...Thomas jefferson once said all men are created equal within the harper Lee novel, to killing Mocking bird, the people focused to the not fair social equality in maycomb alabama with the narrator scout finch through the comparison character interactions in the novel and the influence of current events , it seems that the concept of social equality has changed since the 1930s when searching about social equality in the 1930s from the blacks and whites not being treated right ,the audience experienced just how much unequally occurs in the novel. in chapter 10, Miss lula asked calpurnia i wants to know why you bringin white chillun in a nigger church. for miss lula to come up to the kids and calpurnia , and say that scout and jem...
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...because everyone has the responsibility to stand up for what they believe in. Citizens in America enjoy writing letters to important leaders to receive informative feedback on their thoughts. Citizen’s words effect how the laws change in many ways, for example, by voting. Eleanor Roosevelt influenced change through speaking about civil rights. ER was committed to standing up for African American rights. She was so active in racial injustice that the FBI had a 4000 page dossier about ER pertaining to her civil rights activities. “J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, even speculated that "Negro blood" inspired ER's perverse behavior.” “She was considered America's most influential First Lady, she started new paths for women and led the battle for social justice everywhere. Today she is still a powerful inspiration to leaders in both the civil rights and women's movements. Eleanor shattered the usual submissive mold that the role of the First Lady had traditionally been fashioned, and reshaped it around her own skills and her commitment to social reform. She gave a voice to people who did not have power.” Others benefit from ER’s actions by getting all the credit that she stood up for women and their rights. If it wasn’t for Eleanor’s contributions we women would not get all the credit that we deserve. Eleanor Roosevelt’s deserves a holiday that would celebrate her and all her hard work that went towards civil rights. Considering she change a lot of things in this society...
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...In the book, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia, authors Joao Jose Reis and Arthur Brakel discuss the Bahia slave rebellion in Brazil. In Bahia, slaves are the backbone of the economy. According to Reis and Brakel, “slaves made up the great bulk of the laboring class and were political, social, and economic subordinates of the planters”. After Brazil became an independent nation, Bahia faces an economic downturn that leads to declines in employment, as well as inflation. Due to these instabilities, there are small revolts that occurred from both the public and slaves. It was from these issues, that the 1835 rebellion will evolve. The rebels plan for the rebellion to take place on a Muslim holiday, known as Our Lady...
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...In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, justice is demonstrated throughout Atticus’ actions. His strive for equality can be represented by the scales of justice. Atticus believes that everyone should be treated fairly regardless of race, socio-economic or familial background. Having such an honorable and just character, propels Atticus to defend the wronged individual, Tom Robinson. Atticus believes that Tom Robinson is innocent of the crime accused against him and he believes Robinson should not receive the death penalty. Atticus knows Tom might lose this case due to the racial attitudes and prejudices prevalent in the community. When an African-American is accused of a crime, the person is undoubtedly presumed guilty. Atticus still persists in...
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...Samora Nyamongo Nyangau-C50/CE/24046/2013 Dr.J.K.S Makokha ALT811 Drama in Africa Drama as a criticism of social systems with reference to selected plays of Efua Sutherland and Tewfik Al Hakims. Criticism is the expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes and also the analysis and judgment based on the merits and demerits of a particular system .In this essay the first definition will be appropriate considering the plays under scrutiny. Therefore, criticism of social systems refers to the exposition of how various entities whether cultural or political in a society have flawed hence need restructuring to have morality and sanity prevail. Poor leadership systems and barbaric cultural systems will be dissected with ample illustrations from four African plays revealing social injustices and oppressive cultures. Social injustice is a relative concept concerning unfairness in a society in regard to the manner in which the leadership divides rewards and burdens .Tewfik Al Hakims’ plays The Sultans’ Dilemma and Song of Death will be used together with Mohammed Ben Abdallah’s The Verdict of the Cobra and Trial of Mallam Ilya. At the beginning of Sultan’s dilemma we learn that a stake has been set up to which a man condemned to death is tied. The Condemned Man is eager to know the hour of his execution as he refers to his execution as a joyous event to the executioner. The executioner tells the Condemned Man when the Muezzin climbs to the...
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...These laws prevented colored people to marry white people, be in the same bathrooms, schools, restaurants as white people, and many other things separating colored people from the whites (YourDictionary). Throughout this time period many things were very separated, but hardly equal. Many people lived through these laws and experienced the segregation on a daily basis. Cleester Mitchell, a colored woman born in Arkansas in 1922 who lived through the Jim Crow laws said, “If we went to a grocery store and a certain lady come in the store, a white lady come in the store or anybody white, if they was waiting on you, they'd just push your stuff back and said, come on, Miss So-and-So, and you might be walk 10 miles to get this dime worth of something that your parents sent you at, but that was like the law of the day. You just got back. You know, you understand, it wasn't anything you could do about it” (YourDictionary). During this time, many people lived through discrimination and treatment different from what the whites...
