Inequity College Essays Samples For Students

How Affordable Housing can Improve Health Equity in the Black Community

How Affordable Housing can Improve Health Equity in the Black Community
A lot of Americans think that racism is a thing of the past. If not totally gone, some Americans think that it has somehow gotten better over the years. This cannot be any further from the truth. Racism is still very much a part of the American culture; only now it is disguised and is placed in different little corners of the society. In the field of medicine and health, inequities may still be observed – especially in the treatment towards African American folks.
In terms of health disparities, ...

In his “Discourse on Inequality” Rousseau addresses the psychological and political effects of property ownership on human nature and society. He criticizes the inequity of modern institutions and traces their origins back showing how the evolution of humankind established the relationship between property, society and inequality. Originally written in 1754 as an entry for a competition run by the Dijon Academy of Arts and Sciences it established him as an important philosopher. The original question was “What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by the natural law?” Although his first discourse won the competition in ...

Introduction

This paper will seek to document various pedagogical projects which are designed to eradicate racist, sexist, classist and the homophobic status quo in our schools and the wider society. In doing so, the guiding principles and maxims of critical pedagogy as an emergent moralistic and ethical discourse of the above-mentioned variables in the law will be briefly outlined. The backbone of these projects is derived from a variety of articles from The Critical Pedagogy Reader book which deeply explain race, gender and sexuality in the context of the new millennium.

Pedagogy Project on Eradicating Racism in Our System

It is evident that Racism is highly engraved in the ...

There are a number of lessons that one must learn as one goes through life. But the lesson of attempting to survive through the racial discrimination in the south is one lesson that is most valuable to those who lived in that era. Many blacks can now relate to the racial challenge that Jefferson face in Louisiana in 1948. Like many other blacks during the 1940’s, Jefferson faces death for a murder. Of course the laws during the period did not require much proof to convict a black man as much of the stories of the past reveal ...

The Class

Writing prompt
Frye’s definition of oppression is very specific and uncommon. Critics argue that groups which are actually oppressed do not fall under the category, according to the author’s illustration, while those that aren’t legitimately oppressed are considered as such.
Marilyn Fries states that women are oppressed as a group but men, at the same time, are not. She also defines main characteristics essential to the oppressed personality. First of all, they must be restricted by some kind of barriers. Secondly, the restrictions must affect the person in a negative way. In particular, loose freedom, independence, ...

The social position of Muslim women is covered with decades of double-standards, misinterpretation and over-generalizing. As the result, nowadays there is a certain stereotype of what a Muslim woman should be, how she should behave and how she is to be treated by society in general. These issues concern institutional regulations, gender inequality, policy on women’s body and mobility and imposing the ideal stereotype. Considering these factors, it can be concluded that Muslim women are highly pressured regardless of where they live.

Rigid regulation of gender-based structures

First interesting proof of Muslim’s community double standards is gender-driven limitation is such institutions as ...

The essay is based on the studies of McIntosh, Wise, Shams, DiAngelo, Graham, and Dyson. According to the studies of these authors, privilege is considered as a communal theory which states that exceptional rights or compensations are obtainable only to a group of people. Furthermore, privilege is regularly used in the framework of social inequity, mainly in regard to ethnic, gender, and racial category.
1. White Privilege
According to authors, the practices that make white privilege is that the political sector including healthcare organizations and school gives more source of pride to the Native Americans. The authors in their ...

Chapter VII Case Study

Introduction
Discrimination implies judging individuals by their ability/disability statuses, race, gender, sexuality, age, and religion as opposed to their competence levels. People may apply for jobs where they are the best-qualified candidates. However, they could fail to get these jobs because of the HR’s discriminative practices. Such form of practice is authentic discrimination. This case study describes one such instance as follows.
In July 2015, a large health care facility lost a case in the settlement of a disability discrimination suit filed by one of its employees (named Ms. X hereafter for confidentiality) through the U.S EEOC. The ...

