...Worldview Analysis Essay Alton Dawson Liberty University Worldview Analysis Essay This essay will examine the world view analysis and prospective on race and racism. Race over the last century has evolved as a worldview, the body of prejudgments and of human differences and group behaviors that has distorted our way of thinking about the issues of race and race relations. Racism begins as myths or beliefs about diversity of human species and the abilities and behaviors of placing these people into homogenized categories. Race has always been a pervasive component of thoughts and experiences shared by Americans and the rest of the world. (Fredrickson, 2005). It has been intrinsic of how Americans and the rest of the world see and try to find explanations the overall functioning of the world, while the meaning or reality of racism has not been explained. The issue of race throughout the United States and the world has been used as placing a classification of social identity that has effected how we were influenced by others through interactions. Race can be determined as being a part of the so called “ natural order “ of things that we as humans think as mere variations ( physical ) often used as evidence of the human existence , that is justified in the mistreatment of the human family. Race and racism in the United States and the world is about inequality of worth and status. Racism is the ideas that are based on human inequality due to differences that becomes phenotypic...
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...What is the ‘Georgian worldview’ and how has this concept influenced the archaeology of eighteenth-century North America? The ‘Georgian worldview’ is a theory that uses a study of cultural development to determine the thoughts of the eighteenth-century North Americans. It was initiated by James Deetz in his first edition of In Small Things Forgotten (1977). The term encapsulates Deetz’s structuralism-based idea that the evident alteration within English material culture and landscape design was more than a change in style, but a universal change in human consciousness—from medieval to modern—and this extended across the Atlantic despite the colony’s increasing political distance from the homeland (Deetz, 1996: 62-63; 2003: 221). Deetz believed that shared artefact form reflected shared thought (2003: 220). The theory has enabled historical archaeologists to recognise a distinctive shift in many areas of material culture which subsequently encouraged a succession of scholars to further this idea by posing key questions: why did the worldview develop, where else was a Georgian worldview visible, how did it present itself in areas outside New England? In the quest for answers to these questions, archaeologists have developed the concept which accordingly shaped interpretations of the material discoveries of eighteenth-century North America. Deetz’s model for the cultural development of New England illustrates that following an interval (1660-1760) of limited English...
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...“predetermined ideologies and messages” through radio, tv, music etc. This means that the media tries to socially control and condition mass audiences to obey the established social structure, which maintains a capitalist economy for those at the top of Marx's hierarchical superstructure. In my eyes all these things are just another way to target and control the lower class. Another author Walter Benjamin discusses how mass culture has basically broken down the true meaning of art through mechanical reproduction. All of these are ways of controlling and shaping our population into whatever a higher authority would want them to be. African American author, Toni Morrison, wrote an essay called Playing in the Dark. Morrison discusses the way the literature of the European- descended white population takes an "Africanist" presence for granted." For many years Africans were looked down upon and weren’t even thought of...
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... Race, and the African American Student: An Annotated Bibliography Bernstein, Susan Naomi. “Writing and White Privilege: Beyond Basic Skills.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 4.1 (2004): 128-31. Evaluating the relationship between white, middle-class privilege and both standardized testing and standard conventions of writing, Bernstein offers a classroom strategy for underprivileged students (either from racial or class position or both) to counter the negative effects of academic standards in relegating them to remedial positions in order to acquire basic writing skills before being granted access to the university at large. Encouraging her students to explore their previous educational experiences related to both testing and writing through a workshop format, as well as to evaluate their own imaginative writing and the reading of creative texts, Bernstein found that these can be used as means of critical resistance to their remedial designations. Ultimately, though, she concludes that it is not the student’s responsibility alone to resist relegation but also educators as well, who need to address and seek to resolve the conditions that produce “basic writers” even before their arrival at the university, and this, according to the author, will produce an awareness and restructuring of white privilege in determining academic success. Campbell, Kermit E. “ ‘Real Niggaz’s Don’t Die’: African American Students...
