Essays on Activist

The development of Robin Hood as a popular hero is exhibited in the development of character in history for the last six centuries with the energy continually received in the present in the various stories narrated and written. The character of an outlaw who is ever elusive despite being in the confines of the police, under armed custody or under harsh circumstances is portrayed in various works of art and broadcasted in various media which is continued to the present. The modern media, moreover, recreates the character of Robin Hood the outlaw who has mystical powers, a natural winner, ...

1. Topic: Jesse Jackson as a Civil Rights Activist 2. Introduction

Jesse Jackson is a politician, Baptist Church minister and a civil rights leader in America.

He was born in 1941, and he learned about segregation when he was young. Jackson and his mother would sit at the rear of the bus, and their elementary school did not have some amenities which the town’s elementary school for whites had. 3. His Civil Rights Activities

He started his civil rights activities when he was an undergraduate.

He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965.

During the 1980s Jackson became the national spokesman for African-Americans.

4. His Relevance as an advocate for black self-help

In 1971 he founded Operation PUSH, People United to Save Humanity.

He used this organization to support for black self-help which also served as his political pulpit. He also founded the ...

Introduction

Are humans threatening the survival of our planet by disrupting the ecosystem? Marvin Gaye and the public believed this to be the case in the 1960’s and 1970’s when the modern Green Movement first began. Gaye sang “Poison is in the wind that blows from the north and south and east. Radiation underground and in the sky, animals and birds live near by all die. What about this crowded land, how much more abuse from man can we stand?” . Greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, ocean poisoning, topsoil depletion, food chain poisoning, acid rain, pollution along with demands ...

Eric Garner was an African-American man who served as a horticulturalist at the parks and recreation department of the New York City. He was a family man with a wife and six children. Due to health reasons, Garner quit his job as a horticulturalist and ventured into personal businesses. Eric Garner was not always on the right and he had gotten arrested by the NYPD a couple of times. His charges during these arrests ranged from assault, resisting arrest to selling cigarettes that were not licensed in the streets of New York. In 2014 July 17, Garner was outside ...

In global societies, discussions concerning the use of animals in medical tests for research are uncomfortable and controversial. Modern technology often broadcasts horrific photos of procedures being conducted on helpless creatures accompanied by claims of untrustworthy results and skewed statistics. In the long run, animals will continue to be used for testing in laboratories until the value of the practice is diminished. “The benefits of animal research have been enormous and it would have severe consequences for public health and medical research if it were abandoned “ (Festing and Wilkinson, n.p.). This paper will present information regarding whether animal testing ...

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YOURSCHOOLHERE The Seminole Tribe of Florida (n.d.) points out with pride that the Seminole Indians fought the army of the United States of America to a standstill until, eventually, President John Tyler ordered the “end of military actions” on May 10, 1842. How could it be insulting or demeaning, in the light of this history, for Florida State University to name its (often powerhouse) sports teams The Seminoles. The very word Indians is sometimes seen as insulting. After all, as the Editors of the Native Times (2015) remind us, an Italian working for the Spanish got lost and thought ...

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Please Stop Your Aid in Enabling Others to Harm and be Cruel to Animals

I am writing on behalf of the animals that are sold at your store that are mistreated and kept in hazardous conditions by one of your major wildlife suppliers, Holmes Farms. Though this business is already under investigation thanks to PETA’s campaign against Holmes Farms and Petco has stated that they have cut ties with this supplier, your business has continued to do business with them. This mistreatment was discovered initially after an activist for PETA got a job at Holmes Farms and discovered ...

Women and gender studies

Gender studies - the practice of interdisciplinary research using the cognitive capabilities of the social theory of sex (gender) for the analysis of social phenomena and its changes. The psychoanalyst Robert Stoller worked at the University of California he has introduced into science the term "gender" in 1958, which means social manifestations of belonging to a sex or a "social sex". In 1963, Robert Stoller spoke at a psychoanalytic congress in Stockholm. He presented a report on the gender self-awareness. His concept was based on the separation into biological and culture study of sex. The scientist believed that sex ...

‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ is one of the most favorite memoirs of American history wherein author Anne Moody shares first-hand account of her life, civil rights movement and contemporary American society. Moody’s account is more realistic than other African writers because she belonged to a common African American family and suffered pain like other African Americans. This paper proposes a discussion on Moody’s autobiography, ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ and further analyses the relationship in race, social movement, and citizenship. Anne Moody was born as Essie Mae. She was the eldest among her eight siblings. When ...

Summary of the Wolfers’s Article

This assignment will first summarize the article published by Wolfers (2016) in the New York Times, about policymakers’ possible response to an economic slowdown. Wolfers (2016) begins his article referring to an employment report that suggests job growth is slowing down. He brings up the possibility that the economy may suffer a significant slump, maybe even a recession. Wolfers (2016) suggests that the recent economic recovery may have come to an end. Worse, it is hard to think of a time in recent history when policy makers were so unprepared to answer to the challenge (Wolfers, 2016). If the ...

The feminist movement has been a vibrant one for the past couple of decades, not only in the United States but all across the world. There have been politically powerful and culturally influential campaigns and movements regarding women’s liberation and consciousness. The feminist movement involved several projects in the government bureaucracies, different institutions, and professions. These movements have brought about major changes in the lives of many women and their professions. Despite the acceptance of women’s equality and prominent accomplishments, the feminist movement has yet to achieve its absolute goals of gender equality (Epstein 2001). The focus ...

Introduction

In the current era, global uncertainty and change are at the peak that is a big threat to sustainability. The paper aims to discuss the accounts for sustainability at the organizational level and what can be accounted for sustainability. Currently, the global organizations do not account much for sustainability. The sustainable development is considered to be a complex concept because it gives rise to social and environmental issues. An increase in critiques of sustainability reporting and speculation on accounting for sustainability is also observed in the modern world. The practices followed by the organizations for sustainability, their consideration related ...

Part A: A Brawl in Mickey’s Backyard

The primary stakeholders in the SunCal’s plans are the; Employee unions and Disney. The secondary stakeholders will include; the Backers, Affordable housing advocates, the city council the other individuals and groups drawn by the prospect of reducing long commutes and the Save Our Anaheim Resort District group. The unions of employees are representing the Disney employees to ensure that they get affordable rental houses near their place of work. The Affordable Housing advocates are representing the employees; they are the voice of the employees for affordable housing. The other groups and individuals support the idea because it is ...

W.E.B Dubois Leader in Education Analysis W.E.B Dubois Leader in Education Analysis

A scholar, activist, novelist, leader, author, editor and a public speaker, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was one of the most significant African-American during the period of early 20th century. He was born on February 23rd, 1868 to a poor family in Massachusetts. When he grew up, Du Bois’s teachers nurtured him as a bright student and upon graduating in 1884, was insisted by his school principal to pursue a college degree. He then enrolled in Harvard as a junior in and around fall of 1888 ...

Silvia Earle is an independent activist who has been fighting for the preservation of the Ocean health for more than 5 decades. Mission Blue is a movie that is named after her initiative with a goal to ignite public support in order to preserve the vital places of Oceans known as “Hope spots.” She has a target to create a global Marine network of protected areas and safeguard 20% of ocean by the year of 2020 ("Home - Mission Blue"). In his article Michael Jay Fogarty argues that MPAs (Marine Protected Areas) are not the most effective way of ...

What different paths to freedom and equality did Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X offer to Black Americans? Why did each of them believe that their respective path would be long and dangerous The backbone of Martin Luther King’s ideology was the principle of non-violence. The idea of non-violent resistance is was not brand new at the moment when M.L.King addressed it in his rebellious policy. The ideology of non-violence had already been preached by an outstanding Indian human and national rights activist Mahatma Gandhi. The non-violent rebellion proved very effective in India when fighting English colonialism ...

