Thin Slicing is a term used by psychologist and philosophers‚ but what does it mean? According to Malcolm Gladwell‚ “It’s the tendency that we have as human beings to reach very rapid‚ very profound and sophisticated conclusions based on very thin slices of experiences.” Blink is a book by Malcolm Gladwell explaining this theory of thin-slicing. In the book Gladwell tells us many different stories that have to do with thin-slicing. The book has examples of successful thin-slicing‚ examples showing
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Critical thinking is defined as purposeful‚ reflective judgment that manifests itself in giving reasoned and fair-minded consideration to the evidence‚ conceptualizations‚ methods‚ contexts‚ and standards in order to decide what to believe or what to do (Facione‚ 2011). I believe that Malcolm Gladwell is trying to tell readers of Blink that critical thinking can be done in just a few short minutes. “What is Blink about? It’s a book about rapid cognition‚ about the kind of thinking that happens in
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Power of the Police The short story “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” is written by Walter Dean Myers and is a short story in the collection of short stories “145th Street”. 145th Street is also where the “the Baddest Dog in Harlem” is taking place. Some friends were sitting on the rail outside of Big Joe’s place. Suddenly the police appear and the trouble starts. The police are looking for a man with an automatic gun. Lots of people are gathering to see what is going on‚ and a kid yells out that
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Bench trial vs. Jury trial High profile cases being spread through the media attracting massive attention. Cases such as the Sean Bell shooting‚ Amadou Diallo‚ and these trials were spread all throughout television which sometimes doesn’t fall in the favor of the defendant. There are two types of trials a bench trial also known as a court trail and a jury trial. NYS procedural law 260.10‚ states that every criminal depending on the crime must be trialed with 12 randomly selected jurors. The bench
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before it occurs. However‚ the reason behind the sudden stops was categorized as racially discriminatory‚ and offensive. In March 1999‚ problems with stop and frisk began to sprout‚ due to it causing the death of an unarmed African Immigrant‚ Amadou Bailo Diallo. This heart breaking tragedy opened the eyes of many‚ and bit by bit people began to perceive the racial profiling that transpired when it came to stop and frisk. If we want the discrimination to stop‚ however still allowing police officers
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Why cops are called Pigs Men and women all across the U.S. are being beaten down by cops. Video and pictures have been taken to prove this yet this still happens every day. The American Court System is so naive and gullible that they don’t understand that assault and battery charges filed by the police are a cover-up for police brutality. All the Quality control mechanisms of government exist only to protect the agency that they are trying to control. Ronald Reagan once summed up the problem before
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corruption and police brutality (160). Moreover‚ Tim Wise mentions Operation Pressure Point–a drug sting in which street dealers of color were arrested while buyers who were white were free to go home (160). It is not easy for colored people such as Amadou Diallo and Abner Louima)‚ minorities‚ are frequently subjected to police brutality and racial profiling. Racial profiling is defined by Tim Wise in two ways. First‚ it is “the over application of an incident-specific criminal
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Definition Example 1 Example 2 Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 University studies Asian profiling
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As explained in Blink by Gladwell and Payne‚ unconscious discrimination is a type of discrimination that is very hard to recognize. We have all heard about explicit discrimination‚ which can take two forms: the individual level and the institutional level. At the individual level‚ people openly like. This can be seen in the case of bias hiring when an employer tells a postulant; “I will not hire you because you are a female.” At the institutional level‚ one of the most striking examples of discrimination
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Social control is essential to maintain the underlying social structure of society. Laws implemented by the police department are a form of social control established to keep peace and eliminate crime within communities. It is important to analyze how the public perceives their community police because it aids in helping to decipher which reforms should be enacted to improve the police and community relationship and effectively fight crime. It is not only policing behaviors that affect public attitudes
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