Education 305 White Privilege This week’s reading by Peggy McIntosh’s‚ White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack really resonated with me. It forced me to think about how being white grants a person a set of positive privileges that others don’t have. Because of this‚ I felt compelled to write a response. I will start with her argument‚ make a comparison to another reading‚ provide the context for her article‚ and lastly issue some of my own opinions on the topic. Argument McIntosh’s
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School Privileges Six year ago‚ our family moved to Burlington‚ Vermont form Kathmandu‚ Nepal. After few weeks‚ I joined the Burlington High School. I was successful soccer play in my high school back to Nepal. So‚ I told my counselor about my interest and skill about soccer and I mention still willing to join the Varsity team. Next day‚ my counselor email that coach of Varsity team is willing to watch game. I went to the match after school‚ after later on he said “Your very good player and I like
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This paper covers white privilege as well as the systematic racism leading to the death of two people. It also connects an online article by Warren J. Blumenfeld to the book written by Rebecca Skloot. Both have a central theme of white privilege and racism‚ but Blumenfeld appears to believe that racism and white privilege feed off of each other while Skloot simply reports examples of past instances of racism that still have an impact today. In his article A Tiered System of Justice‚ the Veil
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Privilege- a special right‚ advantage‚ or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. Many people take life for granted and don’t realize the amount to privilege we do have. It all starts back in 2013 when you’re young and curious and don’t care what anyone says. “Patrick‚ Brandon‚ Matt; come here.” There was a different tone in my parents voices‚ one that isn’t comforting but you got the point that something was wrong. “Take a seat” mom says with a very uncomfortable
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In King Lear’s speech he describes what privilege really is‚ stating that the lower in social and economic class one is‚ the less they can hide their sins‚ but the higher in social class one is‚ the more they can get away with things because wealth has a way of helping people cover up. “Plate sin in gold‚ And in rags‚ a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.” He claims that the rich are untouchable because of all the privileges that come along with being rich‚ but the poor are not untouchable because they
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the Information Technology industry‚ we utilize ‘least privilege’ on a daily basis. Believe the idea is to limit security rights and only grant higher level access when necessary to limit accidental and intentioned damaging activity. The latest Microsoft and Apple operating systems do prompt you for administrative rights when changing a configuration or installing software. In the open source world you would have to be granted sudo privileges to the root account when configuring or installing. At
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Without power‚ one does not have privilege; without privilege‚ one is powerless. Shakespeare’s understanding and ability to portray universal natures of the human condition allows one to see that power and privilege are one in the same in. When one gains wealth‚ from being born in to a rich family or working for their riches‚ they automatically become influential. In the Renaissance era‚ the wealthy had a vast amount of power over the poor‚ similar to men’s superiority to women; the same concept
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Education Is the education a right or a privilege? In my opinion‚ education should be a right. Everyone needs to be educated. Education is needed for all kids. Kids need to stay away from bad things. They need to learn something so that they can have a future. I believe that everyone has the right to education. Everyone needs to be able to get into college or to get a job. People need to learn how to read. Reading is important for when people have to read directions or fill out an application. They
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The essay “White Privilege and Male Privilege” written by Peggy McIntosh was enlightening and controversial. It was enlightening because she shows you how certain groups of people can have privilege over other different groups‚ and be unaware or in denial over it. Peggy’s story was controversial because it talked about the privilege that very few have the courage to talk about. The white and male privilege and the fact that it is looming over our heads as a society. Throughout history there’s a
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ECONOMIC SYSTEM Socialism Socialism is an economic system where all the economic decisions are made by the government or a central authority. There will be no private property rights since the government officially owns all resources. It is also known as a command economy or a planned system. Socialist economics refers to the economic theories‚ practices‚ and norms of hypothetical and existing socialist economic systems. A socialist economy is based on some form of social
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