Tag: culture differences
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Why Shakespeare is Still Relevant Over 400 Years after his Death
Have you ever used the term “tongue-tied”, “in a pickle” and “cruel to be kind”? If so, you have quoted Shakespeare. In facts, it’s likely we cite him without realizing it. Shakespeare also crafted unique words like “hoodwinked”, “bedazzled”, and even created common words by changing nouns to verbs, verbs to adjectives and so on.…
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Ethics of Infidelity and Cheating in Relationships
When two people begin to desire, love and even get intimate, they become vulnerable and open themselves up to hurt trusting that it won’t happen. My culture portrays infidelity as one of the worst things that could happen to two people in a romantic relationship. It is painful and immoral as it involves breaking one’s…
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How Does Poverty Influence Learning?
People in poverty are diverse as people in any socioeconomics class. They present, like other groups, a wide array of values, beliefs, dispositions, experiences, backgrounds and life changes. As educators, in order to be responsive to the needs of our students, it’s helpful to consider the constraints that poverty often places on people’s lives, particularly…
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The History of Black History Month and How I Celebrate It
Today is Sunday, February 19th, 2023, the middle to the near end of Black History Month and we all are celebrating it in our own different way and with the celebrating we learn something about the historical event that was once celebrated in the form of a week created by Carter G. Woodson in 1926…
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Conspicuous Consumption and Race: Who Spends More on What
Fashionable clothes, jewelry, flashy cars…They are all items of conspicuous consumption that gives their owners status on the streets. Such groups, such as blacks and Hispanics, seem to spend more on such emblems of success than others. Or is it just a stereotype? Economists have long accepted the explanation for conspicuous consumption presented by Norwegian-American…
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Disproportionately Impacted: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap through Student Loan Cancellation, Payment Reforms, and Investment in College Affordability
Today in 2023, the student debt crisis is particularly dire for African-Americans borrowers. Black degree-seekers are more likely to take out student loans to pay for higher education than their white counterparts and carry the largest average student loan debt of all racial demographics in the nation. Additionally, workforce inequities leave college-educated black workers with…
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The Canterbury Tales: Plot and Structure of the Work
The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work in which Jeffrey Chaucer was working on until his untimely death. It is composed of some passages which are sometimes seen as controversial. It’s generally accepted that the text is divided into ten fragments, the first which begins with the General Prologue, and the last one ending with…
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The Investment in Four-Year Colleges Between Black and White Borrowers
The growing disparities cannot be understood without also recognizing structural racism. At the historical moment when people of color were finally gaining access to college, public support for higher education declined, raising cost and short changing the new students. How this happened is a question of scholarly debate. Some argue that states could no longer…
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Urban Renewal: Gentrification and Health Equity
Up to now, research has focused on the effects of urban renewal programs and their impacts on health. While some of this research point to potential negative health effects due to gentrification, evidence that addresses the complexity associated with this relation is much needed. This blog seeks to better understand, when, why and how health…
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Minority Communities are Investing in Crypto to Escape Financial Discrimination
African-American and LGBT Americans are more than twice as likely to in cryptocurrency than white Americans. A survey provided to 2,010 and 2,003 American adults onnducted between June and July of this year show that 23% of African Americans and 17% of Hispanics indicated that they are currently investing in digital assets, compared to only…