...be an integral aspect of American society in the twenty first century. The shift to the technology era gives new platforms in which the First Amendment can be practiced. In the current society, the First Amendment’s use by the people influences understanding, acceptance, and rejection of different groups. The expanded use of the First Amendment increases the awareness of minority groups and their plight in the community. In the fight for equality for LGBTQ individuals, freedom of speech in the media prompts community involvement and a general sense of acceptance. LGBTQ members flood social media...
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...Natalie Duran Frisone Period 3 5 May 2015 Conversion Therapy “More than 50% of the transgender youth will have had at least one suicide attempt by their 20th birthday” (Youth Suicide Prevention Program). For anyone transgender, gay, or one who identifies on the LGBTQ spectrum, a range of sexualities and gender identities, living and surviving in the world blissfully is challenging. Without support or acceptance within your kin it could lead to even more complications or even an unwanted and forced response, being sent to conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is an option a great deal of parents or legal guardians use in an attempt to change one’s gender or sexual orientation they don’t agree...
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...Discipline. According to Dr. Joseph Kosciw, GLSEN’s Chief Research & Strategy Officer (2016), “It is abundantly clear that LGBTQ students face disproportionately high levels of school discipline due to hostile school climates that ultimately deprive many of them, not only of their education, but also the success in life that education affords. Given the findings of Educational Exclusion, we must redouble our efforts to create supportive schools for LGBTQ students, particularly transgender and gender nonconforming students, students experiencing homelessness, students with disabilities and students of color.” He added, “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students face high rates of school discipline, including detention, suspension...
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...Lavender Scare: How America’s Persecution of Homosexuality Marked a Turning Point in Legalized Discrimination? Cosmo Vanzyl Senior Division Historical Paper Paper Length: 2,498. Joan Cassidy, former captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve, explained that “[the interrogators] swooped in like death with a scythe, sweeping through the place and. questioning [the women] about their sexual lives and whether they were gay.” Captain Cassidy was one of many gay government employees who lost their livelihoods and dignity due to the drastic rise in American extremism and the anti-communist witch hunts of the Cold War. The visibility of the queer community rose alongside the American norms developed amid the paranoia of Cold War presidential...
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...Throughout the early to mid-19th century, there was a huge religious revival; commonly known as the Second Great Awakening. The historical skill being assessed is contextualization. The reform movements throughout the Second Great Awakening has shown the U.S. sought to expand the democratic ideals such as the rise of the common mans’ want in political and social freedom, and the want of basic human rights. In the search for political freedom, there has been a cartoon drawn by Patrick Reason in document 3. As you can see in document 3, the woman is chained up; this is to show how women in their society have little freedom compared to men. Some could say that this picture could be about slaves due to the chains and the looks of the female but...
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...serious doubts about becoming a democracy. There is issues that get brought up about the Declaration of independence, when they say that “all men are created equal”. This was not true for the most part of the time after the signing of this document. It was a long time until blacks and poor white men were allowed to participate in political formats. I think that The United States has issues that affect the world. Politically and Economically the United States is having a global impact because we are the Super Power of the world. Other countries look up to The U.S. The United States still has a long way to go in order to fulfill that statement form the Deceleration of Independence. With women still having issues in the political format and LGBTQ individuals having a hard time with being able to do anything, it is increasingly difficult for people to have confidence in the government. In Great Britain they have a lot of impacts of globalization that stem from outside its borders. About 99 percent of its automobile manufacturers are owned by other countries or someone outside of the country. (Hauss, 2011) A lot of Great Britain’s policies and economics are influenced by outside sources. With the wages so low in this country they are looking at more investment seekers from around the world. This brings money into the economy from outside which brings up the prices of things. Having such an...
