Arloa Sutter's Book Report

Mary Surratt was a person, who at the time of Abraham Lincoln’s death owned a boarding house, and had close ties with John Wilkes Booth. After Booth had been captured for the assassination of President Lincoln, Mary was sent to the gallows. To this day there is still a debate about whether she should have been hanged for her crimes. I feel it was unnecessary for her to die that way.

Kingseed, Wyatt. "A Burned Letter, Conflicting Stories and an Absent Son Helped to Send Mary Surratt to the Gallows." America's Civil War 16.6 (2004): 12-14. Web.

A text from the chapter that stuck with me the most was an Italian group discriminating against Mexicans, not letting them rent their hall to Mexicans. In page 13, the owners of the Italian hall get told that in Italy they wouldn’t prejudice like that, the Italians simply reply with “No, but we are becoming Americanized”. This stood out to me the most because it gives an idea of what others thought it took to be an

Chapter 9: “Middle Eastern and North African Americans” gave me a different prospective from the negatively outlook portrait by the media in America. I realize that this group is far more that what we hear around. Immigrants from this region of the world are people who are simply looking for a better life, just like any other immigrant group that is migrating to America. Despite their hardship suffer from wars in their native countries that are usually cause by their indifferences in religion and sometimes by dysfunctional governments that don’t care for the wellbeing of the people. I found very interesting to know that most of the individuals from this groups come to the United States a lot more prepared in terms of education than other groups. Although,

Reading the content in this book made me get a picture of what it was like to be a colored person in this time. My eyes were opened to the meaning of the word “nigga”. Nigga is such a derogatory term, yet now-a-days it is used by people so much. Kids in this generation use it as a term of endearment when they see their friends, or they say it when they are shocked by something. Frankly, I don’t believe they know how serious it really is. The fact that white people could look at a person and see less than a human being when they did nothing wrong distresses me. They (white people) treated them as if they were property and below them. Even though we don’t have racism to this extent

Within Rangeview High School, there is a wide variety of student life, filled with people from all around the world. Students from places such as Indonesia, Ethiopia, and Mexico are commonly found within our Schools' hallways. Throughout the school year, Rangeview provides various cultural related events in which I enjoy attending, such as the Culture Fair. Although, I do not have an ethnic background of some in our school, I find myself contributing to the culture by taking the opportunities to learn about them. Within the school, I plan to get involved in some of the offered student clubs such as Polynesian Club and the Culture Team. More so, if I feel that the culture Rangeview isn't being properly represented, then I will use my ability

At points though, he goes into too much depth. When at Howard University he did not need to go in as much depth as he did about meeting women. Although this did show that there was a wide range of diversity on campus, it was not necessary to get across his point of the endangerment or struggles of African Americans. Also, since the book was published in 2015, while an African American President was in office, he could have discussed more of the similarities and differences between his childhood and the present day racial

In the beginning chapters of the book, we get a glimpse of the typical home and community of an African American during segregation. Many Africans Americans were too adjusted to the way of living, that they felt

What’s the most common adversity of an immigrant? Struggling to cope with embedding oneself into being servant to two masters. The term “masters” used here are figurative objects where two distinct form of societal expectation collide with each other and one can’t completely ignore either side. Sarah, in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers, as an immigrant, faces adversity to implement her personal pursuits in assimilating with the American Culture against her native culture where the father plays the authoritarian and dictatorial rule in the family. Being servant to two master brings one nowhere but Sarah fights on her stand and brings out the outcome to be otherwise.

My final takeaway from the book is the idea that race is simply an artificial construct devised to divide the people of the world. The color of a person’s skin does not define their capabilities or who they are as a person. In fact, no true differences exist between white people and people of color. Race simply gives the dominant group in society a sense of superiority and power over the group they seek to

Racism is a big part of this book. It shows the absurdity of what people thought back then, which is an important lesson. It is important for us to learn what people’s views used to be, and how important it is not to go back to that mindset.

In the novel, The Book of Unknown Americans, Chirstina Heriauvez uses the characterization of Alma to depict an immigrant's´ journey in America to unravel the truth about the dark side of assimilating. The novels demonstrates that immigrants´ are filled with hope at the prospect of starting someplace new which often blinds them to believing that their new place will be better than their current situation. It can easily be impacted by racism, intolerance and the mistreatment of others.

Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.

Cultural shapes how individuals experience the world around them. These experiences are a vital component of how services are both delivered and received. Gladding (2012) describes three key aspects of a multicultural leader. The first key aspect is to be aware of a diverse population and the effect on group work interventions (Gladding, 2012). To better facilitate a multicultural group, a leader

List some approaches the health care professional can use to address religious and cultural diversity.