1880 or 2007?

As far as I know, slavery ended in the 1880's but Intel seems to think differently. Back in 2007, Intel released an advertisement in which a white man is being bowed down to by 6 black athletes in an office.

The first stereotype begins with the black men bent over in a ready to race position. I see where Intel is coming from, as they try to represent the super fast technology Intel has to offer but the way they portray the athletes makes this a stereotype because the world sees black men as good, fast runners.

The second stereotype is shown with the white man standing in the middle of the black men being bowed down to in the office. This is the stereotype that white men have power and are usually the boss of the office. 

In a way, this advertisement is also representing slavery by saying "maximize the power of your employees" yet the one boss is white and everyone bowing down to him is black.

Intel claims they meant no wrong in releasing this ad but it portrays all types of stereotypes. They should have defiantly rethought about their ways in representing power and speed.

Country Music

Have you ever listened to the real meaning of country music songs? Probably not because so many people say it’s dumb and only talks about the same thing. The song Accidental Racist is probably the only song that defies the typical country music song. If you really listen to the lyrics and break down what Brad Paisley is trying to say, he is trying to break stereotypes. The main chorus of the song has a very strong meaning. Brad Paisley says that, “He is proud of where he’s from but not everything they have done.” Also “His generation didn’t start the nation but still paying for the mistakes.” The song is trying to show race as a long term goal that is still going trying to fix the problems of race, specifically in the south. Even though this song is trying to make a point about the Confederate flag still flying in the south even with tons of African American people. The song is trying to defy the stereotypes and see what it is like to walk in the shoes of African American walking around town and seeing those flags.

Towards the end of the song LL Cool J is featured. His part is a rap about how just because he has saggy pants, doesn’t mean that he is up to no good. Or that his chains are gold, he is just completely misunderstood. A strong line in this rap part is that LL Cool bean says, “I guess we're both judgin’ the cover not the book.” This line is especially meaningful because the song is both saying that we all judge African Americans by the “cover” (the color of their skin) and not their actual book (what talents they have or what they can’t achieve in life if they weren’t enslaved.)

Cultural Analysis

Little Rascals:

Have you ever seen the Little Rascals? Have you ever compared yourself to one of the characters when you were growing up? Im sure many people have, including me. Looking back on the movie it has many different stereotypes throughout the film. Not all of them seem to be negative. Each of the characters in the movie look very different from one another. There is a black boy, who seems to be looked at positively from the other children, but many people watching the show could see this as trying to break down on the black kid calling this a very racist film. There is also a little white freckled boy which people portray as your "typical white boy". The little sweet blonde white girl has a very positive attitude the whole story. The different white characters in the story tend to get a little racist throughout the show. There is a conversation that takes place between Dickie, and Stymie.

Dickie: “Hey fellas c’mere. Take a look at our uncle. Pop says he’s plenty wild, too.”Stymie: “He sure do look wild. What makes him so black?”

Dickie: “Mom says he’s the black sheep of the family.”

Stymie: “Them horns make him look more like a goat!”

As children watch this movie they develop different opinions. Children watching this can compare themselves to one of the characters, and when they do they want to act like them. When a child growing up usually tends to see something on the TV that catches their attention, whether it is because they look like them, act like them, or even just they want to be like them a child tends to start doing what the person is doing. When Dickie and Stymie are having the conversation that appears to be extremely racist, it plants a picture in the watches mind.




The little Rascals there are many different scenes that show stereotypes that are referring to Stymie which is that little African American boy. At one point in the movie all of the children are going around and they are explain different wishes they have. The wish that comes from Stymie is “I wish I had some chicken”. When viewers watching this see the young boy saying this it automatically gives them an image of something that someone who is African American enjoys. After analysing this movie I learned that there really is some stereotypes that are portrayed in the film.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWY6yFJsDY Showing how Stymie wants friedchicken

Has ISIS Cornered The United States?

