...3/31/2016 A Class Divided Research Paper Winquist09 Login Join The Research Paper Factory Join Search Browse Saved Papers Search over 100,000 Essays Home Page » Other Topics A Class Divided In: Other Topics A Class Divided A Class Divided Everyone is likely to some form of discrimination or prejudice. On April 5th, 1968, a teacher in Riceville, Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an exercise on her third grade class students that dealt with the concept of discrimination that would grow up to be a renowned experience. The exercise was the result from Martin Luther King’s assassination. The documentary is an eye opening into the world of racism and discrimination. The dictionary defines racism as “a doctrine that one race is superior†and discrimination as “the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons†Throughout the American society . and through its history you can find discrimination. The documentary shows us that discrimination doesn’t just go to the extent to the color of your skin or what your ethnicity is, but can fall into any physical characteristics, your social status, where youâ €™re from, having a developmental disability, simple as being a woman and what not of other things, and in this case the color of your eyes. Nevertheless, we past judgment and prejudice based on these types of things where the person themselves are not ...
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...What is race? Common responses in the Sociology 222 class were, 'race is something we are born with' and 'race is the same as skin colour'. When looking at these statements from a Sociological perspective, we have to ask ourselves a few relevant questions. Why are sociologists critical of the above statements? How do research writers challenge ideas about social construction and institutionalisation of race under apartheid and colonialism? This essay is going to discuss a number of readings in order to answer the above questions. This essay will also look at the relevance of the Jane Elliot experiment for thinking about, and understanding of race as a social construction. Lastly, this essay will discuss what we can learn about the dynamics of apartheid from the experiences of Sandra Laing in the film 'Skin'. In conclusion this essay will evaluate the various opinions and research done on the matter of race, and how race is socially constructed. Firstly, we have to look at how and why sociologists are critical of race as a biological phenomenon. Race is widely discussed and debated all over the world. The main sociological focus is the effects of social race and how race is used to categorize people into groups. When we look back in history, we see that race was seen as a biological factor for many centuries. When explorers from Europe in the New World discovered people who looked different, raised questions such as ‘Did God only make one species of humanity?’ and ‘Where...
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...Chelsea Mason March 11, 2010 CMST 10 Jane Elliot held a very interesting experiment for a lesson in discrimination. She divided her class of third graders into brown-eyes and blue-eyes and made certain rules for each group. For one day the blue-eyed children were “more superior” then the brown-eyed children. On the days that the children were part of the less superior part of the class, their thought process wasn’t on track like any other day. During and after this experiment, the children learned how unfair it was to be divided just because of the way that they looked. It made them fight and when they were dived it didn’t matter that they had been friends for a long time. At that time all that mattered was that one was better than the other one. This lesson seemed to have a lasting impact on these children because when they met up later in life they talked about how they were teaching their children not to discriminate, and how they ignored people when they would get looks for talking and hanging out with a black person. It just shaped the way they would think for their lives. If they wouldn’t have been part of this experiment they may not have the same thoughts, but because they got to be up close and personal to segregation and discrimination they got to see what it was really like. When Jane Elliot did this experiment later on with the adults, they seemed to try to stand up a little bit more to her about how she was treating them. She separated the different eye colors...
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...A Class Divided Everyone is likely to some form of discrimination or prejudice. On April 5th, 1968, a teacher in Riceville, Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an exercise on her third grade class students that dealt with the concept of discrimination that would grow up to be a renowned experience. The exercise was the result from Martin Luther King’s assassination. The documentary is an eye opening into the world of racism and discrimination. The dictionary defines racism as “a doctrine that one race is superior†and discrimination as “the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasonsâ€. Throughout the American society and through its history you can find discrimination. The documentary shows us that discrimination doesn’t just go to the extent to the color of your skin or what your ethnicity is, but can fall into any physical characteristics, your social status, where you’re from, having a developmental disability, simple as being a woman and what not of other things, and in this case the color of your eyes. Nevertheless, we past judgment and prejudice based on these types of things where the person themselves are not accounted for. The concept that Jane Elliot is teaching us is that racism is a learned behavior and not part of the human genetic code. This coming from herself and in addition to, just as you learn something - you can unlearn something. You can unlearn racism if it has...
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...Ethics in Psychology Ethics in Psychology There are several studies that help people to understand how people act. Jane Elliot did an exercise in which she divided the class in two groups. This exercise was unethical because it violates the principle E, respect for people's right and dignity, in ethics. According to the American Psychological Association, Principle E says that we should respect the dignity and worth of all people equally. We have to respect their culture and any differences (American Psychological Association). In the video of Elliot, this principle gets violated because Elliot is not respecting the difference among them. In this case, she does not respect that the children have different eyes color. This study is unethical because it also creates rancor among children and plays with the feelings of children. In the video, children expressed their feelings toward the experiment and they felt horrible. Furthermore, it causes psychological and emotional harm since they were not told that it was an experiment (Smithsonian). This documentary was harsh and heartbreaking to see how people could violate an important principle and their consequences of doing it. This experiment would have been ethical and harmless if Elliott would have told the children that it was an experiment beforehand. Then, after that ask them how they felt and talk about that people who are discriminated feel the same way too. This was an evil form of doing an experiment. Elliott´s idea...
