Persuasive Essay On Equality

Reshma Daniel’s parents moved her family from India to America in 2011. Her parents wanted her and her siblings to live the “American dream.” Reshma decided to go to law school, majored in legal studies, and was well on her way to becoming a lawyer. While job shadowing, Reshma was told she shouldn't follow her dream to become a lawyer. “As a women, and a women of color, you will be underpaid, so there is no point” (Owens). Reshma had worked so hard to achieve her goal of becoming a lawyer, she felt defeated because she knew these policies were unfair, but, there wasn't much she could do about it. Reshma’s parents dreamed that their children would be able to thrive and succeed in America, their daughter had big plans, law school being no easy task. They thought the “American Dream” was supposed to be equality, freedom, and prosperity. But the idea that women and men still aren't equal makes this idea far fetched, and unobtainable. No occupation should pay less for discriminatory reasons. Reshma went to law school, and acquired a degree. She is just as capable of being a lawyer as the men in the same position.

In our constitution we are all equal, but why are we not paid equally? The gender wage gap movement will result in social change because it is bringing awareness to women in the workplace getting paid lower than her male counterpart. On the other hand, many other people may argue that the gap is not because of gender, it is because men work longer hours compared to women since they have children to take care of. I believe that this movement could improve by making people more aware of the through more examples such as the Women’s U.S.A. Soccer Team wanting more pay and equal pay.

Social justice is the fair and proper law that shows everybody is equal regardless of their color, race, gender, religion, etc. The thought of executing another human being is completely harsh! My whole life I have been thought that killing is wrong and that no human being has the right to kill another induvial. To my surprise, it’s what’s happening in our society every day. Giving the death penalty, has no justification. It’s another crime being committed, but this time by the government. The death penalty is usually given to a person that’s found guilty of a capital crime. However, it’s not easy to consider the death penalty as an easy way to punish the guilty. Though many people believe that the death penalty is the right way to punish people that has done hideous crimes, it’s possible to kill an innocent person, citizens pay million for the death penalty, and people of color are more likely to be given capital punishment. The death penalty is a violation of human rights and it should be abolished.

Two of the most hot-button issues faced in the 2016 election included abortion rights and gun control. Since President Trump’s election these issues have remained at the forefront of political discussion. With several months still remaining, 2017 had already claimed the reputation for the deadliest year for mass shootings in America’s history (Wilson, 2017). We began 2017 with six killed in the Ft. Lauderdale airport and progressed, to 58 killed in Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, to the most recent incident that left 26 dead in a Texas church. In addition to these three most notable events, there have been many other shootings that have brought the causality total to 112 with 531 wounded from mass shootings alone (Wilson, 2017). These senseless deaths left the American public emotionally drained and searching for a solution to a problem that the government is hesitant to proactively address, but rather leaves to the individual state’s discretion.

In today’s time, the United States of America have drifted off its course of trying to reach a utopia. Social problems are rising for many people of color and non-color people. The problems have been illuminated in politics, education, employment, and social media. Problems such as discrimination of a certain group of people, and economic hardship are the most common issues. Reflecting back on America’s history, America has had a long history of white versus black ever since the slavery era, which took place during the time of the civil war. Ever since then, the United States have striven and persevere to change its society ethics. But, America is now slowly shifting back to a world where white supremacy and people of color are immensely separated

The gender wage gap is where men get paid more than women for doing the same job. The gender wage gap has been around since 1960, when women began working full time jobs outside the home. When the wage gap between women and men first became apparent, the issue primarily centered around discrimination against women as the “weaker sex”, a social stereotype. Today the issue has become more complex, involving American cultural norms and politics, and concerns that there are glass ceilings within businesses for women. As a result, many people are indecisive when it comes to taking a position on the matter while others are adamantly entrenched in their mind set. The fact of the matter is that women’s wages should match men’s wages whenever performance of duty is equal. The issue is that there should be equal pay for equal work. Wages should be based on education, experience, exposure, and location in that career field.

Every 98 seconds an American is sexual assaulted across America. 1 in 6 American women have been raped or an attempted rape. According to RAINN 4 in 10 women have had an abortion, while 1 in 8 maternal deaths are caused by unsafe abortion. Women’s rights are human rights, around the world women are being denied rights, here in America women don’t have equal pay, rights over their own bodies are in converse, in Africa and the middle east, girls and women are being stolen from their homes and from their schools. Women’s rights are an important topic because women’s rights are human rights, this should matter to all people because this issue is a social injustice all round the world, that has negatively affected women for years. Women should have the same rights as men because many women face systematic oppression, many women are despotism relation to their male counterparts, and the general population is unaware of the seriousness of the issues.