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...Introduction In this reflective essay, it initially begins with a self-reflection as to who I am in context to my personality, cultural and religious beliefs, and worldview. With the description of how my values and experiences shape my behaviour and how I interact interrelates. The five interventions which are: Participatory Action Research (PAR), Multicultural Counselling Therapy, Six-step Model of Crisis Intervention, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), and Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) are briefly explained. The self-reflection relates to the interventions as to whether or not the intervention would appeal to my personality and what I stand by. I then chose PAR as it relates to the socioeconomic problems in context to South Africa, by the implementation of the given approach and how it can be applied. Self-reflection: Who am I? I often find it difficult to reflect upon myself, that has a lot to do with my personality type, I...
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...generation. Troy Maxson is an incarnation of an African American generation that finds itself in a position that it can ultimately realize the American ideal of liberty, life, and pursuit of happiness. Troy became more successful that his dad, who remained an impoverish sharecropper and never owned property or land but instead, spent his wages and life unscrupulous land owner (Jang). Troy bought his own house, even though he felt guilty about the means he used to pay for the house. Through his sexual relationships, Troy embodied the freedom of an individual to follow his own dreams and desires in pursuing...
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...1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of activity among African-Americans occurred in all field of art. Beginning as a series of literary discussions in the lower Manhattan (Greenwich Village) and upper Manhattan (Harlem) sections of New York City, this African-American cultural movement became known as “The New Negro Movement’’ and later as the Harlem Renaissance. More than a literary movement and more than a social revolt against racism, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African- Americans and redefined African-Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become “The New Negro,” a term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke. One of the factors contributing to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the great migration of African-Americans to northern cities (such as New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.) between 1919 and 1926. In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of blacks as "something like a spiritual emancipation." One of the factors contributing to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the great migration of African-Americans to northern cities (such as New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.) between 1919 and 1926. In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of blacks as "something like a spiritual emancipation." In the 1920's African-Americans seemed to have passed through some rite of passage. As if...
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...ABSTRACT This paper is intended to provide critical responses to the weaknesses of globalization and corruption in the world that we are currently living based on the mixed economic worldview which is my personal economic worldview which threatens to undermine the stability of economic and political development on both a national and global scale, and which requires both immediate and wide-ranging policy interventions. The recent concern with corruption is attributable, not to any substantive increase in corrupt practices, but rather, to the re-framing of corruption in light of broader shifts and transformations within the global economy. The historical context of globalization covers centuries. This paper reviews the types, forms as well as the consequences of corruption. The paper also reviews the issues associated with globalization and the effect it has on the lives of various individuals. It questions the view that, under certain conditions, corruption may enhance efficiency and argues that though corruption may benefit powerful individuals it will indubitably lead to greater inefficiency and a waste of resources at a macro-economic level. Table of Contents ABSTRACT i INTRODUCTION iii BACKGROUND iv Forms of Corruption vi 1.1 Bribery vi 1.2 Theft and fraud vi 1.3 Embezzlement vi 1.4 Nepotism vi 1.5 Conflict of Interest vi 1.6 Favouritism vii Types of Corruption vii 2.1. Grand corruption vii 2.2 Political corruption vii 2.3 Corporate corruption...
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...Essay Question 1: In what ways did the character and composition of the black population and the institution of slavery in the Chesapeake change between the middle of the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth century? The early Chesapeake was characterized by a labor system heavily dependent on indentured servants, primarily young, single men from England who contracted to work for a set period of time in exchange for passage to the New World. This system, however, faced significant challenges. The mortality rate among indentured servants was high due to harsh conditions, disease, and inadequate provisions. Moreover, as the colony expanded and the demand for labor grew, the supply of indentured servants began to dwindle....
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...African Americans: The Role of Race Abstract The Following Essay defines and integrates the role race plays on the African American culture in their family values and politics in comparison to the Anglo American Culture. The United States has become increasingly diverse in the last century. While African American families share many features with other U.S. families, the African American family has some distinctive features relating to the timing and approaches to marriage and family formation, gender roles, parenting styles, and strategies for coping with adversity. African cultures, slavery, slave rebellions, and the civil rights movements(circa 1800s-160s)have shaped African American religious, familial, political and economic behaviors. The imprint of Africa is evident in myriad ways, in politics, economics, language, music, hairstyles, fashion, dance, religion and worldview, and food preparation methods. In the United States, the very legislation that was designed to strip slaves of culture and deny them education served in many ways to strengthen it. In turn, African American culture has had a pervasive, transformative impact on myriad elements of mainstream American culture, among them language, music, dance, religion, cuisine, and agriculture. This process of mutual creative exchange is called creolization. Over time, the culture of African slaves and their descendants has been ubiquitous in its impact on not only the dominant American culture, but on world...
