Boston Common Park Observations

Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1970)

The movie “The Central Park Five” was a documentary film. It is talking about five young men were involved in a rape case. One white woman was raped and left for dead in the central park in 1989. Police officers arrested five fifteen years old suspects. The government did not have enough evidence to judge these five black men and Latino Americans; however, because of the racial discrimination, the justices judged them as guilty and sentenced them to jail about 9 to 15 years. After few months, Matias Reyes confessed to the rape case and the lab test also showed that the sperm was matched. The five teenagers were released after the suspect confessed his crime. Directors of the movie, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David Mcmahon, used

It is evident through the peoples clothing that these are in fact members of the elite. Both men and women are clad in expensive, adorned clothing. They sit on the ground in their ornate clothes. While the clothing appears formal, the event does not.

The American Revolution was an unequivocal example of the ability of a nation’s people to rise and defeat an inadequate government. When a government fails to protect its inhabitants, citizens will grow uneasy and fight for their rightful cause. The British government’s rule over its colonies was erroneous and harmful to the colonists’ best interests. Best described by John Hancock, the British government’s rule caused many colonists to become despondent with their ruler. “As though they thought it not enough to violate our civil rights, they endeavored to deprive us of the enjoyment of our religious privileges; to vitiate our morals, and thereby render us deserving of destruction.” Evidently, the American Revolution was sparked by a

There was no time in Boston that was most emphasized, than the 1850’s to 1900’s. In the city of Boston there were a lot of changes that had occurred between the second half of the 19th century, not only with the city but also with the people living in Boston. Boston has always been changing and in transition.

White privilege embraces the behaviours, values, beliefs and practices of the dominant white culture (Puzan, 2003). There are often unnoticed advantages

She sat in the middle of the auditorium with her daughters. Even the kids were walking over speaking to the girls and returning to their seats. She was the dominant mother in the group and so were her girls. Dominant group cultural memories are not that long, and it is sometimes difficult for them to understand why minorities interpret actions or situations in ways that the dominant group believes were not at all appropriate in the circumstance. (week 3) As she looked around the room, she noticed me and looked at me for a few seconds never smiling. As she turned around I remember thinking this is going to be a long year. Prestige in this sense refers to how well or poorly one's social position is thought of in society. (week 5

Prior to the Revolution Boston had a lot of bad things happen to it.Many colonist were very upset and mad.Many of the people was protesting.

The Boston massacre known as the incident on King Street by the British was an incident on March 5, 1770 in which the British Army soldiers killed five mill civilians and injured six others the incident was heavily propagandized by leading patriots such as Paul revere and Samuel Adams, do you fuel animosity toward the British authorities. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown appointed Colonel officials attempting to enforce unpopular parliamentary legislation. Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers, mom formed around a British sentry, Who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment. He was eventually

For centuries, the citizens of many European nations were under the firm ruling of a monarch, where any kind of individualism was nearly impossible to acquire. Looking for an escape from the corrupt tyrannies, seeking religious freedom and economic gains, immigrants from different nations fled to the New World to seize the upcoming opportunities of a new life. Once a profuse amount of settlers had arrived and with adequate time, leaders within various colonies created several documents and early attempts of autonomous government, such as the Virginia House of Burgesses (1619), the Mayflower Compact (1620), and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639). Also, two large events; the Enlightenment, a philosophical movement, and the ruling of

The three major categories that have been mentioned, respect, leadership, and social image, were the ways that a person with a high ranking of social order would act in public and within their own homes. The Book of The Courtier by Baldassar Castiglione was the base of the modern day books on proper etiquette; yet, the rules are now not only for the rich but also for the

Collins, L., & Barnes, S. L. (2014). Observing privilege: Examining race, class, and gender in

The class inequality has been an issue for quite some time; the levels of this are the elite, middle, and lower class tiers. But even within these three major tiers, there are sub tiers, but mostly within the United States, society tends to rate women within the Middle to Lower class. This is true within the professional world of women, seeing as how they are considered on the weaker, lower class tier, Collins refers to an “outsider-within status” (1986), which “ exists with one is located on the boundary between two groups statuses—one with potential power and the other with little power” (2001). African American women have been affected by this “outsider-within status”, more than their Caucasian counterparts because even though “technically they have membership in a high status group, as black women, they are a part of a group

Social class can be thought of as a very important indicator of who a person is.

The Bostonians, by Henry James was a very interesting piece. James' underlying tone for the spiritualism and fascination is clearly a picture of the time when the piece was written. I thought that is played an important influence in his writing. Ruth Hall, by Fanny Fern is an unofficial biography of her own life as a women activist. One of the underlying issues that stand out in her novel is the way that she includes the lower-class women right along with the middle-class. This was not a common ideal shared by all women activists at this time. Both of these underlying issues in these books keep the reader interested it their works.