The modern life of ours is largely dependent on what our ancestors did and did not do. The history, which is in the best words the recording of the flow of events, has a considerable impact on the way the society evolved. In fact, society itself is the product of historical dramatic changes. In these terms, since the dawn of our civilization, human beings had got used to documenting all the key episodes of their lives. However, some of the historical archives may consist of fake material, wrong opinions, and fabricated facts. Such a way of disguising the truth ...

Judicial activism versus judicial restraint is one of the debates that has influenced American jurisprudence for many years. The reason for this is that it is very easy for any human’s mind to be clouded by their personal beliefs. In fact, in many professions, professional struggle with the ability to do what is right for their job versus what may be their moral principles or personal beliefs. It is based on this framework that the debate between judicial activism and judicial restraint originates. Judicial activism refers to the judicial rulings that are decided upon the judge’s political ...

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Abstract The life is challenging – it makes people show their inner strength or weakness. In the first case – life gives an ward, I the second case – another challenge. Erin Brockovich is the one, who can be related to the first case. It is a strong woman, a mother of three children. The movie “Erin Brockovich” is showing her life and personality, through the narrative element, the costumes and, what is more important, the Julia Roberts’s play. These elements are going to be discussed in this movie, in terms of the way they impersonalize Erin Brockovich on the screen. ...

History

Civil Right Act The fight for black civil rights is one that has been long and perilous, fought using different approaches by various activists. This paper seeks to look into the various approaches taken by different civil rights activists and how these approaches lead to the changes witnessed in history as well as today’s world. The first activist, Booker T Washington believed that African Americans should exploit what they had at hand thus the Phrase “casting down the buckets where they were” and this would help them find what they were searching for which was political, social and ...

Langston Hughes poetry and social activist

Langston Hughes was an American social Jazz Poet, novelist and an activist who used American language, religion, music, slang to educate the globe about the lifestyles of American people at the times of Harlem Renaissance. The main theme that trolled in his poems were the social problems of the blacks who lived in low earning settings (Carl, 2004). Much of critique targeted the prejudices and the divisions that were common in the people of color within the community of the blacks. The poems were activist in nature as they dealt with how to be oneself issues and encouraged the ...

The civil rights movement was a succession of political protests in the United States that sought to bring racial equality before the law. In many instances, the protesters used nonviolent acts in enhancing the emancipation of women and the rights of minorities. Despite the fact that many women played a significant role in leading the local civil rights groups and volunteering as lawyers on school segregation suits, their efforts were overshadowed by men who got more attention and credit for the popular historical process in the US. Many women suffered from sexual discrimination and gender-based discrimination within the movement ...

McKissack P C & Mckissac F (1995) “ The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa” and The Gale Group Inc (2003) “Middle Passage”. Dictionary of American History In the first article by the McKissacks, the authors illuminate important aspects of the African American heritage by introducing three main kingdoms of medieval Africa. Songhay, Mali and Ghana were the main countries. Based on contemporaneous accounts, folklore and modern scholarly research, the authors’ discussions covers the customs, people, political history and origins of these civilizations. The authors provide insightful information about the world history and also Africans particularly ...

Marcus Garvey Mosiah is a renown Jamaican political activist who irrespective being the activist, he was a publisher-entrepreneur and a firm supporter of the Blacks Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. Marcus while schooling faced the challenge of economic hardships forcing him to leave school at fourteen where he started the technical job of printing and entrepreneurship. The interest of politics began manipulating in his blood, and he saw the need to indulge fully in it to save the less privileged in the society. His action is associated with how the Marcus Garvey ended the movements, these were Universal Negro Improvement ...

During the sixties, the civil right movement has spread, throughout United States, recognizing awareness everywhere in the world, as the Black Americans’ socio-political and economic revolt against the white treatment. Years after the end of slavery in United States, the status of the African Americans knew little changes, as they had no democratic rights, such as the right to vote, and they were publicly humiliated and brutalized, while the segregation still disallowed them to enter restaurants or other public spaces, despite the avid work of activists as Martin Luther King Jr. (Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet”). Blacks ...

