...Ropes of Hatred Tammy L. Boyd-Polk SOC/315 Mr. Hassan El-Amin Week 5, Individual Assignment 9/31/2007 Ropes of Hatred Hatred is not a behavior that humans are born with, it is a behavior that is taught and bred into people. In most cases this act of instilling hate is incepted during child hood, by a parent or a close relative. In some cases people who breathe hatred may have been introduced to this way of thinking out of their household by close friends or acquaintances. In either case this way of thinking has caused a strain on intercultural relationships in past years and it stills haunts our current society. The Deep South still wreaks the singe of racial discrimination, it seems the further south you travel the more you can experience or hear about how prevalent racism still is in these areas. It is always bad when the common citizens have this mentality; however when your judicial system is comprised of individuals who still embrace this thought pattern, then you really have to ask yourself who can you trust ?or who can you even turn to? when the officers that are suppose to up hold the laws are tainted along with the laws that are suppose to govern the land. It is apparent that the governing body of the United States places racial issues on the back burner; it seems to me that the government will only address certain issues if media attention warrants it. There is no excuse why all laws are not equivalent...
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...Sexual Orientation and the Law Stacia Mayhew Columbia Southern University Just because you are different than other people, you may feel lost or alone. That is hard enough to deal with, but now there are people around you that are uncomfortable with the fact that you are gay, a lesbian, or bi-sexual. How can you tell your family and friends when you honestly have no idea that you don’t know how they will react? I, personally, am not a lesbian, however, this subject strikes a nerve with me because I feel that it doesn’t matter who people choose to spend their life with. Why does society care so much about whom people choose to love? There are some family and friends who will accept you for whom or what you are or become in life. Some may not say it right away, but I think they will eventually come around. I would be torn to pieces if someone I loved rejected me because of who I was and my sexuality. Coming out is hard enough and now you have your entire support network not talking to you because of it. Who do you confide in now? Imagine if you have no gay friends that truly understand what you are going through. Then you have everyone around finding out and picking on you making things worse. People can be seriously cruel and not care about their actions. The case in Oxford, CA with Lawrence King, 15, is a tragedy. He was in middle school and announced to his class that he was gay in front of his classmates. It takes a lot of nerve to be who you are as a...
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...novelist/ writer. He lives in New York City, New York. II. Chief Complaint/Presenting Problem The main complaint from the patient is obsessive-compulsive disorder. He seems to have problem with germs, cracks on the floor or side walk, taking pills, and with keeping people out of his house. Mr. Udall’s germ problems cause him to use multiple soaps when washing his hand. He has to use plastic utensils at the only restaurant he eats at. He is cannot have people touch him and he covers his hands with gloves. He is in constant fear of other will touch him and the germs that they could possibly be carrying. He hates walking on crack on the ground or flooring but does not know why. The other problem he has is, he is misanthropy which a hatred or distrust of humankind (Merriam-Webster, 2014). He states he does not get along with other tenants on his floor. He doesn’t keep a relationship with other people and is irritable. He understands the society’s norms and rules but because misanthropy makes him inapproachable and seeming to not care. This does not help with his obsessive-compulsive disorder because he seem to use it to keep people away from him because he is ashamed of it. He has stated in the past that he does not like gays. So he could be homophobic, however it is believe it is part of the misanthropy and how he keeps people away. The other main problem that is being portrayed is that he is compulsion. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors such as excessive or unreasonable...
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...In Mitch Albom’s book The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the main character, Eddie, meets five people, and each person teaches an important lesson. Eddie learns all about sacrifice, forgiveness, and the meaning in life. Each of these lessons greatly impacts Eddie. When Eddie meets his old commanding officer from the military, he learns about the importance of sacrifice. The Captain teaches Eddie about the necessity of sacrifice throughout life. Eddie was upset about the sacrifices he had to make but The Captain explains, “You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. . . . It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to,”(93). Eddie did not understand that sacrifice is a good thing, but this made him realize that all his losses happened for a reason. At the time, Eddie could only think about the things he lost, but The Captain says that they are not really gone. “Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else,” (94). This made it feel better because it meant that his captain didn't die for nothing. His captain died making sure that the rest of the men got home safely. Eddie was finally able to accept that all the bad things that happened, happened for a reason. When Eddie ...
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...“The Parsley Garden William Saroyan” Lauren Rennie 18/3/13 Mr. Campoli ENG104 Perspective- The perspective of The Parsley Garden is 3rd person. It is an all seeing point of view. The narrator frequently uses the characters names or him and her to address them. This point of view demonstrates an understanding of each action of a character as well as each characters feelings and emotions. I know this because, "One day in August, Al Condraj was wandering through Woolworth’s without a penny to spend when he saw a small hammer that was not a toy...
