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Social justice and Ethics
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Social justice and Ethics
Introduction
Social justice refers to proper and fair administration of laws that conform to the natural law which all persons irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, race, possessions, religion, etc. are to be treated with equality and without prejudice. CITATION Han11 l 1033 (Micklitz) In a seminar for all first year students at the University of Pacific, a question is posed which requires the students to have comprehensive understanding of what a good society entails. The question gives a clear direction of focus for the University of Pacific general education. An ethical seminar which is so culminating in nature is integrated. An article titled The Ethics of Engagement is seen to analyze some of the fundamental areas that students ought to consider while in campus. This essay will look at various aspects of social justice in a society, elements like democracy, ethics, among other issues and analyze how they are cultivated in the hearts of students in their first year of campus.
Discussion
According to a paper issued to students at Old Westbury campus, we get to note that first year readers are given considerable concerns to ensure they kick off as reliable citizens. The paper stresses on themes like the meaning of liberal education, self discovery, and individual relationship to the society, nature of social and personal responsibility as well as the nature of values. By locating the main emotional and intellectual challenges first year readers experience, the paper serves to encourage them to evaluate their assumptions and ideas and the weigh the impact of the decisions they make to their own lives, the surrounding community and the world at large. CITATION Jan05 l 1033 (Butts) The course stretches from a discussion of the need for ethics in ones life, to ethics in individual relationships, to ethical values in Old Westbury society and culminates in the zeal for sustainability and social justice in America as well as the global context. In that process, leaners are encouraged to have consideration of multiple perspectives and have a reflection of their own identities, aspirations and values within the greater common good.
The argument is that, students ought to have deep understanding and ability to apply ethics in their decision making in community and personal life so as the entire society to progress. It is also meant to challenge students to understand appreciate diversity in culture, ethnicity or race, gender, class, sexual orientation, abilities and age. For instance, ability to acknowledge and reflect on someone’s own socio economic and cultural background, values and assumptions; ability to acknowledge the commonalities and the differences among existing multiple perspectives which are expressed in lecture room interactions in various college environments.
In the seminars that are conducted in the University of Pacific, all first years are introduced to a question that requires them to describe a good society on the basis of a common intellectual experience, as well as theories of moral development. The students are engaged in an exploration system that ranges between local and universal levels. In the argument developed in this paper, the chapters dwell on themes like the family, state, citizenship, interpersonal relationships, self reflection, and the environment. The principal objective of this course is to come up with a broad sense of critical thinking about the necessity of political and social issues, at both national and international level, and to advocate for political and social engagement.
The course has set as one of its key goals as to encourage the first years to cultivate and nurture the perspective taking and empathy for various differences that arise like class, race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, species and nationality. The students are led through this perspective taking to analyze whether the American society lives up to the ideals of equality and liberty promulgated in the founding documents. The learners have an opportunity to be taught about wide range of topics including political and cultural forces through which personal identity is said to be shaped; the results of internalizing perceptions, racial stereotypes of the disabled ones ; the role of government in the economy; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; how nonhuman beings are treated; as well as environmental racism.
Students are highly encouraged to play a center role in their communities, like volunteering in national polls among other tasks in the community that will boost their involvement. Students also culminate in development of capabilities for ethical reasoning and self- understanding where they learn about various ethical theories and moral development while examining different approaches with respect to family, work, friends, and citizenship. At the end, the students are required to write a summary of the source of their moral attributes.
The term social justice is coined from a combination of two words, justice and social. Something is said to be just if it demonstrates fairness in all manner of its existence. Social justice is therefore taken to mean a behavior whereby someone is fair to the surrounding people and nonhumans like environment. From a political point of view, one has to legislate so as to develop a just society and numerous programs have to be put into place so as to collect financial resources and distribute them evenly between poor, rich, middle class and the marginalized people in the society. As such, laws that are anti- discrimination and program that boost equal opportunity have to be put into place so as to help administration of justice in the society.
