Notion 3 : Seats and forms of power (African Americans) The Declaration of independence and the Jim crow laws : An american paradox Today I’m going to talk about the notion Seats and Forms of power and my issue is "Is the declaration of independence and the jim crow laws an american paradox?"To begin with I guess it would be appropriate to explain how the notion is related to the issue and in order to do that i’ll have to go back in the 19th when Lincoln abolished slavery(1863)
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the Jim Crow laws were created by the white southerners against the blacks. These laws‚ passed after the Civil War through World War II‚ were typically created for the discrimination against blacks by denying them their equal rights. Reconstruction further strengthened the desire to keep blacks as inferiors and withhold their rights. The South’s defeat in the Civil War‚ followed by Reconstruction‚ destroyed the slave society‚ but couldn’t eliminate the underlying social attitudes. The Jim Crow laws
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The Jim crow museum depicts very accurately how racist southern america used to be. It is astonishing how much hatred people can have for something as messily as the color of someone’s skin. Jim Crow was developed as a fictitious character that heavily embellished the negro culture with much mockery. Jim crow became the symbol of how blacks should be treated hence the Jim Crow Laws that were developed. Whites would paint their faces black and perform on stage as bafoons. These shows helped
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Jim Jones – Individuals Report The widely known leader I have chosen to present in my report is the American religious cult leader‚ responsible for the Jonestown massacre in 1978; Jim Jones. Born as James Warren Jones on May 13‚ 1931‚ he was an extremely influential leader of his cult church‚ The People’s Temple. His influence over this group led to a series of quite horrific events and eventually a mass suicide which Jones called “revolutionary suicide"‚ killing more than 900 people‚ including
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business scenario as it relates to Development and Implementation of Training. Your Case: Jim worked as a labourer for a gas utility in Winnipeg‚ Manitoba. When the opportunity came to apply for a backhoe/front-end-loader operator job‚ he was excited. Three people applied. To select the one who would get the job‚ the company asked each of them to go out and actually work on the back-hoe for a day. Jim felt his change for the job disappear because he had never even driven a tractor‚ let alone
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James Warren Jones commonly known as Jim Jones was an American cult leader. He was the founder of Peoples Temple which is infamous for mass murder suicide in 1978 November where 918 members of his cult lost their live. It is estimated that nearly 300 innocent children were murdered at Jonestown‚ almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. He was seen as a very charismatic man by his followers and he attracted people who were feeling isolated for whatever reason. Majority of his followers were African
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The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ is a book about the discrimination of African Americans in today ’s society. One of Alexander ’s main points is the War on Drugs and how young African American males are targeted and arrested due to racial profiling. Racial profiling‚ discrimination‚ and segregation is not as popular as it used to be during the Civil War‚ however‚ Michelle Alexander digs deeper‚ revealing the truth about
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Jim Valvano was just some Italian kid from Queens New York who played college basketball for Rutgers University as a point guard from 1964-1967. In 1967 Valvano was able to lead his team to a third place finish in the NIT tournament‚ this is where Valvano’s leadership skills came to surface. Valvano then started his coaching career as the freshman head coach and an assistant coach on the varsity team. From there he became the head coach at John Hopkins University for 1 season‚ Arguably his greatest
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Dulce was written in response to Jesse Pope’s patriotic poem motivating men to go to war called Who’s for the Game? She compared the war to a innocent rugby game‚ a verse that could have irritated was Who would much rather come back with a crutch Than lie low and be out of the fun? The fact that Jesse said that people would come back with just a crutch was insane‚ it was portrayed as bad to stay at home‚ instead of not fighting being described as safe Jesse called it ‘ lying low’ which comes across
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – How to Motivate Your Staff Top Tips on Leadership – Motivating others Abraham MaslowYou can’t be a leader without followers so you have to understand how to motivate people to buy into your agenda. Motivation is what makes employees act in certain ways so how can you achieve this? Understanding people’s motives – their reasons for doing something is the key to becoming a good leader. One of the main theories relating to motivation is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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