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Orlando Sanchez Expository Essay

Orlando Sanchez

3/23/15

English 11000-B

Racism in the United States

Although it is not supported by the government or popular amongst most people in American society, racism is still very much a problem even today. Most people would not openly admit that they are racist, however everyone has some type of prejudice against another group. American society has come a long way since the days of slavery and things are slowly getting better. However, racism is still a serious problem in the United States.

Racism has come a long way since the 1900s and the civil rights movements. Although great strides have been made in race relations, people are still discriminated against based on skin color and cultural backgrounds. This holds true even for those who have completely assimilated themselves into the American society. Although not always open about it, most people have some kind of racist ideologies. In his speech “A More Perfect Union”, Senator Barack Obama writes “… a woman who once confessed to me her fear of black men who passed her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”(Obama 4). Through this example about his white grandmother, Senator Obama shows that racism is not always outspoken. People still maintain these racial prejudices regardless of whether they are acceptable or not. For example, I have heard on multiple occasions that African-Americans live in poverty because they are lazy and don’t want to work, that they rather depend on welfare for survival. However, when looking at statistics, 39.8% of welfare recipients in the U.S are black, while another 38.8% are white. Looking at this data, it is obvious that poverty does not discriminate. There is a social stigma where many believe that as long as people keep these prejudices to themselves then they are not really part of the problem. It is very common for those who are not victims of racism to ignore that racism is still very much a problem.

Just as there are many people who face racism in everyday life, there are those who have never experienced it to a serious degree. Because of this those who are not victims of racism tend to ignore the problem. In his “Letter From Birmingham Jail” Dr. King writes, “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride towards freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor of the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.”(King 3). Dr. King believed that the obstacle to gaining civil rights was not the openly racist groups, but the people who saw that what was going on was wrong and chose not to stand up for what is right. This holds true even today, those who aren’t targets of racial violence and discrimination choose to ignore that it is a problem. Although racism is no longer legal as it was in the mid 1900’s, some might argue that institutional racism is still present in today’s society.

Racial segregation and discrimination is no longer legal in today’s society but there are still rules and regulations in place to prevent certain groups from prospering. Robert Slayton in his article “Institutional Racism” writes “applicants with black-sounding names received 50 percent fewer callbacks than those with white-sounding names."(Slayton 1). Situations like these are what contribute to the economic hardships or certain groups. Jim Crow laws may no longer be around but people and even entities like businesses still hold these prejudices against individuals of color. The effects of the institutional racism that was present in the 1900’s are still visible even today.

Jim Crow laws were a form of legalized discrimination or racism that was specifically aimed at African-Americans. This form of institutional racism prevented African-Americans from owning property or participating in unions and overall lack of economic opportunity. Although they are no longer around, the residue from the damage they caused is still present. Senator Obama stated “… the inferior education they provided, then and now helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today’s black and white students.”(Obama 5). Obama speaks in regards to the once segregated schools that have a history of providing education that is not up to par with “white schools”. This holds true today where it is easy to see the difference in education between a white suburban school and a predominantly black inner-city school, even though they are supposed to follow the same curriculum.

There are those who may argue that racism is in no way as serious of a problem as it was in the mid 1900’s. Many might say that they judge people from the content of their character and not their skin color, but every day there is evidence that says otherwise. Recently there have been several race riots across the United States as a result supposed of racial discrimination by the police. Whether or not racism played a role in these tragedies is irrelevant when one looks at the fact that minorities have an innate distrust of the police. This distrust does not come from invalid reasoning; instead, the police and other government institutions have acted in such manners where this distrust is earned. Another possible argument against the severity of racism might be that the targets of racism earn it based on their actions or behaviors. Civil rights leader Malcolm X has been quoted saying “The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.”  Although I myself am not African-American, I can understand and apply this quote to the events going on today. There is only so much that a group can endure before their breaking point is reached, which is why many people sympathize with those who march against the police when an African-American is wrongly killed.

