Contemporary playwrights are constantly writing about and commenting on current social and political issues. ... The very fact that they are writing in the current world makes their work a product of the issues facing the world every day. ... If a piece is almost "over-addressing- a social topic, almost to the point of satire or stereotype, can it be placed into a category with a play that is built around exaggerating the lack of such a topic, using a plot which doesn't draw from current issues at all? ... The same abstract-ness which makes them believe they are individuals and intell...

• Word Count: 1744
• Approx Pages: 7

The issue of race and ethnicity has always plagued the political agenda in the United States. ... Powell immediately and always defended civil rights issues and reflected the will of his constituency. ... At the time, both Powell and Dawson were viewed as champions of civil rights issues. ... He represents the American ideals of courage and aggressive determination in order to accomplish social change. ... He was a key figure in the Civil Rights movement because he constantly fought for minority rights, an end to poverty, and an overall increase in social equality in the United States. ...

• Word Count: 1701
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The short story "Desiree's Baby-, by Kate Chopin, incorporates very interesting twists and turns capturing the reader's attention, while provoking thoughts on issues deeper than the text itself. ... Chopin addresses social issues with regards to race and gender in this story. ... Although the narrator does not take sides towards issues that arise during the course of the text, her general view does shape the overall characterization of the white Southern society. ... There were some whites in Louisiana who was not racist but they would still have to follow a strict code of segregat...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8

The social context of prejudice and discrimination because of race or ethnic background is common throughout the world. ... Racism still persists in the U.S. despite a civil rights movement of more than 50 years duration and major social change. The myth of race, however, remains a powerful force in social life. ... As we enter the new century, among the many issues facing the United States, the two most controversial issues are immigration and affirmative action. ... On the positive side, the current physical and social differences that currently occur in the U.S. contribute to the dyna...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

The social classes of Dollar General customers range from poverty to middle class. ... Poor children are raised in families who suffer due to several of society's issues, not a personal financial trouble. Issues take place outside the realm of personal life and threaten public values. Unemployment is a major issue in our country affected by institutional racism and privilege of different races, especially whites. ... These items are made and organized on the basis of male and female social norms and exclude all other gender titles. ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Yet today there is an outspoken minority who want to stop affirmative action not only as a legal remedy, but also as a social commitment. Now that affirmative action has led to some social changes there are those who are saying our society has gone too far in correcting racial injustice. ... Many meaningful subjects have been introduced to the world in the form of court cases that challenges the issues at hand. ... On opposition to the issue, a writer from the Washington post said this. ... Conservatives, however, see ending affirmative action as a powerful political issue. ...

• Word Count: 1755
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Noted African-American social psychologist, Kenneth B. ... The author exhorts black leaders to expand their vision and address race neutral issues that significantly affect the African-American community with the same degree of fervor they accord race specific issues. ... The IAF addresses all issues in a race neutral manner in the spirit of interracial cooperation. ... Affirmative action is always a potentially divisive issue. ... As neither group is likely to compromise on this issue and as black Americans generally view affirmative action as indispensable to the ultimate goal of racial equa...

• Word Count: 1618
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

The issue of equality has taken our entire nation and turned it upside down in mid 1950s. ... Relations between black and white people in Dade County were cordial, as long as black people understood that they were not the social equals of whites. ... What was more shocking to myself throughout research on the topic, is that The Miami Herald had barely mentioned these issues in their highly circulated newspaper. ... This clear avoidance of issue at hand is a recurring theme in politics and Collins was playing this card famously. ... A social and economic struggle inevitably accompanied African...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Why is such an important issue often overlooked? ... The Civil War was over 130 years ago, and racial issues still stand even though it has been so long. ... This separation only adds to the issue of racism and discrimination that continues to this day. Many of us think that it is not our problem or choose to ignore the issue. ... The battle to end such a crucial social issue is not completely hopeless. ...

• Word Count: 1292
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This can also occur with issues such as gender. ... The ultimate root of prejudice however, the book states is to defend our social position and self-esteem. These are all aspects of reification and in a sense define reification, i.e. obtaining self-esteem and social position, fighting inner conflict and insecurities. ... In the issue of some forms of feminism, many of these women hate men as a whole and form prejudices towards them. ... In the issue concerning white supremacy, there are several examples in which we could look. ...

• Word Count: 1942
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Racial and social justice was the root factor to start the American Civil Rights Movement, due to years of racial segregation such as the Jim Crow Segregation. ... In 1963 in Washington at Lincoln Memorial, thousands gathered in what was known to be the largest social demonstration to fight for jobs and freedom. ... It opened up new social, economic and political opportunities for African Americans. ... However, by the end of the 60s, the movement turned to encompass wide range of concerns, specifically social and economic issues. ... Far from being solely a one-dimension movement in which onl...

