Essays on Social Issues

When am asked about my hobbies, or what I do when am free, I normally answer that I love painting. Therefore, I really appreciated the chance I had in doing the Mexican American Fine Arts as it made me experience something that I have never experienced before. All through the...

As attributed by the authors, media is known for framing femicide stories within domestic violence context. Focusing on the victims' behavior is one of the media frames employed in domestic violence (Gillespie et al., 2013). It incorporates excusing of the perpetrator and to some extent blaming the victim. Focusing on...

Silove, D., Steel, Z., Detention of asylum seekers: assault on health, human rights, and social development. The Lancet, 357(9266), (2001): 1436-1437. In this article, the authors demonstrate the extent to which western nations have undermined the international commitment to provide humane protection to all individuals seeking safety and fleeing...

Absence is the first discourse that explains how local participants in the study deny or minimize the existence of racism. In the discourse, people claim that racism is not an issue in their area (Nelson, 2013). The argument still holds despite evidence from collected data of instances of racism in...

The social construction of gender is the anticipated behavioral patterns assumed to follow from the sex of an individual. The manner in which the society is taught to become socialized is more salient and most of the time goes unnoticed, and therefore, it is right to put a claim that...

Animal sacrifices are all embodied in the holy texts of the world religions, for instance, Christianity, Islam, as well as Judaism. All over the world, this idea is still being used by religious communities. In many religions, sacrificing of animals is common. The New World religions practicing animal sacrifices, for...

Humanitarian intervention is a process of using military force to rescue people who are going through extraordinary suffering because of genocide or other types of human rights violation done on a large scale. In such a scenario, the government cannot or has failed to protect the citizens or rescue them...

In “Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy”, Appadurai loos at why culture is a leading cause of tension in global interactions. He starts by stating that most of the arguments that arose were about ‘commoditization’ and ‘Americanization’ but less consideration has been given about the link between these...

The Genetic Los Angeles is a rebranded Demin brand which specializes in the manufacture of the jeans as the artwork. The company produces their clothes in a single art of the factory where their skilled workforce reduces and treats every pair to the perfection. The organization provides a recycling plan...

Globalization basically refers to the increase of the interaction of people, countries and states all in the interest of the growth of the international flow of money, ideologies and other cultures in line. Globalization is based on the economic process of integration which has social and some cultural aspects from...

Maria (not her real name) is a Mexican immigrant who arrived in the United States together with her family in 2010. Her mother, father, and siblings had been living in the poor part of Guadalajara. Her parents were peasants with the father working as a rancher and her mother a...

A Materialistic Perspective of Culture and Social Life A materialistic perspective of culture and social life refers to the manner in which work affects societal and cultural factors. Mascia-Lees focused on the materialistic explanations of oppression, class inequality, and gender (132). Inequality Caused by Economic Organization In this regard, the chapter examines how...