...Love / Hate War “There comes a time when silence is betrayal (King Jr.) “The movement called black lives matter could be said to be a more advanced Civil Rights Movement of 1868. Black lives matter is a more advanced movement from the Civil Rights. Focusing on the racism exhibited towards blacks (or people of color). The black lives matter movement got its uproar in 2013 when young, Trayvon Martin was shot and killed, he was subjected to an unfair trial and received no justice. The controversy of the black lives matter movement does not cause any harm as if it only benefits society. The awareness of what is really going on right now in the country would not be as focused on and addressed if it wasn’t for the black lives matter movement. The...
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...to inspire, like literature and speech, like all forms of media. Music is a powerful tool that has been used to inspire and incite social movements as it has a massive influence on the ideas and viewpoints of others. Music has been used to foster success and expand the influence of social movements, one of these movements, the Black Panther Party utilized media, especially music to promote and propagate for their cause. The Black Panther Party surfaced in the 1960’s in response to a variety of issues threatening and affecting the African-American community such as police brutality, poverty, and lack of education. The Black Panther Party recognized the need and want for a militant party to press for change. The Black Panther...
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...this movement that makes reality clearer. Articles like “The End of Men” will obscure the public’s opinion because of how it presents women receiving college degrees and PhDs in numbers significantly higher than men. Yet due to the various articles I have read in class I do not believe that the United States will be able to achieve gender equality in twenty to thirty years. Women’s representation in higher positions is so low that it is very difficult to pass laws and change social ideas. There are also too many obvious prejudices that have not yet been fixed even due to decades of protesting, like the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took...
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...They can create geographical features like volcanoes which, when they erupt, change the weather, and create new land out of ashes. They can move continents away and towards each other in a process called continental drift. They can also cause natural phenomena such as earthquakes, which can destroy things in the lithosphere and the biosphere. Plate tectonics are powerful, they are the biggest force restructuring Earth’s landscape today. In fact, they are so powerful that sometime in the future Earth might have one big landmass again, just like two-hundred fifty million years...
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... The “Information Superhighway”, or Internet, is a powerful medium for today’s information driven society. From its humble beginnings as a series of networks established to help the military and government share resources, it has become a place for people to engage in commerce and also for people to interact socially in both business and personal faculties. Along with the excellent opportunities for meaningful communication in this new atmosphere, the Internet has evolved as an open, democratic cyber society marked by free speech and volunteerism. It is a community gathering place for people to share ideas, concerns, stories and opinions, and to give help and assistance to one another. (Mills-Scofield) There has also arisen a series of problems. Whenever any major development in society is conceived, such as when telephones were introduced, problems ensue. The Internet, because of its modern nature is not really well dealt with when it comes to existing ethical and moral issues. Being that the Internet has fostered a new class of community that requires a unique category of moral values and ethical considerations. Things are always going to be dealt with differently when it comes to any revolutionary type of medium. For instance how can the federal government regulate interstate trade when it is electronically transmitted information? It is a whole new category, how...
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...their identity, it makes them, them. Culture is more than identity and it has the ability to be very powerful, so powerful it can influence and actually start a movement. Culture is important for the development of movements. “Culture implies our striving – it is our striving.” (Keita, 12) Not only does culture thrive for striving, but it helps fight for freedom. “By culture, we understand all… behaviors and attitudes accumulated by the People both through and by virtue of its struggle for freedom from the hold and domain of Nature, and also through and by virtue of its effort to destroy deviationist politics – social systems of domination and exploitation… process of its life.” (Keita, 12) For short, culture can bring people together to fight for freedom and for other reasons. Some ethnicities’ culture is stronger than others. African-Americans are a prime example of an ethnicity whose culture is extremely strong. They hold their culture close to their hearts and they express their culture vibrantly. They stand tall behind their culture and speak proudly of it. African-Americans used their culture to make a change; their culture brought them together to fight together. Their culture is what made them so strong and powerful. There are two important movements the African-Americans were involved in: The Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement. Through these movements, the African-Americans were able to accomplish...
