Disney Alligator Accident

From the summer of 1979 to the summer of 1981, at least twenty-eight people were abducted and killed during a murder spree in Atlanta, Georgia; these killings would come to be known as the Atlanta Child Murders. While the victims of the killings were people of all races and genders, most of the victims of the Atlanta Child Murders were young African-American males. These murders created great racial tension in the city of Atlanta, with its black population believing the murders to be the work of a white supremacist group. (Bardsley & Bell, n.d., p. l) However, when police finally apprehended a suspect in the case, they found it was neither a white supremacy group, nor a white person at all; it was a 23 year-old African-American man named

With such things as police brutality and racism on the rise, African-American mothers may have believed that there was no hope. Their children were never going to live in a society where they were fully accepted. Just a month before the commercial came out, President Trump endorsed the idea of police brutality, “Like, don’t hit their head, and they just killed somebody — don’t hit their head,” “I said, you can take the hand away, okay? When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over (The Washington Post?”)The idea that some of our society, especially the President Of The United States, still believes in this is a good reason for African-American mothers to be scared to death for their children. This is why the Talk is supposedly so common. P and G also spoke out saying that this is not an unusual occurrence in our world, “It’s unfortunate that in the current environment everything becomes politicized, because the talk between a mother and daughter isn’t politicized at all; it is just reality. It would be great if we lived in a society where we didn’t need the talk (The Washington Post.”) No, not everyone is going to be stereotypical towards African-Americans but just the fact that there are still people out there in American society who have racist beliefs must be very frightening to the parents of African-American children. Even though

Animal Cruelty is a problem that many ignore. People are oblivious to these animals and the negligence their owners show. Animal cruelty is an underlying problem in today’s society, and the only way to counteract these problems, is for this generation to do something about it.

1. ATTENTION GETTER: Millions of animals are abused each year. Over a million of these animals are abused or killed just due to the involvement with domestic violence. Despite animal cruelty being a felony which can result in jail time for over 15 years and 500,000 dollars in fines, it is still an issue which occurs on a daily basis across the United States. It is important for these animals to not go unnoticed, which can be achieved if society became more enlightened and educated on the topic of animal cruelty. (Pacelle, 2011).

On Saturday, May 28, 2016, Harambe a very rare silverback gorilla was shot and killed at Cincinnati Zoo. A three year old boy climbed through the railings, at his own risk, and down a fifteen foot drop into Harambe’s secluded enclosure. The gorilla was then seen picking up the boy and dragging him into the water. The boy suffered injuries but mainly from the fall. The question that has been taking over the internet and news stations, should the gorilla have been shot and killed to get the young child out of there to safety?

"Missing White Woman Syndrome" is described as the extensive media coverage missing white females receive. In many cases these missing women are rich, attractive, and young. This article states that there are missing children who are non-white who do not get the media attention that white children get. A reason for this is because

In the study, “The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children,” researchers investigated whether or not Black boys are given the same protections of childhood as their peers. They tested three hypotheses: that Black boys are seen as less “innocent” as White peers, that characteristics associated with childhood are less likely to be thought of when thinking about White boys relatives to Black boys, and that these trends are exacerbated when Black males are associated with apes. The researchers cite numerous previous studies to support the foundation of their hypotheses, that black males are not treated fairly because of subliminal racial prejudice. In a previous study, “white participants who were subliminally exposed to images of apes before watching a video of police beating a Black man were more likely to endorse that beating, despite the extremity of the violence. Participants did not, however, endorse the same beating when the suspect was white or when they had not been primed with the ape image” (527). The same concept that the association of apes and black people, however subliminal, leads to unfair treatment and violence is something the researchers focused on with one of their three studies. Further, “in recent research by Rattan et al. (2012)… participants perceived Black adolescent offenders as more deserving of adult treatment than an identical White adolescent offender, providing evidence for

The death case in East Baton Rouge is an illustration of this point. The father who is a baseball coach left his eight-month-old daughter in the car instead of dropping her off at day care. WBRZ reported that the temperatures in Baton Rouge could reach 110 degrees in 10 minutes and 120 degrees in 20 minutes. This caused the baby died of hyperthermia and elevated body temperature. Her father then was arrested and charged with negligent homicide because he was too careless in taking care of his daughter. This reminds people of a similar case in Atlanta two years ago. Twenty-two-month-old Cooper Harris died after being left in the sweltering back seat of a car in June 2014 while his father, Justin Ross Harris, was at work. What seemed like a tragic accident took a shocking turn when, three months later, a Georgia grand jury indicted Harris on charges of murder. Kate Carr, president and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide, said “The Harris case was one of 30 children who died in 2014 after being left in parked cars… At least 44 children died in 2013.” When a lot of similar accidents happened in recent year, it is very important for parents to be more were more cognizant of the danger because a car that they drive every day can kill their little