In a jury trial, it is the perceived goal to find juries to decide the case before them without prejudice or bias. According to the United States Constitution, everyone deserves a fair and impartial trial. When this does not occur it can be classified as unjust. There comes a point to ask what makes an unjust jury occur and when? Bias, But, what is Bias? Biases are a prejudice in favor or against a thing, person or group compared with another. In simplest terms, bias equals prejudging either in a positive way or in a negative way. Most biases happen at an unconscious level. Unconscious bias is held by everyone simply because we are human. It is the set of automatic preferences deep in our brain that instantaneously influence our decision and how we perceive people and situations without our conscious awareness. Because these unconscious biases are automatic we use them to make judgments and decisions without even realizing that’s what we are doing. But, if and when we stop to think about it could we then decide that our initial hasty judgments don’t actually fit with the information that we

Congratulations for those of you who have won the fictitious genetic lottery imposed by society, the government, and first world countries for being born white. The prize: the white privileges granted to us every single day; set by the racist, the profiteers, and the selfish individuals allowed to prevail for centuries through the silence of our own fears and thinking that this was and is not our problem. The topic of white privilege has unsettled many. Have you ever stopped to think what privileges you may take for granted everyday for having a certain shade of skin? To have a generally “positive relationship with the police,” the ‘nude color’ matching your own skin tone, the hotel shampoo matching your hair type and texture, seeing people of your own race celebrated in monuments, textbooks, currency, not being followed by security personnel in stores, and to be not perceived as a danger to the community in the media (Greenberg and Holladay). It's easy to overlook our white advantages when it's not you who is being directly confronted, violated, and unjustly prejudiced for simply having a different colored skin. If you had a different skin tone, would these everyday inconveniences to downright discrimination become more apparent?

We all live in a world full of diversity. Diversity can be seen through beliefs, backgrounds, race, gender, and even culture. Diversity can be seen on both a large and small scales. Even a small class of thirty students demonstrates an immense amount of diversity. Bryson Lane Homman and Jerika Mitchell demonstrate just how apparent that diversity is by their expressions of safety, emotions, beliefs, personal diversity, opinions, responsibilities, and relations to others.

Today in our generation, much has changed over the years dealing with women’s rights. Women have more rights today than they did back in the early years. Conflict over social values affected the wider political environment and the readiness of institutions to facilitate the movement for equality (Chafe, W, 1978). Some people still believe today that women shouldn’t have a voice. “Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do” (Barack Obama). In this paper it examines the equality in voting, sexual harassment, and women equality in not only the workplace, but in their everyday lives.

There is constantly cessation why women and men cohabitate, nurture, desire, and endure. Many shrug the similarities and differences to the side due to the complex nature that is involved in understanding the progression. Since the beginning of time, according to the bible, man was placed as the dominant sex, fending for the families well being. The woman has tended to the important jobs around the homestead as situations arose. Often in society, one will find himself in a battle depending on the views of the receiving recipients. Following is a dialogue explaining a safe and metro sexual view as a general whole.

As America has grown into the nation it is today, the fight for equality is still seen in the streets and news we see on television. Although, the country has seen improvement since the continuing struggle of it back when it was about black equality and giving women the right to vote. While our country is bickering about equality, we as individuals should consider remembering how far we have come. In the past, we have had huge separation between our neighbors but have come together in choosing equality for all races. Now, I feel as if most of the people fighting are doing it just to fight and not make improvements. Should people start thinking about whether or not how they are approaching equality issues today is beneficial and constructive? Is it time for everyone to make choices for themselves without the strong opinions of others influencing them only because that influencer wants them on their side? Maybe America should look at the constructive ways we have had success for equality within race today to use those same ideas to make a better tomorrow for America. At the end of the book, the Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne was full of wonder while she was on the bus where people were singing, “We shall overcome, We shall overcome. We shall overcome some day,”(384). Will America overcome the equality issues today? Is America thinking about overcoming or arguing. Let’s go back in history to learn about what lead to the most significant single event in Anne’s early life that shaped her to become an activist in the movement that could possibly help America today in it’s own equality us Americans face today.

In the 21st century, many people believe that we have overcome the obstacle of gender inequality and evolved into a society of fairness and righteousness. As many know, females can be just as proficient and qualified as males at any task. Though some efforts to off-set this gender imbalance is in place, it is still commonly acknowledged that many careers are stated to be a male job such as lawyers, and female jobs such as secretaries. Gender inequality is a visible fact in our society and in this essay, I hypothesize that gender inequality still exists as a result of factors such as post-secondary education differences of the two genders, role of females in families, female objectification, career choice differences of the two genders, and

We are all born the same way: as humans, and therefore deserve the same rights and acceptance as long as we all follow the laws and comply with the norms set to protect all individuals. But throughout history certain groups of people have faced discrimination, segregation, and injustice because they are of a specific race, skin color and/or culture that some of us consider to be part of a lower category of human beings, as well as the fact of holding different beliefs and ideals along with preferences when it comes to things such as gender and choice of lifestyle. My only wonder is how an individual or a society as a whole reaches the point of producing enmity towards others who do not hold the same sexual orientation as they do and how