...throughout this semester. Issues have ranged from social injustices, colonialism, and women’s rights. Some included personal tragedies concerning women of Aboriginal descent living in British Columbia. It has been quite emotional at times to actually read about the struggles that have taken place right here in British Columbia regarding immigrants and Aboriginal people. We even got to meet the author of Mercenary English, Mercedes Eng, in person to make the words of her story really come to life. However, not all of the books we have studied convey negative outlooks of certain problems being faced. There have been positive social changes, personal victories and many moments that make the reader believe things can be made right if an effort is put into it. This research essay will focus on the positive view portrayed in three books studied this semester which include: Mercenary English, Active Geographies-Women and Struggles on the Left Coast and the Unnatural and Accidental Women. The positive themes discussed will display triumphs on a personal level, meaningful change on a social stage and a look at how social activism deeply connects people together. Firstly, Mercenary English has a very unique way of showing social injustice, believed to be carried out in the eyes of its author Mercedes Eng. She writes about personal problems she faced, the negative issues surrounding aboriginal people in Canada and historical injustice against minorities. Her writing is powerful, emotional...
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...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere--Martin Luther King, Jr. Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton was born October 3, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. A social and political activist and religious leader who also hails claim to being the President of the National Action Network also known as NAN. Al Sharpton began his ministry at the tender age of four, preaching his first sermon at Washington Temple Church of God & Christ in Brooklyn. Just five years later, the Washington Temple church’s legendary Bishop F.D. Washington licensed Al Sharpton, his protégé, to be a Pentecostal minister. Rev. Sharpton’s civil rights career began almost as early as his ministry. At thirteen, Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Jones appointed Sharpton youth director of New York’s SCLC Operation Breadbasket, an organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1971. SCLC Operation Breadbasket sought to encourage diversity in the workplace by applying social and economic pressure on businesses. In 1969, Sharpton became the youth director for the program and participated in protests against the A&P supermarket chain in the early 1970s. He went on to establish his own organization, the National Youth Movement (NYM) at the age of sixteen. National Youth Movement, organized young people around the country to push for increased voter registration, cultural awareness and job training programs. From 1994 to 1998, Rev. Sharpton also served as the Director of the Ministers Division for the...
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...Past Injustices To forge a just society would involve being able to believe in peace within our world. To be human is to forgive those who have wronged us or those who share different beliefs. We are a country who fights for human rights all over the planet. We are a people who see torture and genocide as intolerable. We are one of five countries that still administer the death penalty. Have we learned nothing from the past? "We are witness to human suffering that is caused by violence being treated with violence. The guilty and innocent on death row awaiting their fate is a mental picture that does not seem possible in this century. Killing is never justified! Countless of innocent men are placed in death row with no evidence of wrongdoing and sometimes with clear and unmistakable evidence of innocence. Many groups have committed crimes against other people they viewed as different which meant they must be dangerous and a threat. I know this discussion asked for past injustices and affirmative action as a form of contrition and compensation. I personally think affirmative action is not the answer to past injustices which are still common in every human society around the globe. Just watch the evening news! We will see that the same old inhuman and evil acts against humanity are insidiously creeping back in different parts of the world, even in our own backyard, America! While we may not be directly responsible for past criminal and heinous crimes but we all should remain...
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...Suzanne Horner Week 2 Checkpoint Assignment Social Injustice AED200—Contemporary Issues in American Education Dr. Christine Duhamel 05/08/2014 Name: Suzanne Horner Subject: Week 2 Checkpoint Assignment Title: Social Injustice Course: AED200—Contemporary Issues in American Education Instructor: Dr. Christine Duhamel Date: 05/08/2014 Social Injustice Introduction The greatest social injustice in the classroom comes from students feeling like they matter less in their school than other children do. Many schools have a select group of students who seem to make the school events repeatedly while others are lost in the crowd. Preferential Treatment based on Social Class One of the great injustices in the local schools is in the treatment of students based on social class. Where many schools don’t treat the lower income children badly, they do often cater to children from certain families. In my nephew’s former school, it seemed every contest held awarded in some way a certain family that happened to share a name with a locally owned car dealership. My son’s school, it seems to follow certain families that are active in local sports and other groups. Children from lower income families seem to be ignored in many events. Some might argue that this is the result of fixed results in the contests. Others might say that it is because these children are less involved and therefore are less capable in these contests. Sadly, if the latter is true...
