Essays on Discrimination

I chose the topic of women’s sport discrimination. Recently, Alize Cornet was charged with a code violation when removing her shirt after she had noticed it was backwards at a tennis match last week against Serena Williams. Shortly after, French officials addressed Serena about her…

Our book talks about prejudice and discrimination. Our book mentions how often we confuse these two terms. I like the way the book mentions the basic difference between the two terms is: Prejudice is the attitude, while discrimination is the behavior. It is a simple…

Privilege is an advantage granted to a certain group of people. The privilege is much more certain to get a position in power. They have a higher chance of having a commanding influence in politics. Privileged people can be a lot more successful than others….

Bishop and Fyre show how polarization and sexism correlate with each other, demonstrating how our society normalizes discrimination. They both expose how society often creates barriers to ignore new, or different viewpoints. As well as, the overwhelming amount of oppression that can no longer be…

Racial minorities made up about 37.4 percent of the general population in the US and 46.6 percent of armed and unarmed victims, but they made up 62.7 percent of unarmed people killed by police and all happened to be African Americans or Hispanics. This only…

When most people think about discrimination, they typically think of a person being discriminatory to another for their race, gender or various other reasons. Very rarely do we think of animals being discriminated. Now most people will ask how can you discriminate against an animal?…

Whether you are an Indian or a Pakistani, at one point or another, a simple question might have whizzed through your mind like a bullet: What if India was never partitioned and Pakistan was never created? The several reasons including the oppression and discrimination against…

From birth until death societal structure provides individuals with acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in society based on whether they are male or female (Dietert & Dentice, 2009). As per 2011 Indian census it was reported that total population of transgender is around 4.88 lakh (Transgender…

Can you imagine people that are diagnosed with cancer and they are being blamed for it? Being accused that it was their own fault and they totally deserve it? This is what happens to the people suffering from mental illness but slightly different. Mental illness…

This research mainly focused on how frequent American college students which are considered themselves LGBTQ are being bullied on their respective educational institutions. The study consisted of gathering 347 college students who would identify themselves as LGBTQ, of which 163 were females and the rest…