Social Issues Essays

 Abstract on Video Gaming and Religion For years, video games have escaped the attentions of the press. And it’s easy to see why. Not too that long ago, video games were simplistic bat and ball or platform games along the lines of Pong and Donkey Kong. Storytelling was limited and so it was difficult to […]

With the progression of technology, there comes a price. In this modern age dominated by advanced technology, countless video games have emerged as a fresh source of amusement in our day-to-day existence. Violent video games serve as a particularly evident example. The growing amount of time children spend on playing these games has raised worries […]

There are many out-of-school youth nowadays. Even though there is racial diversification in urban schools now, African-American and Latinos comprise a number of out-of-school youth. This disengagement in school has many factors racism by the white teachers. This paper will deal on what the white teachers in urban classroom need to know or overcome to […]

June Jordan’s essay entitled, “Many Rivers to Cross” talks about racism and injustice in the voice of Jordan herself.   It demonstrates her personal experiences to emphasize the reality of oppression that were prevalently being experience by most black women. The essays also contain several narration of Jordan’s life story that highlighted several instances of […]

Racism never stands still. It changes shape, size, contours, purpose, function, with changes in the economy, the social structure, the system and, above all, the challenges, the resistances, to that system. The racism we are faced with today is not the racism we faced 40, 50 years ago, when we first came here. Then, post-war […]

In her moving and astonishing novel Sula, published in 1973, Toni Morrison presents the lives of two black heroines – Nel Wright and Sula Peace. The author pictures their growing up together in a small Ohio town, their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, and their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation. Nel Wright chooses to stay in […]

‘Then the discontented wanderer is thrown back on himself – if his life is to become bearable, only he can make it so. And, on that spring evening, walking up the long, dark, murmuring street toward the boulevard, Eric was in despair. He knew that he had to make a life, but he did not […]

From the 1680s through to the 1740s, the Empire expanded in a remarkable way due to the growth in trading to and from colonies or settlements and the increase of jobs from this; the profits and territorial gains from war and government policies and interventions within the UK or placed on trade. The question of […]

Slavery, simply defined means ‘the state of a person who is a chattel of another’. But slavery is much more than this. It is the basic denial of human rights, the oppression of one person due to another, an ‘inhumane form of legalised inequality’. In America, Africans had suffered this inhumanity for centuries, under the […]

Living in a newly established town in the American West was accompanied by numerous issues and difficulties. In 1848, James Marshal unearthed gold while employed by John Sutter in California. Despite Sutter’s initial effort to keep the discovery a secret, word quickly spread and sparked a frenzy of gold fever. More than 90,000 individuals, predominantly […]

Amiri Bakara – Somebody Blew up America Amiri Bakara was born in Newark, New Jersey on October 7, 1934. He was born as Everett Leroi Jones. In 1952 he changed his name to Leroi Jones and in 1967 he changed it to Amiri Bakara. He lived with his parents, his father who was a postal […]

Olaudah Equiano was a slave in the middle to late 18th Century, albeit an educated one. His claim to fame was the biography he himself wrote entitled “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” and published by subscription in the year 1789 just eight years before his death. Included in the narrative were […]

The Angry Eye -Jane Elliott Discrimination occurs when a person is treated less favourably because of their racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. Jane Elliott decided to use role-play a situation portraying the discrimination that a person of different colour would be constantly exposed to in day-to-day life. The […]

Asian American Experience The pain and the suffering, the oppression, and the exclusion all describe the history of Asia America. When they arrived to the United States, they become labeled as Asians. These Asians come from Japan, China, Korea, Laos, Thailand, and many other diverse countries in the Eastern hemisphere. These people wanted to escape […]

English Essay (prejudice) In the two texts Deadly Unna? written by Phillip Gwyne and Bend It Like Beckham directed by Gurinda Chadra the theme of prejudice is significantly explored. Deadly Unna? is the story of a young boy Blacky who is made to overcome prejudice in his small town of the Port. Bend it like […]

In technique and material, I think that no American had ever offered a more moving analysis of the racial situation of America than Fredrick Douglass did at Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852. I have noticed a lot of things about how there are so many things that people don’t think about or choose […]

La Amistad Decades of Hollywood’s interpretation of our nation’s past struggles and triumphs have both aided the American people in empathizing and understanding our predecessors, as well as helping to skew our views of the reality of the past. Often times in Hollywood’s retelling of historical events, truth is manipulated by filmmakers to accommodate necessities […]

Anyone can point out many kinds of discrimination in their daily lives such as gender discrimination at their workplace, ethnic discrimination in foreign countries, and age discrimination. The book titled Desiree’s Baby, was based on the generation in the 1850s where great hatred was demonstrated towards negroes, mulattos, and whites. Even some states have laws […]

The media in America plays a significant role in perpetuating racial oppression and shaping a national mindset that allows institutionalized racism to thrive. Media outlets and popular culture consistently present stereotypes about different racial groups, depicting black males as perpetrators or buffoons and portraying all black Americans as content with a subservient role. Similarly, individuals […]

Compare the ways the nature of racism and prejudice is presented in Bye Beautiful and American History X. In Julia Lawrinson’s Bye Beautiful and Tony Kaye’s American History X, the authors use a range of techniques to explore the ways the nature of racism and prejudice is presented. The novel Bye Beautiful uses a variety […]

Maya Angelou’s autobiography, Why the Caged Bird Sings, recounts her experiences living in Stamps, Arkansas while also chronicling her various relocations. Throughout the book, Angelou confronts several types of prejudice. Maya experiences the negative effects of prejudice through the powerful forces of segregation, racism, and sexism. Growing up in Stamps, she is particularly impacted by […]

Biographical information about the author: He was born on January 15, 1933, in Louisiana. He lived on the River Lake Plantation. He started working in the fields when he was nine. He was raised by his aunt, Augustine Jefferson. His parents moved to California during WWII and he joined them when he was 15. He […]