Betsy Jimenez English Composition II Ms. Bonnie Lee January 7, 2013 Immigration, Arizona SB 1070 “Mexican Americans were dispossessed very much of their land and subject to discriminatory treatment in every aspect of their lives: in employment, in housing and in education. Overt discrimination is probably worst in Texas, where the state law enforcement agency known as the Texas rangers has long had a well-deserved reputation for brutality toward Mexican Americans”(Daniels, 314). History has proven to repeat itself throughout the years. As we grow stronger as a nation we have been pushing those who have helped us create America to the borders of embarrassment. By allowing racial profiling to be practiced, the Arizona immigration law
For example, in the movie The Mission, Rodrigo Mendoza and other Spanish conquistadors went into the jungle where the Guaranis and many other aboriginal tribes lived and captured them to become slaves in neighboring plantations to colonize the country. This shows that the conquistadors did not respect the aboriginals because they invaded their land, captured them and treated them as if they were property instead of people. This can also be seen in the movie when the Treaty of Madrid is being debated about and no one discusses the situation with the aboriginals to see how they feel about situation at hand. Instead they ask the priests to come and talk
Kids go to school to learn and be successful, but how can they achieve anything when they are constantly being bashed on. I myself have witnessed people being made fun of because of their accents. Another bad thing is when teachers favor
The only survival is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin. He survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. He found his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in his native land. To preserve his people’s history, Topiltzin draws an Aztec Codex about the Spanish conquest and hide them underneath the Aztec mother goodness. Then, human
The strength of the movie, Walkout, is the clear portrayal of youth and others who courageously took direct action, massive walkouts from LA high schools, at great risk, in order to fight oppressive and racist school conditions. Their walkouts, according to the film, mixed leadership with spontaneity, planning with critical analyses of conditions--and risky action-and swept across five LA high schools. Many of the “Chicano” students have faced an enormous amount of discrimination, which triggered the attention of the whole student body. The youth made demands ranging from bi-lingual education and a halt to bans on speaking Spanish in schools, to involuntary transfers of racist teachers, to an end of paddling, unlocked rest rooms, and a halt to custodial work as a form of punishment. Initially, they made their demands to principals, who rejected them out of hand, urging caution on the part of youth who would "ruin your career," if they persisted.
At the point in time people were very harsh and unfair to those of a different race just because they were not the same color as the majority. Although a lot of this book was of negative bashing and racist remarks it ends with a feeling of motivation and confidence. These eight African Americans entered and school knowing that they were consistently going to be harassed and knew how much bull they were going to take but did it regardless. They stood up to the majority and let their pride shine through and underwent more punishment than many people could ever dream of and the outcome like that was a historical point in
“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
Joseph Kony the head rebel leader on the planet. He stands accused of brainwashing countless children across northern Uganda. turning girls into sex slaves and boys into soilders making them kill their own parents. His so-called Christian movement, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has terrorized villagers in at least four countries in central Africa for nearly 20 years, killing tens of thousands of people. what he did was kidnap children to the point where they were scared to sleep at night in fear konys army would find them and steal them .
I went to school in Brooklyn at Automotive High School. In my school there was a lot of violence because of gangs, race, and to prove how tough you thought you were. What I noticed about a lot of the students who I went to school with is we all live in the same type of place the “hood” as we called it, and were we lived there was a lot of violence and gangs which spilled over into school life. People in my school got into fights most times because of words that you shouldn’t say to another person, but did anyway to prove a point, and that point was “I’m tougher than you”. This would cause a lot of unnecessary violence over things that could have simply been avoided by being a bigger person, but in today’s world, being a bigger person is viewed as being scared or a coward.
The opening few scenes depict some episodes from Rizal's novels wherein one Catholic priest rapes a Filipina. In another scene, a Catholic priest beats a child for alleged stealing. The movie introduces us to the life of subjugation of the Filipino people under the rule of the Spanish friars. From the execution of three Filipino priests in 1872 for alleged subversion to the harsh and unequal treatment of Filipino students in the schools, this film is a stinging