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...characteristics but it would be stereotyping the whole group if stating everyone of that age or race acted or did the same things. * From Ch. 3 of Racial and Ethnic Groups, describe at least one cause of discrimination and one effect of it. There are multiple reasons why one might be discriminated against it could be there genger, race, beliefs, sexual origin, or their age. These types of reasons would used to prevent people from participing in activities with others or from getting employment. One cause of discrimination is Hate Crimes. Hate Crimes are when offenders are motivated to choose a victim because of some characteristic—for example, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or disability—and provide evidence that hatred prompted them to commit the crime. Hate crimes also are sometimes referred to as bias crimes. Because of this many effects can happen. The most prominate effect is that many innocent people...
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...Abstract Prejudice can lead to many things. Hate crimes are something every individual has to be concerned with. Targets are not always based on race, but based on social class. Hate crimes are not always an uncontrollable or random act. Race motivated crimes occur when an ethnically or racially person starts to see a migration of people with different ethnic or racial backgrounds. Social class hate crimes occur when individuals feel they are trying to better their communities by ridding them of the undesirables. Prejudice will continue to exist because of human nature. Hate Crimes Hate crime can be defined as any crime that would violate a person’s civil right and is fueled by hostility towards a person’s race, sexual orientation gender, origin, creed, or religion. Typically when hearing of hate crimes, one thinks of crimes towards those of other races. Many places experience hate crimes against the homeless, mentally disabled or physically disabled people, (Hate Crimes, 2013). A common trait of a person who commits hate crimes is they are usually a member of a hate organization. Most people limit the groups to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) or the Neo-Nazi. However, that may not always be the case. There are many hate crimes that are committed by a number of different groups, In some cases the person(s) feels they are doing a good thing for society and their community by making it a better, safer place. Other times they may be reacting on impulse since they believe in...
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...I wish I could say that this assignment were difficult for me, but I’m a Mother of 5 and a wife. Which I think we can all agree that being a wife actually means I’m a Mother of six. All kidding aside, I feel both of those factors represent several different kinds of stressors in my SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. One that is of top priority to me is how my children act in public. By in public, I mean anywhere outside our home. It is of the utmost importance to me that in no way can anyone around me have a complaint about my children’s behavior. To accomplish this, it takes a lot of discipline and consistency whether I am at home, at a relative or a friend’s house or even out at a store. My children are very aware that no matter where we are, the rules don’t change. Even if it means that my husband and I miss out on certain things, such as going to the movies, if I don’t feel that it is something my children are ready to handle, then we don’t attend until they are at the appropriate social and mental age. The way I go about handling these things is by watching the world around me. If I don’t like how someone’s child acted while at my home, than that is something I will make sure my children never do at someone else’s house. When I see a child at the store throwing a tantrum, while I understand that children and parents have hard days, I still expect the parent to do something about it. Even if it means you have to leave your cart full of merchandise and bring the child to the car. Not only...
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...die untended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery; others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. We have discovered that every child who learns, and every man who finds work, and every sick body that is made whole – like a candle added to an altar – brightens the hope of all the faithful. So let us reject any among us, who seek to reopen old wounds, and rekindle old hatreds. They stand in the way of a seeking nation. Let us join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. To achieve change without hatred; not without difference of opinion but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations. Under the covenant of justice, liberty and union, we have become a nation. And we have kept our freedom. It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming, trying, probing, resting, and trying again but always gaining. If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship; that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more that it gives. If we succeeded, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but rather...
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...Bethany L. Coderre Theater-3 Ms. Kewley Hate Crimes After reading “The Laramie Project” your left with so many questions, ideas and emotions. The play is a series of interviews (reenacted exactly as they happened) to give the audience facts and true statements so that they can form there own opinion. The play takes place in Laramie Wyoming, after the “hate crime” that left 21 year old Matthew Shepard fighting for his life that ended soon after all because the fact that he was gay. Hate is a feeling and hate crime is acting on that hatred, but what exactly is a “hate crime”? What makes it so different from any other crime? Isn't all crime hate crime? “People would like to think that what happened to Matthew was an exception to the rule, but it was an extreme version of what happens in our schools on a daily basis.” (Laramie Project,47) This quote shows how people are going through hate on a daily basis and it sucks that the only way to get peoples attention was for something as tragic as Matthew Shepard story. The term ghate crimeh was given the name in the 1980's by journalists that were trying to describe a number of incidents directed towards Jews, Asians and African Americans. The federal Beureo of investigations defines hate crime as ga criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national...