America has a huge role in today's world. We seem to find ourselves involved with almost everything. Some will argue that we find ourselves involved with too much while others will say that we need to do more to help the world get where they think that it should be. When it comes to America’s role with ISIS…the cards are split. Many people have ideas but are not sure on what to do about them. President Obama being one of those people. In a CNN News Report President Obama explains “we don’t have a strategy yet”. This shows that Obama knows that there is a problem and that it needs to get solved. Some would argue that currently America’s role in the world when it comes to ISIS is not present yet. That quote shows that President Obama also believes this. There are different options on what The United States could do but all options are another possible way to put The United States at risk again. Stephen Biddle explains, “This is going to be a long, nasty, dirty, war that in many ways is going to look a lot like the first go-around in Iraq”(2015 Off to a Troubling Start - US News). This quote shows that whether or not President Obama chooses to make a decision that it will put The United States in danger.

Global Warming

Global Warming is known issue around the world. The U.S needs to immediately address Global Warming because it could cause major damage to the earth. The important part of the solution is for the US to contribute to the Global Warming by reducing carbon dioxide, and greenhouse gases. For example, these are all believed to be the primary sources of Global Warming “ The increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities. These types of gases can mess up things tremendously, because it can become toxic, and start a fire. Another example is recently humans have been of the reasons to climate change. “Climate has been fluctuating throughout earth's history” The climate does change frequently, for instance like in Chicago the temperature could be really got one day, and the next day it's extremely cold.

Sweat Shops or No Shops

The issue is sweatshops as a whole. The things with sweatshops you have to have a high school diploma to get a job, but a lot of people don’t have high school diplomas so settle for sweatshops. Sweatshops take up full advantages of labor, low income, and physical injuries. The things the United States should do to solve this issue is have more jobs opportunities for those who don’t have a high school diploma, increase their income, decrease the physical injuries.According to Carl Shelton a 48 year old woman , has experienced working inside sweatshops as a labor, who has had the bad end of the stick by experiencing low income having extreme physical issues and treated more like a slave than a human.Come home exhausted, her hands swollen from pushing stiff fabric past a moving needle. She had to work fast to meet quotas kept by a timekeeper, and if she slowed down or had to redo a seam, her hourly income dropped to the base rate, which usually hovered around minimum wage. Besides the low pay, the job gave her back pain from hunching over old sewing machines held together with spare parts and electrical tape(Boal).These are real life stories that people have/experience on a day to day basis. Someone has finally decided to speak up. The way people have been treated is very unfair and unacceptable. When does slavery stop in many cases. By paying lowkey income and treating these people like they are absolutly nothing is slavery it’s just not picking cotton in fields all day long and getting beating. According to Viederman , sweatshops are not bad they just have poor pay and poor quality work. Poorly treated workers typically make poor-quality goods, but U.S. companies that aren’t careful about sweatshops could face the costly job of reputation repair if a watchdog group links their brands to workplace abuses. Furthermore, desirable employees want to work for companies whose values they share, just as consumers want to buy from companies that put values into practice (Viederman). This describes how sweatshops can be good and how they have a positive but an negative affect at the same time.

The issue is sweatshops as a whole. The things with sweatshops you have to have a high school diploma to get a job, but a lot of people don’t have high school diplomas so settle for sweatshops. Sweatshops take up full advantages of labor, low income, and physical injuries. The things the United States should do to solve this issue is have more jobs opportunities for those who don’t have a high school diploma, increase their income, decrease the physical injuries.According to Carl Shelton a 48 year old woman , has experienced working inside sweatshops as a labor, who has had the bad end of the stick by experiencing low income having extreme physical issues and treated more like a slave than a human.Come home exhausted, her hands swollen from pushing stiff fabric past a moving needle. She had to work fast to meet quotas kept by a timekeeper, and if she slowed down or had to redo a seam, her hourly income dropped to the base rate, which usually hovered around minimum wage. Besides the low pay, the job gave her back pain from hunching over old sewing machines held together with spare parts and electrical tape(Boal).These are real life stories that people have/experience on a day to day basis. Someone has finally decided to speak up. The way people have been treated is very unfair and unacceptable. When does slavery stop in many cases. By paying lowkey income and treating these people like they are absolutly nothing is slavery it’s just not picking cotton in fields all day long and getting beating. According to Viederman , sweatshops are not bad they just have poor pay and poor quality work. Poorly treated workers typically make poor-quality goods, but U.S. companies that aren’t careful about sweatshops could face the costly job of reputation repair if a watchdog group links their brands to workplace abuses. Furthermore, desirable employees want to work for companies whose values they share, just as consumers want to buy from companies that put values into practice (Viederman). This describes how sweatshops can be good and how they have a positive but an negative affect at the same time.

