Essays on Menial

The positive aspects of Booker T. Washington’s position on the assimilation of blacks into the free communities of the United States revolve around his recognition of the rigid color line that existed at the time. Even with a Civil War tarnishing the nation’s history, traditions remained unchanged and white supremacy was the epitome of American cultural norms. To that end, Washington’s argument that persons of African descent ought to “cast down [their] bucket where [they were]” is perhaps the best advice anybody could have given the ex-slaves (1895, par.4). After all, the abolition of slavery not ...

1. Robots should be used for all types of jobs. This does not necessarily mean that robots should be used exclusively for any one job, but robots can be used to augment the cognitive and technical skills of surgeons, lawyers, and teachers. Thus, realistically, robots can and should be used for all types of jobs where their dexterity and ability to process information quickly outpaces the abilities of human beings. However, this does not relegate humans to being useless. On the contrary, human beings have enormous creative, cognitive, and experiential powers to utilize in many occupational environments. It does ...

Arturo Rivera is one of the characters in the book “The Book of Unknown Americans” by Christina Henriquez. He is portrayed as a determined, loving, caring and law-abiding father and husband who does all in his power to be able to support his family and give his wife and daughter a better life. He has been used to show the problems that the immigrant community undergo when they come to foreign lands and further he has been used to show the various reasons that cause the members of the immigrant community to leave their country to a foreign country, ...

Before the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, black slavery in the United States thrived on the pillars of white supremacy. Otherwise dubbed the antebellum period, the years ranging from 1820 to 1860 witnessed a gradual yet steady increase in the country’s reliance on slave labor. As per the ideologies of white supremacy, the dominance of white people warranted the inferiority of colored individuals and as a result, everyone belonging to the former group could hold those of the latter faction in bondage. Accordingly, the cultural norms of the country during the given era encompassed the ...

Admission Essay

Growing up in Egypt, my family did not have much – my parents were extremely loving people who taught myself and my sister the value of a good education. Working often menial jobs, they scrimped, saved and worked as hard as they could to allow us to follow our dreams. When the time came to graduate high school, my family’s limited finances left us with a dilemma – allow me to go to school right away, or to save that money and work harder to help my sister achieve her dream of becoming a medical doctor. I immediately knew the right ...

Internships were, at their inception, a way for companies to introduce students and other unqualified professionals into the workforce. They have long been unpaid positions, although there are internships that are paid. However, in recent years, the economy has taken a turn for the worse, and companies have been offering unpaid internships to college students and recent graduates in lieu of a true position with the company.Unpaid internships certainly have their place in the business world, but there are problems with offering unpaid internships to college students and recent graduates. College students are often saddled with large amounts of debt, and any ...

Introduction

Management entails finding solutions to the problems in an organization by creatively using the resources in an organization is a manner that meets the established missions and objectives. An organization’s style and systems are very critical to this process. This is because the synchrony of the organizational style and the systems in place either impedes or enhances the efforts of organizational management. This paper highlights the crucial relationship between organizational style and systems, using Google as a case study.

Organizational style

Google is an iconic brand world over as evidenced by its top products in the media and technology industry. The organizational ...

Ideological Imperialism in Three Dystopian Works

Imperialism used to be a lot bloodier than it is in modern times. The phalanxes of the ancient Greek armies used to move in a dreaded square, with men shield by shield, moving forward with spears raised toward their foe. Even when more successful conquerors such as the Babylonians, Persians and Romans went forth to war, they did so in a fashion that was hand-to-hand and brutal, carving their empires one foot at a time, right across the bodies of their opponents. While the CGI and other animation tricks at work in such modern films as 300 make the carnage seem more like a ...

-A social system is composed of many interrelated and interdependent parts or structures. The social system of India consists of different castes, which each caste assigned or allowed certain functions. The Dahlits do, according to the video, “the jobs the higher castes won’t because they consider them unclean.” One common Dahlit job is as a “manual scavenger,” or cleaning the toilets of upper castes by hand. There are other interrelated and interdependent parts of Indian society. In addition to the Dahlits and higher castes, other parts or structures discussed in the short film include the education system, which ...

