Essays on Baca

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

Coming into Language is an autobiography by Jimmy Baca that is used to depict the power of being literate. The author illustrates the life of a young illiterate Hispanic male who had to struggle through life in school, at work place and even unable to be stand up for his right to freedom. He compared his life when he was illiterate and when literate and shows the obvious benefits of being literate against the disadvantages of being illiterate. This is a story of hardship and gloom that ends in a triumph as the character is able to overcome his ...

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Racism is the ideology of racial inferiority/superiority at the individual, cultural, or institutional level that influences the perceptions and behavior of members of different racial groups towards others (Pieterse et al., 2011; Hoyt Jr., 2012). Research on the issue of racial prejudice has led to the association of perceived racism with poor psychological well being and psychological stress. Racism is an important concern in the present society due to the current prevalence of fatal violence against African Americans on the streets and even in church. It raises questions on the true incidence and impact of racial prejudice in the ...

The article entitled “ACLU Calls for Immediate Resignation of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and Thorough Federal Investigation” published online by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) proffered pertinent issues relative to alleged abuse, brutality, violence and violations to human rights reportedly perpetuated by the deputies of Sheriff Lee Baca to the inmates of the Los Angeles County Jail. As noted, accounts from eyewitnesses, chaplains, and even testimonies from inmates revealed that a culture of violence has been constantly applied to the inmates by the sheriff’s deputies who allegedly allow, inflict, and even encourage “deputy-on-inmate assaults, ...

The best way to learn, as is well known, is by reflecting and regurgitating on any new information that have been learnt or acquired. This strategy helps the learner to gain a deeper insight into the concepts that have been newly learnt, and also improves the individual’s ability to apply these concepts. This essay looks at my reflection over the concepts learnt in this module. These are as discussed in the essay below.

It is well known that man is a social creature. Therefore, it means that there must be social studies aimed at understanding this social nature. This is ...

Is it wrong for Advertisers to Target Children?

The debate on advertisements targeting children has raged on for some time. Companies use advertisements to make the public aware of their products in the market. The type of advert aired may have both positive and negative influence on the child. Nowadays, many children get exposed to a variety of advertisements on the different media like radio, television, the internet, and the print media as well. As a matter of fact, advertisements are available for people of all ages. However, the children have become more susceptible and in most instances, the advertisers targeting children customize their messages to influence the children. ...

Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico to a literary broken home. His father was an alcoholic who was always fighting and quarrelling with his mother. Together with his siblings, their parents abandoned them and went to live at their grandparent’s house. It is here that he acknowledges that his process of criminalization starts. The challenges he faces as a child make him what becomes of him eventually, but then, in Grandma Baca’s shack existed a fair share of violence and the drunkenness just like the one he saw back in their own home. The goings on in grandma’ ...

The narrator introduces us to his first memories as a young adult visiting prison. He describes the prison live vividly as a habitat of criminals and other significant events that occurred leading to the imprisonment of the father as well as his transformation. Jimmy Santiago Baca also narrates his painful memories and the parental love before and after he was a poet. Moreover, he goes to prison at the first time as young as five years. He also describes the alcoholic behaviours of his father as he grew up. Additionally, Baca explains that his father one-day drank and drove recklessly and ...

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Handling drugs and alcohol addicts require specialized care. The therapeutic approach requires that the members of the patients’ social circle confront the person with regards to the damages experienced as a result of the drinking behavior. Families normally procure services of interventionists to assist them, and advice on the actions that the members should take if the patients are to under a given treatment. Mainly, it is the family members and close friends who confront the addict. During the conversation, the patient is informed about the negative impacts of the drinking habit to the family and what the behavior is likely ...

Literature is the art of communication that explains the diverse nature of the environment in which we live. It is the point of reference for all humans which existed at the time of any event or were born after the event and would like to feed their imaginative situation by reading what happened then. Literature can be categorized into two main groups. These groups are oral and written literature. Oral literature is the art of communication through the word of mouth, but most of it is not recorded anywhere. This literature used to happen in the ancient times where ...

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Yahoo was first introduced to the market in the year1994.This was after an urge of two electrical engineering students from Stanford University David Felo & Jerry Yung,who decided to keep track of their own records in the internet. Yahoo has ever since been developing and many people have come to know of its existence and have really embraced it. The capital base of the company in its initiation stage was approximated at $ 3 million. The highest part of this capital was acquired through public offering, which leads to the sale of 2.6 million shares of the company. Acquisition of ...

[Writer’s Name] McDonaldization of the U.S. Court System

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The McDonaldization representation is an undemanding systematic perspective to what has been believed a flourishing game plan, therefore pointing to the extraordinary value and development of the US court system this plan has been titled after. The model of McDonaldization is consisted of four important conceptions: predictability, efficiency, calculability and control. There is the term McDonaldization that was emerged by Maryland University professor and, sociologist George Ritzer, to signify the mixture of current day 20th century US functions for example scientific supervision, bureaucratization and assembly line manufacture. The achievement of ...

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Dust Bowl is a phenomenon, which shows how Mother Nature can be rough and devastating. This is the effect of strong wind blowing strongly low on the ground. It has a lot of dusts and dirt that makes it very dark that you could not even see a thing (Burns). Others even think of what they have done why it is happening, as why is it so dark and so strong that it makes their houses shake while inside the horrifying dark bowl of dirt. People did even think that it was the beginning of the end. It was a scare that dusts entered people’ ...