Fix global warming save the world

I believe that america's role in the world should be focusing on global warming. We should be focusing on this issue way more because our country starts crumbling away. The article on the global warming solutions website told us “ 2000, we’ve experienced 14 of the 15 warmest years on record – including 2014, the hottest year ever recorded. As the oceans warm, we’re learning that it’s no longer a question of if the Antarctic ice sheet will melt but how fast.”  This is a serious issue in the world right now and needs to be settled. The United States is often noted as the being the most significant contributor to historical emissions of global warming pollution. Most of these emissions occur when power plants burn coal or natural gas and when vehicles burn gasoline or diesel. These are all controllable things that we can fix to change the future if we just focus on it.Solutions to global warming in North America include reducing coal emissions, increasing the use of energy efficiency and renewable energy, greening transportation, and helping developing countries reduce deforestation.

An Analysis Of ¨ Precious¨ And It´s Relation To Racism Today.

When you are looking at the African American race and it’s history, You will find many triumphs, Many losses and many different examples of how diverse the culture is. For my Analysis I chose the movie Precious. This movie came out a couple years ago, and really shows the different Archetypes of African Americans. 

The movie is about a Overweight African american girl named Precious. Her father Is abusive to both Precious and her mother, and has raped Precious multiple times and even has 2 kids with precious. He was portrayed as the brute.  Throughout the movie, he is seen as a large, scary and villainous, just as the brute has been portrayed throughout history.

The mother, who is mentally and physically abusive to Precious could be seen as a mixture of the brute and Mammy. She is shown as Terribly abusive, and strangly nice and motherly. She herself is a paradox, because she is both Evil and good at the same time.

Precious, However, is not really identifiable in only one category.  She is overweight, which is a Stereotype of African americans. That they are sloppy, and don’t take care of themselves. At this point, she could almost be seen as a mammy. There is also a scene where she steals fried chicken from a restaurant. This portrays the stereotype that African Americans are thieves. She is also Not very smart, as seen in the film, which is also a known stereotype of African Americans. Precious and her family live in the “Hood”, which is another stereotype of African Americans. 

The people who contributed to writing this movie and the people who Added ideas to the movie, such as Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, Were very much conscious of the racial ideas and stereotypes in the movie. I believe that they did it to show those who have no idea that this happens everyday. For the people who haven’t seen the ruins that These people live in called “hoods”. For the people who don’t know about the Lack of opportunities in these areas.

This movie, while some could say over exaggerated, told the true story of The lives of these people, and Portrays almost all of the stereotypes known to us. Although a terrible truth, it is the truth. Though some choose to deny this truth, It is real, and will stay real until things change. Is it possible to remove these stereotypes from the culture of today? I don know. However, I know that everyone can do their part in trying.

Syrian Refugees: Second Holocaust?

I think the US needs to immediately address the problem in Syria because, hundreds are dying and the world doesn't need another holocaust. Make more jobs for the american population then give the Syrian refugees visas/green cards so they can escape the conflict. Elizabeth MacBride an author for CBNC and Janell Ross a Reporter for The Washington post argue for letting the Syrian refugees into the US. With Ross making points that contradicts trump’s opposition. And MacBride appealing to the ideal of humanitarian refugees the argument stands for letting the refugees into the US.







