The Social And Political Equality

The novel Deliverance by James Dickey portrays the essence of middle-aged men experiencing the mid-life crisis through which they must prove to themselves and more importantly every one else that they still possess the strength, bravery, intelligence, and charm believed to be society's ideal of "masculinity." Dickey's four main characters undertake a risky adventure to satisfy their egotistical complexes and prove to the world that they are still the strong young men their wives married. Each character represents a different stereotype of the middle-aged man, and therefore experiences a different type of psychological and physical journey than their peers.

Starting in the 19th century, men had an increasing pressure to prove their masculinity. In order to support themselves and their families, American men’s desire to prove masculinity came at the cost of minorities, women, and even man’s own personal happiness. This restlessness of being a

Thesis: In the history of the United States post 1877, the pursuit of equality and justice has played a role, impacting social, political and economic movements, across different time periods. After the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era became a phase focused on rebuilding the nation and addressing slavery's aftermath. The themes of equality and justice were prominent in the passing of amendments like the 14th and 15th Amendments that aimed to end slavery, grant citizenship rights and ensure voting rights for African Americans. Despite these advancements, this era also saw segregation policies rising along with Jim Crow laws being enforced, indicating a struggle for equality.

Masculinity, as developed in the dime novel, has provided a model for modernism by reforming the social world in terms of both literary and art form. This claim holds valid as representations of frontier masculinity with literary modernism’s representations will be reviewed. Within Western literature, gender and queer theory seems to not only reform manhood, but also challenges the tendency to read literary western masculinity as embodying patriarchy, and heteronormativity. Instead, many nineteenth-century writers use the frontier and its assertion of masculinity to protest masculinity by presenting it as performative, rather than being the physical characteristic of the male body.

Between 1865 and 1900, many people looked at United States as a country where individual economic opportunities, social equality and political democracy reigned supreme. One cannot say that this people were entirely right or wrong. To some extent, they were right by from different perspectives, the same cannot be said. However, one thing that is for sure is the economic opportunities that were available during this period. All the three aspects, individual economic opportunities, social equality and political democracy were present, although not to everyone.

Social justice in counseling represents the process of reaching out to individuals with regard to the fair treatment of all. There are many aspects to consider within the interaction between counselor and client in order to provide the most fairest treatment available. These aspects are derived from the dynamics of the goals and process of the counseling session and constituted by policy and law development. The goals and processes are focused upon embodying individual and family systems and the policies and law development is developed through advocacy of making the focus more just and equal to the communities and society at large. Counseling professionals who are established in providing social justice in their framework focus upon the principles of harmony, access, equity, and participation when developing interventions and programmatic responses to the needs of their clients. The interventions and programmatic responses are designed to be comprehensive and preventive in nature.

In today’s world, everything is almost equal. People of all races are equal and share the same roles and opportunities; in addition, men and women are equal in society and also share the same roles at home, work, and at high authority positions. Although it is equal today, during the colonial era, however, society was entirely different. Society, at that time, was unequal and unjustified; in addition, society was divided into social ranks where those who were extremely wealthy and owned an abundance of land are at the top and slaves, the poorest, were at the bottom. White male land owners, at the time, were the most dominant and slaves, who are forced to work by high class people, were at the bottom of the societal class. Women, although in a higher position of slaves, were ranked lower to men at all standards and did not enjoy the same equality and freedom that men received. Unfair social division or white male dominance defined the roles of women and slaves in society.

Femanism is defined as the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes ("feminism" def. 1). Both the 1980s and 1990s were filled with optimism and inspiration for women in the fight for equality. The Second wave feminism was a product of the civil right movement, as the women involved in it became disappointed with being seen as second class operators within the equality movement. These women are often refered to as the women 's liberation movement.

I did some research on social justice competencies and today I am going to discuss with you my findings. I am going to talk about why social justice matters, social justice with counselors and counseling psychologists, social justice competencies with group workers, and social justice paradigm. Social justice is the opinion of which every person ought to have equal rights and chances whether they be financial, governmental or social. Human service helper’s goal is to unlock the gates to gain accessibility and chance for every person, especially the ones that need it the most. A quick look at the various functions of human service helpers displays in what way this worth system gives emphasis to all that they do. Human service helpers will aid their homeless clients to obtain government assistance, food share, and care for their wellbeing. Human service helpers thrive to defend and safeguard their elderly client’s economic right and guarantee the client is getting the health and economic advantages that lawfully belong to them. Human service helpers furthermore utilize social-justice values and beliefs to underlying issues in the human service organizations where they are employed. ("Social Justice," n.d.)

“A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires others with confidence in themselves” (unknown). Black Hawk’s actions throughout his life time proved his ability to be a great leader. He involved himself in many great feats that would attract many followers to him for instance, becoming a warrior at the early age of fifteen and beyond that being successful in heading up many other attack expeditions at a very young age. Playing a large role in two major wars also helped Black Hawk to become a leader.

The notion of justice is existence of proper balance of rights and its access under the laws of land. It refers to not depriving any person from availing privileges, opportunities etc. John Rawls writes, "Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override"It means that the interaction in a society must be free from any sort of discrimination such as religion, race, color, caste or sex. It ensures fair distribution of assets and equal opportunity. José P. Laurel defines Social Justice as “Social justice is neither communism, nor despotism, nor atomism, nor anarchy, but the humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the state so that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception may at least be approximated.”

We cannot deny society’s progression of social equality, however, it is imperative that we not only understand the inequalities that are presently riddled in our social framework, but also understand how inequalities effect people at both micro and macro levels and how they intersect. Acquiring some base knowledge of institutionalized inequalities is fundamental to any attempts in rectifying (or easing) social injustices. Using Patricia Hill Collins’ Intersectionality theory, along with Omi and Winants’ theories on Race Projects, I will attempt to analyze the data discoursed in Victor Rios’ Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys.

In the context of equality and distribution, it is also important to discuss the dimensions of equality. One of the dimensions of equality is membership in the community. Membership in the polis is important because the members are considered to be the recipients in the dimensions of distributions. Members are always treated equally or not even viewed as members of the community. Stone (2012) gives an example of how African Americans were not considered as members of the United States community, even after liberty was given to every men on the land. Stone (2012) mentions how white Americans, especially in the southerners, understood the meaning of liberty differently, “to white southerners, it meant ‘the power to do as they please with other

Social justice is mutually a practice and a goal. The goal of social justice is complete and equal contribution by all people in a society that is equally designed to meet their needs. Social justice allows for all members of society to be physically and psychologically safe and secure. It is a set of values that allow us to understand what is right and wrong in our world regardless of race, culture and economic status. That we take care of those in need of help, so that they can take care of themselves. Social justice allows equal rights and opportunities to everyone in society.

Throughout the past few decades, the gender inequality discourse have became a dominant feature of international, national and local policy debate on the subject of economic development. This policy concern has emerged as an area of scholarly research which seeks to show that improving gender equity leads to economic growth.