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The article, “15 years on the Bottom Rung” by Anthony DePalma highlights the tough situation faced by modern immigrants from Mexico by contrasting a typical story of one with that of a Greek immigrant who came to the United States illegally in the late 1940s. The article points out that although both the Greek immigrant and the Mexican immigrant came from roughly the same circumstances, the Greek was able to work his way up the economic ladder well into the middle class, while the Mexican immigrant worked for fifteen years and remains in the lower economic class working entry-level jobs. The ...

Although Claude McKay had started to enjoy some fame after his sonnet "If We Must Die" was published but it was 'Home to Harlem' that made him a celebrity and also eased his financial difficulties, though for a brief period only. The depiction of the life in Harlem also attracted the attention of some black leaders in America. For some of them, the emphasis of the novel was on the instinctual and the sensual which was against the general image of respectability which these black leaders have tried to contain among their people. In their opinion, it also reinforced some of ...

Immigration, both documented and undocumented, is a large policy issue facing the United States of America today. Documented immigrants are immigrants who have come to the United States legally, with the proper paperwork, and the appropriate visa for their situation (Khor and Winegarden 1991). For some, documentation may come through a job offer; for others, documentation may be granted based on a familial or spousal relationship to an American citizen (Khor and Winegarden 1991). Documented immigrants are immigrants who are, in essence, in the country legally; undocumented immigrants, then, are immigrants who are in the United States illegally. The bulk of the ...

In the African-American community, the topic of education has long been one of some considerable controversy. To some, access to education has been seen as the way out of some of the most endemic social problems that the community faces. To others, education has been seen as a choice to assimilate with the majority culture (DeCuir-Gunby). In defiance to that, such institutions as the hip-hop culture have arisen, showing other ways (although more harmful) that members of the African-American community can make a name for themselves. This debate is not new; in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and “Everyday Use,” ...

Students should go for internships, whether paid or unpaid, for many reasons. It is a great opportunity for the students to gain experience and to be given a sense of responsibility. It is also a good opportunity to visit other countries, get acquainted with new cultures, live their way of life, learn a new language and also a fantastic way to meet new people. The issue of payment should not come into the equation here since the experience gained by an intern is invaluable and serves to improve both life and work prospects. The conception of internship is based on medieval times when ...

Machines have always been part of humanity. It has separated us from the other forms of life on earth. Through it we have become the dominant species of the planet and with it, our lives have become easier. It is now easier to communicate with anyone, almost anywhere around the world, it is now easier to get someplace without exerting an overabundant amount of effort. As time went by, technology started evolving to meet even greater demands. One of these demands appears in economics. People wanted more than what the industry could provide. Human labor was becoming insufficient ...

Having dark skin does not necessarily mean that a person is from Africa or even that they consider themselves ‘black’ at all, and in fact the entire question of what ‘dark’, ‘black’, ‘brown’ or ‘white’ really means has varied a great deal throughout history and different societies. None of the Aborigines of Australia of the Maori of New Zealand were considered Africans, although they were certainly treated as second-class citizens, much as the Native Americans were. In India, the dark-skinned people of the Deccan Plateau and the Untouchables and Dalit were not Africans, although they also suffered considerable discrimination. In Brazil ...

Zhang Wei remembers the day he landed in America very clearly, it was a chilly winter day and everything including time seems to have frozen. He was anxious to see his father, Zhang Xiuxing who had traveled by sea a year earlier. He was only 16 when his father left and old enough to step into his father’s shoes. One year had flown by, and today, he would be leading his mother and his sister to the Promised Land that their father had prepared for them. He was sure that his father would be proud of how he had protected ...

In each country, people are classified through their nationality, and language; especially if they are tourists or immigrants. Official documents are handed to a person proving his or her nationality. However, in some regions like in the Middle East, there are clans and tribes who opt to remain in between country borders and remain stateless. These people are known as the Bedouin. Aside from political and economic issues, the issue of the Bedouin has also reached the attention of various organizations, governments, and the general public over their unique situation and there risks they had to live on. As of ...

Between 1820 and 1924 there were several immigrant groups that moved to the United States of America. However, this essay is going to discuss on two of these immigrant groups, namely, the Chinese Americana and the Japanese Americans. First, we are going to discuss each of the immigrants separately before embarking on the differences and the similarities seen between these groups. In this discussion, it will be clear that the both the immigration of Japanese Americans and Chinese Americans had the same experience in terms of the reception as well as the segregation and denial of citizenship in America( ...