Racism is still a major issue in America today. These two recent films‚ "Do the Right Thing" by Spike Lee and "Two Towns of Jasper" by Whitney Dow and Marco Williams‚ were made to expose these truths about American society‚ to better educate the people of America‚ and help prevent situations such as these from taking place. Both of these of these films‚ "Do the Right Thing" and "Two Towns of Jasper" relate to the theory of exclusive multiculturalism. Exclusive multiculturalism is when a group
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I really enjoyed the documentary East of Liberty. It is very important to talk about issues surrounding gentrification‚ especially when it is clearly happening in the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has a very strong identity‚ and pushing people out of these neighborhoods takes away from the identity of our city because they are Pittsburgh. It is very easy for people who live outside of the city‚ such as myself‚ to say they are from Pittsburgh‚ but that simply is not the case. The people
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For about 42 years‚ non-white South Africans suffered one the worst instances of institutional racism and white supremacy in the world. The apartheid came into law in 1948 which allowed the government to create a series of racist laws that would further cripple the advancement of non-whites under a white rule. The laws enacted dismantled the education system for blacks‚ subjected protestors to jail time‚ and delegated where people lived based on race and skin color. These practices would disproportionately
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from the impoverished family who slept in a room with their parents and nine siblings and had to endure abuse‚ neglect‚ and near starvation‚ determined to make a better life for his children. They want to hear about the girl that was the target of racism‚ and told that she’d never be good enough for anyone because of her skin color‚ and who wants to think of her race not as a handicap‚ but as a badge of honor. They want to hear about the boy that was molested by a teacher at a young age‚ and has carried
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This first source is a scholarly source titled Probing the Epidemic of Police Murders by Steve Martinot. The article focuses on police brutality and racism by exploring different incidents that occurred in recent history‚ incidents similar to the Trayvon Martin incident or the most recent Michael Brown incident. In each one‚ it talks about what actually occurred in the incident‚ how police tried to cover up their actions‚ and then focuses on how the media or government focused on the impact of the
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authors is a strategy used to tell cultural and tribal backstories that aren’t commonly recognized. When reflecting on the Native American works that we have explored this semester‚ this strategy can be seen within Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach. The reason I am drawn to these novels for this argument is because
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With the passage of time‚ the morals and priorities of people change. In 1630‚ John Winthrop‚ one of the first major leaders of Puritan settlements in the United States‚ delivered a sermon titled “A Model of a Christian Charity.” In it‚ he described a vision of a religious eutopia in which his followers thrived on account of their beliefs. Although during his time he expected people to act with mercy‚ selflessness‚ and forgiveness when faced with soul-defining choices‚ contemporary society’s apathy
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Throughout the first section of Richard Dawkins’s River Out of Eden‚ mainly in Chapters 1 and 3‚ Dawkins discusses how evolution‚ itself‚ is gradual. “Do good by stealth. A key feature of evolution is its gradualness” (Dawkins 83). Gradualism in evolution is looked at in depth in both Chapter One‚ entitled The Digital River‚ and Chapter Three‚ entitled Do Good by Stealth‚ where Dawkins elaborates on the topic even further. Dawkins‚ a man of somewhat argumentative nature‚ is quick to shoot down
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Spike Lee’s‚ Do The Right Thing is a comtemporary look at racism in a ordinary city urban neighborhood. The movie is seen through the eyes of the main character‚ Mookey‚ we are shown the multiple relationships and often typical stereotypes of racial groups. This movies is filled with symbolism and imagery that feeds to the story’s plot. Throughout the movie‚ the scorching heat is always being refereed to. As the movie goes on ‚ the heat rises. I think this is done to represent the increasing racial
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Primary source: While reading this threat letter in 1868 sent by a KKK member‚ the reader will begin to understand the level of racism that occurred during these time. As this source is a primary source it will corroborate my other sources whilst giving me a view to argue about within my essay; that the KKK used intimation and threat letters to fight against the Civil Rights Movement‚ thus‚ my overall question can be answer too. Even though I was not able to find who sent the letter due to the writer
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