Documentary Discussions “For the Bible Tells Me So” is a documentary that focuses on five families who deal with homosexuality in their Christian families, churches, and community. I can see how, for some viewers, this documentary would be seen as purely homosexual propaganda, but I think there is a more powerful story that looks at homosexuality in Christian communities, and asks “why is homosexuality not ok?” The documentary tries to explore the social, political and scientific reasons to reconcile gay rights within Christianity through provoking stories, some heart-felt and others filled with emotional trauma. The two main bible passages cited in the film are Leviticus 18 and the story of Sodom in the book of Genesis. The importance of understanding historical context of these texts is greatly stressed within the documentary. As previously discussed in class, we had come to the conclusion that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a story about inhospitably, not homosexuality.
According to Schaefer (2012), the general economic picture for African Americans has been gradual improvement over the last 50 years, but this improvement is modest compared to whites. According to Schaefer (2012), black income has been increasing steadily, but so has the income for whites. Because of this, blacks are still making less than whites. Socially, African Americans tend to rely on family. According to Schaefer (2012), African Americans have strong kinship bonds, and are very much into religion.
I think it is because of two basic reasons; firstly, as Tatum points out, one can relate better with peers of their own race because they too understand the difficulties of being a minority. I think she really made a great point, how can we expect a white person to understand the racism towards African Americans. Ms. Tatum gave an example regarding a 9th grade substitute teacher suggesting four-year colleges to all her white students and suggesting that a black adolescent male in her class go to a community college. It would be almost silly for that African American boy to sympathize with one of the white peers, not only would it be hard to relate to each other, it would be downright embarrassing. I actually think that the white teenager wouldn’t be able to see why the colored boy was hurt, they would just brush it off and give an explanation like “oh the teacher didn’t mean it like that”.
‘I have a Dream’ is one of the best known speeches of the twentieth century, a thoughtful and rousing call to social justice that clearly conveys King’s impatience with continuing racial discrimination. Kings content is structured to create a compelling argument for immediate action and change. He begins with a reminder of US democratic traditions and emancipation, with “five score years” echoing the “four score years and twenty” of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, placing the speech in the context of the history of the African-American struggle in USA. Lincoln’s promise however has not been honoured. African-Americans have metaphorically been given a “bad cheque”.
Du Bois’ ethnicities included African American, French, Dutch, and Indian. W.E.B Du Bois was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1895. 3 Du Bois mainly stressed the idea of social and economical equality among the African-American community, which was very different from Washington’s view. He highly stated that the “talented tenth” theory should be given access to the mainstream American life.3 His “talented tenth” theory was first introduced in 1903 and mainly focused on helping the need for higher education to create leadership qualities to the most needed 10 percent of African-Americans.5 W.E.B Du Bois was also an important contributor to help co-found the National African American Colored People or NAACP and became the association's director of research and editor of its magazine, The Crisis.4 Overtime W.E.B Du Bois developed into a skilled historian , poet, and
He discusses more about what the people in America think in their States about same sex marriage. He talks about facts, statistics, and polls, such as the New York Times poll which was conducted that 40 percent of respondents supported same sex marriage, 23 percent supported civil unions for gay couples, and 31 percent did not support gay couples. Dematteis had twice as much information as did Humphrey as well much more of other people’s views, and I believe it is very important to show the views of different people not just your
There is an increasing shortage of nurses, especially minority nurses. In the past three decades, nursing schools have worked hard to attract more minority nurses. They have increased availability of scholarships, grants, and promotion of career advantages. Because the U.S. is growing more and more diverse, increasing the number of minority health care professionals would definitely be the key to eliminate care disparities related to patient and ethnicity. “Although African-Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians make up nearly 25% of the United States population, only 9% of nurses belong to these ethnic groups,”(Mee).
Student Answer: HEDIS TQM SERVQUOL CAHPs Instructor Explanation: Textbook Chapter 26 Points Received: 6 of 6 Comments: 3. Question : (TCO F) Which of the following groups represents the largest expenditures for the Medicaid program? Student Answer: Economically poor children Mothers who have low incomes and children Persons with mental illness Persons receiving long-term care in nursing homes Instructor Explanation: Textbook Chapter 27, Week 5 Lecture Points Received: 6 of 6 Comments: 4. Question : (TCO F) Outcomes of the TRICARE program suggest that _____. Student Answer: cost controls are increased quality is increased military reports cards are more favorable All of the above
I believe that racism does operate like a web. An article to support this idea would be Michael O. Emerson’s “Race, Religion, and Color Line (Or Is That the Color Wall?)”. Emerson quoted, “Religion contributes to racial division and inequality, then, in that it increases racial categorization, which is a by-product of congregational segregation” (207). By growing up in a certain area, the majority of American citizens tend to carry out connections with the people they see and share the same beliefs with. It’s going to be hard to overcome this racial segregation if you have grown up with it, but it is something that can be
Women in education The differences between boys' and girls' schooling are greatest seen in the regions with the lowest primary school completion rates and lowest average incomes. In Sub-Saharan Africa the ratio of girls' to boys' enrollments in primary and secondary school has hardly changed since 1990, and in 1999 it stood at 82 percent. In South Asia progress has been greater, but girls' enrollments reached only 81 percent of boys' in 1999 as compared to the 92% enrolment of boys. The number of literate women aged 15-24 years in the world went up from 390 million in 1990 to 432 million in 2000. This represents a global increase in the female literacy rate of approximately 3 percentage points from 80 to 83 per cent.