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America likes to envision itself as a society in which personal empowerment and self-advancement is limitless. It presents itself as a meritocratic society where there is a direct correlation between working hard and achievement. However, in the lived reality of most individual's personal experience, this is seldom the case. Examples abound of people who are working hard (working two part-time jobs, for example, or working full time and going to school full time at an inexpensive school, where they can afford tuition) who are unable to use these efforts as a platform of success.
While it is true that some minority groups -- Italians, Jews, and Asians -- have achieved material success, these groups have not suffered the same barriers as African-Americans, who faced legal sanctions for many years on their rights to vote, to literacy, and to self-empowerment. There...
Indeed, many of the former advocates of Jim Crow that are still alive vehemently oppose affirmative action in the name of American color-blindness, misapplying Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream speech."
Social support networks -- access to better job training, access to student loans, and access to other means to advance and empower historically-discriminated-against groups -- are necessary to truly create an equal America. These are not 'hand outs' but rather helping hands to truly enable individuals, once marginalized, to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. The idea that "you can be anything that you want to be" is empty unless that desire is fulfilled with access to decent and affordable places to live and to seek an education.
This does not mean that rich people are free; on the contrary, many are not. However, money is required to live a free and easy life that defines success. Success as the achievement of personal and professional goals depends on having sufficient resources. Both Mr. Hernandez and Mr. Clay are successful. Both race and class played important roles in the article, showing that the two issues are inseparable. The
American Lit Definition of Modernism and Three Examples Indeed, creating a true and solid definition of modernism is exceptionally difficult, and even most of the more scholarly critical accounts of the so-called modernist movement tend to divide the category into more or less two different movements, being what is known as "high modernism," which reflected the erudition and scholarly experimentalism of Eliot, Joyce, and Pound, and the so-called "low modernism" of later
Espionage Burds, Chapter 19 Golden Age of Soviet "Illegals" Cambridge Five: Burgess, Blunt, Maclean, Philby and Cairncross These five were all discovered to be spying for the Soviets. Cairncross was never caught. He supplied Stalin with secrets that helped the Soviets stay ahead of British Intelligence, especially at the Battle of Kursk Cairncross also informed Stalin of ULTRA, when Churchill was hiding ULTRA from Stalin Cairncross supplied a total of 5832 documents to the Soviets Cairncros had been
Les Diaboliques: Justice Manifested Via the Uncanny The theme of justice is indeed ambiguous in the short stores Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly. The stories are indeed graphically vivid, which take an unflinching perspective on life, love, sex, honor, lust, beauty and power -- mostly from a masculine point-of-view. It is this masculine perspective which can shackle and disarm the female characters of these stories. But in each story, justice
Education in Japan Background re: Respect in Japan On behalf of Asian societies in general, not necessarily Japanese per se, Quynh Nguyen, noted in the Minnosota Daily newspaper, "In Asian society, students revere teachers for the simple fact that knowledge is power and that it is generous of teachers to share it" (Hoenig, 2008). In the United States, one can generally conclude that such a statement does not apply to the majority