Equality For All It’s the 21st century and our nation consists of many different cultures, race and religions. However, racial discrimination still lives on amongst every ethnicity. When my grandma left the Philippines for San Francisco in 1956, white Americans instructed she were to have no aspirations beyond being a good wife and mother. She came to America not knowing one word of English, therefore people assumed she was dumb. She was never given the privilege to work hard and become successful, all because she didn’t speak English.
I was brought-up by my grandparents in a time when Spanish was not allowed at schools in California. They never spoke Spanish to me, and most of my uncles never spoke Spanish, but my father does.”(MSN Latinzine, 2012) He is a third generation Mexican American, born in Los Angeles, California. My grandmother's family lived in Riverside and they were very well off until the Great Depression. She was an outcast because she married a Mexican from the other side of the tracks and he wasn't born in the U.S. as she was. He was deported in the 30's, but my grandmother refused to go to Mexico with him.
Janie is a symbol of the modern day women showing that women just want to find a man who love them inside and out. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Hurston was turned into a movie because it touched almost every person with the many life lessons that she portrayed. The movie gave off a different message than the book because the lack of detail about Janie's insecurities within herself. A big part of Janie's struggle was finding herself. In the book, her childhood was a good example of this because it explained that Janie never knew her skin color until about nine, when she saw a photograph of herself.
Because being a teacher was to be with children and teach them what was right and wrong, just like mothers. In this period, men didn’t think for one second to be a maid, nurse or teacher, because they were meant for women to do and they were too manly for those jobs. Before the war employers didn’t hire women because they believed they were jobs assigned for men (nps.gov). Most women gave up work when they married, though some women kept working after marriage because they couldn't afford to give up their jobs. Working after marriage was generally something done mainly by poor women.
Baker was unable to provide any proof that Attired’s tattoo actually caused the restaurant to lose money. Attired’s job performance had been evaluated every three months. There were a total of four evaluations, only one had an unfavorable remark. The Dec 2009-Feb 2010 evaluation said that Attired was told that it is not alright to call a customer a name because he did not leave you a tip. There is no employee manual or written policy about employee conduct.
The comparison is unsuccessful because Elvis wasn’t the perception of “good”. When he was shown on television they could only show him from the waist up because of his inappropriate hip gyrating. She then moves on to the change of clothing, explaining that her daughter had started wearing tank tops and denim jean shorts when she began listening to the Back Street Boys and Le Ann Rimes. Though, she does not let us know what her daughter had worn beforehand and how tank tops and jean shorts are worse. Kay tells us how the tweens stop wearing clothes from Limited Too and Delia’s.
Like the Ladies League only socialized with members that were only acceptable to the president Mrs. Hilly. Though when Celia Foote came to Jackson and wanted to join the Ladies League Mrs. Hilly didn’t want her join because past situations and because of her lack of class. Everyone else in the League conformed to everything that Hilly said because they all wanted to stay in the League with out any trouble. Though Celia never really socialized after Minny started working for her because of her pregnancy. This made Minny supicious about her where abouts.
In order to understand her anger one must understand her upbringing as she stated “I come from a country where there is no size for women’s clothes”. In many of the Arab countries that have Muslim women. The men do not choose their wife or women by what they wear, but rather how well that women is able to bare a son/child. In other words the shortness of a women’s dress should not determine a women’s beauty nor should the size, in the eyes of the author. Many of the people listed by the saleslady were and are professional models, whom are idealized by the general public.
Women had been fighting for equals to men since 1923 and continue to fight to this day to have the Equal Rights Amendment ratified into the constitution. Women were not allowed to take birth control until 1960 and even then it was still illegal in some states and viewed to be morally wrong to get a prescription for birth control. Women did not have to right to obtain a college education, some colleges would not even accepted female students. Harvard University did not accept female students until 1977 to obtain a college education. Women did not have the right to choose their own professions, and instead were
When growing up, we did not speak in a negative way regarding other cultures. So, when things were directed towards me regarding my interracial relationship, it hurt me deeply to think my family did not approve. I was also told by my parents that I would be disowned if I continued to date a white man and would be cut out of their lives. My sisters did not understand why I preferred to date a white man and thought I must be depressed. My sisters also thought I needed counseling and needed to meet men of my race.