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...big sister organization was able to not only keep in contact with 950 boys and girls in many different agencies around the united states but also that they had them come in and answer some questions and answers. This is only proving how powerful having a strong communication can make things easier for a company, and even though they may be a company it is not any easier to get people to answer them so this means they have some very powerful communication skills. The Bowery Leadership Academy keep constant communication by making their program a four year long repetitive program that keeps them connected, “...a four-year program...This year round program includes workshops, event and team-building activities”(Bowery Leadership Academy). Similar to the Big Brother Big Sister organization there is the strong communication that they are able to keep the students interested in the program for four years and have them in constant loop to what is...
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...well-known civil rights movement leader as well as a great Black Muslim as well as a smart and powerful man. He was born as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925 to his parents Louis and Earl Little. His father was a well-known Christian preacher who followed the teachings of Marcus Garvey a former well established African American leader. Growing up and watching his father’s sermons would add to his knowledge of the racial tensions he would soon be faced with as he got older. His mother Louis Little was the product of the slave and master relations as she was mulatto and she hated herself for it as this also was a cause to his inspiration to become a serious activists in the civil rights movement. As he grew up he did very well academically and was very well liked by the whites who accepted him due to his lighter skin tone but as time went on he became very street minded in his ways as he grew up as a thief and street hustler as well as a pimp and drug dealer. All those events led him to prison where he was sentenced to 10 years and in that 10 years he became a changed man by joining the Nation of Islam and becoming a Black Muslim. He then changed his last name from Little to X as he did not want to take the name of a prior slave owner of his ancestors and eventually went on to become one of civil rights movement top respected leaders. I believe Malcolm X should be remembered by his successes such as his evolvement from a street minded hustler to a powerful civil rights leader...
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...the south after the U.S. Army left, whites reasserted control and two leaders stepped forward, each with their own ideas on how to attain equality. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, both were highly educated men. Booker T. Washington was perhaps more famous, having had dinner with President Theodore Roosevelt. Washington had dealt with suppression his entire life, having been born a slave in Virginia. With an insatiable thirst for more from life, he attended a night school where he learned. Using what he learned he went on to become administrator at a trade school. The Tuskegee Institute was a school in Alabama with an African-American student body and taught trades useful in the work force to young African-American’s. The Tuskegee Institute rang throughout with Washington’s idea on how to push for civil rights, being that working alongside segregation blacks could train themselves and learn equal rights in time with social stature. However, not all black leaders agreed with him. W.E.B. DuBois was a powerful leader with powerful ideas. He strongly encouraged all blacks to demand immediate equal rights and the right to vote. W.E.B. DuBois believed the right to vote should not half to be earned. Having grown up in Massachusettes, DuBois never had to go through slavery, and graduated from Harvard with a Ph.D. in History. He lead the Niagara Movement with other intelligent black men,...
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...Demonstrative Communication Analysis Communication is a powerful tool that connects the world. It is used to inform, connect, or persuade a person or a group of people. Communication can enhance our lives and the lives of others. Sometimes it can be destructive by misunderstandings, conflicts of opinion, or wrongful information. Communication consists of verbal and nonverbal. Verbal communication is the spoken word. Nonverbal communication is better known as body language. It is more prevalent in communication than verbal. Through analytical studies, communication is broken into three categories, 7% verbal, 38% tone of voice, and 55% body language (Kurien, 2010). Body language is a reflection of thoughts, feelings, and opinions through changes or movements within someone’s body. It is up to the receiver to interpret the meaning. Rane (2010) states, It is a wordless world of communication guided by our thought process, feelings and emotions and are visibly shown through body movements like nodding our head, blinking eyes, waving hands, shrugging shoulders, etc. By doing so, appropriate signals of the message are sent to the receiver which often may be more powerful than the words. Needless to add, bodies do not lie and body language, therefore, tells the truth (p. 19). Nonverbal Advantages Nonverbal communication has many advantages. Body language is visible to the receiver and can confirm if the sender’s words and gestures are congruent. Body language can form...