On a different angle, a just society is the one whereby everyone has access to basic needs again which must be offered to every on. These include food, education, medical care, safe shelter etc. this is facilitated through taxation. This term is related to ethics in the sense that, for social justice to manifest we gather resources through various options through taxation and use it without misappropriations. CITATION MGM02 l 1033 (Chitkara) Again, the enactment of laws meant to ensure justice in the society is meant for the common good of all. Therefore, all these words are interrelated.
According to the first year readings, social change can be achieved if the values that mold people to be socially responsible are engraved into the minds of learners. We need to teach the young students and create awareness about the necessity of a society where people recognize and respect the diversity of each other.
Conclusion
Social justice is achievable if we come up with laws that foster equality and transparency. Ethics is about conducting our selves with fairness, responsibility and having in mind that we are diverse and hence need to acknowledge everyone’s culture, religious diversity, disability, class, gender etc. these attributes will grow in a society and perhaps revolution come if students are introduced into them during the start of their program in colleges and universities.
Works Cited
BIBLIOGRAPHY Butts, Janie B. Nursing ethics : across the curriculum and into practice. Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
Chitkara, M G (Madan Gopal). Dr. Ambedkar and social justice. New Delhi : A P H Pub. Corp, 2002.
Micklitz, Hans W. The Many Concepts of Social Justice in European Private Law. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub, 2011.
On being brought from Africa to America
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On being brought from Africa to America
The 1773 book of poems developed poems on diverse subjects, with different morals and religion. On being brought from Africa to America is a poem that was written and published in the 1773 book of poems that was written by Phillis Wheatley. The author Wheatley was considered and recognized as the first African American woman to have published a book. The author narrates on how she was born in West Africa and was transported to North America at the age of eight when she was sold to slavery. In Boston, she was purchased to the Wheatley family who taught her to read and write as they encouraged her talent in poetry (Gates,5). The poem uses ironic terms in the development of the plot of the poem that the author object to reflect on the woes Africans had faced from their motherland while being brought to America to work as slaves. The author Wheatley claimed to be redeemed and enlightened by God as her living in America had proved to be a blessing.
The author developed the plot of the story basically to narrate the slave ships horrors that people used to tell what and how it was like in their native land with emphasis that blacks may become Christians that people may be encouraged to bring Africans to America. In the first four lines of the poem, the author declares how it was indeed a blessing and an act of God’s compassion that brought her out of her native motherland that she referred to as a pagan land. This declaration was a way of acknowledging the virtues present in a Christian country like America despite the hardships and injustices they faced (Wheatley,12). The setting of this declaration was based on the slave ship from her continent Africa to another continent America whereby she implied that her motherland country practiced paganism and if it was due to the exposure to slavery and a new setting that made her aware of Christianity that was a sign of blessing to her.
Through the compassion of God, the experience of the slaves in the ship despite being horrendous and many people dying of illness as others drowned the poem did not mention emotional stress and physical voyage as success according to the author depended on luck or some form of intervention. Through the passage, Wheatley finds something positive through all the hardships that were Christianity which with other slaves they embraced it. Based on the content of the poem the message is powerful with themes of redemption that was portrayed by her declaration that she was saved from her pagan life being used (Wheatley,12). In the 5th to 8th line of the passage the author used the phrase that Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin’d, and join the’ angelic train” that disapproves the notion where the white man viewed Africa as a home of evil with nothing good expected to be generated from there (Wheatley,12). The previous line described how some viewed the Africans with a scornful eye that was translated to show how the Blackman’s color was useful and valuable making them desirable however the author followed with ‘diabolic die’ a phase that contrasted the previous meaning in which the Whiteman perception on the Africans that emphasized on the weakness rather than regarding their positives(Wheatley,12).
The poem on being brought from Africa to America shows how the author dwells more on the themes of Christianity bringing out other themes such as slavery and the hardships and injustices that were committed to them. Despite the Americans being rigid and not accepting that Africans were as good as them in their response whereby they refused to publish Wheatley’s text she proved that Africans could be educated and produce quality work just like the whites (Gates,5). Works cited
Gates, Henry. Phillis Wheatley: America’s Second Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2003. Print
Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. New York: Cosimo Inc.,2005. Web.
