Essays on Ghettos

Multiculturalism is a defining characteristic of the Canadian people, where persons of diverse backgrounds and origins live in harmony. However, discord persists over the impact of various legislation and practices in the integration of immigrants as well as identifiable religious minorities. Multiculturalism, for instance, finds opposition on the premises that it promotes balkanization and isolation of ethnic groups. Proponents argue that such policy encourages herding of ethnic groups, where differences between groups are amplified as opposed to their common identity as Canadians (Kymlicka Par1). It is imperative for a multiethnic nation like Canada to institute mechanisms that facilitate feelings ...

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Juvenile delinquency has long been a sensitive topic. It often encompasses the disciplines of morality, ethics, and criminal justice and law enforcement. The same is true for other hotly debated and related topics such as the over-criminalization of youths, youth policing, and the war on drugs and how it affects the mindset and social behavior of young people. There has also been numerous works that have been published about these topics. One of those was Punished Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. Punished was a book published by Victor Rios in 2011. What makes this book a ...

Hip-hop is a music genre popular among the youth and teenagers around the world. The genre has experienced significant changes from its inception to what it is currently. Besides, rock music, Hip-hop advocates lifestyles that are louder and daring than the modest or ordinary lifestyles. Additionally,Dalton (77) shows that the genre also has influenced how its fans relate and identify with each other, advocates the use of slang language. the Hip-Hop music is characterized by turntablism also known as Disk Jockeying, rapping, graffiti, dances such as the famous breakdance. The genre was started in the 1970’s in ...

In the book, “The Eagle Unbowed,” Halik Konchaski follows the events that affected Poland in the world war. During the World War II, Poland suffered significantly at the hands of Germany. Following the destruction of Poland’s armed forces in 1939, the country was partitioned between the Soviet and Nazi forces, and with the progression of the war millions of Poles suffered and died. From the Warsaw Rising to the Treblinka genocide, Polish Jews were to be murdered and Christians to be reduced to semiliterate slaves. The Holocaust in Poland is a vital event that enables us to understand ...

The holocaust is one of the most critical eventualities that took place in the 20th century. Indeed, it is one of those happenings that changed the world forever and become a defining moment for how the Jews and the world would handle a conflict. As such, it has become one of the most analyzed political instigation of all time. Based on this historical importance, this paper seeks to understand the nature of the Holocaust. It pays particular interest on the events and motivations that led to this deadly instigation. Importantly, the paper also explores these motivations in relation to ...

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Holocaust is the persecution and the extermination of the Jews who lived in Germany, in territories of its allies and the occupied territories during the Second World War; systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the 1933-1945 years. Holocaust was one of the biggest tragedies of all times. Significant part of Jewish population was killed. Also, non-Jewish who tried to help to Jewish or who fight against Nazi regime became victims of Holocaust. In 1933 Adolf Hitler became a Chancellor of Germany. He played the major role in establishing Nazi regime. Several ...

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, but not all of them have been welcomed or received the same opportunities for a better life. The difference in treatment is explained by the concept of whiteness, which has evolved since colonial days. The immigrant group that set the standards of whiteness was the Protestant, White American who could trace his ancestry to the first Anglo-Saxon settlers. During the nineteenth century immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe began to make their way to American industrial cities such as Chicago. While these immigrants fared much better than the African slaves who ...

We refer to the Cold War as the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the USSR in 1990. That is when two powerful countries emerged, one being the United States of America and the other being the communist USSR. So, when the end of militarization was expected, the American government presented the people with a new threat, claiming for many decades that another war was imminent. The USSR was presented as a new Hitler with expansionistic tendencies. This helped to justify American intervention abroad, like for example in Greece right after World War II and ...

Early Canadian Multicultural Policy towards Ethnic Minorities: A Historical Background

It is significant to see that early Canadian multicultural policies towards ethnic minorities must be interpreted in two different outlooks. Firstly, there was a Government official policy towards the French Canadians. Throughout the British colonial era, British authorities generally enforced multicultural policies that were both prejudiced and assimilative with the aim to bring this ethnic group into the British control. Since Confederation, nevertheless, French Canadians were able to gain significant political and legal independence rights. This consisted of some political freedom through the acknowledgment of Quebec as a province, representation in political bodies, and legal language rights. In contrast, there ...

