Since the late 1800’s‚ the word ‘retard’ has been used - firstly as a clinical diagnosis to mean delay or hold back in term of progress‚ then later became a derogatory slang to mean stupid or dumb. While the word certainly was used to mean intellectually inhibited‚ many believe the everyday usage of the word “retard” is not directed toward people with disabilities‚ and therefore should be okay to incorporate into day to day conversation. Even though you might think the word is not offensive to friends
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The word nigga comes from the Latin word niger which simply means black. The word niger was then changed to negro and integrated into two other languages‚ Spanish which kept the pure meaning of the word as “black”‚ and English which perverted the meaning into “black person”. However‚ by about the 1800s most white Americans had adopted the word as a derogatory racial slur to describe black African American slaves and yet again changed it into a new form of the word. They transformed the word negro
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Words are powerless when looked at individually but they have the potential for good or evil‚ when someone who can properly use them to his or her advantage. That is what Nathaniel Hawthorne quote means‚ and I fully agree with him. An example of words being used for evil could be a dictator trying to convince his people that he is best for the country. An example of words being used for good could be a civil rights activist trying to persuade people to get along and to treat everyone with respect
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A Reflection about Alcohol and Drug Use I do not have very much experience with alcohol or drug usage. I have never tried any drugs aside from medicinal ones for sicknesses and have only had a few sips of alcohol in my life so far. I do have a few friends how use drugs or alcohol recreationally‚ however. My parents also drink alcohol from time to time. When there is a special event usually they have a few glasses of wine. My father drinks beer from time to time at home‚ but I have never seen him
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For this assignment I chose to read A Loss for Words: A story of deafness in a family‚ by Lou Ann Walker. She recounts growing up hearing with two deaf parents. Once I started reading I was surprised to find that Walker grew up in Indiana! Her father is from Montpelier‚ her mother is from Greencastle‚ and the author came of age in Indianapolis. Lou Ann’s story begins as her parents are driving her to Harvard. She went to Ball State for her first two years‚ but decided it was not enough of a challenge
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Hidden In the Words In Middle Eastern literature‚ political‚ economic‚ and domestic crises created large movements that changed topics that were used to write. For example‚ Israeli and Hebrew literature was highly influenced by American culture post WWII. With these topic changes came various negative emotions due to the reasons the topics were changed. For instance‚ Palestinian literature went from folk ballad to resistance and activist poetry teeming with themes of a dislocated people and
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Drugs in sport The nature of sports promotes a strong desire to win‚ and many athletes will do anything to rise to the top. Every elite athlete wants to get an edge over their competition‚ causing many athletes to turn to performance enhancing drugs to gain this edge. Drug use in sport can cost players their super stardom dream career‚ but more seriously‚ their own lives. The wide-spread illegal use of drugs has eliminated the question of which athlete has the strongest raw power‚ to the question
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Drug addiction is a pathological or abnormal condition which arises due to frequent drug use. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behavior‚ the vulnerability to relapse‚ and the decreased‚ slowed ability to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli. Causes Drugs known to cause addiction include illegal drugs as well as prescription or over-the-counter drugs‚ according to the definition of the American Society of Addiction Medicine
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500 Years Later Film Analysis In my analysis of the film 500 Years Later‚ I will cover legacy‚ racism‚ identity‚ and education. I will also include how all of these things relate to the black male and female relationship outline by Hopson & Hopson Friends‚ Lovers‚ & Soul mates. In the beginning of the film it gives us our history of the free people. Gold in Africa was in abundant. The European traded with the Africans. It showed us that we were snatched from our African homes‚ violently
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Newman (10 Ways the Drug War Is Causing Massive Collateral Damage to Our Society) and Solomon and Baksh (Evaluating the Drug War on Its 40th Birthday‚ by the Numbers) discuss the detrimental consequences the war on drugs had on society. Specifically‚ the prison system’s dramatic increase in population. The mass incarceration of people of color in the United States can be traced back to numerous historical events. One of those events being president Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs‚ which provoked the
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