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...plan to exact a pound of flesh from Antonio, who, appears to be a good Christian. The Christians characters are hypocrites as they exhibit the same traits that they use to persecute Shylock. Shylock points this out when he says: “If a Jew wrong a Christian,what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong A Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.” (3.1.59) Shylock shows intolerance when he admits to hating Antonio for being a Christian, but later indicates that his hatred really stems from reasons other than religion. Antonio in return shows prejudice when spits and kicks Shylock whenever he comes in contact with him. We presume this is based on ethnic and religious differences . Antonio, and other Christians criticize Shylock for this hatred, but he is a hypocrite as he hates Shylock without reason. Shylock compares his right to the pound of Antonio's flesh to Christians keeping slaves. If the Christians were requested to release their slaves and show them mercy, they would reply that they own them. Shylock says in defence: Prejudice and intolerance is openly displayed by various characters in this...
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...Friendship and Enmity Friendship and Enmity is a very important subject to write about. As everyone in this life meets his friends and maybe make enemies. Friendship is a social relation between two persons or more, they have something in common to share .On the other hand enmity is a word that expresses hate and harm. But here we will speak about the friendship and enmity in William Blake's poem "A POISON TREE" . In this poem Blake spoke about the difference between relations with his friends and his enemies .first he spoke about his relation with his friend. He said that one day he was angry with his friend ,then very simply he told his friend about his anger and they reconciled and returned to their lovely friendship . There is a point to stop us here , Blake represented his relation with his friend in only two lines "I was angry with my friend , I told my wrath my wrath did end" which means that and shows that it is very easy to end your problems with your friends and it is very easy to say sorry and tolerate each other and everything returns again as it was. That is the relation that anyone deserves . Being friends is much easier, to work together and learn how to love each other and build our relationships on peace. As a result everything will run steadily and the community will develop. After only two lines Blake solved his problems with his friend and started speaking about his anger towards his enemy. When Blake became angry with his enemy everything became...
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...The Iks vs. Society In the essay, “The Iks,” Lewis Thomas compares the behavior and characteristics of a tribe. He compares and contrasts the actions and traditions of Iks to other “groups of one size or another, ranging from committees to nations” due to their transformations of becoming barbarous creatures (Thomas 81). The Iks’ society is exploited by the government and an anthropologist, becoming a controlled experiment under a microscope.He discusses the transformation of the Iks from being nomadic hunters and gatherers in the mountain valleys to becoming more greedy, cruel, and disheartened individuals, as a reaction towards the “dismantling of their traditional culture” (Thomas 80). He analyzes and observes that the acts of the Iks and their similarities in action and behavior with competition groups.The Iks selfishness, cruelty, barbarous and savaging acts is explainable and compatible to groups of all sorts, formed in small or large, and groups such as cities or nations. Moreover, when groups are formed into a large group, the destructive and defensive traits exist absolutely in response to a common cause. An individual’s actions and behaviors vary within the surroundings. A simple high school rivalry could instigate destructive behaviors between the students and parents. As a member of the school dance team, I was involved in and present at a majority of social and sporting events. When a rival school was present, the mob mentality of each group would form, and the...
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...Crime came before laws and laws were created to prevent crime, by setting boundaries and creating consequences if those boundaries are crossed. A crime is something that breaks a law. There are endless possible reasons and situations that would drive a person to commit a crime. Some crimes are more on impulse while some are carefully plotted and prepared for months. Sometimes a person has a mental problem and can't control themselves, and sometimes a person knows exactly what they are doing, but is being selfish or getting revenge. Four specific reasons that crime occurs are hatred, revenge, poverty and peer pressure. In reality, the major predators to humans are other humans. In my opinion, another reason crime is more likely to happen be because people are exposed to so much crime and killing that they become desensitized. By the age of 18, we will have been exposed to thousands of graphic violent acts. Too many of us have become desensitized to it, not realizing the true effects of this type of exposure. Crime and killing is in the movies we go to see, the music we listen to, the television shows we watch, the video games we play, the 10 o'clock news we watch, in the newspapers we read, the magazines we subscribe to, the novels we read, and it’s happening in the very schools where we send our children. It's everywhere and we all get this exposure to some extent. Hate crimes often occur as a result of prejudice and ignorance. A lack of understanding about differences among...
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...An illustration of this is when the Socs jump Johnny. The hatred towards Johnny is shown, by how badly they treated him. They didn’t just bully him, they hit him until he was bruised and blood was pouring out. Ponyboy describes this, “Johnny face was cut up and bruised and swollen and there was a wide gash from his temple to his cheek bone. He would carry that scar all his life. His white T-shirt was splattered with blood. I thought he might be dead; surely nobody could be beaten like that a live.” Another instance of the hatred between the gangs is the event between Darry and Paul. Darry hates the Soc so much. He hit his old high school friend Paul in the face, because he was a Soc. Ponyboy narrators this and explains, “He had been the best halfback on Darry's football team at high school and he and Darry used to buddy it around all the time. He was looking at Darry with an expression I couldn't quite place, but disliked. Contempt? Pity? Hate? All three? Why? Because Darry was standing there representing...
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