Introduction

Domestic terrorist acts in the United States have been committed by a combination of native ideological sects, individuals representing what are considered to be extremist ideologies, and internationally-based terrorist organizations, such as Al-Qaeda. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2011 Al-Qaeda sponsored terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was implemented (Furlow, 2005). The primary objective of the Department of Homeland Security can be seen as terrorism prevention. Although prevention of terrorism does not eradicate its ideological causes per se, the act of prevention can aid in the identification and ...

Marquez’ worldwide reputation of a prolific and outstanding author is undeniable. His international recognition reached its peak in 1982 when he got the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because of the poverty of Colombia, Marquez experienced and witnessed economic and social inequity that was one of the most dramatic on the Latin American continent. Marquez employs national history to produce plots that surprise readers because of the writer’s ability to combine techniques of the fantastic and realism. To be more exact, Marquez was the master of a style, which is known as magic realism. It helped the author to ...

I have learned certain concepts about motivation. The following is a presentation of what I have learned about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Equity Theory. A contrast of the two theories will be made, and one will be chosen based on certain reasons.

Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs

The theory posits that what motivates people to have nothing to do with either conscious benefits or rewards. Maslow argued that people are largely motivated because they want to achieve certain needs. When a person fulfills a certain need, he is motivated to fulfill the next need in the hierarchy. Maslow came up with five ...

The Colonization of foreign lands by whatever nation more often than not proves devastating to the colonized territory and people residing on it. The arrival of the British, a potent seafaring nation, on the Indian subcontinent marked an extensive period of exploitation that left the economy in a stagnant state. Starvation and poverty, illiteracy, agricultural decline, resource exploitation, wealth drain, trade inequity, infrastructural underdevelopment, feudalist land ownership, and the near-liquidation of artisans were among the outcomes of the Crown rule. However, this is not to say that positive outcomes were nonexistent, as the globalized nature of the sea empire ...

According to the recent State of the World’s Cities Report 2012, a holistic and integrated approach is essential for the well-being of all. It is critical to get aware of the new risks and support the cities to make the world progress economically, socially and environmentally. Although different crises of varying intensity have hit the cities, it is felt that cities can provide a solution for the regional and global crises via flexible and creative platforms. Part One: Prosperity and Urban Trends The future cities will be the center of prosperity. The human beings find their basic needs ...

Human Resource Management

In my current organizational role, the factor I am mostly motivated by is the high-order needs that are self-actualization and self-satisfaction. Although the low-order needs drive me, needs like an achievement, and recognition, being able to be fully happy in the job that I do every day and growing in it is my greatest motivator. Herzberg Hygiene factors for satisfaction also serve as motivators. Working in an environment where my work is appreciated, a recognition given, work is properly allocated, and all employees are given equal opportunity to compete for positions of leadership all serve as important factors. In ...

The probability of Social Security’s ability to continue distributing full benefits to retirees is low, according to the forecasts of most economic and financial experts. The forecasts predicting Social Security’s insolvency stem from the manner in which the Federal government funds the program. Currently Social Security is funded through employee tax payments under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act or FICA (Martoccio, 2011). The benefit payments the government distributes to existing retirees comes from the current contributions of existing workers (Martoccio, 2011). In other words, the funding for the amount of outgoing payments is dependent on the amount ...

The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) defined Sustainable Development as “the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” But Sustainable Development is more complex than this simplified definition. Sustainable Development has many issues concerning it such as development of underdeveloped nations, climate change, environmental damage, environmental regulation, addressing the problem of world poverty, population control, sustainable tourism, ecosphere preservation, urbanization, and conservation of earth’s resources. Sustainable Development is truly a challenge that is global in nature as it concerns the earth’s ...

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Sen, Ostlin and George (2007) claimed in their report to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health that girls and women had been viewed as less capable than boys and men. Women tend to hold different kinds of jobs as men (Correll, 2001), and experience double standard in the delegation of assignments. A study noted a 50 percent tendency for people to display distinct female role expectations (Lafky, Duffy, Steinmaus & Berkowitz, 1996). Real inequity exists in many areas of the woman’s work life: “equal pay for equal work, protection of working mothers, fairness in career advancements, ...