Chinese immigration in American begun back in the 17th century and were influenced by many reasons. According to data collected on immigration, the Chinese immigration to America can be calcified into three categories this being 1849 to 1883, 1883 to 1965 and 1965 to date. These three categories periods categories the immigration of the Chinese into the states. 1848, saw one of the largest waves of immigrants come to the states. The Gold Rush Era was the main reason behind the influx of immigration during this period. 95% of all the immigrants who came from China were recorded to ...

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Racism in Eduction

Why do disparities continue to emerge in the statistics of students of different colors, despite an elaborate structure to eliminate racism in education? Institutional Racism has been defined as “the systematic distribution of resources, power and opportunity in our society to the benefit of people who are white and the exclusion of people of color.” It was a hierarchical system covering a range of institutions and policies over centuries of racially distributed resources and views. Racism germinated the treatment of the Red Indians ...

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Centuries after independence and adoption of civil rights in the United States, racial prejudice has yet to disappear completely. In spite of the numerous efforts put towards elimination of racial mindsets where majority of the white population treats Black Americans and other people of color with prejudice, cases of racial prejudice are still extant in the society. Subtle as it may be, racial prejudice leads to far reaching psychosocial, socioeconomic and even physical consequences. Modern racism is experience in various spheres of life, including legal and employment decisions, group problem-solving and normal day to day interactions in which ethnic ...

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The Black Panther Partywas an American black revolutionary movement formed in 1966 in Oakland, California. Its founders were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group was originally named Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.The Black Panther Party patrolled black ghettoes with loaded firearms and protected its residents from police harassment and brutality.The group, later, evolved into a revolutionary group pressing for black Americans equality andnon-exploitative environment.In 1967, the Party gained a reputation through its large membership reaching up to 2000 members. Like in a collective identity, the group was a forum through which they could articulate their needs. The party had engaged in persistent ...

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Report on MA Thesis - What is the hypothesis or what are the major research questions? The major research questions the author used were or may be; what is the degree and nature of clustering of Jews in the United States? How could they maintain the close association just as they had in European ghettos? What is the pattern of their clustering? What was the impact of World War 1 to these clusters? How stable are Jews in the west compared to their counterpart in the east? What is the rate of population growth in the cities? ...

The book Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality by Loic Wacquant is basically a response to the moral breakdown that was happening in Europe. There was already a breakdown of both law as well as social order in the urban peripheries in Europe cities such as Lyons in France and Bristol in England. This breakdown in law and social order expressed itself in the widespread presence of destructive gangs of youth in these cities. He then explores the question as to the extent the rioting that occurred in the cities replicated itself on the other side of Atlantic. In ...

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Introduction The Holocaust refers to the mass persecution and genocide of the Jews carried out by the Nazi Party under the rule of Hitler throughout Germany and the territories under German occupation. Not only Jews, Holocaust also claimed the lives of disabled people, homosexuals, Romani populace and prisoners of war. Holocaust is infamous for nearing extermination of the Jewish race with about 5.5. to 6.1 million Jews killed in the massacre. The mastermind of the holocaust was Adolf Hitler who shifted the religious anti-Semitism to racial and ethnic anti-Semitism making use of the mass sentiments against the Jews ...

The holocaust is one of the most studied events of the 20th Century. While genocide certainly happens over and over again in the course of human history, this is probably because it rarely ends up so industrialized. While we, as humans, are hardwired to treat the “other” as an enemy, never in the course of human history has it been done in such an organized and large scale manner. But it did not start out leading directly to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Sobibor, Majdanek, Chelmno, Treblinka and Belzec. Indeed, the evolution of the holocaust would lead to differentiation ...