The African American population had endured a long struggle for justice and equal rights. Having arrived in the United States as slaves, their struggle for equality in an all-white nation became a daunting task. The liberation and rights that are now enjoyed by the contemporary African-American population did not come at a low price. The focus of this essay is comparing some of the ideas espoused by the liberators of the African American people with those of Marcus Garvey. The Progressive Era was a crucial period in the quest to advance the rights of African-Americans. However, many of the ...

In the mid-1800s, females have been subject to much pressure. While white women were seeking freedom from white male domination, black women had been struggling to gain the most basic social rights. It was the era when education began and first universities were built (Frierson and Tate 151). At that time black women existed “at the intersection of race and gender”, and this issue had been greatly challenged (Frierson and Tate 151). From the beginning of the 17th century slavery had spread all over the country (Brezina 9). While the northern part of the state gradually became slaver-free, in ...

The XIX century was a period when there were some profound societal, political and economic transformations in the USA. Some of the movements such as abolitionism or women’s suffrage would not have been successful, if there had not been strong advocates in the civil society. One of such figures was Angelina Grimke, who was White, but the racial issues did not stop her from participating in the public debate concerning slavery and women’s rights. Her activity was unconventional for the mid-XIX century and it is important to investigate why her name should be written in the U.S. ...

Introduction

What I find inspiring about Boggs is her life right from the beginning. Grace Lee Boggs was an activist, whose life was dedicated to writing wrongs. She dedicated her life to leadership in civil rights, labor, and Black power movements. Boggs was born in the year 1915 at Rhode Island. Her parents were Chinese immigrants. Boggs father’s expansion in business made her move to New York. During her stay in the New York, she experienced the racism that her fellow Chinese Americans were exposed to. This motivated her to come up with ways to curb the situation. Boggs ...

Dan Koeppel, in the essay ‘Can This Fruit be saved?’ Explains two contrasting visions of how well to address the impending (banana) crisis. One of the visions is based on the traditional methods of production, aimed at the manufacture of a banana plant with the same taste and appearance as the Cavendish to the extent that consumers cannot tell it is not the one. Aguilar is one of its proponents. Aguilar serves as a head banana breeder at Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Investigation (FHIA).The other vision is shared by bioengineers and is aimed at altering the chromosomes of ...

Footnote: sources used are Cannon, de la Fuente, Dominguez, Laing, Shecaira,

Skidmore, Steur and Telles. Comparative Racism Between the United States, Cuba and Brazil Racism in the Americas is the societal result of colonization that took place from the end of the fifteenth century to the neo-colonialism of the last century. Then, as these eras ended, different countries adapted to the plurality of races that now existed in their own ways, some better than others. In most cases, but not all, there was European-American sentiment of superiority over other races that they now lived with. They now had freed slaves that they mistreated and subverted for hundreds of years, as ...

The persuasive essay “Forger Shorter Showers” by Derrick Jensen has appeared in Orion magazine in 2009. It is highly persuasive essay, and Jensen’s thesis argues that “personal change does not equal social change” (Jensen 665). He persuades that the environmental problems are so serious today that the large scale action are required to actually change anything that include the global changes in society and economy. The author examines different aspects of the life in modern society and aims at proving that little everyday acts people do in order to positively influence the environment do not actually change anything, ...

Explore the Definitions of and possible Tensions Surrounding the Idea of Alternative Media. What do we actually mean by Alternative Media? Explore the definitions of and possible tensions surrounding the idea of alternative media. What do we actually mean by alternative media?

Introduction

There have been attempts to define alternative media through scholarly research by academicians. It is viewed as critical media, actually mass media, questioning the prevailing capitalist classes of media output, design, content, dissemination and responding. There are many traits of alternative media but all traits are not essential in the forming of alternative media. Generally, a lack ...

