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    Fruitvale Station Fruitvale Station is a film that depicts the life of Oscar Grant who is an African-American male living in a system of racial profiling‚ social injustice‚ and economic challenges. For most young African-American men the ability to rise above these problems are often difficult because of the limitations that the system places on them. Oscar has experienced frequent feelings of anger and which results in thoughts that trigger impulsive behaviors‚ and hostility. For young African-Americans

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    Margaret Atwood’s 1986 novel‚ The Handmaid’s Tale‚ fixates on the social injustices against women‚ the use of an overpowering rigid social caste system and the inescapable rise of a dominating Puritan right wing‚ the idea of social justice is skewed to the point of inequality. Atwood takes real world examples and exaggerates them by taking every aspect of right wing and left wing ideals to the extreme. She inherently provides a satirical view on the state of society by magnifying what is supposedly

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    To Kill a Mockingbird and Injustice In her novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee tells the story of Scout and her father Atticus who is a lawyer. Atticus is a southern caucasian lawyer in the 1930s trying to represent a wrongly accused African American Tom Robinson. While racism was quite common in the 30s‚ Harper uses the trial of Tom Robinson to demonstrate the unjust treatment of African Americans Atticus is a white lawyer who was assigned the case of an African American Tom Robinson

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    Farm Laborers: Injustice in the Fields Immigrant workers come to America in search of a better life. However‚ when they arrive they are faced with numerous hardships: inability to speak English‚ discrimination‚ and unfair wages in the worst jobs available. Due to earning low wages‚ immigrants live in unacceptable housing conditions. Because of their illegal status in the United States‚ immigrants are constantly taken advantage of. In spite of the pain and suffering‚ field workers still work very

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    Cultural injustice is a problem this country continues to face in 2017; it is social justice issue I can personally connect with. I live in Carthage‚ Missouri and see first-hand the cultural injustice for the Hispanic population. I must honestly admit‚ I too‚ was at once under the impression Hispanic people were of many various stereotypes out there; like‚ they are lazy‚ they all get food stamps‚ they are overtaking our country. I don’t know that I was ever that judgmental but maybe I was. Before

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    According to Cicero’s De Officiis‚ one should embrace his gifts from nature rather than envy other for theirs‚ i.e. an artist is better off perfecting his artistic talent than studying law. He also argues that fraud is the worst form of injustice‚ that is‚ the one who “practice[s] fraud to the utmost ability [to] do it in such a way that [he] appear[s] to be [a] good m[a]n (I.13). Although Cicero condemns fraud for obvious reasons‚ such as‚ corruption‚ is one unjust for using this gift against the

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    your attention the unfair trial of Tom Robinson. I think we all knew that the jury would say that he was guilty of the crime‚ but was he really? I don’t think he was‚ and I hope you and the readers of The Maycomb Tribune will help me fight this injustice. Good people like Atticus Finch‚ tried to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson. The real criminals here are Mayella Ewell and Bob Ewell for taking a man’s life simply because he was colored. Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Is it fair

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    Racial Injustice Rant Racism. I’m SICK AND TIRED OF IT! It’s everywhere around me and I JUST WANT IT TO STOP!!! I feel like I am lost in a maze of hate‚ trapped and unable to get out. When I hear about anything racially unjust‚ the smoke comes out of my ears like a whistling teapot. I am done with the cruelty‚ violence‚ and absurdness! It’s been a part of our history and it’s still around us today. It seems like it will never diminish. I see it everywhere I turn and it makes me feel hopeless

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    because we are living in a barbaric‚ unjust society? Or is it because we are living with our own ideas of what and how things should be done and when someone else comes with their philosophy on life behavior we accuse them of bringing a serious injustice against us? Another common phrase used within our society is "There are always two sides to a story." This essay explores both sources of this statement. The day has started bad you woke up late and your mother says you have to walk to school because

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    normally wouldn’t do. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ fear takes grasp of the whole village and throws it into chaos. Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” as a parable on what was going on during the McCarthy Era. The play was to show the social injustice that was going on in the 1950s. In Salem witchcraft was a big deal‚ people believed in it because christianity was the basic religion in those parts. Christianity believes in the 3 worlds‚ heaven‚hell‚ and the present. So when there were accusations

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