In the movie, Even the Rain, I was very furious the whole entire time. I am from a first world country. I have never struggled my entire life. I live in a 3,000 square foot home with my father, dog, and brother. We have hoses, showers, sinks, a well, sprinklers, and many other items at my house that produce water. I have never had my electricity shut off or never starved. This is because not only does my father own a pizza shop, it is because I live in the United States of America. The movie, Even the Rain, made me realize, people do not care about others, unless they are being affected by the same problem as the person next to them.
The documentary Unchained Memories were reading by African American actors and actresses from the last generation of born into slavery slaves and their experiences as slaves, their treatment as slaves, and the culture of the time. This documentary really stood out from other documentary and movies because these narratives were from actual slaves and none of the slaves had the same or even similar experiences. These narratives are so precious that they are held in the Library of Congress.
Income Inequality or “wage gap” is a big topic for freedom fighters and liberals for the simple fact that it isn’t equal for everyone. Because the wage gap is so prominent it's one of the biggest “facts” that discrimination is still apart of everyday American society. The wage gap from these radical interest groups think the economy is get a dollar take a dollar instead of a free flow economy. This misguided idea of the economy is absolutely not true and isn’t at the fault of the Government, but the people.
The original Black Panther Party (BPP), was started in 1966 and led by Huey P. Newton. They were started in Oakland, California in a fight against the police brutality and unjustified murders up there. We see the same thing today with Black Lives Matter(BLM), a group that originally started as a Twitter hashtag and blew up around the world. Its real impact came in 2013 after the murder of Treyvon Martin by George Zimmerman getting off. This was not as large until the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York City. Ferguson was particularly bad, which started to give BLM flak towards the organization. Civil unrest broke out with large and harmful riots. These riots were so large, the state had to call in the National Guard to help assist the problem, and threw that the rioters destroyed their own city, and killed two cops through that whole experience. Much of the problems with BLM are the same problems BPP had. They both sparked hostility and violence towards police and sometimes, even white people as a whole. This is where these groups receive a lot of
1. What were your thoughts after viewing scenes at Omaha Beach? Be able to give an overview
Krugman writes, “the rich weren’t just getting richer; they were becoming a financial foreigner, creating their own country within a country, their own society within a society, and their economy within an economy.” 563. CEOs or people with an abundance amount of money can give money to politicians create laws or stop enforcing the laws to benefits the rich. Politicians who the Middle-Class and Lower-Class vote for favors the one that could help them and that’s the High-Class. Economic inequality is hurt the middle-class and the lower-class who already had a rough time getting a life. When the High-Class is becoming richer the Middle-Class and Lower-class become poorer it creates social Inequality. Krugman also writes,” The fact is that vast inequality inevitability brings vast social inequality in its train.” 563. When economic tide favors the high-class it starts to tear gaps between the classes. Social inequality can make it hard for many Americans to strive or even live
The Black power movement was more than just a raised fist. It was an influential movement established in the 1960s, and began to slow down in the 70s, it promoted self-sufficiency among the black and African community, and they fought for equality and power among those who faced discrimination in society. The Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement were two different movements with very similar motives, but different ways of going about their fight for equality. Symbolism played a significant role in representing the Black Power Movement, and helped unify the group by using one symbol that all recognized.The movement began as a reaction to the Civil Rights Movement and continued into the 1970s as a force for good. Imagine being discriminated against just because of the skin color you were born with. In addition to promoting more power for the people of color in society these strong people were pushing for equality among everyone.
A cause of corruption, discrimination and inequality, the cause of death of many innocent lives. Throughout the long history, racism has been a subject of much debate, most notably in The United states of America. There have been numerous actions that suggest that racial inequality might still be intact with America’s modern society, such as the extreme violence shown by the police that has been roaming all over social media recently. This has eventually led to the creation of the controversial “Black lives matter” group.
The elite white men of the newly freed American society, unlike the poor white men, had plenty of time on their hands to contemplate the future of America. Wealth provided these white men time to educate themselves, whereas poor white men must spend this same time laboring to earn money. Elite men imagined of the future that they wanted versus the future that the majority wanted – the future that they believed could be successful versus the future that they believed was doomed to fail. These men used their monetarily-granted free time to develop a greater academically-based understanding of what brought the colonies to their current state. They studied about the ancient republics, analyzed their own previous mother empire, and read the
With so much injustice, movements began to break out everywhere. From schools to fields to the common workplace. All fighting for one thing: equality. Many movements actually got things accomplished. Not one group was able to get what they wanted alone, they had to fight their causes together to get about the similar ending they all desired. For example, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 came forth because of several movements like the Gay Rights Movement, Feminist Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement. These movements caused a lot of turbulence in the country because while one group thought we were moving forward, another group thought we were moving back. This caused chaos in the country, leading to backlash from our own government who should be for the people. Out of all the movements from the 1960s and 70s though, the Black Panther Party had the harshest response from the government. The Black Panther movement came up after the assassination of Malcolm X to fight against police brutality and defend the African American community in West Oakland, California. The party itself was quite unique in the sense that did a little bit of everything. From embracing their right to bare arms at city hall or creating programs to help their community they did it all. They were successful because besides fighting police brutality, which was their initial goal, they improved the community by launching more than 35 Survival Programs. The Black Panther Party created significant opportunities in their communities to help each other, from tuberculosis testing to the Free Breakfast for Children program that provided free breakfasts for students. This party was so successful in West Oakland, it spread to other major cities in the US. The groups in the US lead the example for other similar groups in different countries as well. Despite them only expressing their rights and trying to better their community, the US government saw
The National Labor Union and the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor gave the laboring class ideas about how they could improve their lives and the lives of generations to come. Looking at this through the lens of someone in the twenty-first century the demands were logical. However in that day and age, company owners saw asking for any civil rights was seen as being lazy or troublesome. Just by getting these organization up and running was huge accomplishment, much to the dismay of big
amendment stated that “all people born or established in the United States are granted citizenship.” This was another huge change in American history because it officially labeled slaves as a citizen of the country that they had worked so hard in. Slaves were no longer property and they weren’t classified as just people, they were now residents of the United States. Then, within one more year of officially being classified as an individual among a country, the United States decided to propose another law which would give the right for African Americans to vote. This law is known as the 15th amendment. This gave the African Americans more of a voice in what happened in society, proving to the public what kind of potential influences they had.
Discrimination is the treatment of a person or particular group of people differently, in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated. The United States, ever since it was founded, has been plagued with discrimination. In the U.S. racism and sexism seem to be the most prevalent discriminatory problems. However, these two types of discrimination have been greatly reduced, and could be almost non-existent, but people are still benefiting from being “unequal” so the problem sticks around. Protests and other types of unrest have brought the problem to the media’s attention and many people have observed that the problems are being fought with a tougher form of themselves. If the groups who are claiming that they are being discriminated
Wasteland is a documentary by Lucy Walker that depicts the lives of selected garbage pickers in Jardim Gramacho – a massive dumpsite found in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The film is about Vik Muniz’s 2-year journey back to his home country seeking to give back to an impoverished community through making images out of an unusual material – trash. The film featured 7 garbage pickers from the landfill, and each has a story that brought them to their current places. One unique thing about the whole creative process is that the pickers themselves became part of it. Vik imagined that as they work on their own and each other’s images, the pickers will not only show themselves to a broader world that is for now comfortably oblivious of their existence, but also see themselves differently (Fuchs, 2010). It was captivating how the film has transformed lives and how it imparts a provoking thought to
I’ve never been very interested in fashion and I’m not a fan of constantly updating my wardrobe. Seeing the major effects that the fashion industry has makes me feel better about falling behind in the fashion world. I watched China Blue, a documentary about the poor working conditions in Chinese factories that produced denim products, for my International Management course as an undergraduate student. That documentary impacted me, and I often think of the people that were highlighted in that film. I feel as if The True Cost will be a documentary that I think of from time to time as well.