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... Essay Report Socialization Socialization is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group. It is how we learn the way of society. It is the life time process that has begun since the day we were born. In this process we acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions that appropriate to society. These are influenced by the agents of socialization which are family, education and peers. The affect of socialization can be seen in A Class Divided by Jane Elliot. She influences the lives of people by showing what it feels to be discriminated. She uses the agents of socialization to teach these people. Family The family is the first and most important part of socialization. The family influences who we are and who we will become. Although the family is not seen in A Class Divided, it is known that they still had an influence. During Elliots experiment with the student it is known that none of the parents had objected to what was being taught to their children. The families were also helping in this process by not encouraging discrimination. Another factor that we see is that the students that had gone through the process now had their own families. They were teaching their children about equality and about discrimination. Education Education and school is another important role in the socialization process. The time that we spend in this institution is more than that...
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...recent events over the past decade, many Americans have a feeling that this man is a terrorist and is going to blow up the plane. Although this is not the truth, this is how most people think. People obtain these prejudices from family, friends and events. When you are growing up your personality, beliefs and lifestyles are formed. Prejudice does not just come out through skin color, but about other qualities such as physical and mental disabilities. Throughout this course we have discussed many different types of prejudices. We learned about Mike Rose, Majora Carter, the Fugees, Jo Goodwin Parker, Lars Eighner, Jane Elliot and others. Each story told another form a prejudice, each equally wrong and powerful. The most common form of prejudice is racism. See this form displayed in Majora Carter’s “Greening the Ghetto”, the Fugees story and Jane Elliot’s “A Class Divided”. Majora Carter is a young educated African American woman who grew up in the ghettos in the South Bronx. During the time of her childhood many of the buildings in her neighborhood were abandoned; landlords were burning their buildings to collect the insurance; light manufacturing industries were moving out and waste facilities were moving in to take their place. Ghettos are known for housing low-income minorities. Most of the residents never make it out of these living areas, but the few who do, such as Majora go on to do great things. Prejudices were placed on her not giving her a chance to reach her full potential...
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...Högskolan i Halmstad Sektionen för Humaniora Engelska 61-90 The Importance of Class and Money A Marxist Analysis of Jane Austen’s Persuasion Therese Andersson C-essay Tutor Kristina Hildebrand Abstract This essay analyzes how issues related to money and social class are presented in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The method used will be a close reading as well as aspects of Marxist literary criticism, a theory that will be presented in the second chapter. Background information about the author and her time will then be given in the third chapter. In chapter four, the character of Sir Walter Elliot will be analyzed, in chapter five Elizabeth Elliot, and in chapter six William Elliot. Some of the other characters will be analyzed, more briefly, in the seventh chapter. Conclusions will then be drawn in the eighth and final chapter. 2 Table of contents Abstract.....................................................................................................2 Table of contents.......................................................................................3 1. Introduction.........................................................................................4 2. Theory and method..............................................................................5 2.1 Close reading............................................................................................5 2.2 Marxist literary criticism................................................
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...A MARXIST READING OF JANE AUSTEN’S PERSUASION Abstract This essay analyzes how issues related to money and social class are presented in Jane Austen’s Persuasion . The method used will be a close reading as well as aspects of Marxist literary criticism, a theory that will be presented in the second chapter. Background information about the author and her time will then be given in the third chapter. In chapter four, the character of Sir Walter Elliot will be analyzed, in chapter five Elizabeth Elliot, and in chapter six William Elliot. Some of the other characters will be analyzed, more briefly, in the seventh chapter. Conclusions will then be drawn in the eighth and final chapter. 1. Introduction ......................................................................................... 2. Theory and method .............................................................................. 2.1 Close reading ............................................................................................ 2.2 Marxist literary criticism ................................................................................ 3. Background .......................................................................................... 3.1 Jane Austen and her time ......................................................................... 3.1.1 Titles and ranks .......................................................................................... 3.2 Class in Jane Austen’s novels .....................
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...RACE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 2 “According to the U.S. Justice Department, in 2003 about 10.4% of all African American men between the ages of 25 to 29 were incarcerated, as compared to 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of non-Hispanic White men” (DeVry, 2015). This topic is critical to the study of cultural diversity because of the racial disparity among the young African American males in the criminal justice system and the lasting effects of incarceration. This research paper will unveil the truth about why African men in this age group are much more likely to be sent to prison than are people of White or Latino descent. . African American men are often charged and prosecuted more aggressively than White or Hispanic men. This paper will also reveal the adverse mental and physical health endured by black males during incarceration and upon release. Recent studies indicate that inadequate education and low socioeconomic status has a direct correlation between black males and crime. As the United States becomes an increasingly diverse nation, many studies confirm racial inequalities exist amongst judges, lawyers and legislation. This creates the very serious concern of racial profiling. While racial profiling is illegal, studies prove that black males are more likely to be stopped and searched. New York State is only one of two states that automatically processes, prosecutes and incarcerates 16 and 17 year-olds as adults. Legislation...
