Essays on Marginalization

While the concept of race is today clearly recognized as fictitious, the term itself has taken an altogether new reality as a cultural denotation. More specifically, the culture of racism is largely influenced by geopolitical imagination and socio-political antagonism. The new political order referred to as “Empire” is a social frame work that posits “the inferiority of an “Other” based not in biology but in cultural differences and their insurmountability” (Semati, 257). Semati argues that ‘Brown’, once signified exoticism, but refers to menacing ‘Other’ today. The Brown in this case (in Semati’s article) refers to the Muslims of ...

Introduction

The use of social media enables the American and the global society to communicate through social networking. Additionally, individuals have been able to actively participate in different activities relating to their lives such as leadership. Various internet platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have significantly contributed to the capacity of individuals to make effective communications with the social world (Ore 12). However, the use of social media has caused various problems to the American and the global society as a whole. This paper will focus on the discussion of some of the common and potential problems that are currently ...

Economic inequality Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Introduction Thought the last century, the subject of inequality has come to the fore. It seems that social, economic, racial, ethnic disparity became ubiquitous under the circumstances of economic and technical progress. While some countries take a course of rapid development, others remain behind. It happens not only on the political level but also within the country on the social scale. The emergence of perceptible economic inequality can now be observed in developed countries, and Australia is not an exclusion. Historically, economic inequality strengthened disparities of income and living standards of the individual layers of the population, increased the ...

Social Exclusion

Social exclusion is referred to the public refusal of individual member if their lifestyle does not meet the regular societal attitudes or if they fail to maintain normal social interaction without necessary material resources and education. Social exclusion is a concept that is used in many parts of the world for the labeling of modern forms of social deprivation and a decline in the margins of society. Social exclusion means non-acceptance of an individual or group of people from the social environment. This may be based on race, ethnicity, language, culture, religion, sex, age, social class, disability, and economic ...

The Flanuer

In order to understand what the flanuer culture encompassed one first needs to understand what flanuer is. According to Charles Baudelaire, the flanuer is a man who is so enthralled by the urban society/world that the external overpowers the internal, so fascinated with the on goings of others that he temporarily forgets his own self. The flanuer removes him form the on goings of thaw world as he/she strands astride the worlds hearts. There are two schools of thought with regards to the description of the flanuer culture. The first school of thought associates the flanuer culture with a ...

The Impact of Technology on Urban Life and Urbanization

Question One The argument that the Course Directors present, with regard to the five key points that are discussed in this paper, is that while technology has historically paved the way to the progress of communities through effective communication, it simultaneously produces a widening gap between those who have greater power and those who does not (York University, 2016). In Splintering Urbanism and the Future of Cities, the Course Directors state that the evolution of technology has led to global urbanization; this, in turn, has resulted in the splintering of the urban society. This weakens the poor and strengthens ...

Introduction

The effects of child abuse are risk factors for later lifespan development. There are public policies in force about this issue. There are extreme risk factors associated with child abuse that may not be prevented by public policy. Both internalized and externalized problems that can result from child abuse often lead to overall adjustment issues (Leeson, 2011). Victims of child abuse often suffer an inability to accept their abuse, as well as having difficulties with transitioning through other life experience (Leeson, 2011). Intervention can also be harmful to child development. Ill-treatment and neglect is a public issue because children ...

Introduction

In the lion share of cases the life perception, its values and strategy are determined for individual in one’s parent’s families. Thus, it is critically important to maximize the probability for each particular child for living with one’s parents, and address the existing pitfalls of the institute of family with corresponding policies. This paper would be dedicated to representation of the core aspects of the family policy -as an intentional course of action for minimization of the need of engagement the child protective services into the process of assistance of the children, who fall into the ...

Arguments for Aboriginal Child Protection

In most countries of the world, the level of democracy has reached recognition points whereby people have exclusive rights to express their democratic rights. Governments are made on the basis of the popularity of political parties and individuals who dominate these governments tend to make policies that protect their interests and those of their families. These individuals usually constitute the majority in the country and once they get into throne, they tend to disregard the positions of the minorities. In some cases, public policies tend to be discriminatory where social services and protection are offered to particular groups while ...

In this essay I’m going to talk about political and social alienation in Egypt based off an article reflecting recent happenings in the said country. The article is titled “Sinai Explodes Into Violence After Years of Chronic Poverty and Alienation” The theme portrayed in the article is mainly alienation, alongside other themes such as poverty, marginalization and violence, which clearly brings out the alienation of the Bedouins, an ethnic group in Egypt. I chose the article because the Bedouins have several characteristics which alienate them from other Egyptians. The characteristics are; permanent nomadic lifestyle, low population and geographical ...

Reading Summary about Fanon

According to Fanon, nationalist parties aim at mobilizing people in the spirit of independence (97). These parties do not have economic agendas for the nation because of their lack of an idea about their country’s economic status. Nationalist parties always operate on academic and approximate knowledge of the country’s present and potential resources; thus, they can only talk about the economy in the abstract sense. After independence, bourgeoisies undergo considerable stagnation due to the lack of capital and inability to adapt to the road to revolution. Scarce managerial talent and precarious resources force bourgeoisies to focus on ...

Introduction

Sustained huger and food insecurity are harmful to all individuals, but hunger is primarily disruptive to children. Good nutrition is of the utmost importance to a child’s growth and wellbeing. Not having enough of the right kinds of food can have serious consequences for a child’s physical and mental health, educational accomplishments and future economic success. One in five kids is facing difficulties in achieving his or her full potential. Hunger among children in America is due to prevailing states of poverty, rather than the availability of food itself (DoSomething.org). Income inequality and the continued marginalization of ...