Pets Have Feelings Too Don’t you just love your pet? If you don’t have one, what about your neighbor's pet? Or the animal you see in the pet store in the mall. Do you ever stop to think about animals without homes, not having people to love and care for them?

Lately, there have been several stories in the news that highlight the mistreatment of African-Americans in today’s society. These stories are horrifying to read as an American who believes in justice and equality for all, and have caused quite a stir in the black community. After the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, a cry went out from the people; the slogan #BlackLivesMatter took life and started to spread throughout the United States. The slogan became even more popular with the people after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This slogan is used around the United States today as a way to bring light to the long unresolved and underlying issue of racism and oppression of blacks in this country. This transaction

When you referenced Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “Letter to My Son”, I was terrified by his experience with his son when you reiterated, “Ta-Nehisi Coates took his son, not yet 5, to see a movie on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As his son made his way off the escalator, a white woman pushed him and said, ‘Come on!’ Chaos ensued. There was a black parent’s rage and a white man’s threat to have the black parent arrested” (Bernard 1-4). This incident forced me to reflect on the dominance that white people have held over black people throughout our country’s history, and it is sickening to know that there are still people around who are willing to impose this ideology upon others. I hold even more sympathy for Black American mothers due to America’s extensive history of oppressing African-Americans. This is evident given the many years they have been subjected to prejudice and violence on top of the fact that they were coerced to leave their homeland and serve as slaves in America and then repeatedly battle just to gain equal rights with white people. For these reasons, I do not hold any disagreements with your fears and that you have every right to believe that your daughters could be a target due to their skin color given our country’s brutal history. Nonetheless, if we are going to resolve this predicament, then we need to

This article was published seven months after the murder of the seventeen year old Trayvon Martin. African American families felt like it was the right thing to do and to have “The Talk” to establish some ground rules on how to act in public without getting perceived by doing the wrong thing ("African-Amercan Parents Give "The Talk" Regarding Racial Profiling"). The article then gives several different accounts of African American families and how each family relayed their message across to their younger children. I feel as this source is very essential and reliable to my research because it teaches me that African American families are looking out for their younger children and those families don’t want the same result as what happened to Trayvon

The kid then falls, Harambe goes over there to check if the kid was okay. When he goes over there people started yelling and started to record him. Then he hears a gun get cocked Harambe panics and takes the kid

People are saying that the parents should be held responsible for not looking after their child during the incident. More than seventy-thousand petitioners have signed up to campaign for the parents to be investigated after their child fell up to 12feet into the enclosure. They want the parents to be held accountable for the lack of supervision and negligence that caused Harambe to lose his life. The boy’s mother, Michelle, has been faced with criticism online. Animal right campaigners claim that she should have been keeping a closer eye on her child. The mother then claimed that she tried to prevent it. She said that she tried to grab him but she just was not quick enough. The mother argued that the people that know her know that she always has a tight grip on her child and that the public were too quick to judge her. The parents spoke out after the incident and explained that they were thankful for the right people being there at the right time on the day of the incident, but if they were watching their children properly then this whole situation could have been avoided. The boy only came out with a few bumps and scrapes because Harambe was not aggressive towards him. Police Officers and Prosecutors in the State of Ohio are still deciding whether indict the parents of the little

A tragic and violent incident occurred on August 28, 2017, when an 8-year old biracial boy, Quincy, was hung from a tree with rope. The mother is outraged because the police were slow to respond to the scene and the police filed the incident as an accident. The mother wanted Quincy’s story to become known nationwide, did this by taking pictures of her son and posting them on Facebook. Luckily, Quincy was not severely injured. Quincy’s mother believes this was no accident, and she wants people to understand racism is a significant part of the world we live in today. If you want to read Quincy’s full story, here is the link http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-claremont-boy-son-injured-lynching/story?id=50166888. Now to analyze and to understand this horrific example of racism from a communication viewpoint, I will be using the Standpoint theory to make sense of the phenomenon.