The Holocaust did not simply happen overnight. There was a long evolution that ultimately led to the gas chambers and the death camps. Initially, efforts were focused on forcing Jews to emigrate. For example, a “Central Office for Jewish Immigration”, led by Adolph Eichmann, was formed to coordinate efforts to force the Jews out. But many countries did not want to take them. The United States even turned back a ship, the M.S. St. Louis, packed with Jewish refugees that had been bound for Cuba but was denied entry there as well. This hindered the ability for many Jews who otherwise would ...

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The migration of people into the United States in 19th century was the reason for the diverse cultures in America. The immigrants are in search of labor. The ethnic groups, which migrated to America, were prejudiced and stereotyped in various ways; they were given many names based on their color and economic status. For instance, the Irish were prejudiced to have poor, unskilled and uncivilized. They were also described using cartoons ton say that they are drunkards and old-fashioned. These allegations were used to force them to live in ethnic ghettos. They were only restricted to unskilled labor.The Mexicans ...

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Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister and Ph.D. in theology who had led the civil rights movement in the South since 1955. He referred to the founding documents and principles of the United States that promised liberty and equality for all, and noted that the country had failed to fulfill these in practice, especially because blacks had suffered centuries of slavery and segregation. His main concern was to secure basic citizenship and voting rights for blacks, and his speaking style was far more like that of a preacher and prophet. A century after slavery was abolished, blacks still faced segregation, ...

The holocaust is one of the most studied events of the 20th Century. While genocide certainly happens over and over again in the course of human history, this is probably because it rarely ends up so industrialized. While we, as humans, are hardwired to treat the “other” as an enemy, never in the course of human history has it been done in such an organized and large scale manner. But it did not start out leading directly to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Sobibor, Majdanek, Chelmno, Treblinka and Belzec. Indeed, the evolution of the holocaust would lead to differentiation ...

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Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism, Patricia Hill Collins deals with the complex problems of gender and sexual politics in the black community, within the context of a racist and heterosexist society, in which blacks have internalized many of the prejudices and stereotypes held by whites. Although there has been considerable progress in civil rights, women’s rights and gay rights in the U.S. since the 1950s and 1960s, blacks still face the highest levels of poverty, discrimination, poor housing, education and healthcare and HIV/AIDS compared to any other group. Young black ...

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No other country in the Western world has as high a level of inequality of wealth and incomes compared to the United States and none offers less opportunity for intergenerational mobility. Just the opposite, mobility has been decreasing greatly over the last thirty years while inequality has increased, and young people earn less than their parent’s generation. All of this is a result of conservative tax, budget and economic policies since the 1970s that have left the U.S. as more of a class-stratified society than Great Britain. Children born into poverty are very likely to remain in poverty all their lives ...

Survival in Auschwitz is a brilliantly written book that shows the pathetic state of humanity during the holocaust. Primo Levi recounts his experiences at the Auschwitz camp first hand in a touching and emotional way that is likely to melt even the hardest of hearts. Survival in Auschwitz is one of the most detailed accounts of the holocaust and is a worthy read for any historian.

The Nazis Plan to Destroy the Jews

One of the plans devised (by the Nazis) to rid themselves of the Jews was deportation. The Nazis forcefully resettled the Jews in death camps after they decided that destroying the Jews was for more important ...

The years 1945-60 really were an American High, to use the title of William O’Neill’s book, and the main reason for that was that every other great power in the world had been knocked so low by the Second World War. The Greatest Generation had indeed rendered a great service to their country and to those who had not yet been born: they had kept Adolf Hitler 3,000 miles away from the U.S. and helped destroy his regime forever, and there would have been no Affluent Society had this not occurred. No other nation on earth was ...

Dangerous Minds (1995) is the account of a white teacher LouAnne Johnson who takes a job teaching a class of low-income black and Hispanic students in an inner city high school, and encounters a variety of social issues such as poverty, racism, drugs, gang violence and segregated schools and neighborhoods. Most of the teachers and the school authorities care nothing about these students and their problems, and are simply passing them along without teaching them anything. Miss Johnson does come to care about them and uses highly unconventional teaching methods as well as showing great concern about their personal lives. Although she had ...