Influential People: Lena Horne and Salma Hayek

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an African American woman famous as an actress, singer, dancer, and civil rights activist. Starting her career as a nightclub performer, Horne moved to Hollywood where she obtained small roles in numerous movies. As a result of her political activism, Horne was blacklisted and therefore she could not work in Hollywood further. Subsequently, she performed in nightclubs and on television before starring in a one-woman show, ‘Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music’. Horne was also prominent for her active involvement in the Civil Rights movement. She worked actively against racial segregation demanding the ...

Martin Luther King was a prominent social activist and Baptist Minister who led the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century America from the 1950s to the 1960s. He is also known for his oratory skills that came out clearly in his famous speech, “I Have a Dream” which he gave at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. For his role in combating racial inequality in the US, King was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest person to have ever received the coveted prize. His parents were Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr. ...

Women’s Experiences in Post-Civil War America

The experiences of women after the Civil War of the 19th century may have varied according to the women’s cultural and ethnic backgrounds, but in general they were quite harsh: women after the Civil War were subject to hardships and violence, although there were a number of them who became activists in their own right in order to champion the cause of women. The first account is that of Benjamin Singleton, an African-American man who helped in the migration of newly freed slaves to Kansas from Tennessee. He talks of the plight of African-American widows of slaves who ...

Essay

Introduction Since the flow of information between government and the public is at the core of nation-building campaign, a public relations (PR) model of the system must place emphasis on this communication process. A number of studies have explored the impact and contribution of public relations and communication to the nation-building campaign, such as government programs to strengthen public involvement in efforts to address social problems and to draw in investment (Lennie & Tacchi, 2013). The concept of 'nation building' arose in the 1950s in the field of political science as numerous nations were gaining their independence from imperialist colonizers. ...

The Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848 was one of a kind women rights convention that was aimed at discussing the social, religious and civil rights of women. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the women demanded the equality of women in the United States. In the document, are the feelings of women who for a very long time had been denied legal rights in a country that boasted to be the home of the free! Among some of the issues highlighted were the rights to vote because according to these women, their patriarchal society had never “permitted ...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published after Malcolm X’s death in 1965. It is said that this posthumous publication managed to change the public’s opinion of Malcolm X as of a violent activist. The Autobiography shows Malcolm X from the other perspective, viz. as a person capable of self-criticism as well as the one who had a long hard way to self-improvement and spiritual growth. In general, Malcolm X’s route to being an educated person was a complicated one with many obstacles on the way. He did go to school, but quit it when he ...

Intensity of Competition in the Casino Gambling Industry

Casino Gambling is one of the most developing industries in the United States of America. A considerable number of people have endorsed the act of gambling in their life. More companies have taken entry into the business though they are faced with many challenges such as competition from existing firms.

1: Who are the buyers in the Casino Gambling Industry?

The gambling industry has an enormous number of buyers since people in the U.S value the activity. The customers in the Casino industry include the gamblers, retailers, and wholesalers who bring gambling products to the target market. A person who moves into a casino has the intention to gamble ...

David Ulrich and his colleagues have released the results of a new Human Resource Competency Study (HRCS) to find out what the skills for high-achieving HR professionals should develop. The study came out with six core competencies that the HR professionals should focus on developing on. Credible Activist: An HR should be able to come with expert recommendations so that the professional is considered both an activist and credible. One without the other is not desired and sometimes dangerous. This skill is the most important and permeates all other actions. Cultural Steward: Due to other pressures, the CEOs expect ...

The institutional affiliation

Martin Luther King was an activist, orator, humanitarian, protestor, organizer, leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, as well as the Nobel laureate. He is also widely regarded as one of the most powerful nonviolent leaders in the world’s history. His “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” are the most honored orations and writings in the English language. In the following essay it will be examined the fundamental work titled Letter from Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King while he has been imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama. First, it is necessary to explain that ...