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Sweatshops AKA Horrorshops

¨A "sweatshop" is defined by the US Department of Labor as a factory that violates 2 or more labor laws.¨ (Do Something) Why does the US needs to immediately address the issue and what should it do to solve the issue? The US needs to immediately address the issue of sweatshops being run by American Corporations in other less developed countries due the to unsafe working conditions this people have to suffer through. And the ludicrous amount of pay theyŕe receiving. DoSomething. org talks about the many facts of Sweatshop laborers. Sourcing their information from reliable resources like The International Labor association. You should believe this source to be credible due to the fact that they are a non profit organization, ei; ¨Do Something is a non-profit organization with the goal of motivating young people to take action around social changes through national campaigns and grants for projects that make an impact. “ (Google Home Page)

While Wanda Embar from Vegan Peace talks about how workers all need to be informed and educated on their rights, including labor laws and how they should be treated and how to avoid being mistreated. “Workers need to be able to freely associate and advocate for rights and improvements to their working conditions” says Embar. Dosomething also talks about how ¨Sweatshops often have poor working conditions, unfair wages, unreasonable hours, child labor, and a lack of benefits for workers.¨ and how ¨In developing countries, an estimated 168 million children ages 5 to 14 are forced to work. America has stronger labor laws than most undeveloped countries, but it is not free of sweatshop conditions. Many labor violations slip under the radar of the US Department of Labor.¨ but basically overall Sweatshops are hurting so many people and America really needs to start to help stop this problem by zoning in on American companies that support sweatshops by moving their productions over sea. America needs to move their production back to the US or follow our US labor laws to assure the safety of their workers.

Works Cited:

Embar, Wanda. "Sweatshops and Child Labor." Sweatshops and Child Labor. Wanda Embar, 2015. Web. 06 Oct. 2015. <http://www.veganpeace.com/sweatshops/sweatshops_and_child_labor.htm>.

"11 Facts About Sweatshops." DoSomething.org. DoSomething.org, n.d. Web. 06 Oct. 2015. <https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-sweatshops>.

Sweat shops

barely cover essential needs Some people work for as little as 1 cent per hour often more than 100 hours per week in conditions of poor air quality and extreme heat. In the United States is currently at 10.00 dollars, while it is 1.48 dollars in Thailand, 69 cents in the Philippines, and 67 cents in China workers are frequently paid less than these estimates suggest amounts barely enough to survive on even considering the lower cost of living in these regions. in china they have a number of horrible sweatshops And they fined them up to $1 for infractions such as taking too long in the bathroom. Liu left the factory for good in December, after he and about 60 other workers descended on the local labor office to protest Chun Si's latest offenses: requiring cash payments for dinner and a phony factory it set up to dupe Wal-Mart's auditors. In his pocket was a total of $6 for three months of 90-hour weeks--an average of about one-half cent an hour More than 100 million rural Chinese have now moved to cities - the biggest movement of people in human history.







More than half of them have ended up here in the southern province of Guangdong. They accept jobs with long hours and low pay because back home there's often no work at all.

What should we do about " The rise of ISIS" ?

The U.S needs to immediately address the rise of ISIS. ISIS is an Islamist militant group that has took over a large part of land stretching from northern Syria to central Iraq. The group began in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq, before renaming it as ISIS two years later. ISIS is  more brutal and more effective at controlling territory it took over than al Qaeda. " ISIS is putting governing structures in place to rule the territories the group conquers once the dust settles on the battlefield. From the cabinet and the governors to the financial and legislative bodies,ISIS' bureaucratic hierarchy looks a lot like those of some of the Western countries whose values it rejects -- if you take away the democracy and add in a council to consider who should be beheaded "( http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/14/world/isis-everything-you-need-to-know/). The only way to resolve this issue is that the president needs to identifiy the threat that America is facing radical Islam but instead President Obama has decided to " make peace" with them. Making peace with them will only last so long and ISIS is still killing and torturing any one who won't join them in the middle east, making peace with them will only be good for OUR country untill they stab us in the back, but what are we doing about the rest of the people in the world, America is being selfish and only making sure were good and protected but there's other people in this world that are facing ISIS and they're not making it out alive. There's not much that we can do about other countries but we should at least try because every person in this world is an equal.

