Essays on Intermarriage

Of course, the ideas presented by Sorrells in the Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice are quiet educative and relevant to the contemporary plural society. It is fascinating and covers almost of the issues that need to be understood by everyone in order to address the emerging issues in the society today. I would like to agree with Sorrels for the kind of information given in the chapter four: Placing Culture and Cultural Space: Locations of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication. Actually, this topic is quite relevant to the contemporary society because it enlightens the readers on the diverse situations ...

Introduction

The passage from the Republic by Plato is prone to different interpretations. To gain full comprehension of the passage the reader is obliged to delve deep into the platonic debate between Socrates and Glaucon. The trajectory of the argument according to Plato, was that democracies are governments ran by fools. The principal argument in the discussion was that democracies elect courses of action without a coherent understanding of the matter they are handling. The overriding argument was that only those who are fully experienced in statecraft should be allowed to rule. ‘Socrates argued that the cobbler and the medical doctor ...

Question 1

The societal trend cite ambivalent attitude that pertains marriage. Cohabitation and premarital sex has gained acceptance in this decade. The young adults perceive cohabitation as an option to marriage. The current society looks for a leeway to long-term commitment. The society has stopped stigmatizing the practice of cohabitation and it is a common living arrangement (Schoen and Vladimir 749). The increase in unmarried union is due to individual freedom to begin and end relationships. Many young adults do not support that marriage is the only option for intimacy. Premarital cohabitation occurs due to parental conflict and divorce cases. The society has ...

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After the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, the then American president, Theodore D. Roosevelt, passed an executive order, 9066, that gave local military leaders the authority to form special designated militarized areas within civilian populations. This order mainly affected the pacific coast of the United States because the government feared there would be a full-scale attack on American soil, especially after the initial Pearl Harbor attack (Bean 19). In the course of the two world wars, the American government always feared revolt from internal groups. In fact, the composition of the general American public was one of the main reasons ...

Nowadays, religion is the fundamental part in our culture. The question is, where did it came from, and what is its nature? Experience can explain this idea, first by considering the Stone Age people. Their minds gathered empirical realities necessary for survival and they did the best they could in drawing conclusions about the world beyond them. They call themselves “the people” and thought that strangers are creatures of another sort, less human than they are. With no defined difference between spirit and materiality, they believed that in preserving a corpse helps to preserve the spirit of the one who ...

The American civil war in the early 1860’s led to ratification of amendments that abolished the slave trade and recognition of African Americans as American citizens. However, this led to hostility between the native Americans and African American and increased stereotypes in the society creating different classes of people in the mainstream American society. African Americans were perceived as low class citizens while native Americans created white supremacy segregating and oppressing the African Americans. Jim Crow laws were laws passed throughout the southern states in the 1890’s with the aim of preventing African Americans from achieving equality ...