Introduction

This paper is to deal with one of main issue of post-WW2 world, namely the phenomenon of civil war. The analysis of this paper is devoted to such questions as the reasons for certain civil wars as well as concrete instances of such internal conflicts. Also, the paper is to discuss the major theoretical contributions and controversies related to the civil war research program: firstly, civil wars are defined conceptually, and then, operationally. Second, major theories relating to the issue of causes of civil wars and their results will be discussed, along with future directions and policy implications. The ...

Introduction

Members of the LGBT or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in 2016 probably are accepted more in society than even a decade ago. A research report published by the Pew Research Center in 2013 showed that over 55% Americans viewed LGBT members favorably which was a rise by almost 20% when compared to 2003. Lesbians were viewed slightly more favorably than gay men – 58% people had a favorable opinion about lesbians while only 55% had a favorable opinion about gay men. In contrast 92% of LGBT community felt that they had been accepted by society. In sharper contrast, ...

The addiction simulation exercise using ice cubes as the drug of choice has become a truly revealing experience showing how easy it is to become addicted and how hard it can become to keep leading a normal life, meeting with friends and family, studying and doing any other activity during addiction. This exercise showed how easy it is to lose connection with the reality during addiction that makes a person view everything from the perspective of addiction. However, indeed, this exercise could not demonstrate the hardships people can experience when trying to break free from the addiction, since I ...

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Crime has been an important study that has existed for a long duration of time. Yet it remains controversial with theoretical, historical and accounts of male and female involvement often inconclusive. The perpetrators of crime have for long being presumed to be men. Whether by design or by nature men have been the major actors in criminal activities is a matter of contention. This paper adds to the existing literature on gender differences in crime involvement by comparing different researches on crime with special emphasis on gender involvement. There have been several studies that have been carried out focusing ...

Introduction

Erin Brockovich is a legal clerk in America, who is also an environmental activist, who got the public’s attention when she aided in the building of a case against a firm called Pacific Gas and Electric, despite her limited knowledge in the legal field. A movie was created based on her life story under her name “Erin Brockovich” and was released in 2000. The single mother was depicted by Julia Roberts in the film portraying her defiance as she struggled to bring down the power company for polluting the water system in the city. This paper seeks to ...

Epistolary novel The Color Purple, composed by American author Alice Walker, illuminates life of African American women in the South parts of the US during 1930-s. This novel is considered to be one of the most controversial and censored literary work of Walker due to its explicit scenes of violence. Thus, in her letters to God main heroine, Celie, reveals true horrors of her life. Being, uneducated and poor fourteen-year-old African American Southerner, Celie faces constant physical and emotional abuse first from her father, Alphonso, who beats and rapes her and later from her husband, known as Mister. (Walker) ...

Introduction

Supply chains organizations are dependent on various factors and aspects and the forms that they take determines the results for the involved parties. With that, there are various supply contract types that can be applied for their management with varying relationships. In that view, this analysis seeks to analyze the case of the Winter Gear as a producer that has a supply chain relation with Pete’s as the supplier in consideration of the different types of contracts that could be applied for maximization of the profits.

Analysis

Company background Winter Gear manufactures high-end skiing and snowboarding equipment with its ...

While diversity and equality represent the goal in today’s multicultural society, racialized groups continue to be disadvantaged in the business environment. African-American employees need to work harder in order to keep their jobs and to advance in their careers, and they are more likely to be fired for unsubstantial reasons. African-American women are less likely to be promoted in the corporate world than any other group in the country, including White women. As Galabuzi (94) shows, as of 2000, racialized groups in Canada earned less than Whites, despite having similar studies and experience. Furthermore, racialized groups were more ...

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When Invisible Man, the seminal novel by Ralph Ellison was published in 1953, it quickly established a reputation as one of the most important literary depictions of the struggles of African-Americans in the history of fiction. The central character, the titular ‘invisible man,’ struggles with a metaphorical invisibility that was endemic to the 20th-century attitudes of white hegemony toward African-Americans, and encapsulated the black experience as one of marginalization and oppression. These elements contribute greatly to manifesting a vision of black American life that expressly prevents blacks from achieving the same level of respectability and acceptance as whites, regardless ...

Bertolt Brecht’s classic two-toned play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is about both gangland Chicago and Nazi Germany. Brecht uses the fictional story of Arturo Ui to parallel the truthful rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany around the same time. Both Ui and Hitler are totalitarian rulers of their relative domains, each with their own secret agendas and a thirst for power that they will attain in any way they need to. If they have to kill people, so be it. Violence and corruption only helped these rulers because they were able to threaten others by making ...

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In advertising throughout the past few centuries, women have placed in one of several limiting roles. One is the extremely thin fashion model, a sex symbol for the typical man whose main role is to be pretty and attract men. The other is the domestic partner, the woman who takes care of the house to the exclusion of all personal desires and responsibilities. There is also the incompetent, the dullard; the weak-willed woman who simply cannot handle the limited and finite duties that are burdened upon her. In this paper, the effects of negative advertising on women will be explored, ...

In Brumberg’s chapter “Tales Out of School,” he details how young Jewish immigrants learned and were integrated into the American school system. The biggest thing that stuck out to me was the passage about the growing Americanization of the students of these schools, regardless of heritage:

“Bleeding form and content, ritual and subject matter, the schools provided its immigrant students with a new “American” persona. The school clerk often changed the names of recent arrivals. Among these interviewed, we find Moses changed to Morris, and Nachum to Nathan. Last names became altered as well.”

This idea is extremely disconcerting ...