...2013 James Hal Cone and Cornel Ronald West are two individuals famous for using creative thinking to impact society and history. Hal Cone is a black theologian and Cornel West is a philosopher. This paper will focus on each individual’s unique contributions to society, ideas used to solve a specific issue, how the ideas were applied, personal and political background, creative thinking process, and a critique of their thoughts. From religion, oppression, educational segregation, and the Civil Rights movement, Hal Cone and Cornel West made a remarkable amount of progressive contributions to society. The contributions made by Hal Cone and Cornel West are often over-looked by today’s youth. Black American youth and young adults in particular have become somewhat distant form Black history because the way things appears in today’s society. What is overlooked, and should often be recapped is; without the endurance and dedication within the creative minds of these two creative thinkers, it’s possible that oppression and segregation would still remain a part of our society. Many Civil Rights leaders are responsible for the equality growth in our culture, and Hal Cone and Cornel West has been influential in ensuring Blacks continued to advance in America’s society. Both men contributed an important view to Civil Rights, and is known as leaders who changed the way the world worked personally, socially, and politically. James Hal Cone is a Black libertarian...
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...different philosophers have theorized this question and these philosophers fall under four main categories of thought: technological determinism, instrumentalism, substantivism, and critical theory. The instrumentalist view of technology views technology as merely a tool used and controlled by humans, technology itself has no ends. Technology is completely under human control; humans shape history, not by technology. People decide when to use technology and what to use it for. A large supporter of instrumentalism is Melvin Kranzberg. In his article titled “Technology and History: ‘Kranzberg’s Laws’” Kranzberg identifies and explains his six laws about the nature of technology. The laws are as follows: ‘Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral’, ‘Invention is the mother of necessity’, ‘Technology comes in packages, big and small’, ‘Nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions’, ‘All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant’, and ‘Technology is a very human activity – and so is the history of technology’. The most important laws are Laws Two, Five and Six, which will be explained further shortly. Kranzberg’s Second law states that ‘Invention is the mother of necessity’. By this, Kranzberg means is that every invention requires additional technological advances in order for it to be fully successful. For example, the telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, needed improvement for it to be an effective part...
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...The Electoral College: The Fear of Mobocracy Katherine Kinert Olympic College, Bremerton Abstract The Electoral College is a very important part of the United States Electoral System. However, very few Americans actually understand how it works. The lack of political efficacy in this country is a large reason of why some people do not think the Electoral College should be abolished. However, as Eric Black (2012) stated in an article on PBS News Hour, “Polls for many years have reliably shown that a majority of Americans would prefer a straightforward popular vote for the presidency.” Originally the Electoral College was established to prevent majority factions from having too much power causing mobocracy to occur. However, this system is outdated and the conditions that prompted the founding fathers to institute this precaution no longer exist today. Also, the fact that almost all the states use a winner-take-all system to determine which candidate gets all of the electoral votes for the state. Will abolishing the Electoral College rid the United States from mobocracy? Introduction The Electoral College is outdated and does not follow the true spirit of American Democracy. David Stewart (2013), a lawyer in Washington, D.C., states that, “Because most people knew little about public events or leaders from distant states, the convention delegates reasoned, they would not make a wise choice between presidential candidates.” Today, people have access to information through TV...
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...World War II: The Internment of Japanese Americans Josh White Sothern New Hampshire University WORLD WAR II: THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS The topic of Japanese American Internment during the Second World War is a very important part of American history.It happened during the Second World War when nations were against each other and after the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Japan automatically became an enemy to the United States thus leading to the government of the day led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 to take several measures against Japan and its origins mainly living in the United states. What followed was an executive order by the president to allow forceful removal of Americans of Japanese origin from their homes and incarcerated into camps.The government had feared another attack by the Japanese would be imminent and so they had to come up with some measures to get rid of Japanese spies that were living in the west coast. This led to one of the lowest moments in American history as these camps were an absolute human rights violation to these Japanese Americans. Most of these Japanese Americans who had been taken to these camps were actually legal American citizens thus showing that this move was based on racial stereotypes and propaganda that was being peddled during that time referring to the Japanese as less of human beings. This incarceration seriously affected these Japanese Americans...
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...Young lives are being cut short by other young people sometimes even their own neighbors. The poor communities are getting hit harder with more petty violence. All of the small violent acts grow into things like organized violence with gangs focuses around “street pride". In Geoffrey Canada’s Fist Stick Knife Gun: A personal history of violence, he depicts how from an early age violence is instilled into young people through everyday life and media.Through his own personal experience, Canada is trying to reach everybody he can to inform and try to stop the horrific cycle of violence in America's poor communities and ghettos. Canada wrote this book to give insight into how damaging it is for people to live through an extremely violent childhood....
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...so mainstream today, that Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs have been created for students as early as elementary school age. The need to prepare and educate America’s youth in STEM base curriculum will provide the necessary foundation for Healthcare IT Management and jobs. Healthcare IT (HIT) can provide an automated and interoperable healthcare information system that can lower healthcare cost, reduce errors, improve efficiency, with the ability to providing patients with better care and service. With incorporating healthcare with technology, patients can be diagnosed and treated from their homes and people in under developed countries (Africa), especially in remote areas, can also receive medical treatment so badly needed The use of technology is constantly evolving. At one point in history there were no such things as cell phones, especially Smartphones. Especially, for people who are considered to be below the poverty line. These Smartphones were once large mainframe computers housed in a remote location and protected by high levels of security, Now- a-days, there are Cloud servers and Satellites all over the world, operating millions of these devices. Both of these industries use many acronyms and terminology that applies to each individually. It would be important that the language of Healthcare IT is developed to eliminate miscommunication and unnecessary complications that can occur. This opens the door for so many jobs like system analysis...
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...Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine By: Alexis Quirarte 4 April 2013 Professor Billingsley History 16: History of The U.S. to 1877 Common sense was an extremely popular pamphlet written during the American Revolutionary War. The author of this great, and historical piece of work was a man known by the name of Thomas Paine. This historical piece of work when it was first released sold more than 120,000 copies in its first year. The pamphlet was released on anonymity due to the origin of its contents. In the pamphlet Pain was the voice of the American people that were concerned about the English radicalism. At the start, Paine explains that in the essay to come he is offering the reader nothing but, “simple facts, plain arguments,” and of course, “common sense” (27-30). He says he asks the reader for nothing more than to read on without prejudice and let their feelings decide for themselves; however, calmly Paine approaches the beginning of his work, though, later he will certainly show himself to be quite passionate. Paine begins his argument with more general, theoretical reflections about government and religion, and then progresses into the specifics of the Colonial situation. It is also extremely important to realize that throughout his pamphlet, Common Sense, Thomas Paine argues two main points: the first being independence from England and the second being the creation of a democratic republic. Paine uses an enthymeme by stating that “in absolute governments...
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...Definition” of women and men. They responsibilities are often conditioned by household structure, and other specific impacts of the economy, and other relevant factors as ecological conditions. Realizing that our present society still has conflicts of inequality of gender and are most likely seen in work areas for acknowledging the huge differences in their income. Gender inequality has been through history and significant advances. Gender inequality are most seen in workplaces discriminating their duty to accomplish for a women on fields such as labor, big companies, politician, etc. This type of discrimination is used against women for the fact that they are seen weak, with lack of leadership while they have shown through American History that they can do as much as man can and even better, since women were working in male work areas during World War 2. More than 350,000 women served in the United States Armed Forces, both at home and abroad. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce started increasing from 27 percent to 37 percent. “Rosie the Riveter” she left a huge history moment by starting a government campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry, becoming the most icon image of women during the war. Reminding the world of how much women have gave to America through History, would be able to open the eyes to those...
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...profession. Following is a suggested outline for the case written by your group: I) Background Information (e.g., corporate history) II) The Central Ethical Dilemma(s) III) Alternative Ways to Deal With the Ethical Dilemma(s) IV) Possible Consequences and Implications of Alternative Solutions V) Ethical Theories That Are Applicable to This Case VI) Key Questions for Case Study When writing this case report, you are encouraged to gather as much relevant information as possible from various online and offline data sources. However, all the information used in your case analysis must be properly cited in the main body of your report, including the author name(s) and publishing date/year, if available, and the detailed citations must be included in the References section. Your case report will be graded on the following criteria: 1) Proper application of ethical theories 2) Quality of writing (readability, originality, grammatical correctness, etc.) 3) Breadth of information utilized (at least 20 different articles or books need be cited and actually used in writing this case) 4) Demonstrated critical thinking skills 5) Robust logical reasoning 6) Comprehensive data analysis (i.e. taking into account all relevant facts and information in a systematic manner) 7) Interesting and important questions posed for the readers All sources of information must be cited in the paper. Detailed citations must be placed in the References...
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...feeding, rearing and caring for their children. Theirs is an American story that is rarely told on any grand, meaningful scale—not one, at least, that defies stereotype and caricature. But recently, “The Help,” a film based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling book of the same name, became a cultural touchstone when two of its lead characters, both African-American maids in the then-staunchly segregated Mississippi, challenged viewers to walk their journey—to see, as lead protagonist, Abileen Clark, said, “what it felt like to be me.” To me, ‘The Help’ is this year’s most outstanding and socially relevant motion picture; Viola Davis’ quiet but powerful portrayal of Abileen made us all take notice of a historically invisible class of women and Abileen’s story, along with those of the other maids who rallied with her to tell it, remind us that when we speak, if only in a whisper, momentous things can happen. Of course, the movie, does not come without its controversy: while so many, myself included, questioned then embraced Stockett’s story and actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer earned Academy Award nominations for their roles as the maids who conspired with a young white woman to canonize their life stories, others question why, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her portrayal as the affable, sassy slave maid Mammy in Gone With the Wind, Hollywood ushered to the screen a movie feting the Jim Crow subjugation of black women. What is lost in the debate is that the...
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...Health Reform, American Style by Hobson Carroll Today’s health care financing mess requires an American fix. We need a rational solution that recognizes where we have come from in paying and providing for health care in this country, as well as our government, history, culture, economic system and all the other things that define us as a nation. The entire world is struggling with health care financing. Solutions need to be locally relevant, and the United States is no exception. My proposal for reforming core elements in the health care system follows. Everyone Is Charged The Same Amount Currently, the same service from the same provider costs different parties different amounts depending on who is paying. This is patently ridiculous for something society has effectively stated is a right, or at least a social utility. We must require all-payer, transparent pricing from providers for their products and services. Each provider is free to set prices as they deem appropriate, but those prices must be the same to all purchasers. I am referring to a price that represents the true, bottom- line net charge that the provider bills and collects. Payers won’t be able to negotiate with providers for special discounts or pricing concessions for any reason. If a provider agrees to a particular schedule of fees or prices with a given payer, fine. But it then applies to every other payer as well. This doesn’t mean that insurance benefits must cover whatever the provider charges. Schedules...
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...AMERICAN HISTORY POST CIVIL WAR American History Post Civil War Test 2 Growth Of Education In The United States In Nineteen Century Education in the United States has faced great changes toward development in the past hundreds of years. A society that was coming to depend increasingly on specialized skills and scientific knowledge was, of course a society with a high demand for education. The late nineteenth century, therefore, was a time of rapid expansion and reform of American school and universities. One example was the spread of free public primary and secondary education. In 1860, there were only 100 public high schools in the entire United States. By 1900, the number had reached 6,000, and by 1914 over 12,000. By 1900, compulsory school attendance laws were in effect in thirty-one states and territories. But education was still far from universal. Rural areas lagged far behind urban-industrial ones in funding public education. Also, in the south, many blacks had access to no schools at all. The post-Civil War era saw, too, an important expansion of educational opportunities for women. In the years after the war, many of the land-grant colleges and universities in the Midwest and such private universities as Cornell and Wesleyan began to admit women along with men. The female college was part of an important phenomenon in the history of modern American women; likewise, the anthropologists, sought to provide educational opportunities for the Indian tribes...
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...better life and somewhere forced here under the most heinous conditions like the African Americans. Regardless of the past we are a stronger Nation today than most others because of our diverse population and ability to understand all these different cultures. The rocky past that our Country was sadly derived from is what made us the extremely diverse land we are today; this cannot be changed. Although many racial groups have suffered for us to get where we are in society; the dominant race was and still is the white people. Over the years this has caused us to catch much slack from being labeled as racist to not only condoning but using discriminatory tactics. It is my opinion that the so called “white” people that use to do some of those things where raised to believe it was normal, and how this Country was ran. Needless to...
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...Recently I read the novel To kill a mockingbird, which raises the well known issue of racism. This issue has so many opinions and viewpoints focussed around it, considerably negative. My hypothesis was ‘is racism any better on global scale than it was in American history? I broke this into three key questions; what is racism like in American society today?, What was racism like in American history? And have people globally learnt a lesson from the events that took place during history? Has racism improved globally? What is racism like in American’s society today? Roydon Agent, who wrote a study of black civil rights in the USA, says “clearly life is better for African-Americans today than it was in the past. Many black Americans are living the the ‘American Dream’. Many have worked hard and found success, particularly in entertainment, sport and music”. I think that this book is a reliable source because it is an educational textbook for history students making it a secondary resource, I found this didn't have much bias in it due to it being a factual textbook, without much opinion. While furthering my research for this question, I found the source published by OHRC written by Amanda Nguyen, called Racism in North America, then and now. This source states “Police have been thought to be shooting black men for unlawful reasons such as Trayvon; Trayvon caused outrage throughout America as he was shot and killed because of an assumption that he was dangerous, only because...
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...practice, or advocacy of seeking, or acquiescing in, the extension of the control, dominion, or empire of a nation, as by the acquirement of new, esp. distant, territory or dependencies, or by the closer union of parts more or less independent of each other for operations of war, copyright, internal commerce, etc.” – Oxford dictionary The word imperialism derives from “empire.” As such, it is useful to spend a bit of time to define the word. In working towards a minimal definition, Stanford Professor of Archaeology J. Manning in his first lecture on Ancient Empires starts with: “An empire is a territorially extensive hierarchically political organization.” Unfortunately this definition is too vague. All states encountered in human history are by definition hierarchical, and many nations today are vast compared to the empires of the ancient world. Thus, Manning rephrases his definition of empire to be: “A territorially extensive hierarchical political organization involving the rule of one or more groups over other groups of foreigners.” But what causes empire? There are two models worth explaining. One is originated by the Greek historian Thucydides, famous for the quote “The strong do what they can and the...
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