Essays on Equality in America

Since the United States was established in 1776, equality has been one of the founding principles of America; a symbol of hope, freedom and a chance of a fair life as well as many of the opportunities that we Americans expect. Now more than ever...

Immediately after the 13 colonies that made the first states of the United States of America received freedom from Great Britain, the political rhetoric of the new nation was liberty and freedom. A lot of Americans fought the British colonizers to attain freedom. However, after...

Alexis de Tocqueville saw democracy as an equation that balanced liberty and equality when he traveled through America in the early 19th century. Tocqueville was intrigued by the way democracy quickly developed and that “none struck him more forcibly than the equality of the social...

Asha is a 26 year-old African-American woman, a single mother of a 6 year-old Abir. She converted to Islam when she was 16, and she currently struggle to sustain herself and her child financially. While on the hunt for jobs, Asha has been discriminated not...

In the United States and many other countries, individuals that come from foreign countries, different religions, different genders, and different races experience struggles. These struggles that these individuals face can be racism, oppression, and discrimination due to their gender, race, religion, etc. One large minority...

America has not fully reached that point of being able to accept people who have a skin color much darker than their own, or lighter. People only stop to look to the outside, never carrying or wondering what hides deep down underneath the outer layer...

In society, today the Law is made by people in power. By having these people make our laws, they make them more suited to people of higher status in society and are steered away from the minorities. The law is made by people in power...

There are monumental times in US history that have shaped our future. A future where we are looked at as equal and in more ways than one. Life has not been parallel for all Americans. Amendment XIV Section 1 “All persons born or naturalized in...

Racism is a plague of hate spreading throughout our society, infectious of whoever comes in its path. Jim Crow laws had enforced Racial Segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877. These laws meant all races were equal, but they had to...

The society of the United States during the Cold War era experienced peace and prosperity; yet what also came with it was fear, instability, and a security threat of nuclear fallout on the horizon of everyday lives to not only US citizens, but to the...