Robert J Katenbaum compiles some writings that fall under the bracket of death, human experience and perception of the society. Chapter nine of the book looks into assisted death, euthanasia, right to die and abortion. These four items characterize as the most controversial issues present in the current times. People have different opinion towards them especially on abortion and the right to die. The main reason is that they center on an individual’s perspective and will without thinking of the environment. For instance, abortion is a crucial talk in most human rights convention in that there are people ...

The Supreme Court of the United States has frequently participated in the concepts of judicial activism and judicial restraint. Many courts have been known to be either strictly activist or strictly restraint. However, recent history shows that nine justices in a single term can use activism in one case and restraint in another. Judicial restraint occurs when the justices rely more heavily on past case law and legal interpretations already presented when making decisions. While judicial activism occurs when justices go beyond interpretations and lean more toward personal preferences and current political trends in rendering decisions. Predicting which theory ...

Social movements are the collective, unofficial and anti-institutional actions by ordinary citizens with the intent of changing the current status of their societies. Social movements have a great impact as compared to any legislation or political party. This is because according to various studies on social movements they are interwoven interactions with a strong cultural footing as compared to legislations and political parties. Reed uses the concept of culture in three different ways based on the readers. For example, students and general readers are presented social movements in the view of artistic and cultural expression. The aspect of social movements and culture ...

Section I: progressive review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He died and why it Matters

It was anthropologist Mary Douglas who observed that Human is at heart, creatures of denial, they crave for stability especially when their notions are threatened, rearrange the way they conceive issues and deny the challenges. In her book, JFK and the unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matter, Douglas offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the various ills that marked the death of once an American icon and human activist John F. Kennedy. In an articulate voice, the well known anthologist, advocate and writer in different universities offers a compressive scanning on the episodes that marked the termination ...

Both authors contend that scholars play a critical role in activism. Craig, in his foreword, recognizes that activism is a matter analyzing the existing methods rather than plain advocacy. It is the role of activist scholars to produce new knowledge in the science of their interest. Laura Pulido in her article ‘frequently unasked questions about being a scholar activist’ notes that it is rewarding to engage in academic activism owing to the responsibility one assumes. Choices on social issues have consequences for scholars, which they are proud to live with since they are in line with what they believe. Further, Craig notes ...

In your view, why did Lu Hsiu-lien and many others in her generation become advocates of "Taiwan independence"?

Taiwan independence is a politically-motivated movement who primary aim is to form an independent and sovereign Republic of Taiwan from the lands that are currently governed by the Republic of China (ROC) (modern-day Taiwan) and claimed to be owned by the People’s Republic of China (PRC, China). It aims at renaming the Republic of China to the Republic of Taiwan and obtaining the status and recognition of a sovereign state internationally.

This movement is divided between two major coalition organizations: Pan-Green Coalition and Pan-Blue Coalition. While Pan-Green is in favor of the objectives of the movement, Pan-Blue seeks to oppose ...

Introduction

Youths living in North America and other areas of the world that are considered relatively liberated grow up with considerably more gender equality now more than in the past. This is seen through many aspects in the society like opportunities for education, status of the women in the society and the socialization of gender roles. These youths take up courses in institutions of higher learning that were predominantly thought to be a preserve of the men. This is because the society has evolved to perceive women as an equal gender, and one deservedly worthy of equal opportunities as the male ...

What precisely did the Civil Right Movement gain?

The Civil Rights Movement was a period when Black people attempted to gain their rights constitutionally. The fact that the Civil Rights Movement was a legal, political, and social struggle experienced by Black Americans to gain their full citizen rights and to achieve racial equality, as well. The movement was a challenge to segregation, to accept the Black people as human beings. Specifically, the segregation focus on the Black students to enroll or attend in the White schools in the community or the desegregation of schools. Thus, the Civil Right Movement gained the freedom from slavery, the rights of full citizenship, and ...

Introduction

The Jim Crow laws were formulated in America in order to segregate the African Americans. During the time of the Jim Crow laws, many African Americans were attacked, lynched or tortured by gangs of white people. This fact caused many African people to try to fight back. This caused the formation of the civil rights movements. Some of the notable African American people who were involved in the civil rights movement were Martin Luther king, W.E.B Dubois, Andrew Goodman, Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks. Given the deep and powerful roots of Jim Crow and racial exclusion in American ...