The Evil Behind The Clothes That You Wear

The issue is sweatshops as a whole. The things with sweatshops you have to have a high school diploma to get a job, but a lot of people don’t have high school diplomas so settle for sweatshops. Sweatshops take up full advantages of labor, low income,  and physical injuries. The things the United States should do to solve this issue is have more jobs opportunities for those who don’t have a high school diploma, increase their income, decrease the physical injuries.According to Carl Shelton a 48 year old woman , has experienced working inside sweatshops as a labor, who has had the bad end of the stick by experiencing low income having extreme physical issues and treated more like a slave than a human.Come home exhausted, her hands swollen from pushing stiff fabric past a moving needle. She had to work fast to meet quotas kept by a timekeeper, and if she slowed down or had to redo a seam, her hourly income dropped to the base rate, which usually hovered around minimum wage. Besides the low pay, the job gave her back pain from hunching over old sewing machines held together with spare parts and electrical tape(Boal).These are real life stories that people have/experience on a day to day basis. Someone has finally decided to speak up. The way people have been treated is very unfair and unacceptable. When does slavery stop in many cases. By paying lowkey income and treating these people like they are absolutly nothing is slavery it’s just not picking cotton in fields all day long and getting beating. According to Viederman , sweatshops are not bad they just have poor pay and poor quality work. Poorly treated workers typically make poor-quality goods, but U.S. companies that aren’t careful about sweatshops could face the costly job of reputation repair if a watchdog group links their brands to workplace abuses. Furthermore, desirable employees want to work for companies whose values they share, just as consumers want to buy from companies that put values into practice (Viederman). This describes how sweatshops can be good and how they have a positive but an negative affect at the same time.

Global Warming

The problem is that global warming is affecting our everyday lives. For example, for the last few years there has been warmer winters. Another example is that many people over populate the world and they can cause pollution. We can say that the people that overpollute most of the world should pay for it. The NRDC says that the congress should make more laws that require for others to pay if they pollute our country.   “Congress needs to enact new laws that cap carbon emissions and require polluters pay for the global warming gases that they produce.” Abounding communities everyday pollute our world that causes the crash of global warming and climate change. One solution is that we could place recycling bins and trash cans all over town to make it easier for others to make the right choice. That means that we could  Another thing that causes global warming is the greenhouse effect. What that is  saying is that the greenhouse effect condenses causing gases to form heat in which it cannot escape the atmosphere. You should probably unplug your gadgets. Your appliances can get extra energy when they are turned off so therefore you should unplug television sets, phones, and other appliances. This can be a solution for climate change.

ISIS

The US needs to immediately address the issue with ISIS, because ISIS acts more like a military power than a terrorist group instead. By that I mean that ISIS use tactics to get to where they want. But not how they want it to happen. The US needs to act now before we are attacked by ISIS without warning. According to the organization's director general has called ISIS, a destruction of Palmyra's architectural gems "a war crime."(Director General) “In August, they leveled two temples of immense cultural significance -- the Temple of Bel and the Temple of Baalshamin -- prompting outrage and condemnation from around the world.” The United Nations Cultural Organizations describes the Arch as multicultural richness and great history. (UNCO) The Arch itself was once a Trade Route, to three countries, these three countries were Persia, India and China. Which were lead into the Roman Empire later. Later temples were also destroyed and they were represented as Roman-era funerary towers that were “among the representative and evocative monuments.” The Palmyran Arch of Triumph in Syria, is an ancient building made very long ago. It’s history is large behind it and the Arch itself. According to Civilians in Kobani, “Eyewitnesses said some gunmen spoke Kurdish and knocked on doors telling locals to come out. "People rushed out and were killed," Nasan said.”(Nasan) According to Nasan, he describes what ISIS did that morning. Nasan said they enter Kobani from the East and the West, and were disguised too. They were wearing YPG (Kurdish Security Forces). When people saw they did not fear them. ISIS opened fire and killed many civilians. “Those tactical victories put ISIS' formidable rivals just 55 kilometers (about 35 miles) away from the city of Raqqa.” "(ISIS) is a very tactical and strategic group, much more-so than al-Qaeda ever were." “show that this group is functioning more like an army than a terrorist organisation." (Natasha Underhill) The ISIS organization are using tactics that can infiltrate others without them noticing who they are. It shows us that ISIS isn’t afraid and they want to scare people; and how intimidating ISIS is and not how people would want to think how ISIS is. By using tactics such as disguises, airstrikes, underground trenches to other towns/cities. ISIS can have an advantage over others without any warning. Other Military forces who are against ISIS won’t know their next move is because of these strategic tactics.

