TikTok is a social media app made by a Chinese company, ByteDance. The app was released in September 2016, and it has become very popular lately. TikTok allows people to make short videos with a duration of one minute or shorter. People use this platform…
Essays on Sociology
Bacon’s Rebellion within the early fall of 1676, armed horsemen cantered on the Middlesex road. Tumult, riot, and rebellion had come back to Virginia. The troubles had begun aloof from the Indians and English were still in touch (as they weren’t in Middlesex), and also…
The Virginians grow tobacco, in 1617 and need labor, at first, they the Indians and African blacks had begun but was not yet the primary source of Labor in Virginia. So, to get the labor need to run their plantations, another source is the European…
Growing up in the 1950s, Mike Rose spent his childhood in a diner where his mother, Rosie, worked. As he observed all of the workers, he was interested by their adjustment to concur with each other. Being first generation to attend college, he majored in…
Symbolic interaction theory is a term that refers to the language and symbols a person uses to see how it will make others respond (Griffin, Ledbetter & Sparks 2019). The symbols for this theory uses verbal and non-verbal cues. The theory was developed by social…
For as easy as it sounds to write about it was quite hard for me. I was born on February 21st of 2000. I was born on President’s Day that year. I was born in Voorhees Township and grew up in Winslow Township. My parents…
Based on real life events, “The Pursuit of Happiness” takes a complex look at the family environment, where dedication and a commitment to upholding one’s family overwhelm personal barriers faced. Chris, played by Will Smith, is a salesperson for medical equipment, and has dedicated his…
In his article Blue-Collar Brilliance, Mike Rose is an American professor who studies blue-collar work. Rose contradicts the argument that links intelligence with education and believes that intelligence is not associated with the grades and IQ results a person has received. Throughout his article, Rose…
Introduction Many are the times that people think that their personal challenges outweigh those of others. Individuals are blinded by obstacles they come across and forget that even more bigly and complicated issues are faced by others in different social structures. Literally, this may seem…
I read an essay called Once more to the lake by, Elwyn Brooks White. It is a reflective piece on the power of memory and the chill of mortality. He writes about himself suffering from an identity crisis as he revisits a lake that he…
The problem of the Common Pool Resources (here after CPR), all member of the community jointly owns this resource, all the equal rights over the resources. The economic features of the common pool resources are rival by competitive and non-excludable (Professor XU Jintao Microeconomics &…
Moving on to the views of what is the term “sense of place” in sustainability, ‘The notion of place in the construction of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in Singapore’, by Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh, argues about the proper definition and importance of how ‘place’…
Writing of the essay under this topic is quite a challenge for me. After all, as someone who was born in Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars, who was educated on stories about crimes during the World War II, and someone who is witnessing right wing…
“The black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness” –Marcus Garvey, (Cammock-Gayle, 2013). This is a quote from one of Marcus Garvey’s teachings that sought to give the black people a sense of pride in their blackness…
Dark Snake Killaz is a full-length narrative film about the protection from the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film investigates moves made by water defenders to stop the development of the oil pipeline and features moves made by law implementation, military, and corporate soldiers of fortune…