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

Comparative politics refers to the assessment of the political situations in all the countries across the world. Therefore, it becomes easy to determine the similarities and the dissimilarities that exist among the countries. The citizenry could use the comparative studies to increase efficacy in their nations thereby leading to the economic developments in the countries. As a result, the economic developments enhance the people’s living standards. The comparative politics entails two main methodologies that include; the area studies approach and the cross-national approach. The area studies approach involves an in-depth examination of a specific country or region. On the other ...

Computer networks and the internet have radically altered the way we live and conduct business. Integrated information systems based on vast networks make up the center of operation for current business environments and governmental operations. Governments such as the United States and Canada hold sensitive information about its citizens in such computer networks. Businesses rely on networks in order to perform business transactions that use electronic transfer of money in a new business paradigm referred to as E-commerce. However, as these systems are efficient and effective in management, they present the most vulnerable systems to security breaches.

Unlike physical storage ...

Introduction

In the early years of development, activism was a chaotic event characterized by violence, injuries, and deaths. It was hard for people to take up action against something since a lot of people lacked full details of the campaign. One great event that required a high campaign turnout was the black revolution in America. It took several years for the African Americans to change from slaves to free men who had equal rights with the white Americans. The continued activism started in the mid-19th century and went as far as a mid-20th century. The same case applies to other areas like South Africa. ...

The movie, Valkyrie is one of the thriller movies that have attracted a wide perspective of audience. It has also attracted a wide perspective of criticism from various parts of the globe. This has been mainly as a result of the fact that its main plot portrays several incidences that occurred during Nazism in Germany, specifically during the reign of Hitler. One of the aspects of the movie that portrays Nazism in Germany is the use of Nazi sign or arm band among many military personnel and other elite group affiliated with Adolf Hitler. The Nazi sign or an arm band indicating a ...

Dick Gregory is one of the most well-known black comedians and social rights activist who became popular because of his biting humor in criticizing racial prejudice. He is also a nutrition guru and a health entrepreneur advocating change of diet as a catalyst of better living. “Born into poverty, a circumstance he frequently used as the basis for his humor, Dick Gregory attended Southern Illinois University, where he ran track and was the University’s most outstanding athlete in 1953.” (Clovis 539) Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory began his career in the national comedy scene during the year 1961 in The Playboy Club in ...

Identify one activist claims maker group (i.e a social movement organization) (please identify this claims making group in a way that I could find out more about them with relative ease, i.e. a google search of their name) Make sure to define kay terms/ concepts in your answer. The activist group I found that is committed to taking a stance on the issue of online gaming addiction is called The Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence (MAVAV). According to the MAVAV website, the organization is “dedicated to educating parents of the world's fastest growing addiction and the most reckless endangerment of children ...

“Coming of Age in Mississippi” is a classic autobiography of Anne Moody that was first published in the year 1968. Readers get to know about Moody’s life of her childhood and till late twenties. The book presents the struggle faced by African-Americans in Mississippi, and how it was to be grown up in a very racial state. The autobiography of Moody is unique in a sense that it reflects direct voice of a poor, oppressed black women, who is struggled to change the society and tried to make it a better pace for African-Americans. Moody was grown up in a society where racism was ...

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America feared that the Cold War would inspire the Soviet communism nurture egalitarian societies, and prompt the colored people inside and outside America to remain marginal between capitalism and communism. This inspired American policy makers to undermine their practice of discriminating the colored communities. Thus, during the 1960s America witnessed radicalization of anti-racism movements. The Cold War affected the Asian Americans in different ways. First and foremost, a vociferous call by Asian Americans against racism would invite condemnation of the white Americans. Nevertheless, famed Americans of Asian origin voiced against racism. Until the year 1950, the Japanese were kept beyond ...