differences, racism came....

Sula
The Bottom is a mostly black community in Ohio, situated in the hills above the mostly white, wealthier community of Medallion. The Bottom first became a community when a master gave it to his former slave. This "gift" was in fact a trick: the master gave the former slave a poor stretch of hilly lan....

THE COLOR OF WATER
James McBride the author of The Color of Water was inspired by his white mother's terrific strength, faith in God, and also for her magnificent achievement of raising twelve, Africa American, college-educated Professional, children against all odds. Being underprivileged was another issue be....

The moors and their people
The Moors Moors and their culture have been and were the most influential group of people that have came through Europe. The moors had a Spain by bawls for around the range of seven hundred year span in which there were 4 different dynasties each with their own things that made them unique and lef....

the supreme courts role in protecting the 14th amendment
Describe the role of the Supreme Court in protecting the rights of Americans (especially their right to equality in the 14th amendment). Has the court been successful in fulfilling its role? What kind of role should the court play in the current debate over same sex marriage? Cite specific examples ....

The war at home (sitcom)
The War at Home is a television show that is based on the average modern American family. This show is on the fox channel, and is one of the racy Sunday line up. The show is narrated by the main character Dave, a father who is raising three teenagers and does and will do anything to stop them for d....

To Kill a Mockingbird
Who would have thought that a novel would be more action packed than its movie version? In the case of the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird this is exactly the situation. Due to the absence of many major plot details and key events, the result of the movie left one quite confused. The director....

Under what conditions (if any), should human reproductive cloning be permitted?
Kubiak, J.Z. and Johnson, M.H. (2001). Human Infertility, Reproductive Cloning and Nuclear Transfer: a Confusion of Meanings. Bioessays, 23(4), 359-64. This article argues that confusions in the semantic meanings of human reproductive cloning may hinder future scientific progressions to discover ....

White Girls
White Girls The novel White Girls was written by Lynn Lauber which in a nut shell if you will is Lorettas story. During the course of the novel you will see many self harming decisions that Loretta makes as a teenager. However these decisions were troublesome at the time, they funadamentaly chan....

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