Police brutality was seen as commonplace, and 95% of the Watts police force was white. This helped foster hatred towards the police, and white people, as the black population did not feel equal. The schools that black students attended were of poor quality, and seen as a reason for the lack of employment and employable skills in the black community. The economic impact of the riots can be seen in multiple areas. There were 288 local businesses looted and burned, which were not capable of being rebuilt and never returned following the Watts Riots.
Even though there were negative effects, his assassination also led to positive immediate effects such as the Poor People’s Campaign, and the improvement of the Civil Rights Act 1968. The long term impacts of his death were the social improvement of the Civil Rights Act 1968, the African-Americans are now being respected, and the effect of Martin Luther King Day. After the assassination Martin Luther King his supporters showed grief and rage towards his death. The outpouring grief and rage led to the 1968 Chicago riot. The riot started in the black ghetto on the west side of Chicago.
Librablue Racial Stereotypes Stereotypes can be found for every race and ethnicity. The majority of racial stereotypes are often created by misapprehension of the culture of other races. Some of them are not true, but most people believe these ethnic stereotypes and give their views based on the stereotypes. Moreover, sometimes racial stereotypes are used to deal with some special cases by police within the bounds of the law. Therefore, it brings people who are often associated with these stereotypes a lot of inconvenience in their daily life.
Not only does the person(s) under attack financially suffer, but the city and community loose too. Vandalism which can lead to larger group violence can cost the city substantially in police, fire department, and in some cases hospital/doctor fees (justice.org/hatecrime). The community is left with eyesores like dilapidated buildings or homes due to the destruction. Either money is spent to repair or demolition these structures or the value to the surrounding properties decline. In either instance it is a hefty price to pay because of the emotional instability of an individual or group motivated by
Brabantio, furious by the intentions of marriage of his daughter to “the Moor” believes that Othello used drugs and witchcraft to steal his daughter from him “O thou foul thief! Where hast thou stowed my daughter… though hast enchanted her” (1ii62-64) this overstatement shows the sudden disregard of Othello’s previous power in the community as an army general and the immediate hatred he receives as a result of the colour of his skin. Iago once again plans to ruin Othello as he suspects his wife has been unfaithful with Othello, and goes out to destroy his marriage, just adding to Iago’s anger causing him to
It is companies such as the peach farm that force people’s insanity and revoke their sense of ownership and livelihood. At the end of the story there is a tragic scene where Rose of Sharon, one of the women of the group, gives birth to a stillborn child in the rain and Uncle John, a depressed drunk due to the death of his wife and mal living conditions, sends the dead baby downstream in hopes that the landowners of California receive the message that there are people dying due to their greed and self interests. Unfortunately the Joads and many others try to stay united but the horrors of poverty settle in as many people die due to the living conditions and there are many setbacks in their journey expressed as “livelihood,” was never met. The novel portrays an image of a world in which generosity and self-sacrifice are the greatest of virtues. It also portrays an image of the 1930’s and one of the causes of the Great
The women decided that they would falsely accuse these men in order to avoid being caught for prostitution and also for not paying the train ticket. (Faulkner 418-419) The To Kill a Mockingbird Trial was about Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell. Mayella was the daughter of a very poor white family and to the townsmen they were known as white trash. They lived behind the garbage dump in Maycomb. The Ewells were known for being rude and inconsiderate.
Many people became unemployed and were no longer able to support their families. People were starving and felt ashamed and humiliated. The government was blamed and used
Its almost like a lot of families couldn’t recoup from the whole thing. So starving people were always there. Also the dip in the economy in 2008 which made people lose their jobs took the turn for the worst. More and more people couldn’t afford things making some people go homeless and not being able to get food to them or their children. The problem with starving people in America is that, first of all people are starving.
Analysis of Chicago by Carl Sandburg Imagery played a very important part in the poem because it gave the reader an image in there head of the city and the environment inside along with the people who lived there The main purpose of this poem is to defend the common theories that are directed toward the city of Chicago. The speaker addresses the corruption of the city, which shows he is honest about what he says, but also points out the flaws of other cities and their people. The speaker also points out that even though Chicago is corrupt and bad on the outside, it still has good people on the inside. In the first stanza Carl Sandburg gives details about the jobs of the city and the things most noticed about it. The first stanza states the name HOG butcher of the world which gives the person an image of a butcher in the city; it also states tool makers, Stacker of wheat and railroad workers.