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    did change the way how I look at police officers today. Growing up I was taught that whenever there is an emergency that the police men were the ones who everyone can depend on. They help serve and protect the communities to make them a better place‚ almost like a super hero. Schools failed to not educate the younger generation on police brutality. Back when I was in high school I’d question what I was taught about police and my safety. Can I really trust police or not? The purpose for this essay

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    Police abuse remains one of the most serious human’s rights violations. Over the past decade‚ police actions have people wondering if officers are really doing their job. Sometimes police are put in situations that force is needed. But‚ because some officer’s use these extreme measures in situations when it is not need‚ Reform is needed in law enforcement. Law enforcement should look at if they held liable if force is used improperly‚ they have been properly trained to use force‚ and they use the

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    The Cold War: 1960s The Cold War‚ was it really cold? No‚ “The term "cold war" first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called "You and the Atomic Bomb (War‚ 2017)." It seems that The Cold War started because of communism‚ and started off with the involvement of Vietnam. “Vietnam can really we consider part of the domino theory. In an interview with the press in September 1963‚ President John F. Kennedy expressed his belief in the domino theory‚ stating that "We should

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    Ta-Nehisi Coates tell stories and lessons to his only son primarily about race and the violence and injustice that come with it. The second part begins to discuss the topic of police brutality against Black people. Coates tells the reader and his son the story of how his friend Prince Jones was shot and killed by a police officer. Prince was black and so was the officer that shot him. But Coates argues that the officer’s race doesn’t mean anything‚ nothing about the officer really has any significance

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    Four young Englishmen added a word to the worlds vocabulary in the 1960s. A word that became synonymous with the 1960s‚ especially with the music of that time that word was of course the Beatles the Beatles became the most famous popular music group of the twentieth century and have held the loyalty of many fans into the present century The Beatles were popular in Liverpool England and in Hamburg Germany before they came to America on tour and became world famous Liverpool and Hamburg loved the four

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    Police Brutality is defined as the use of excessive or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. What the dictionary does not state is that lives are lost‚ families are ripped apart‚ and innocent people are killed every year. Officers are made to enforce the law‚ and protect the citizens from harmful situations‚ not to use force indiscriminately in situations that could be managed in many other ways. The topic of police brutality needs to be brought up more as a situation that needs

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    A rising problem in our world today is police brutality. It is happening everywhere and little to nothing is being done to stop it. Then what is being done to help is being undone by rival movements‚ damaging media coverage‚ and violence against innocent people. The “Black Lives Matter“ movement  was created to bring awareness to the atrocities facing the African American population today. But due to the reasons mentioned previously‚ their efforts aren’t doing much or anything to help‚ and as more

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    The Independent Record Labels of the 1950’s and 1960s History of Music Production Eric Eller Throughout the 1950’s and 1960s‚ a wave of new musical movements by independent record labels and new artists emerged in the United States. This movement is captured in the stories of those label creators and owners‚ and in the turbulent journey through their successes and failures. The first emergence was fueled by multiple factors: competitive economic circumstances‚ up-and-coming local musical

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    The 1960s The 1960s were a time of radical change. It was a decade where people began to question authority‚ and time of confrontation. The decade’s radicalism began with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. This event changed the country’s idealistic views‚ and started an upheaval of civil rights movements. Baby boomers started a new perception‚ and formalized the act of resistance to war. There were also many of whom‚ turned violent and rebellious; in their effort to fight

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    in not only The New York Draft Riot but also the Watts riot. Racism also a great deal had a deal in the tragedies that spread all throughout New York City and Los Angeles. New York Draft Riot is one of America’s most devastating riots. It began as a mild rally against the national draft‚ but turn took a worse as it focused more on the racial and social struggle. In the text‚ The Gangs Of New York‚ Asbury gives a very in depth description of the New York Draft Riot. According to Asbury‚"The fighting

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