FTVS 598: TAKE HOME FINAL ESSAY. By Vivek Nipani 1. In Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) what qualities does Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) project or possess that make her seem so tough? How or where does her femininity figure in her toughness? According to Sherrie A. Inness in “Lady Killers, Tough Enough?” what are two ways that Hollywood cinema undermines and punishes tough or powerful women? How is this twice demonstrated in Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur,1998)? And how does Elizabeth
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Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, Cornell Law School states in the syllabus, “The statute of Louisiana, acts of 1890, c. 111, requiring railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in the State, to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations.” (Plessy v. Ferguson, 2018). The dissenting opinion was that “separate
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people wearing robes with 5 of them being the only ones wearing colors and two sides parting into half standing parallel to each other with different garment colors, black and white. The 5 with colors start to make a formation which is similar to an occult circle and speak “The 2 who have been chosen by the black and white come join us brethren in making history, come and succeed with us in forming the final result for the spectrum!” The 2 step up and come in to join, making the circle larger, but
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The issue of mass incarceration sparked conversation about racial disparities within the prison system. Following the abolishment of Jim Crow, legal racial segregation in the United States appeared dead. According to civil rights advocate, Michelle Alexander this is not the case; racial segregation appears dead, but mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system that preserves this outdated practice. In Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, she points to the cause, enforcement, and victims of
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training they received was deemed inferior to their white counterparts. The problem in Georgia was, “white fear of African-American achievement”. Because of deeply ingrained racism, based on a completely social concept, , black nurses could not possibly know more about health than a white nurse. The black nurses could not possibly be better because the only schools they were allowed to study at were not as equipped as the training schools open to white nurses. The black nurses challenged this inferior
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While the U.S. supreme court had ruled against municipal and residential segregation laws in 1917, The National Association of Real Estate Boards – 1914 – ethics code that forbid members from “introducing into a neighborhood … members of any race or nationality … whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values” heavy fines for violations banks refused to provide mortgages to blacks, and community members signed contracts agreeing not to rent or sell their homes to “any person other
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Running Head: SOCIOLOGY IN CRIMINAL SYSTEM Abstract Sociology in the criminal justice system s both interest but very complicating. There are some many different aspects on what can be touched upon. The criminal justice system is known to be very biased. In specific terms the system is racial bias and unfair. The America uses a formal social control, to deal with crimes. Statistics show a fair difference and connection between race and the percentage
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this time. However, I also believe that the music they created was a way for the blacks to become determined for equality and ultimately revolt against the government. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced by the National Party, the white government of South Africa, from 1984 to 1994. Apartheid is an Afrikaans word that literally means, “the state of being apart” or “apart-hood.” The government segregated schools, beaches, medical care, and other public services. Also, millions of black
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wears a mildewed black dress with missing buttons and a grease-stained head rag covering her pigtails. She has blue-brown eyes, is ashen in appearance and much wrinkled. She is perspiring from her walk and is shivering from the cold. She enters the white Church and sits, singing in her head. She is physically thrown out of the church. After the woman is turned away she begins to feel a sense of loneliness, and an outcast. “She sees Jesus walking down the highway and is giddy with joy. Jesus tells her
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The Guilt A speech in defense of Lilian Thurgood My name is Lilian Thurgood and I cannot believe how our society is today. Every day people knock on my door to ask for money, work, clothes and food. Usually I deal with it but yesterday was crossing the line. At first, I heard my dogs barking at the gate where a boy stood with one of these brown letters in his hands. He asked for work but I did not have any. Instead, I gave him five rand as a donation, which he would not take if he did not work
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