The movie “From Swastika to Jim Crow” was produced in 2000. Even though‚ it was made in 2000 there was many connections to today’s current events. The speaker stated‚ they wanted to present the movie before the election to understand and analyze an educator’s point of view. However due to the hurricane they had to postpone the movie‚ until after the election which made this event and discussion more prevalent. The movie was a documentary explaining the similarities between Nazism in Germany and
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Kyndall Foust Mr. Lindner English III AP 4th 18 February 2014 Exile in the Grapes of Wrath There comes a time when desperate circumstances calls for irrational actions. In Steinbeck’s novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ Jim Casy is faced with the challenge of choosing right vs. wrong. Seeking a new philosophy‚ Casy finds himself displaced from his normal preaching life into an alienating and enriching experience that reveals his true character. In the process of excluding himself from his everyday life
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In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ Michelle Alexander examines our current criminal justice system and the mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States. She argues that the War on Drugs and drug offense convictions are the single most compelling cause for the magnitude of people of color behind bars. Prisons are used as a system of racial and social control that function in the same way as Jim Crow laws. It is no longer legal to discriminate against
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The Jim Crow South was an era of intense racism and segregation. Jim Crow was more than oppressive laws; it was life as the South knew it. However‚ underneath the hateful surface‚ the Jim Crow South is more complicated than it is portrayed. Harper Lee explores these issues in her book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. In the fictional town of Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ Lee presents the theme of coexistence of black and white in all people and things‚ by illustrating Scout and Jem’s relationship with several
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The main growth strategy that Jim counted on really was based over the potential upcoming increase in demands for clean and cost cutting energy solutions. The newspaper reminded him that as energy prices will soar. Logistics for cost saving could be the origin of birth of a new and ever growing sector‚ and and that if he got on it early on (as he did)‚ This could prove to be a lucrative idea. BigBelly wasn’t only a device for saving Money. it
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the idea of “separate but equal.” This idea came along by the Supreme Court by a certain incidence that occurred in 1892. It took place in a train when an African-American passenger that went along with the name of‚ Homer Plessy denied to sit in a Jim Crow car (made specifically for the color). Homer Plessy was seven/eighths white and only one/eighth black‚ but due to the Louisiana law this meant he was still treated as an African-American‚ thus required to sit in a car specifically for the “colored
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Helping students to learn what society finds to be the most acceptable form of English – Standard English – is a challenge for every teacher. Particularly when the teacher in question doesn’t want to wipe out the student’s home language or make the student resent the teacher for attempting to wipe out their home language. As Gee said‚ our language or discourse is a part of our identity kit; it is thread in the fabric that composes us as individuals. What Baker referred to as ‘home language’ is
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While watching the video featuring Zak Ebrahim‚ he explained what it was like growing up as the son of a terrorist. Ebrahim‚ elaborated on his day to day activities from shooting guns with his father to being bullied at school. While continuing with the speech‚ Ebrahim explains how he began to understand that not all people should be hated strictly because of their race or religion. You would think that the audience of the speech would have a hard time listening to Ebrahim‚ do to his father claiming
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human suffering‚ or diminishing the sum of happiness." This quote by suffragist and philanthropist Clara Barton so eloquently describes the issues within the United States prison system and its desperate need to for reformation. Chapter four of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander brought forth the gaspingly oppressive sector of prison (via the judicial branch). Alexander illuminated the reader to the realities of the United States prison system and the covert nuances of racism‚ discrimination‚ and
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Some examples of fallacies in this speech came about immediately in the beginning. Candidate Kane said “With one purpose only‚ to point out and make public the dishonesty‚ the downright villainy of Jim W Getty’s political machine.” Using this kind of fallacy put negativity in the audience’s mind about Getty. When the announcer welcomes Kane onto the stage he uses bias by announcing Kane as the next Governor of the state even before he was elected or won. Kane uses a rhetorical device when he says
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