Essays on Social Issues

Assimilation has its roots from the Latin word simulare which means to make similar. US Immigrants are expected to behave like Americans over a certain duration of time, a process occasionally referred to as melting pot. America being a racially, religiously and regionally diverse country, the exact meaning of assimilation becomes vague. That is, what does it really mean to assimilate? How does an outsider eventually get to be labeled as having fit into the nation’s diversity? Some people ...

When we think of one of the most widely used applications of technology today, we think of cloud computing. First of all what is cloud computing? It is a collection of networks. A user can use the services provided by the cloud through the internet for storing data. There are three components involved in cloud computing, they are, client computers which the end users use to interact with the cloud, distributed servers, which are servers that are distributed in different places but act like ...

In the 1960s, New York faced economic hardship, crime rates and ethnic tensions increased to its peak. After Lindsay's winning coalition of wealthy Republicans and Liberal Democrats reformed but during his first term, he was only involved in racial politics and seemed to forget completely Basic political work to consolidate and expand the electoral base of the cause of the collapse of a major financial collapse city and a criminal disaster in fighting poverty and disregarding the middle class ...

The ‘me too.’ movement was founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke to help survivors of sexual violence, particularly Black women and girls, and other young women of color from low wealth communities, find pathways to healing. In October 2017, the movement began to spread virally on social media as a hashtag in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in workplace. Me too movement has a huge impact around the world. Tarana has embraced # MeToo's ...

Racism is a reliance that the many differences between races determine societal or individual attainment. Involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the virtue to rule others. Racism has been active and constantly making differences. The judgmental aspect of racism that must be addressed. It’s the gathering and integrate of established radicalized use into all of our social and command economy. Racism obtains outrun the Capitalism of slave traffic by colorless wealthy men ...

“The idea of ageing as a burden on society stigmatizes older people as well as the services they receive, both of which become devalued and associated with negative dependency”. +This essay seeks to explore the extent to which people of different age groups experience conditions of social exclusion. It begins with an overview of the concept of ‘social exclusion’. It then moves on to describe how older adults are more vulnerable to social exclusion as a result of age-related changes including ...

Religion has caused many wars, but that doesn’t prevent the idea that all religions call to peace. Religions sometimes are the arms of peace and happiness not only to one person but to the whole country/state. Having war doesn't always mean that peace is ignored, peace may appear in the form of protection and bravery. In the holy books of different religions peace is stated and war is prevented to establish a religious and definite state that consists of all elements of praise. All holy books ...

Since the twentieth century, researchers are looking at and discussing this topic. According to Nguyen (2010) urban sprawl is the poor planning and under development of buildings in urban places whereby houses and organizations that offer goods and services have an endless distance between them. And even though the media and social networks has chief value, urban sprawl affects socialization as it limits the connection between neighbors which affects people’s wellbeing and survival in many ...

The kind of society that we live in every other person, diplomat and country preaches about human rights, equality, unity and social justice among people and states but still we witness and go through numerous headlines and articles almost every day which talks about racism, communal attacks, sexism, terrorism, police brutality etc. We aren’t yet done solving, accepting and getting over with issues like such and the bitter truth is that the surely exist even after we have made several ...

Since May of 2020 multiple protests have stirred up due to the killing of George Floyd. The latest victim is Jacob Blake; ‘’he was shot seven times in the back by a police officer’’. Even though Blake was able to survive the shooting, he himself still was paralayzed. These gruesome incidents have caused many Americans throughout the past few months to call for help. Many protests have started in all if not most states, to defund the police for their violent ways of patrolling. Defunding the ...

Police brutality in today’s society has been in the media more than ever recently thanks to the rise of social media. Pages have been created just to support the families of those harmed or worse, killed in deadly police altercations.In recent years minority’s like African Americans and Latinos have been the target. America has a relatively higher homicide rate compared to other developed nations, and has many more guns per state. Why police brutality is important quastion today?Use of police ...

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley, an English female author, at around the year 1818, about a young scientist named Victor Frankenstein who makes a creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. This specific book has generated a lot of critical analysis from its tear of publication till the present period on account of a few factors which these critics argue would have been the causes of the various literary styles utilized by the author and additionally about the author ...

Societally speaking, literature has consistently been utilized throughout history as a means of commentary; Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is no exception. The classic novel outlines the dangers of misogyny and religious agendas during an American era of social liberties and monumental movements towards female equality. Margaret Atwood writes in a manner completely polarized from the sexual revolution of the 1970s: the emphasis she places on the role of men and their adaptation of the ...

Police brutality is an ongoing issue in American society, where innocent black Americans are being targeted and killed or beaten for no reason by white police officers. Although there are many video's of incidents online for the world to see, not many arrests are being made. This brutality is, to me at least, racism in another much more horrifying form. Another reason for these unjust attacks is the perpetuated stereotype of black people being untrustworthy thieves. The people being targeted ...

Child labour can be defined as any form of work that influence the child’s education, health as well as mental and physical growth, which can turned out to be harmful for the overall development. This kind of problem can be mostly observed in under-privileged countries. Thus, children are instead of sending to schools, are forced to work for the sake of money in order to meet incentives and demands of their families. With globalization, youth is in great demand by the society. Their knowledge, ...