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...influential woman. She is a great example of dedication for her job and the rest of the people. Hillary Clinton is a positive image for others because she has fought for injustices like Women’s and Children’s Rights, motivated many people to do the same and showed how to achieve things by hard work. Her contributions to society made her receive many awards regarding Women’s and Children’s Rights. However, she was controversial after being part of many scandals which led to the worsening of her reputation. Hillary was raised in a middle-class home in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago being Hugh Rodham and Dorothy Howell’s first daughter. Her father was a World War ll Navy veteran and business owner while also took care of their poor and extended family (Clinton, 2014). Everyday after school, she would always help with the family business, a small but successful textile business that gave them enough money to take care of the whole family. Hillary’s mother, Dorothy, was a homemaker of Dutch, English, French Canadian, Scottish and Welsh Descendant who was abandoned as a child and had a pretty tough childhood,...
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...Brian Smith Dr.Harmen English 101 April 15, 2014 A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf once spoke of famous words saying that (you cannot find peace by avoiding life) words such on these is what exemplifies the vision Woolf had of A Room of One’s Own. She talks in a great detail about certain topics that she’s most fixated with during the time of the twentieth century, topics such as feminism, inequality, gender, independency, freedom, lack of privacy and money. All things that you would expect to be a giving for women living now in our world. But then women didn’t have as many rights as women do now, making it a lot harder for women to strive and live a prosperous equal life as men did during their time. We are all human beings and I believe even back then, regardless of the circumstances that was giving for women, that we should always have equal rights for everyone including women. To begin with understanding where Virginia Woolf is coming from, it’s important to first look to her most seemingly innocuous statement that comes off deeply radical. Virginia Woolf once said that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she to write fiction” during the time people saw this harmless statement deeply radical to the point that it drew lots controversy and attention to it. Because back then for women writers they were routinely denied the time and space to produce creative works. During the time when women had little rights to work with, they were look down-upon by...
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...King's father continued to push his promising son toward the ministry. Once he told his father he was considering a career in preaching. His father set up a trial sermon, to see if he was convicted in becoming a preacher. During the first preaching moment, Dr. King delivered a rousing sermon loved by the crowd. Dr. King's father ordained him on the spot. His father made him an assistant pastor, and soon the die was cast. During Dr. King’s college years, he became a religious liberal. Dr. Kings formulated his stance on religious beliefs, economic and racial injustices as he became a religious liberal. Dr. Kings formulated his stance on liberal religious beliefs, economic and racial injustices. The historical criticism of the Bible, which Christians have questioned, is the Bible, not the inerrant Word of God or just a documented reflection of its time or places. He adopted the Social Gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, which argued that the work of the Christian was not converted the world to Jesus, but builds the Kingdom of God by working for economic and racial...
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...1. W. Shakespeare « Hamlet» (Renaissance) Character List Hamlet - The Prince of Denmark, the title character, and the protagonist. About thirty years old at the start of the play, Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet, and the nephew of the present king, Claudius. Hamlet is melancholy, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncle’s scheming and disgust for his mother’s sexuality. A reflective and thoughtful young man who has studied at the University of Wittenberg, Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Hamlet is extremely philosophical and contemplative. He is particularly drawn to difficult questions or questions that cannot be answered with any certainty. Faced with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, evidence that any other character in a play would believe, Hamlet becomes obsessed with proving his uncle’s guilt before trying to act. Claudius - The King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle, and the play’s antagonist. The villain of the play, Claudius is a calculating, ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites and his lust for power, but he occasionally shows signs of guilt and human feeling—his love for Gertrude, for instance, seems sincere. Gertrude - The Queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother, recently married to Claudius. Gertrude loves Hamlet deeply, but she is a shallow, weak woman who seeks affection and status more urgently than moral rectitude or truth. Polonius - The...
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...It was near closing time in the Asch Building on March 25, 1911 when the flames began. Within 18 minutes 146 people were dead. The fourth largest industrial disaster in United States history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is remembered today as a tragic incident not only because of all the deaths but because of the fact that they were preventable. The death of 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, would have been preventable if the owners had followed regulatory precautions to ensure that their workers had accessible exit paths and a set plan of action in case of such incidents. From this horrendous inferno arose public outcry for justice and worker safety reform that led to the transformation of the labor code of New York and...
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...Education is a broader field and therefore can be defined in many different ways depending on the orientation of the educators, time , place and dictates of the political regime in the country. Zambia Civic Education Association (2004:38) “Civic Education refers to the formal awareness of the country’s citizens about their moral and legal entitlements (rights), their expected moral and legal functions(duties) as well as the extent to which they can influence the utilization of national/public resources, monitor leadership legitimacy and take part in decision making (governance).” Hamwiinga (2008:2) defines Civic Education as “an envisaged broader- based subject which relates to human beings and relationship with the natural, physical, social and cultural environment.” According to UNDP (2004) “ Civic Education is learning for effective participation in democratic and development processes at both local and national levels”. This then implies that if the citizens have not learnt about Civic Education they will not be able to uphold good democratic values thereby failing to be part of the local and national democratic and development processes. In a democracy people have to vote for their leaders, they have to be involved in decision making and participate in development processes. Therefore, citizens can participate fully in a democratic society if they are well embraced with their civic rights and responsibilities. As we look at Civic Education, there is need to focus on the...
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...ARISTOTLE TRANSFIGURED Dante and the Structure of the Inferno and the Purgatorio by Donald J. Hambrick Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Phüosophy Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia August, 1997 Q copyright by Donald J. Harnbrick, 1997 N l*lofational Library Canada Bibliothèque.nationale du Canada Acquisitions and Bibliogaphic Services Acquisitions et seMces bibliographiques 395 Wdingtoci Street OttawaON K 1 A W 395, rua Wellington Ottawa ON K I A O N 4 canada Canada The author has granted a nonexclusive licence allowing the National Library of Canada to reproduce, loan, distribute or sell copies of this thesis in microfonn, paper or electronic formats. L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive permettant à la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduire, prêter' distribuer ou vendre des copies de cette thèse sous la forme de microfiche/nlm, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. The author retains ownership of the L'auteur conserve la proprieté du droit d'auteur q ui protège cette thèse. Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés ou autrement reproduits sans son autorisation. copyright i this thesis. Neither the n thesis nor substantid extracts fkom it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission. To Those Who Teach. .. TABLE OF CONTEWS INTRODUCTION...
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...Ellacuria’s preferential option for the poor? * Recford and Daniel: * Both Protestant ministers (biblical texts as source or vehicle for framing and thinking through issues) * Both deliberate and conscious of challenges of relating Biblical faith to Social issues * Housing and immigration are public policy issues * Daniel devotes a chapter to this question, using “Caesar vs. God” image from New Testament * Micah Shows up in both books (see below) * Differences? * Is immigration more of a “hot button” issue than housing? * If so, do we find different kinds of rhetoric? * Phil comment in class: Does Reckford focus more on system or structures or root causes (next slide) and Daniel more on individuals? * If so, do we have different kinds of solidarity in these two approaches? * Root Causes (“cycle”) of Poverty (structural analysis) (52-53) * Rhetorical device? * Cites 5 of them * “social capital” (56-58) is a rich illustration * Solidarity involves “learning” and “sensitivity” and “collaboration” (60) * Corresponding interventions/Solutions * E.g. “not charity but capital” (Clarence Jordan, cited 54) * 62-63: justice = level playing field (Sen. M. Fenwick, grandmother) * Housing is one of several interventions, but foundational (59) * Note structural components (infrastructure) of this intervention * E.g. ONE Campaign (http://www.one.org/us/)...
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...The case in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42 is concerned with whether and to what extent a court should take an ante-nuptial agreement into account in exercising its discretion under section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Section 25 matrimonial Causes Act 1973 states that the duty of the court when considering to exercise its powers and if so, and in what manner, to have regard to all the circumstances of the case with first consideration given to any child of the family who has not yet reached the age of 18 years. The court are also reluctant to have regard to numerous other matters including the financial needs, obligations, responsibilities which each of the parties to the marriage has or is likely to have in the foreseeable future. in Radmacher, Ms Radmacher, a German national, and Mr Granatino, a French national, entered into an ante-nuptial agreement before a notary in Germany three months to the wedding. This what at the insistence of Ms Radmacher who stood to gain a significant amount of wealth from the lucrative family business and was threatened with disinheritance by her father should she proceed into the marriage without such an agreement. The main scope of the agreement was translated into English for Mr Granatino with the option for him to seek independent legal advice open to him. Mr Granatino declined to seek this independent advise and proceeded to sign the agreement. The Radmacher-Granatino Union lasted a period of 8 years during which...
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