Essays on Social Issues

Each year, hundreds of people from Central America decide to migrate on a dangerous journey through Mexico to the United States. Every migrant who decides to travel to the United States goes knowing their life is at risk. They make this their journey hoping to...

Lavish images of Fifth Avenue and the Upper East Side claim the title of ‘New York City’, filling the mind with descriptions of great wealth and well-dressed gentiles strolling the crowded streets filled with a vast diversity of people. Like everything, however, there is more...

Luis Valdez, the author of the play, Zoot Suit, introduces the struggles of being a Mexican American during World War II. Valdez writes about a real-life incident associated with the Sleepy Lagoon murder court case and how many Pachucos were being intentionally prosecuted because they...

The days beginning June 3rd up to June 8th of 1943, a series of conflict took place in Los Angeles, California in which was eventually called “The Zoot Suit Riots”. It was a culmination of cultural differences between Mexican-Americans who have been living in the...

Luis Valdez mixed art and politics in his writing, “Zoot Suit”, which focuses on the Zoot Suit Riots that occurred in Los Angeles during the 1940s. The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent clashes between U.S. servicemen who would attack young Latinos and...

Who knew that wearing a flashy suit was capable of completely change one’s cultural identity? Zoot Suit is a play written by Luis Valdez that demonstrates the Trial of the Sleepy Lagoon Case of 1942 in which the courts charged a group of “Pachucos” with...

In both A Doll’s House and Woman at Point Zero, the female protagonists are forced to suppress their identities. Henrik Ibsen and Nawal El-Saadawi hide the individualities of Nora and Firdaus in their play and novel respectively from the other characters, however, the audience are...

Women at Point Zero is a novel that tells the story of a prostitute, Firdaus. She is waiting in jail for her death sentence. She experiences sexual harassment which causes her traumas throughout her life in Egypt. The title of the story, Women at Point...

In Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi explores the struggles that women face in societies. The protagonist, Firdaus, faces years of discrimination from men throughout the text. The assumed dominance that men take on is shown through their oppressive behavior and the perceived subservience...

Introduction White Like Me is a documentary by Tim Wise’s on his life in a majorly black neighborhood growing up with black friends. It covers his views about white privilege and the structural advantages given to white people as he experienced first hand. Disregarding the...

White Privilege is a real thing in our society, it’s has been internalized making it seem like it’s nothing different, it’s just part of life. The definition of Privilege is a special right to resources such as housing and jobs. Within Privalage there are resources...

During World War I, Canada’s Indigenous and First Nations communities had always been the target for racism by European settlers. The novel Three Day Road, written by critically acclaimed author, Joseph Boyden uses the literary lens of critical race theory to further focus on racism...

Colorism is defined as a form of prejudice typically from members of the same race in which people are treated based on their social economic status from cultural implications related to skin color. Within the idea of “race”, various groups of people compete with one...

The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, follows the lives and perspectives of three women in a Southern American town in the early 1960’s. Jackson, Mississippi is a stereotypically conforming small town with clear racially discriminative norms where coloured maids work for white households. The Help...

Throughout history, the topic of racial and gender discrimination in America has been heavily discussed and researched. As Anderson and Collins state, “Sex, gender, race, sexual identity, and class profoundly influence individuals’ knowledge, experience, and opportunities” (qtd. in Tahir). It is not hard to see...

Children have a unique perspective of the world as they run around with their imaginations as they explore and learn new things. In the fictional piece, The Flowers by Alice Walker takes place at a Farmland where a little farm girl went out adventuring into...

Over the past several decades, roughly 35,000 Syrian refugees have been accepted into Canada. As the refugee population increases, it is becoming more important to understand the factors that promote and foster pre- and post arrival mental health of children and their academic achievement. Experiencing...

Introduction Syria lies in between Iraq which is to the east, Israel and Jordan as well as Lebanon to the west, and Turkey to the north. These neighboring countries will have an impact on the lives of the Syrians as the war begins to progress....

Introduction These are a set of literature that is produced in the United States by authors of African descent. This literature is very significant in that they depict various important themes that are important in the modern day world. This report discusses an article on...