Modern day Slavery: The Terrible Truth About Sweatshops

The US needs to immediately address the issue of the sweatshop economy and unfair labor practices because victims of these unfair labor practices are being injured in large amounts. These victims are also not making livable wages, which is causing children to give up on their education and work to earn for their families. Julfikar Ali and Nida NaJar reported “the 2013 collapse of a building that housed several clothing factories, left more than 1,100 people in the worst disaster in garment industry history” (Julfikar & NiDa).
American companies are the ones who buy lots of these garments so they should also be the ones to reinforce regulations for these factories. The US also needs to immediately address the issue of the sweatshop economy and unfair labor practices because it is happening in the United States of America. The BW.com staff also reported that “just this May, it came to light that a number of families living in the U.S. were forcing immigrants into slavery, making them perform household chores for up to 16 hours a day without pay.” It is also happening on US soil so now it is our responsibility to protect all the victims and make sure no one is being forced into slavery or working in inhumane conditions.

global warming

In America today, Global warming is an apparent and recurring problem in america. Recently, there have been many cases of global warming that, if not stopped could danger our earth and the change the way we live forever. These instances of global warming’s effects include forest fires, the melting of ice in the arctic and the drought in California. Global warming In my opinion has the potential to deteriorate the earth into a worse state than it already is in, for a couple of reasons. This year alone, nearly 3 dozen forest fires have taken place in California because of the drought resulting in dry, brittle and highly flammable trees. If it keeps happening at this rate, it won’t belong before the golden state is treeless. Also, recent studies have revealed that if the remaining fossil fuels on earth were burned, the atlantic ice sheet would melt, raising the sea level by 200 feet. This would drastically alter the arctic ecosystem and ultimately change the way we live.

America´s Role in the World

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What Should the U.S. Do About Isis?

The U.S. needs to immediately address ISIS because they are kidnapping Americans and killing them on video, so we need to address this immediately so there are no more victims. To solve this issue, we should find where ISIS is and take everyone involved and give them consequences. According to President Barack Obama, we can do this with airstrike. According to the CNN article,¨Obama gave the go-ahead to pound ISIS forces in Iraq from the air. Why not do the same in Syria, a country the President himself ceded Thursday has become a "safe haven" for the terror group?¨ This shows how Obama thinks an airstrike is the effective way to end ISIS. Another source from bookings.edu, says  ¨The United States should also rebuild its Sunni contacts from the Sahwa uprising against al-Qaida in Iraq, bolstering the voices of important Sunnis so that Baghdad has no choice but to hear them.¨ His idea of ending ISIS is building a relationship with the Sunnis. Clearly, these are two very different approaches that we need to decide on immediately in order to prevent and stop ISIS all together.

Refugees in the dark

The U.S needs to immediately address the crises in Syria because thousands are dying. We should bring in Syrian refugees.  And those Syria's we cannot bring in we should make sure that the camps they are living in are safe.  We have a responsibility to bring in the refuges because we helped cause the Kathleen Newland, a reporter for CNN, says, “The Syrian crisis in its current phase, whereas many people are fleeing from ISIS as from the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime, is tied to the Iraq war and its aftermath.”.(KN)  So the reason for people fleeing Syria is ISIS as well as the Basha al-Assad regime. Holly Yan another CNN Reporter says “Of the 4 million SYrian refugees who have fled attacks by their government and ISIS, the United States has taken in 0.03% of them.”(HY).   The U.S has said that they will only take 1000 Syrian people into the U.S.