I believe that racism is not a natural occurrence, but instead it is a learned behavior. Even though the days of slavery are long gone and the civil rights movements happened nearly 50 years ago, there are those who still have the oppressive ideologies from those time periods. Children are not born racist, but they learn to be racist from those around them. This will continue to happen to each generation unless it is stopped collectively by society. Just because segregation has ended and people of color have the same rights as white people does not mean that the goal of equality has been reached. Racism is still alive in America, and as long as people continue to choose sides and see the situation as “us vs. them”, race relations will stagnate and never progress further. Senator Obama writes” This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can’t learn; that those kids who don’t look like us are somebody else’s problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids.”(Obama 8). Obama is stating that the progress to make America a better place for all starts with instilling the newer generations with good values, regardless of race all the children are American and deserve the same equal opportunities. People of color are no longer bound by physical chains, but they are not entirely free yet. There has been much progress made in race relations, however there is still much progress to be made.

Evolution and our society

Dayenu Simon

English Freshman composition

3/23/2015

 Evolution and our society

         A society can be define as a machine with different function. No matter the nature of this function, all the function are connected to a memory center. A change in   this memory affects directly all programs. By improving the memory we accept its ability to modify some function. This modification can lead to complete behavior change. Over the past centuries our society has faced many changes. Most of them has changed the basics elements of the society. These elements can affect the way that child behave.  In the previous century children used to play outside with friends from sunrise to sunset. Today children mostly spend their time inside playing video game and watch T.V. Evolution of society and technology has complicated the behavior of our kids.

       Normally, at certain age a child is not mature enough to have control over his life. The immensity of the change surpass even our capacity as adult. It’s the reason why we are living in a world where human are led by technology. If the machine became masters and us the slave is because we are completely depending on it to do all the thinking that our brain supposed to do.   

             If we take two kids, one from a big city and the second a landscape area. The first one will be more advanced (in technology) than the second. But the second will probably give more participation (cleaning, cooking, and so on) in the house. In other words children from a landscape area will be most likely to socialize with others than being addicted to a technology, forget about those who live around him. Also in an area where technology has too much place, old people have been set apart by their own great child. It is not because they hate but the interval between their times is too large. The time for child to care about their oldest is already passed. Today there are houses to dropped grandma and grandpa. And it is all because the evolution of our society

               The evolution of society has opened the door for some corruption, such as the utilization of child on some adult field. In his book “”kid customer’’ Eric Schlosser, present the condition of life of our actual society.  He noticed that twenty-five years ago, only a handful of American companies directed their marketing at children — Disney, McDonald’s, candy makers, toy makers, manufacturers of breakfast cereal. Today children are being targeted by phone companies, oil companies, and automobile companies as well as clothing stores and restaurant chains. Like a plant, a child needs a reason to choose a direction. These reasons can become a burden for the parents when they are from the outside. Every time a child has been targeted by a company, the control that the parent did have over them fell. Most of the teenage thinks if they can be targeted by a business that mean they are as old as their parents. They can make their own choice without their consentient. Ads has a great influence on our child movement. The advertisement somehow influence kids mind and conceptions. When they are seeing too much ads this can influence their way of chopping, their way of clothing their style in general. The ads push the child to challenge their capacity at the same time it lead them to corruption. For instance back in the time a child will save money to bring sac sandy to mom and dad or buy a little pictures books. Now all money are save to by PlayStation and other articles helping them to look cool at school. By behaving that way, the quantity of time to play on ground or in the park with child decrease. A child has to be attentive to any new articles. To do so he has to be slave of T.V.

              Television is a tool of communication and even the most effective one in the world. The utilization of movie, cartoon or fiction is best way to introduce idea in a society. In this book “‘T.V: plug in drug’ by Winn the author that a writer had predicted that ‘’the Television is going to be a real influence for all children. Television will take over’’. The prediction is following by people who have also noticed that television will change our way of living. TV is also changing our kid’s behavior. Parents don’t really have time or complete life for their kid some families unite only for T.V by also watching show parents accept this radical change. Making them sometimes responsible of the bad behavior of their child.

           In Most of the families on earth, members get together only to watch TV. Communication between child and parents doesn’t exist. Especially in a country as U.S.A parents don’t really know their child. All because they don’t have time to communicate. Everybody in the house has their favorite show. T.V show nowadays are different from these back then. There is a lot of stuff on TV that is not good for the mind of an infant. Make them think they are adult and are capable of doing certain thing. And all the Dad and mom know, is the child who is watching the show with them but they don’t truly know the kid and how this may change their behavior. Most of the time when teenage has been shot in Gangs parent always complain for innocence, but the truth for most of these cases is that, they just don’t know their own child. Even if T.V reunite family in the living room it may also destroy all the family connection and even the family leadership. It is mainly destroying the communication and make people not sociable. Technology also destroy the Brain power of our child.

