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For my immersion events, I visited the Leonardo Drew’s artwork at the Snite Museum, listen to Dr. Richard Rolle’s speech about his personal experiences at Notre Dame, and heard Field Jackson speak about the top diversity initiatives in business. Whereas I visited the Snite Museum during a break in my schedule on November 28th, Rolle…

Philip Zimbardo, psychologist and former professor emeritus at Stanford, conducted the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971. The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted was “a study of the power of institutions [that] influence[d] individual behavior”.1 Zimbardo’s experiment focused around “the psychology of evil” and the reasons people were able to commit violent acts.2 The reason Zimbrado…

Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate female abolitionists, for she herself had once been a slave. She came to be known as the nationally known speaker on human rights for slaves and women. Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree between 1797 and 1800 in Hurley, New York. (There is no exact…

Sojourner Truth was bom a slave named Isabella Baumfree sometime in 1797 in Ulster county, New York. The exact date of her birth is to this day unknown, but it is believed to have been sometime during the fll. She developed her characteristics of courage and dependability from her mother, Mau Mau Bett, at an…

Racial profiling is a prevalent issue faced by black people both in America and around the world. It involves unjust treatment where individuals are targeted as potential criminals solely due to their race or ethnicity. Despite being illegal, racial profiling continues to persist, resulting in biased judgments based on skin color in everyday encounters. It…

As a slave Sojourner Truth went through a lot of masters and all gave her varying degrees of agency. She was born into the employ of the Hardenbergh’s but he died before she every truly had to work. During her stay with her family on the Hardenbergh estate her family suffered great loss in the…

Sojourner Truth, originally known as Isabelle, was a courageous woman who fearlessly expressed her beliefs. Born into slavery around 1797 in Ulster County, New York, Isabella married Thomas and had five children: Diana, Peter, Elizabeth, Sophia, and possibly another child who may have died during infancy. After relocating to New York City in 1843 and…

For anyone that doesn’t, as the saying goes, “live under a rock”, it’s difficult not to hear of twisted acts of corporations. Corporations are powerful entities; in some cases their power seems to rival or even exceed the government’s power. Many corporations are huge amoral beasts that serve the purpose of accumulation of capital. As…

Should Reconstruction have ended in 1876? This historical question may be argued throughout the time it took for the US to fully recover from the scars of the Civil War. Even today, racism and economic problems haunt this country. So we must ask ourselves if it was a wise decision of the US to have…

John Brown was a misguided fanatic. He was admired by many abolitionists for standing up for the rights. However, was seen outrageous in the eyes of many Southerners. He has went far beyond outrageous and carried out a killing spree in order to prove slavery was wrong. He had a plan, however stirred in a…