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...The Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement is a very diverse subject. There are many different opinions on this subject and many political changing events follow this movement. Some of the struggles during the civil rights movement were covered through the media in such a fashion that it could have gone either way. I found an article stating, and I quote “Majority Queried In Times Survey Say, Negro Movement Has Gone Too Far, But Few Intend To Change Votes.” –New York Times (Sept. 21st 1964). Now another person questioned in this poll, and I quote “That many neighborhoods have always been known as ‘tough’, but they were white tough neighborhoods, if you know what I mean.” He added, “It was tough to a point, and no more. Now with colored it is a different kind of toughness, it is fear I guess.” I feel like with this last comment that this man had said, it is absolutely true of how the public viewed the civil rights movement, it was a fear, a fear of uncertainty of how to live with each other after being segregated for so long. In during this time the term ‘white backlash’ was used as a term used to give an indication that their voting habits were affected by the changes that has occurred in the civil rights act. Martin Luther King Jr. displayed a method of non violent protests which he referred to as a method of peaceful protest by oppressed people. From the article I read I quote “In a classical non violent situation the oppressed engage in mass demonstrations or in...
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...writes about his experiences which have had an expansive, powerful impact all the way from the abolitionist movement up until our era. Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery which lead him to be a witness and victim of the dehumanization of colored individuals. He grew up observing how colored men and women were given a price, with little to no value. The slaves were degraded by having their rights stripped and seized from them by white slaveowners that treated them like animals. Knowingly they longed for freedom, the masters and overseers would still brutally punish any slave that would speak their mind. In...
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...Joey Bigelow Mr. Franks. 5-20-11 THE POWER OF AMERICA There are many reasons that America became the most powerful country in the world. Its because of hard work put through for years that makes our country unique from another. We have fought and earned our power that we have today. Our military, freedom, our education is why we have such a powerful country. Our military is the strongest in the world. Our military’s power began in world war two and from then on out the military has prospered. When we helped defeat the German army, we showed our power to the world because we had defeated the most evil man is the world, saving around several thousand jews. We have been involved in many other battles and wars, like Vietnam. Even though we didn’t succeed in winning, we showed the world how relentless we are to help anyone in need and that we wont stand down, by fighting in a war and loosing over 58 thousand American soldiers. These wars have made our military become the most skilled and technologically advanced in the world. We have an army, navy, and an air force that are patrolling and protecting America twenty-four hours a day. We are always under protection and it makes the people of America comfortable. It allows the people to live without fear unlike other countries that live with the fear of dying everyday. We are very fortunate to have a military that is on the frontlines everyday to keep us out of harms way and to keep America progressing every day to new heights...
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...Introduction The Civil Rights Movement reached its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. An abundance of unfair events created a desire to secure equality for all Americans. Numerous historical leaders poured their lives into fighting for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Many African-American men and women, along with whites, organized and led the movement to fight against injustice. The eight resources below provide information about several historical leaders that made an impact on the Civil Rights Movement. These resources may be used to create assignments to help students develop a deeper understanding of the Civil Rights Movement. Furthermore, students will benefit from meaningful classroom discussions about these heroic leaders. Important People There are numerous well-known historical figures that influenced the Civil Rights Movement leading up to the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is probably one of the most powerful leaders involved in the fight for civil rights. Coretta Scott King worked and marched alongside her husband, Dr. King and continued his fight for justice after his death. In addition, Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American judge on the Supreme Court appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play Major League Baseball which contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement. African-American, Rosa...
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...In the past century, there has been a dramatic change in how the world views women and their roles in society. Specifically, how life for Canadian women has changed and how women from different cultures and countries each face unique problems in being respected and treated as equal members of society. Women have gone from being valued only as housewives in the fifties to CEOs in modern times. This is a remarkable achievement which should have come sooner. Although, even in today’s society women are still subjected to unfair and unjustified prejudice, stereotyping, sexism and conservative old fashioned gender role ideas. Women were believed to be passive and weak which is a complete contrast to how most of the world views women today. When compared...
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