1. Equality and Diversity in Contemporary Society
American society then perpetuates a standard of learning that is disguised as "proper" or "correct" but in reality, students are learning the "white way" submerging them into the dominant dialect in hopes of gaining social or economic prestige or acceptance (Villanueva 40). ... Through Villanueva's narrative discourse in stride with theoretical exposition, he illustrates how a rhetoric reform and our understanding of social oppression can expose a new way of thinking that does not encourage a form of hybridity or the a shedding of one's identity....
Unfortunately, journalists and reporters, writers of fiction and non-fiction shows, creators of video games and writers of popular songs, are encouraged to produce creative work addressing not social responsibility, but rather the public's perceived desire for constant titillation and increasingly shocking material. ... The studies they discuss indicate watching music videos and other media has been shown to increase adversarial sexual beliefs and have a negative effect, and also make college students have a greater acceptance of anti-social behavior after viewing media displaying similar...