What is privilege? This seems to be the topic of discussion in America since forever; but it is now being questioned more now centuries later and its plastering a smear on America‚ additional to the election of 2016. Trump and people like Trump who has great wealth and power‚ has and keep us assured that even in the new millennium we are making almost little to no progress of change and appreciations when it comes to the play of feelings of the oppressed. As a black man I do not feel those in power
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1) Explain the difference between the attorney-client privilege and the accountant-client privilege. Why is this important distinction? Why do you think that the law doesn’t provide the same level of privilege for accountants as it does for attorneys? • The different between the attorney-client privilege and the accountant-client privilege is the communication. The attorney is protected by law‚ and the accountant is protected by state statute. They both are required to have the permission of the
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Keiara West White Privilege Zane State College Over the past few weeks I have been observing how people with different race‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ etc. are looked at differently and treated. Some stories I am going to share are of past experiences that I sought in the past few years. Most of these recordings have been in the workplace and one of a friend that kindly shared her experience with me. While doing these recordings on a notebook piece of paper‚
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Introduction The movie The Blind Side is about a homeless‚ male‚ African-American teenager Michael Oher (Big Mike) who is taken in by the Tuohy family. Michael grew up never knowing who his father was and his mother wasn’t anything but a drug addict who he was taken away from when he was a child. Michael had very little education but had preformed strong in “protective instincts” which is later on used to help motivate his football skills and eventually shape his football career. The Tuohy’s provided
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The essay “White Privilege and Male Privilege” written by Peggy McIntosh was enlightening and controversial. It was enlightening because she shows you how certain groups of people can have privilege over other different groups‚ and be unaware or in denial over it. Peggy’s story was controversial because it talked about the privilege that very few have the courage to talk about. The white and male privilege and the fact that it is looming over our heads as a society. Throughout history there’s a
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White Privilege Privilege is obtained by a person and everyone has an inherent privilege. Peggy McIntosh however believed some benefit from their privilege more‚ particularly men and whites. She believes that there is an unrecognized white privilege and those who benefit from it need to acknowledge it. She goes deeply in defining this privilege so everyone who is reading has a very clear understanding of what white privilege is. It is necessary for her to convince us to believe that white privilege
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Education 305 White Privilege This week’s reading by Peggy McIntosh’s‚ White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack really resonated with me. It forced me to think about how being white grants a person a set of positive privileges that others don’t have. Because of this‚ I felt compelled to write a response. I will start with her argument‚ make a comparison to another reading‚ provide the context for her article‚ and lastly issue some of my own opinions on the topic. Argument McIntosh’s
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Thank you for your thought-provoking posts Kik and Maggie. Maggie‚ you are accurate when you emphasized a clear disparity in healthcare privileges. Kik‚ what you mentioned about measuring point of poverty is death is a painful message we see now. We complain of simple things‚ like how it is hot and humid it is in Florida‚ yet we can address this by having a glass of icy cold water or maybe a trip to the nearest ice cream parlor to cool us off. But in the other parts of the globe‚ lack of clean
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Blind people research Blindness is a disability that comes from birth‚ but other times it comes with the years. It’s a very complicated disability that thirty nine million people around the world need to face. Many scientific researchers have found out that when people are born blind‚ their brain is capable of refining their abilities to touch or hear. We never thought about how a blind person perceives the world‚ we never imagine how a person that cant see anything‚ thinks about the world
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readings seemed to have different topics yet also many similarities. The first reading which was “The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the Discourse of “ White Privilege ’’ by Zeus Leonardo tells us how white privilege is part of the reason why racism prevails even today. The reading even somewhat bolsters McIntosh’s argument that sometimes‚ white people simply aren’t even aware of their ‘ privileges ’. I however‚ feel that racism persists because people let it persist. Racism is not a thing of the past
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