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...think about race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression. Multiple levels of domination are experienced through people being oppressed and discriminated. Hill Collins introduces this dominant theory of multiple levels of domination that involves gender as a site of identity and politics that sometimes involves African people. Collins believes that Afrocentric feminism is ultimately anchored in the unique experiences and struggles of ordinary African American women. Gender is always gender when spoken about in any race or nationality....
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...The desired outcome for a writer in any argument is to change the way one thinks or acts, to persuade the audience to his/her point of view. There is more to convincing an audience than presenting a claim and providing evidence. Imperative to any argument is the three elements of classic principles of argument: ethos, pathos, and logos. Authors will use ethos; a way to gain respect from character and his/her knowledge. Pathos is the emotional connection, establishing common ground by demonstrating sympathy for your audience’s values, beliefs, and worldview. Then lastly is logos (logic), means to persuade by the use of reasoning including deductive and inductive reasoning. Evidence and persuasive reason (explanation) to back up your claims. Jim Wallis, author of “What the Waters Revealed”, uses these three classic principles of argument to expose the poverty in America and the government’s detachment....
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...With the help of the internet and social media, people can spread rumors around the world, and those who share a similar belief will accept these rumors as fact. Although the web and social media can provide information to discredit these rumors sometimes the truth isn’t as easily accepted as Rodriguez states “we tend to reject theories and rumors -- and facts and truths -- that challenge our worldview and embrace those that affirm it”(1) and Rodriguez defines this as "biased assimilation". I agree with Rodriguez’s idea of bias assimilation as it relates to misinformation to an extent because I have met a few people who no matter what facts I brought to them I can never change their mind but others I can...
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...An ethical code related to human remains was built because of this conflict and was later was reviewed by Koreans to help develop their ethical codes. The stories of The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and the Kennewick Man further emphasize three points for biological anthropologists and other professionals working with human remains: First, to be thoughtful about potential ethical issues related to their research, second to be inclusive and encourage the involvement of the community villagers, and last to be respectful of different worldviews of death between (sub)cultures. NAGPRA, and the Kennewick man both demonstrate the difficulty in anticipating ethical issues and unintended misconduct in the course of research. “NAGPRA is an organization that represents a culmination of ethical efforts of U.S. biological anthropologists, archaeologists, museum professionals, Native Americans and the federal legislative body to protect, preserve and return human remains and funerary objects that are affiliated to Native Americans” (Kim et al., 2014). The organization was first founded as a means to help subdue the battle between who can claim the human remains found in American soil, the westerners or the native people. Thus shifting the matter from being an “ethical imperative to a legal...
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...using a canvas and a paint brush. As I mentioned previously, Utica is a diverse city, full of different languages and cultures. On my weekly trips to Munson Williams I frequently encountered Muslim and Arab womyn wearing hijabs, or African womyn dressed in a kanga walking with her children down the street. Because of the diversity I encountered, I found that I did not understand the significance of a hijab or a kanga which influenced me to research African cultures and the Qu’ran outside of school to further my knowledge about world cultures and formulate an understanding of the diverse people living next to me. Many times I remember my father's swimmers from the Proctor swim team coming to the house, and in the kitchen where they would sit and talk would be full of dialects of Russian, Bosnian, and most prominently Spanish. The diversity I have experienced in Utica has undoubtedly shaped my worldview. Living in Utica, my neighbor (who later became my best friend) is mixed race and in a sense opened my eyes to racial acceptance in childhood. My best friends father is black and his mother is white, but of course as a child I was not conscious as racial identity. But I remember looking at my best friends father grading his college students essays, just like I had watched my white father doing at the breakfast table time and time again, and realizing, he was black. Looking at him, I realized that even though my best friend's father was black, he was fully capable of doing the same...
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