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... SOCI111-87N-N1 23-Mar-12 Written Assignment #1 – Discrimination After watching the video, A Class Divided, I recalled seeing the program years ago. Despite remembering the film from 1985, I found myself taking away a deeper lesson than I did back then. This time around, the program taught me that it doesn’t take long to marginalize a group of people simply by playing upon a particular shared attribute. When all the students were told they could throw the collars away at the end of the two-day exercise, watching young Brian wrestle with the collar… twisting and attempting to tear it to shreds… was very powerful. He had been on top, and then on the bottom and, in the end, he seemed very determined to destroy the visible remains of what had been a powerful lesson. As a young, white boy born into unearned privilege, it was very likely the first time he felt the sting of discrimination, and I felt him trying to make sure he wouldn’t experience it again. Surprising to me was K.R., the outspoken blue-eyed woman in the adult workshop. She was the epitome of someone oppressed. Angry, defiant, rude, and uncooperative, she was determined to somehow claw her way to the top of that class, to be seen and heard. Yet Jane Elliott knew exactly which rungs of the ladder to remove to keep K.R. down at the bottom, just as white people have done to people of color for decades and beyond. I don’t believe...
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...1) Jane Austen * Biography Jane Austen is one of the most read writers in England. She was born on the 17th of December in 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, in a large family with six brothers and one sister, which formed part of the Landed Gentry (well-born and well-bred people of high social class in England). Jane went on with her education by herself by reading books which her father, who supported her a lot, gave her from his large library. Her family produced plays and Jane Austen took part in these. Most of them were comedies which gave Jane the opportunity to develop her comic and satirical senses. During her lifetime she was not famous because she wanted to keep anonymity. So, instead of writing her name on the books, she just put "by a lady". It is only in the 19th century that she got famous when her nephew wrote A memoir of Jane Austen. This book even included some of her writings that were never published before. She never got married, although she was once proposed to and she never had any children. During the year of 1816, Jane Austen’s health became worse and she died in July in 1817 at the age of 41 years old. But the exact reasons of her death remain vague, some say it was Addison syndrome, other say Hodgkin’s disease, there are several hypotheses. The famous English author is buried in the North aisle of Winchester Cathedral. * Main works She started by writing poems when she was 12 years old. By the time she was 18, she started creating longer and...
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...dominating control over emotions, becomes more sensitive: “the amygdala undergoes massive changes in functional processing during adolescence, increasing in responsiveness to social stimuli” (Telzer et al. 275). For example, Chad, a young man who was raised to be prejudiced effectively said that those in his life would speak negatively of minorities: in fact, his dad stated “that we had his permission to kill a Black…I heard this constantly” (Lefkoe 2). Another example lies in the relatively famous, unprofessional experiment conducted in an elementary-school classroom led by Jane Elliot the day after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, during which the blue-eyed students were regarded as higher and the brown-eyed as inferior through Elliot’s coaching, cheers, and degrading remarks: “[The blue-eyed children] became mean-spirited and seemed to like discriminating against the ‘inferior’ group” (“A Class Divided: Introduction” 1). Although this spell of taught prejudice did not last long, it continues to serve as a remarkable example of how easily adults can mold the minds of the young. Therefore, by simply telling a young person regarding one’s beliefs, it is all too possible to embed negativity. Next, the environment as a whole easily molds a person’s belief with exposure. Exposure to a negatively biased environment even impacts adults, which was made evident in a case of coal miners: for instance, a study by Minard found that, below ground, the normality was to be kind to the...
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...Persuasion by Jane Austen Web-Books.Com Persuasion Chapter 1 .................................................................................................................. 3 Chapter 2 .................................................................................................................. 8 Chapter 3 ................................................................................................................ 12 Chapter 4 ................................................................................................................ 17 Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................ 21 Chapter 6 ................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 7 ................................................................................................................ 34 Chapter 8 ................................................................................................................ 40 Chapter 9 ................................................................................................................ 46 Chapter 10 ............................................................................................................. 51 Chapter 11 ............................................................................................................. 58 Chapter 12 ............................................
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...ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIORAL FACTORS Mgmt 605-M02 Mondays 6:00-8:10 p.m. DESCRIPTION This course links the classical management process to the analysis of human behavior. How do people think, analyze a situation, and how they behave. The practicing manager should gain theoretical knowledge on which to base experience and/or intuition when making decisions or solving problems involving the human dimension in the organization. In this course you are going to learn a series of models: 1) The individual—to help you understand, predict, and modify an individual’s behavior. 2) Perception of people—how such perception differs from other perceptions aspects and its importance 3) Functions of the managerial brain—how it works, makes decisions, solves problems, creates ideas 3) Dimensions of communications—to enable you to understand the basics of transmittal of knowledge 2) Two person interactions—so that you can understand conflict, leadership behavior, negotiations. 3) Small group functions,--so that you can understand when and why they are strong and get results and when they are weak and become failures 4) The large organization—so that you can utilize their strengths in marshalling human resources to get the work out and how they can adapt to changing times. If you have any problems with this course, doing the work or meeting standards, speak to your instructor before you receive failing grades or other unpleasant consequences. When you discuss...
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