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...The United States of America stands for a lot of things; but freedom and equality stands way above all of its great attributes that our founding fathers had set forth when drafting the Declaration of Independence. The very basic right provided under the constitution is the first amendment; freedom of speech is clearly stated but what about equality? How has this country guaranteed that each of its citizens are treated and represented equally in our government? As I read the first chapter of “The Environmental Justice Movement, A Political Framework,” it was becoming clear to me that not everyone starts at the same playing field. Some of us are provided free passes to bigger and better things at life simply because of our color of our skins, social status and other environmental factors. Actually, I already had known this for quite some time; it’s difficult not to see it in this community, but what I did not fully comprehend was why? Why is it that as many educated minority men and women do we continue to see more prominent white male middle upper class representatives, politicians and judges in power? If Latinos are the fastest growing minorities in the United States, then why is it that we do not see more minorities in office? The evidence is very clear; minorities do not have sufficient resources enough to keep up with the white male political system. This process is evident as I read “The Political Process Model,” section. It states that “the study of politics...
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...people react and what is the right way to respond when injustice knocks on their front door? From a small unfairness to enormous discriminations, standing up to injustice and dealing with it proves considerably more difficult than most people assume. In the book To Kill a Mocking Bird, the writer, Harper Lee, depicts several interesting themes. One of them: injustice – problems and evils that cause readers to think for themselves and create their own standards of right and wrong. Harper Lee composes three interlinking unjust wrongs throughout the book. Injustice is revealed by how people perceive Boo Radley, the accusation against Tom Robinson, and Bob Ewell’s attack on Jem and Scout. To start, many people in Maycomb perceived Boo Radley inaccurately. Boo Radley, or Arthur Radley, probably had some mental or physical problems, but the assumptions and accusations that people carelessly made against him proved completely injust and unfair. “Boo was about six and a half feet tall judging by his tracks; he dined on any raw squirrels and any cats he could catch,...
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...other hand, UNICEF describes it as “involved in child labour activities if between 5 to 11 years of age, he or she did at least one hour of economic activity or at least 28 hours of domestic work in a week”. Simply put, it is the employment of children under the minor legal age. The national census in 2011 still found that there were approximately 4.35 million child labourers in India (aged 5-14). By using Maxwell and Young’s framework, I will analyse the child labour force in India. INDIA’S SOCIAL INJUSTICE (MAXWELL) Reading the BBC article on India’s children labour, it is clear that social injustice plays a role. The exploitation, trade, and mistreat of these children all point towards social injustice. According to Maxwell, social injustice is moral unfairness in the division of society’s rewards or burdens. Despite the fact that using children as their labour force is morally wrong, the wage distribution ($2/day) inequity strongly supports the fact that there is social injustice in India. Social justice is important in a community (in this case India) in order to maintain social order, and be sustainable and healthy in order to ensure sustainable economic growth. In Maxwell’s article, he describes three strategies for social: place, policy, and people. Policy. According to the 1998 national census, India had an estimated total number of child...
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...conjuctions could not do anymore. King was making strides in the desegregation of the nation. He did this by traveling where he was needed and doing what he could, to help right any injustice. King was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for parading without a permit. His thought was that there was no problem requiring a permit to parade, but when it is used to oppress the first amendment rights of peaceful assembly and protest, there is a problem with the application of the law (3). While he was in jail, King received a letter from white clergymen that he could...
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...women as equals or with any respect at all. “The Stoning of Soraya” is an example of the challenges women face on a daily basis in the Middle East alone -beatings, rape, or even death under unfair circumstances. Whether it is due to religious code or a wrongful upbringing, women are still at war with injustice today. But can either of these reasons truly justify the many injustices that women face? The ways women are abused or mistreated are similar in each case. In most cases, such as that of Soraya, women are verbally abused, beaten, and raped by the men they call their husbands or lovers. They are made into mere objects for sex or forms of labor for the man. The victims are shown no compassion at all and are blamed for any accidents or unpleasant occurrences in the relationship. At any moment a normal day can become a terrifying, life threatening beating session in front of others. Women in the Middle East are subjected to these injustices and more brutal conditions: under Islamic law, their husbands can have complete dominance over them, can replace theme completely by marrying another woman, and can confine them completely in at home without food or water. These injustices not only effect the woman, but her children may be badly emotionally as well as mentally. Fathers can turn a mother’s sons against her with the promises of honor or...
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...Eli Rojas Professor Dykes Diversity in the Criminal Justice System July 25, 2013 Black Injustice Today African Americans are still being harassed by the criminal justice system, in a way where the color of their skin may have a disadvantage of their portrayal to law enforcements. Many African Americans have not been receiving the justice they deserve, because they are still people who judged them based on the history of slavery in the nation. They are treated unfair in a country where they based their government off a constitution as the Supreme Law and Declaration of Independence which states “All men are created equal.” But in that simple quote, based on how our society has yet to overcome racism, the country is a place where “All men are created equal” really means “all white men are created equal.” The criminal justice system in the United States tries to portray a fair criminal justice system, but fail to treat everyone equally. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term justice is define as “the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments”, which in a simplified term means that people get what they deserve. They are many cases where African Americans don’t receive the justice they deserve compared to the whites who have an advantage in the criminal justice because of the white supremacy that the nation still portrays. African Americans...
