1. Culture
In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or having darker pigmentation. In the late 18th century during the American Revolution the issue for women rights became prominent. This is what started the feminist movement which is defined as the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men...
Ben Garrett believes that it was an assassination attempt on president –elect Franklin D.Roosevelt which left Chicago mayor Anton Cermak mortally wounded, the prolific shooting of John Kennedy in Texas, Robert Kennedy in LA, and Martin Luther King Jr in , Memphis,TN, all of these brought about the idea of gun control in America. ... These tragedies-mass shooting at the Navy Yard, the Travon Martin case, the Mass shooting at the movie theatre in Colorado, as well as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting-have caused the debate to resurface and reignite because of the issue of violence ...
The United States was founded upon diversity. Racism in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. These slaves were not brought by will, but by force, and they faced great oppression while giving the dominant white race the blue collar resource that they so essentially needed in order to stake their claim in the new and soon to flourish United States of America. Plagued by hundreds of years of slavery, discrimination, segregation, hatred, and victimization, ...
In the North-Central Mexican city of Juarez, times are often pretty rough. Crime is decreasing as of 2016, but the percentage of violent crimes in Mexico is still higher than almost all major cities in the country to the north, the United States. In fact, poverty is extremely prevalent with "494,000 Juarez residents living in poverty or extreme poverty" (Isaad). As Virginia Isaad points out "a new study from the UNICEF says that 5 out of 10 children in Mexico live in poverty" (Isaad). Juarez is indicative and symbolic of most cities in Mexico where many fear for their lives due to drug cartel ...