Essays on Sociology

For millennia, Native Americans throughout North America and primarily in what would become the United States survived on their own with little interaction on the global scale, being self sufficient and forming tribes amongst their vast homelands. With the introduction of European colonialism in the…

“This land is mine, God gave it to me and if I wanted to sell it I would have put it up for sale” (Standing Bear, PBS 2012). Standing Bear, one of the most notable god fearing Indians in the Ponca tribe was a strong…

Andrew Jackson’s address to Congress on the text called “On Indian Removal” and Michael Rutledge text titled “Samuel’s Memory” both talk about the same subject which was the removal of Indians from their native lands for white settlers to take over. These texts, however, differentiate…

The purpose of the sermon was to persuade those had not yet converted to the Puritian religion to convert. Edwards talks about saving those who have not converted yet by converting and uses lots of emotion when talking about God. Edwards uses lots of emotional…

Gender expectation refers to a normative conception of appropriate attitudes and activities for a particular racialized and gendered group (Plante and Maurer, 2018). My first experience that highlights gender expectations relates to my childhood, where I engaged in activities considered appropriate for men such as…

“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money” – Plains Sioux Native American Society alludes to set of people; who live respectively in…

Any bodily movements that require energy expenditure produced by skeletal muscles, is known as Physical Activity (PA).[1]Physical activity is generally classified as Low, Moderate and High levels of Physical activity and is measured in METs as follows: Low levels of Physical activity- Less than 3…

Criminal Profiling    When we hear the term ‘criminal profiling’ we often think that it is the police, stereotyping, and generalizing a whole minority community to fit the criteria associated with a criminal description. There are more things that we should bring into factor when analyzing…

Introduction In this paper, I will be exploring the topic of Portuguese Fado music. I will outline the historical background, culture and traditions, and social contexts while examining the different styles of fado, where they originate and how they are perceived in the modern day….

Imagine receiving a thousand dollars in your bank account every month, for the rest of your life, regardless of your status or income, no questions asked, no work or payback required. – Impractical you say? Andrew Yang, a 2020’s presidential candidate is running for president…