• Word Count: 1999
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fearing a complete loss of power over the ex-slaves, the Southern states began to issue regulations that they felt would re-establish their control over the newly freed slave communities. ... In response to these changes, the states organized efforts to limit the political, social, and economic status of the freed slaves. ... Since the majority of the community worked menial jobs and could not read, they issued poll taxes and literacy tests to increase their prevention of freed slaves voting. States also issued a formalized segregation process known as de jure segregation, separating the South...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Socially, it was incredibly difficult for African Americans to fight for their rights and become equal citizens of the United States. ... Although the right to vote looked promising for blacks, the "Redeemers" fought back with racial issues and argued that the black vote should be completely eliminated. ... In the social setting Washington's views vary quiet differently from his economic notions. ... Washington makes clear that although blacks and whites may come together to work, socially nothing will have changed. ... In the late 1800's a journalist wrote a newspaper pamphlet i...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... "Race" had become a social phenomenon. ... This so-called science (phrenology) issued in a new era that granted "races" a biological reality. ... Once white superiority had anchored itself to the social construct, associations with it came into existence. ... White superiority provided a security blanket to those whites of lower social standing. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Modern American racism is a cause of many detrimental social issues. The decline of urban America fueled by white flight, the rise and poisonous grip of the drug trade, the reaction to it, and the abuse of minorities have been major issues that America has struggled with on the racial front for years, and have yet to find any viable solutions to. ... The drug trade was a good idea on paper, and had good intentions to bring out about social harmony, but eventually became a program that accidentally targeted and incarcerated minorities at a staggering rate. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5

Apartheid called for the separation of whites, blacks, people of mixed race, and Asians in all political and social institutions. ... Since they began to emigrate as slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, African- Americans have had to struggle for equal rights, both politically and socially, in their own country. ... Although blacks and whites are equal under American law, they are far from being equal socially. ... The treatment is so poor that in 1996 the United Nations claimed that Canada's treatment of its aboriginals is in violation of international law a...

• Word Count: 1377
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

One critical interpretation is the issue of racism, which is made obvious to the audience a great number of times especially when it came to the topic of Othello himself. ... Racism is also used as apart of the play's storyline and is the main force that drives Iago to conspire against Othello and in the end; it is also the issue of racism which plays a part in leading to Othello's tragedy. ... The feminist analysis allows us, as current readers, to judge, contrast and to compare the different social values and status of women in the Elizabethan times. ... This also leads to the issu...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7

Racism is an ongoing issue that has occupied many years of American history. ... In 1863, President Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, issuing "that all persons held as slaves" throughout America "are, and henceforward shall be free" (Lincoln). ... For instance, allegedly "good" white people such as Sally Phelps and Miss Watson display no awareness about the social inequality and discrimination of slavery. ... Langston Hughes, famous for his role as a social activist and portraying it through his writings, was one of the many African-Americans who set...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Yet, racial residential segregation remains an issue today despite efforts to remove this expression of racial inequality. ... To calm their fear, whites demand more police presence to ensure social control in black communities. ... "Socioeconomic status and acculturation" determine social mobility (Charles, 2003, p. 170). ...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This statement summarizes a significant issue that most African Americans recognized and sought to change during this era. ... He was born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a place where social and economic activities were reinforced by "primary democracy"- all of its citizens had a right to be heard. ... The new social science of his time was based on seeking truth of human history through an examination of historical documents; therefore DuBois adopted this new method and as a researcher, conducted many studies including one on the urbanization of blacks in the North (The Phi...

• Word Count: 1561
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On the other side of the issue, sixty-five Fortune 500 companies and twenty-nine retired general submitted briefs arguing in support of affirmative action. ... Kennedy took office social reform was pushed further ahead on the agenda. ... The brief submitted by the administration confronted the issue by emphasizing state rights and their role in education and diversity. The brief suggests that the federal government should not even be dealing with the issue, but instead it should be handled at the state level because of how controversial. ... On the other side of the issue, the Fortune 5...

• Word Count: 1778
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In history, there are multiple perspectives on every issue. ... Depending on what race you are, your social, political, and economic ways of life can be effected. ... Education has a lot to do with this issue. ... Language is socially inherited it does not exist apart from culture however it could spread far from where it started. ...

• Word Count: 2288
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Written in the first person of a man named Robert Jones, the novel reflects on these years of intense social change that arose during and after the war. ... In June 1941, in exchange for Randolph calling off the march, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 and created the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). ... But for a person in Bob's position it is difficult to understand how someone could just deny her true identity for a gain in social status. ... The changes in labor demands and roles were forcing social changes in other races as well, because by disrupting traditional pa...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Social scientists have documented the rebellious spirit and acts of protest by blacks as they lay shackled in the holds of slave ships, labored in the fields of southern landowners, and settled into the urban ghettos. ... Blacks interested in social change will most likely gravitate to "protest communities", where they hope to find solutions to a complex problem. ... The idea of the threat the demonstrations could cause was enough to force President Roosevelt to issue executive order forbidding racial discriminations in defense industries. ... Two, this was the first time in America...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Affirmative action has been a major issue in America since its beginning. The black rights and women's rights movements of the 1960's fought against injustice and discrimination that had been suffered by minorities for years [Hud99]In response, President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 in 1961, creating a Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and mandating that projects financed by federal funding would "take affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices were free of racial bias [Hud99]. ... Affirmative action is a major issue because it gra...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate