In our society‚ social justice is becoming a lot more important and valuable. Social justice has inspired holidays‚ started movements‚ and even changing the way that people view social issues. However‚ as we get further into the future‚ social justice has begun to earn a bad name. A nickname has even been created for the most radical supporters of social justice: Social Justice Warriors (or SJWs). People are beginning to get sick of what modern social justice is doing; believing that everyone in
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different levels of consciousness? Consciousness is "the state or quality of awareness you have of your surroundings both internally and externally‚ and the understanding of what is happening to you." However‚ that is not anything I had considered previously‚ but it was just taken for granted. Professor of Psychology and Authors‚ Max Velmans and Susan Schneider‚ wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness‚ making conscious
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Black Lives Matter has been an ongoing movement since July of 2013 to express how unjust and unfair African Americans are still treated the same as when segregation was still around but only more and more brutal than before as we progress. Black Lives Matter is a movement that came about due to several examples and crimes of how African Americans are being treated‚ this movement is much more bigger than just describing how African Americans are being treated but it is also a movement to show how
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There is a war going on right now striking our home‚ right here in the United States. The war is being waged against our all American police officers. This vicious attacker is the Black Lives Matter movement. This group has more than proven to be against white police specifically. The Black Lives Matter movement caused the events that made the Dallas shooting happen. This was the shooting of police in Dallas‚ TX that slaughtered mutable officers. After a day of being scrutinized and made out to be
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by rival movements‚ damaging media coverage‚ and violence against innocent people. The “Black Lives Matter“ movement was created to bring awareness to the atrocities facing the African American population today. But due to the reasons mentioned previously‚ their efforts aren’t doing much or anything to help‚ and as more and more people of color are being executed the more tension builds between minorities and the police‚ which continues the vicious circle. People of color‚ namely blacks‚ are being
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Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks‚ disabled folks‚ black-undocumented folks‚ folks with records‚ women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. It centers those that have been marginalized within Black liberation movements. The Black Lives Matter Movement works at different levels by trying to make changes in society in order to make changes in the criminal
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historically happening‚ such as the civil rights movement‚ is very alive today. History is in a way repeating itself. Some may counter this argument and say “all lives matter”‚ but they cannot ignore the disproportionate injustice against African Americans today. If we study the Black Lives Matter movement‚ we can see that discrimination and oppression still exists‚ but there are constructive ways to deal with it. The Black Lives Matter movement brought the attention that discrimination is still
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understand what it’s like to struggle‚ what it’s like to be racially profiled at work at the age of fourteen. To turn on the tv and see another unarmed black person shot and killed for no reason and seeing people dilute the black lives matter movement. The same people who blame a whole religion for 9/11‚ want to dilute a movement. The black lives matter movement is a message saying that we understand that all lives matter but police officers can kill whomever they want because they are never held accountable
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The Black Arts Movement Experience The spirit of the 1960s’ Black Arts Movement is captured in Amiri Baraka’s “AM/Trak‚” which addresses the theory of the underlying relationship between art and culture. This simple theory of how culture works and how art reflects and influences the culture that produces it was the whole purpose of the literary movement led by Baraka. In order for one to understand their own experiences‚ they must acknowledge what factors have influenced how they have shaped their
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Stream of Consciousness In literature‚ stream of consciousness is a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. The term was coined was initially coined by a psychologist William James in his research “The Principles of Psychology”. He writes: “… it is nothing joined; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ is the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter‚ let’s call it the stream of thought‚ consciousness‚ or subjective
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