Racial profiling against blacks, immigrants and minorities has always existed in the American criminal justice system, as has the belief that minorities in general and blacks in particular are always more likely to commit crimes. Blacks and other minorities have a much greater chance of being arrested, convicted and sentenced to prison than whites, especially on drug charges, which is why they are the majority of the prison population today. Throughout the 20th Century, nonwhites were also sentenced to death and executed all out of proportion to their actual percentage of the population. American society and its legal system were ...

Racial segregated ghettos emerged in America’s cities when the African Americans started migrating to the north. They were moving to the north because it was an industrial city and they believed that they could get better employment opportunities there. The African Americans moved out from the rural southern part of the United States to the north to form the ghettos where they lived in. They were running away from the widespread racism of the south. They were also escaping from the harsh federal rules that were imposed on housing and transport while looking for a better life in the ...

During the Holocaust, the logistics of systematically imprisoning and eliminating six million Jews and other "undesirables" could not have been done simply by the Nazi Party and conservative Germany. Many other factions and individuals contributed to the facilitation of the Holocaust and its continued operation on both civilian and military levels. There were many reasons why people collaborated with the Nazis, and the results were often much more widespread than the Germans themselves could have hoped for. Collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust was a vital component that contributed to the substantial number of victims accumulated during this dreadful ...

1) For the several decades up to 1933 analyze the situation of German Jews in terms of security and vulnerability

The Jews in Western Europe were often abhorrent to the point of being killed and even getting robbed. Prior to 1933, the life of the Jews was not a bed of roses. On numerous occasions, they were driven from theory homes, their properties were seized and their culture was usually attacked. They were not allowed to enter some cultural group gatherings and were also not allowed to occupy some positions in the government. Their security was at a risk and was ...

Similarities And Differences Between The Armenian Genocide And The Jewish Holocaust

Genocide refers to a deliberate intention of the destruction and killing of people of a particular ethnic, cultural or religious people. The people in government who usually perform such action have attitudes and behaviors that were discriminative and racial in nature though they were being covered up in super nationalistic ideologies (Kelman, 1973). The Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust have several similarities and differences and scholars have examined both events and explored what led to such actions.

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian genocide occurred in several steps over several years during World War 1 in the Ottoman Empire. First of all the Turkish ...

The Second World War of 1939-1945 is noted by historians as the war that killed many civilians from each side. The war that have started with the German invasion of Poland kick-started German leader Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, as well as his vision in ridding the Jews in massive concentration camps and executions – the Final Solution or popularly known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust eliminated many innocent lives due to the Anti-Semitism in the European region, and a group’s desire to be claimed the superior race. The Holocaust paved the way for new methods of mass killing ...

Introduction

World War II was the most destructive period in our history, with Adolf Hitler and Germany at the center of it. It was fought with “unparalleled ferocity using weapons of previously unseen destructiveness in unsurpassed numbers” (Marshall Cavendish Corporation 12), and finally culminated in the atomic bomb being used. The fighting lasted longer than it did in World War I and had a truly global scope, with the fighting involving millions of troops. This war resulted in the deaths of about 56 million people from 1939 to 1945, with 60% of them being civilians (Marshall Cavendish Corporation 12). Although ...

Black Music

What’s happening? Black Music. 1. (a) Reggae artist, Duane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson is a non-dancehall reggae artist. The reggae sound and beat are not the up-front of the sound; they are the foundation on which his singing voice and his message comfortably perch. His voice is serious even when he sings; he sounds like an old man, probably because he is mature and thoughtful. His fans describe his voice as wise.1

Stephenson’s albums may be too mellow and well, boring to some. His lyrics are strong so he doesn’t let the music overwhelm his message. He ...

Introduction

In the recent years there has been a high growth in the number of people who are getting incarcerated. This has led to a lot of debate on the legitimacy of the penal system. Is it really working to reduce or deter criminal behaviour? Is there anything in the punishment system that needs to be changes? The penal system should be revisited in order to address the high incarceration rates in the country.

The Legitimacy for Penal Punishment

There are theories that have contributed to the penal system. The choice theory in criminology has contributed over the years to justifying and specifying penal punishment. Each man ...