            We are living in a world where everything is made by machine. Back in the time everything used to be done by the muscular power. Now there is big modification machines that have replaced all single things. In some countries child learn How to graph any function without using calculator. Here in U.S.A only 20 percent of the student can do so. More new elements are appearing more time necessary to learn them. In America if they accept to teach every single thing to the child they will not have time to cover all the programs. The slavery chain of the machine has to be imposed since the maternity. Evolution and society has destroyed a big part of the natural brain power.

              The change has given dawn to the complication of our child behavior.  This com-

plication is necessary for the ultimate progress of the society. As positive consequence child know more about life since their earlier age. Years ago, at 16years old, a man will not be in the street driving his own car. Now the condition allow them to do so. As a negative influence, their non-capacity to control what they learn can open the door to some critical corruption.

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The amount of time, the children are watching a television has dramatically increased over the time resulting the children to become more inactive and less creative. Children enjoy most of the things that they see in the televisions and they tend to believe whatever they saw and heard to be true. Meanwhile, the television commercials and other programs are directly targeting children and exploiting them. They are persuaded through false information or engaging characters to watch televisions again and again and they are also taught about nagging tactics to compel their parents to let them watch and satisfy their needs. Journalist Eric Schlosser, in his incisive account wrote about how children are spending most of their time. He states, “The typical child now spends about twenty-one hours a week watching television - roughly one and a half months of TV every year……...About one-quarter of the American children between the ages of two and five have a TV in their room.” Schlosser believes that the number of television programs and commercials targeted directly towards children has been significantly increasing that they are spending more and more time watching televisions and as a result are becoming more inactive and less creative. Avoiding commercials and regulating time to watch televisions would decrease the amount of time a child spends on watching television.

In this modern, technological and competitive world, everybody is busy in certain things. Herbert Spencer coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”, which is very true and can be related to present context. The world is being very competitive and only those that struggle and win fit well. And obviously, the parents are not being able to give enough time to their children also and each other that is deteriorating the family bonding. They are working more and hard to fulfill the materialistic needs of their children and themselves. Moreover, they seek for certain ways to keep their children busy so that they can be free for themselves. Allowing children to watch television is the most common way to do so. They let their children to watch television most of the time. Some parents are not even unaware about how much their children are spending their time on television. Mostly, children watch cartoons on television and very soon they are addicted to those cartoons. Once addicted, they will be willing to skip anything, even their food to watch their favorite cartoons. And due to the number of cartoons there are, the list of their favorite cartoons is large. As I have seen, these days’ children often tend to sleep and wake up late as trying to finish watching the cartoons. It is not only killing their time, but also hampering their creativities and bonding. Due to lack of enough time to stay, talk and share, the family bonding weakens as a result, sometime the structure of the family dismantles. Author Marie Winn on her book, “Television: The Plug-in Drug states “Of course, families today still do things together at times: ……But their ordinary life together is diminished…… and the parents have their peaceful dinner together.” Winn mentions that today the amount of time a family spends together to talk about each other, share new ideas, plans, and progresses, express the feeling of love, care and affection have diminished.

On the other hand, “the television companies are also broadcasting advertising targeted directly at children got twenty-four hours a day and 80 percent of all television viewing by kids are cartoons” as mentioned by Schlosser. The commercials are compelling children to constantly nag their parents and fulfill their needs. And the nagging tactics are also taught to children as Schlosser states “James U. McNeal “teaches children how to nag their parents in his book Kids as Customers (1992).”

Children are learning things that will benefit them for a while rather than that will be forever helpful and effective. The base of the children weakens if they are let to watch television all the time besides encouraging them to be engage in learning and doing creative works. Not only, it will waste their time but also make them uncompetitive, dependent and unmanageable in both present and future. Surprisingly, children, these days have very less IQ than what the children of the earlier time used to have when they would be give very less or no time for television. They would play, learn and share together in the natural environment, unlike today where everybody is busy in their digital worlds. As it is said, “Time is more precious than Gold”. We have to know the value of time and keep track of what we are doing or what we are letting others to do and hence, use the time effectively because “Time and Tide waits for none.”