In contrast to the Diversity Day episode of The Office‚ the film Crash depicts harsh examples of intercultural incompetence. In the beginning of the film‚ certain characters hold specific biases of other races and their own. Throughout the course of the film‚ some characters come to realizations about their personal and cultural identity and learn to interact competently with members of other cultures. After dinner with her husband‚ Jean seeing two black men walking nearby and clings to her husband
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The Challenges of the Underrepresented Population of Galesburg and Beardstown Face Inequality and discrimination are recurring topics that have always been present in the history of the United States. A remarkable event that highlights discrimination in the history of the United States is slavery. Even though African Americans are the population that have suffered discrimination extensively‚ up to this day they are the most underrepresented racial group. In this essay‚ I will talk about three different
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American Dream or American Nightmare Be The American Dream is something that can be easily defined for some people‚ and for others it can be very difficult to put into words. The American Dream is a combination of a few things. I firmly believe that Americans should have equal access to this ideal of an American Dream in order for it not to be considered just mere notion. My idea of the American Dream is also built on freedom. Our fore fathers who built this great nation were on the right
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Theme: Resistance and Revolt Topic: The Sugar Revolution Were the changes that were brought to the West Indies as a result of the sugar revolution beneficial or detrimental to the development of the West Indies? The period 1650 to 1823 was referred to as the sugar era‚ during that time sugar cane was the most important and profitable crop that was grown in the West Indies. Most planters turned to this crop as they found out that the changes of the sugar revolution were very beneficial to them
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After the Civil War between the North and South‚ Reconstruction took place in the Union. Slavery was abolished and blacks started to gain freedoms. The 14th amendment gave blacks rights and referred to them as American citizens‚ and the 15th gave them the right to vote. However‚ even with these changes Africans Americans were still discriminated against and blamed for the Union’s issues. Racist groups started to emerge‚ pushing people to victimize the blacks even more. The white society looked down
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This is a tale of love and hate in the Dominican Republic. The year 1492 marked the birth of hatred and weakness with the arrival of Columbus on our island. Again from 1822 to 1844‚ my ancestors were forced to face and resist the Haitians efforts to replace our Spanish heritage with their French culture during their slave revolution. Blinded by our optimism‚ we were proud Hispanos; we were all Santana’s‚ ready to join our father--Spain. Once more from 1916 to 1924‚ American Marine occupation taught
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Some of the riches of the Caribbean depended on Europeans’ taste for sugar‚ which plantation owners traded for provisions from North America and manufactured goods from European countries. The island also had extensive coffee‚ cocoa‚ indigo‚ and cotton plantations‚ but these were smaller and less profitable than the wealthy sugar plantations. 1758‚ the white landowners began passing legislation restricting the rights of other groups of people until a rigid caste system was defined. Most historians
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Kara Walker Producing mural-sized‚ paper cutout silhouettes to create a dense caustic narrative of nineteenth-century‚ way slavery. She details the black-paper cutouts with stereotypical characters ’ pick of mammies‚ slave mistresses‚ and masters. My first impression of her work is that she elegantly portrays scenes from African American plantation life; however‚ I became aware that sexual‚ violent‚ and mistreatment of the images are represented repeatedly in her landscapes. Her expressions
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Emily Picard HIST 1302 Neumeyer Forty Acres and a Mule in the 21st Century After the Civil War in the South‚ the phrase “forty acres and a mule” was a well-known phrase. This phrase referred to the rights that blacks had gained to own their own land due to the unpaid labor that they had gone through during the period of slavery. Primarily‚ the Freedman’s Bureau was put in charge of dividing abandoned and confiscated land into forty-acre tracts for sale to the former slaves of the South. Although
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The literary works that I decided to compare are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levin Morales and “What’s It like to be a Black Girl” by Patricia Smith. These two works focus on the psyche of two women that are of African descent‚ the plagued by the historical American public perceptions of their culture. In these negative perceptions that played an important part of the individual’s psyche due to prejudice. It was misconstrued and distorted the minds of these young African American girls. The
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