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...hDear Sirs, I firmly believe that the management must have put great efforts to find accommodation for all of us. However, a few issues always remain. Only in this case the issues are not a few but too many! The purpose of hostel accommodation, I used to believe, is to provide a conducive environment for students’ studies as well as their comfort and relaxation. Moreover, in the final year of studies students are generally given more freedom so they can use their time effectively. But, here at Rangrajapuram hostel, we are given 2 rooms to be shared among 4 people each, with no facility available to us as of now. As outstation students, we all have a lot of luggage which we cannot just throw off because we don’t have space to keep them. And this is the condition as of now, when we have no wardrobes, study tables-chairs in the room. (Supposedly) if we get these things there will no space for movement. Then is the problem of commuting from this place to the college. We have heard that the management has decided to provide us with INR 70/- per 3 persons for one-side travel. However, since we have come here we couldn’t find an autowallah who would take us between the locations for that fare. After a hard bargain of 10-15 minutes they come to INR 100 mostly and INR 80 a few times (if we get lucky!) And there has been hardly a time when we had three people all going at the same time (this is when most of the schedule is coinciding). Further, it is going to be even more dispersed...
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...BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS PHI 369 Diversity in the Fire Service “Ethical problems that Women Present” Table of Contents Page Number Abstract 3 Review of Related Literature 4 Works Cited 11 Abstract I am going to write about diversity and integration in the workplace and how it creates room for new ideas as well as the possibility of increased conflict. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Fire Service, where new recruits and veteran firefighters live together, eat together and place their lives on the line for a career that prides itself on tradition. Some people may learn to tolerate differences within the normal workday, but old stereotypes, unconscious behaviors and occupational stress collide in volatile ways when living with co-workers on 24-hour shifts with member of the opposite sex. To start out, I would like to give...
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...The knight deserves to be rewarded with the maiden because of the attitude change he undergoes. In court, the knight is condemned to death by the men, but he is pitied by the women who spare him and give him “a year and day” (283) to find the answer to their question: “What is the thing women most desire?” (282). While this does not appear to be a challenging question to answer, as women should know what it is they desire, but they want the knight to figure it out because it will make him recognize that women do not want to be treated in the same manner as the maiden. After the knight’s long quest, he finally returns to the court with his answer: “a woman wants the same self-sovereignty over as her lover… he must not be above her” (286). All...
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...On 11/27/2018, I was dispatched to 2008 W Elm in reference to a Past Assault. When I arrived, I spoke with Deborah Johnson. Johnson is employed by the DoubleTree Hotel on North Glenstone. Johnson stated that she was walking to her car in the parking lot of Houlihan’s (2431 N Glenstone). Johnson stated that as she was walking behind a silver SUV. The SUV was parked on the east side of the trash dumpster on the north side of the building. Johnson stated the driver was a white female around 30 years of age. As the driver backed out from the space, Johnson was struck on the left side of her body by the back-right side of the SUV. Johnson stated that she was hit hard enough to knock her down on the ground. Johnson quickly got up and started yelling at the driver. Johnson stated the driver put her hands and Johnson believed she said, "I'm sorry." Johnson stated that she reported the incident to DoubleTree Hotel staff, who took an incident report. Johnson stated that the hotel determined the driver was employed by Houlihan's. Johnson believed the drivers first name was Chelsea. Johnson did not have any visible injuries. Johnson was complaining of some pain to her left arm and her back. Johnson declined needing medical attention, but stated she might go get checked out later. Johnson stated that she wishes to pursue charges for the incident. I then responded to Houlihan's and spoke with the restaurant manager. The manger did not witness the incident, but stated the driver in question...
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...Atticus teaches his children what courage is when he takes on Tom Robinson's case, and when he defends Mrs. Dubose's decision to die without the aid of morphine. Atticus's decision to defend Tom in court was an act that tought Jem and Scout what real courage is. At first, the children were very confused with the fact that their father had chosen a case where the chances of him winning were almost nonexistant. The majority of Maycomb inhabitants held prejudices against black people so immediately, they were against Atticus. The Finch family was subjected towards a great deal of backlash, hateful remarks, and threats. Atticus was well aware of the town's opinion on his descision, but he knew that Tom hadn't raped Mayella Ewell and tried to the...
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