How inequality and inequity impacted death rate and government response with the eruption of Nevado del ruiz volcano?

This paper analyzes how inequality and inequity in the developing countries like Columbia contributes to vulnerability during the natural disasters. In relation to Armero, the government failed to provide the necessary information before the eruption of the Volcano. The government failed to provide the necessary facilities and resources to rescue the victims of the volcanic eruption. The unequal distribution of resources in Columbia led to poor action and response to disasters like the volcanic eruption. Poor or little investment in disaster management made Columbia fail to predict the dangerous volcanic eruption in Armero. Columbia failed to allocate adequate resources ...

New Orleans is a city that is strategically situated at the Mississippi River gateway and stands on top of what used to be an ernomous swam. In “An Unnatural Metropolis”, the author Craig E Colten explores how the city of New Orleans came to be and how the contradictory forces of urban development and nature influenced or shaped its development. Colten traces some of the engineered modifications of the natural environment of New Orleans from the 19th to the 21 century. He illustrates that although it is natural thing for cities to contend with their immediate physical setting, the city ...

There is a biased view in most prestigious universities that regard African American males as pawns instead of academic scholars due to racial based assumptions and stereotypic attitudes. Most individuals with the racism attitudes believe that African Americans are naturally academic dwarfs thus they lack the ability of achieving academically as with the case of their Whites counterparts. This is due to the assumption that Africans are essentially adapted for manual duties but not first class roles that need a sharp brain. According to Wilson, Lena and Félix (205), the mass media plays a crucial role in bringing on board how ...

Health social determinants are defined by the WHO (World Health Organization) (2012) as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities – the unfair and avoidable differences in health status.” The WHO definition demonstrates the many layers of complex issues that are involved in determining who has good health and who does not have good health. ...

Explain how health inequalities may be understood as inequalities that require structural level explanations.

Inequalities in health are deplored in modern democratic nations and equal opportunities are extolled in principle, if not in practice. The legacy of racism and economic inequality can be rooted in history and is still permeating in the status quo. Inequalities in health status, disease occurrence and mortality are shaped by accumulated wealth, material circumstances, environmental quality, nutrition and a wide range of personal behaviours, genetic inheritance and health services (Bhopal, 2006).
Within multiethnic societies, European-origin White populations are characterized by being richer, more powerful and enjoying better material circumstances, environment quality, and health services than non-White ethnic-minority populations. ...

Campaigns promoting sustainable development are accompanied by various environmental issues and problems in different communities for they all shared various cultures as well. It is therefore acclaimed that the functioning campaign must start from bottom at the community ground going to top level. We are much aware that communities are grassroots that encompasses a nation. People in this level are the one directly affected and can take action immediately compared to those on the top. Yet, it is very significant that in any level, they should be included and aware of the on-going dialogue about sustainable development. Target audience should ...

Current Events in Business

A fair wage or salary is usually determined by several factors in the business field. The market and the businesses in it usually set the managers’ salaries (Austin, 2010). One of the major factors that influence the amount of salary a business manager earns is the level of education of the employee. For example, workers who have an associate’s degree, a bachelor degree and a Master’s Degree are not usually paid the same amount of salary. In most cases, the higher the level of academic qualifications, the higher the salary/ wage. Another factor that organizations can use to determine a fair ...

Abstract

Women with the same education, knowledge and experience are paid far less than their male counterparts for the same position. Women have traditionally chosen careers such as school teachers, librarians, and secretaries. These are just some examples and are by no means an exhaustive list. As a result, we have seen the emergence of two labor markets. This is defined as “occupational sex segregation, one labor market for men and a completely different labor market for women. This has resulted in pay disparity between men and women. Women must be willing to obtain training in the “hard sciences” such mathematics, physics, ...