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...To begin, politicians won't talk about it because poor people don't vote and they certainly don’t donate to their campaigns. Next, the media won't talk about it because poor people don't boost their ratings, and the public won't talk about it because neither of the first two groups do! However, when the dust settles, it is clear that the responsibility of this lack of information and action on poverty in America rests firmly on the shoulders of the media. Any social movement, Women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, Police brutality, and many more began due to the direct attention of the media. The fact is, over 45 million Americans are affected by this crisis everyday, this should demand a social movement but it just isn’t happening. The numbers are staggering, this should be a story already written for media outlets, but it is because of the corporate greed in media that this is not true. With the rise of social media in recent years, media outlets have been struggling to keep their revenue streams afloat as many of their subscribers have left for social media on more accessible handheld devices and advertisers exploring new avenues such as social media reaching millions of people at a fraction of the...
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...identity” These types of proclamations have created the modern national identity crisis that we have in our state. The rise of Islamic extremism, calls for secessions from the country and violent protests because of regional favoritism are the cracks in this portrait that we project ourselves in and are a wake-up call for urgent action. These assumptions about our national identity are fueled by media and the educational material presented in our schools. The “Selective” history books have erased or barely mentioned crucial parts of the Tunisian History and mainstream media recreate the image in a reductive manner. Growing up in the deep south and then moving to the capital to finish my studies, was an uprooting experience that is commonly shared between new college students from the southern and inner regions of the country. Being excluded from what is mainstream is nothing new. Our narratives are rarely presented in TV; our accent is used for mockery and our customs are considered culturally backward and primitive. A history of religious conquests, islamization, arabization, colonization and a second wave of arabization as a tool of reclaiming the independence of Tunisia have created this mess. Every time, non conforming individuals proclaim an identity that is different from the one perpetuated by the majority, they are accused of being unpatriotic .Suspicion rises, when the amazigh minority urges the government to protect their language and customs. This is a clear contrast to...
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...Ashlyn Oswalt Facebook Me Happy February 28, 2012 1 Ashlyn Oswalt Tweeting and friending used to conjure up images of birds and human contact. Tumbling meant rolling down a sloped hill and “Myspace” referred to the personal area one called his own. Today, all these words revert back to one image: humans spending unlimited amounts of time in front of a computer screen, “socializing.” The generations that precede the current are always looking for an outside force to blame for the corruption of youth, and today social media takes the cake. This corruption has been the increasing cause of clinical illnesses, behavioral changes, and suicide. The invention of the internet brought many exciting avenues to investigate. World Wide Web users quickly realized that they could easily make contact with people outside their immediate area without ever leaving their homes or picking up a phone. Connecting with family overseas or making cyberfriends hailing from exotic hometowns quickly grew to be the norm and letters and phone calls quickly became obsolete. The first major social networking site, Myspace, was geared towards teenagers and emerging musical artists. The site took off running, with over 100 million users in three years. Myspace encouraged users to share photos, feelings, thoughts, and build an arsenal of friends. Although Myspace use has since declined, it has sparked similar versions such as Facebook and Twitter. According to the Facebook website, the site is 800...
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...Bullying: An Argumentative Essay Bullying has engrained in American society since the country’s founding. Bred from a capitalistic economy and competitive social hierarchy, bullying has remained a relevant issue through the years. It is the most common type of violence in contemporary US society. Bullying occurs in schools, workplaces, in homes, on playgrounds, in the military, and in nursing homes, for example. Today bullying and cyber-bullying have become an increasing problem in the schools. Cyberbullying is a form of aggressive behavior that occurs through electronic devices such as mobile/cell phones (calls and SMS/text messages), e-mail and the internet (blogs, chatrooms, newsgroups, social networks and web-pages). Like other forms of bullying, cyberbullying is usually defined in terms of intentional and repeated interactions on the part of the perpetrator who is perceived to be more powerful than the victim: the perpetrator’s ability to act anonymously is indicative of a form of power he or she holds over the victim As in the case of traditional bullying, cyberbullying often occurs as a result of such relationship difficulties as the break-up of a friendship or romance, envy of a peer’s success, intolerance of particular groups on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability, and ganging up on one individual (Duncan, Neil, Rivers, Ian, 2012). Bullying has taken on new heights and sometimes victims of bullies suffer severe and lasting consequences...