This essay paper focuses on one of the civic meetings and the matters that were given much weight in the diagnosis of educati
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Civic education
Introduction
Every country in the global perspective is looking on how to improve their educational standards, with more emphasize being given to high learning. Consequently, governments and even nongovernmental organizations are investing a lot in educating the society the need for high quality education. Organizations across the borders have been working to accomplish this by several means, one of them being organizing and facilitating civic gatherings where matters relating education are thoroughly discussed and well informed speakers are invited to give lectures on the subject. This essay paper focuses on one of the civic meetings and the matters that were given much weight in the diagnosis of education challenges in Brazil and the entire Latin America.
Discussion
Political scientists have identified that it is the great promises that sought to improve tremendously the standards of education in Mexico that gave voters confidence to vote Vicento Fox. It is arguably said that his manifesto contained clauses that showed that he had determination to improve the quality of education in Mexico (Gropello, 33). The same was also replicated In the Brazil’s president Fernando Cardoso. The past regimes gave little attention to building and empowerment of high educational facilities. Little was allocated in budgeting for institutions of higher learning and consequently the standards of learning were heavily compromised. In this civic meeting, parents and teachers came together in various provinces and speakers who mostly comprised scholars and officials from the department of education.
High turn up of audience ranging from parents to youthful generation was enough indication that people in South America are ready to embrace change. True change starts from within you and so it is important to deal with what is within you. One speaker was quoted saying to the crowd that you can only deal with what is within you by getting the rightfully education, hence need to raise standards of education. A speaker from the education sector emphasized the governments input in magnifying both quantity and quality of education in the society as one way of improving the economy of the Latin America and reduces the disfiguring inequalities. Parents were urged to support especially the girl education as a way of increasing awareness for gender balance in all stakes of the nation (Gropello, 81). Quality education is the only way to address economic challenges in any state and therefore the entire audience was challenged to pursue the same and be willing to pay the cost. Educationist speakers took the stage by elaborating some of the main challenges that have hindered development of quality education in the area, and the possible ways to redress them. Indeed, these are not the times students used to attend lectures for the purpose of attaining good grades and at the end of the day they only graduate with a certificate. Speakers took time to challenge young scholars to study for content rather than the traditional system of cramming to pass exams.
A speaker from the department of education explained that currently the rate of enrolment has significantly gone high, with statistics showing that two-thirds of children from Latin America access at least some secondary education, while it’s only around half that number that could do so in the mid 1980’s. In this event, it came out clearly that one of the speakers whose origin is Mexico had relatively higher impartation on the audience regarding embracing high standards of education (Gropello, 28). Given that Mexico is a bit ahead education wise, this gave the speaker some mileage in articulating the cure to the South America’s poor education systems. He challenged the government to invest heavily in education sector. However, this was received with mixed reactions by the audience especially the parents who took the matter with some attitude. To counter this, domestic speakers emphasized the importance of brushing shoulders with the mighty. There were also some communication challenges resulting from some highly learned speakers using phrases too hard for the parents who formed part of the audience. To overcome this, the master of programmer of the event took some minutes to elaborate some of the points made. Generally, it was advocated that schools be properly financed and their objectives set and monitored through tests. However, it was highlighted that schools should be given a lot of administrative autonomy in doing so.
Conclusion
The event was heavily applauded and the audience welcomed such meetings in future as this would guarantee better education for the community hence improved lifestyle (Torres & Carlos, 17). Following the organization of such a civic education meeting, parents in that locality pledged to educate their children and the government officials promised to put into place every structure possible to achieve that.
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Torres, Carlos A, and Adriana Puiggrós. Latin American Education: Comparative Perspectives. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1997.
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Wit, Hans . Higher Education in Latin America: The International Dimension. Washington, DC: World bank, 2005.
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Di, Gropello E. Meeting the Challenges of Secondary Education in Latin America and East Asia: Improving Efficiency and Resource Mobilization. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2006. Internet resource.
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