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...Factors that influence a business I will be looking at social, political and legal factors that influence a business and the effects the factors will have on the business. Social factors The social factors that effect a business fall into five categories. The first is demographic, the things that fall under this are the aging population, population and globalisation. The aging population effects businesses because the retirement age has gone up so there is a lot of older workers. While this means that employers can keep their employees for longer which means they will have experienced workers and won’t need to spend time and money on training new employees. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/10302875/Older-workers-still-have-much-to-offer.html) This article points out the benefits of older workers to the businesses they will work in. However older workers would struggle with manual labour jobs, so they couldn’t be employed to do this. The way these types of companies would work around having older workers is to find a physical fault with their performance so they can be fired. They have to do this because they are not allowed to fire someone just because they are old, this is due to the Equality Act which makes them unable to discriminate. Finding a medical reason such as poor sight or bone problems is how businesses work around this. If discrimination does take place against older workers then these workers will be less motivation and inclined to go to work so this...
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...Workplace,Business & Ethics on evaluation of job ethical standards in Wal-Mart in South Carolina In Partial Fulfillment of Business Research and Project BUS 499 Nagliesha L Miles Supervisor: Dr. Mmutakaego Chukwuanu Allen University Date: December 8,2010 Table of content Table of Content...............................................................................................................2 Abstract............................................................................................................................3 List of Illustrations Wal-Mart earnings preview......................................................................................13 U.S Retail food pricing.................................................................................14 Chapter 1 Introduction.....................................................................................................................5 Background information.......................................................................................5 Statement of problem............................................................................................5 Hypothesis............................................................................................................6 Chapter 2 Literature Review...........................................................................................................8 Chapter 3 Methodology.................................................
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...Unlearning Deficit Ideology and the Scornful Gaze: Thoughts on Authenticating the Class Discourse in Education Paul C. Gorski Founder, EdChange Assistant Professor, Integrative Studies George Mason University http://www.EdChange.org gorski@EdChange.org December 2010 Unlearning Deficit Ideology and the Scornful Gaze 2 It is popular in the education milieu today to talk about the dangers of assuming a deficit perspective, approaching students based upon our perceptions of their weaknesses rather than their strengths. Such a perspective deteriorates expectations for students and weakens educators’ abilities to recognize giftedness in its various forms (Ford & Grantham, 2003). The most devastating brand of this sort of deficit thinking emerges when we mistake difference—particularly difference from ourselves— for deficit. If one concentrates best while sitting still it may be difficult to imagine that somebody else—a student or colleague, perhaps—concentrates more effectively while pacing or tapping a pencil. Similarly, if one always has lived among people who speak a certain language variation, such as what people commonly refer to as “standard English,” she or he might mistake somebody’s use of a different variation, such as the Appalachian variety spoken by my grandmother, as an indication of intellectual inferiority or, worse, deviance (Collins, 1988). Over the past ten or so years a critical discourse challenging the deficit perspective has emerged among educators....
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...Patriarchy is best defined as control by men. The opposite is matriarchy which means women are in charge and the head of families. Obviously, the culture of the United States and most other countries is patriarchal. Men have the power and control the women. If you don't believe that consider the basics of how our society functions. Women constantly must fight for their rights and sometimes they struggle just to survive without the power and domination of men threatening them. Whether an individual woman wants to conquer patriarchy will come from her desire to be independent and defined outside the context of men. Look to most world leaders to see how powerful patriarchy is. Women are certainly as capable as men to be President of the United States, yet they are not and probably won't be any time soon. Men have been in that role for so long that our country probably does not believe it is possible. Consider who is typically at the head of a company or leaders in local governments. While certainly more women are fulfilling these roles, it is a constant struggle for the ones who are able to achieve that success with men having much more power just by their biological nature. Men have not had to fight for their place in society like women have. It has been an expectation that they will become leaders because that is what patriarchy is about. Much of patriarchy also has its roots in Christianity. Religions which believe the Bible or other religious text often follow it faithfully...
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