Most people have heard of the case of Amadou Diallo‚ a black man slain at his doorway by police‚ which for some reason was questioned to be a case of racial profiling at all. But the fact is that there are many other cases and complaints made against law enforcement officials‚ mostly involving traffic stops of minorities. The following are examples of cases and complaints made to the American Civil Liberties Union‚ which are posted on their web site‚ of racial profiling from various newspaper
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Westward Expansion Although the United States had good reasons for kicking the Indians off their land like mining and housing for the extreme population growth‚ the United States wasn’t justified in its treatment of the Native Americans during the period of Western Expansion. The United States forced the Indians to move from their land and go more west every time they kept finding gold. The Indians had been there for years before the Americans even started their colonies so they had ancestral
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By supporting racial profiling we are supporting racism‚ and by supporting racism‚ we are supporting hate. As this practice is becoming common procedure‚ entire groups of people are being discriminated against. This erroneous view of a complete race‚ induced by racial profiling‚ demonstrates the overall misconception and ignorance people have regarding people who are different from them. Labeling a particular group of persons as terrorists not only is unfair
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There too many deaths occurring in the United States. One of those type of deaths include organ failure. People who wait on a list to be given a new organ. The list gets longer and longer every year and people die in result of the length of the list. As NBC13.com news points out “everyday seventeen people die waiting for organ transplants.”People are truly waiting to die. These deaths could simply be prevented by having a system in place that could provide a service to these helpless individuals
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As I was driving on the 405 freeway on my way home with my father in the passenger seat‚ I decided to turn on the radio. I tuned the radio to the local news broadcast. On the radio‚ there was a story about a muslim captain in the U.S army. This seemed a little unusual because you don’t hear about muslims in a good light from the media most of the time. As my father and I were listening to the broadcast‚ we found out that the muslim captain had sacrificed himself for his squadron. Captain Humayun
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The jury system might be outliving its usefulness to society and the public because of its perceived time consumption and the tax dollars that are funneled into running juries. The jury system was instituted by the British government in 1846. These trials were often biased and were conducted with secrecy that was not open to the public. Later the constitution mandates the right of trial by jury for all civil cases‚ but included that they be “speedy‚ public‚ and fair” (Rottenerg 4) to ensure that
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the politics of 1991 where femminist had been protesting the use of it. Andrea Dworkin claimed that “Terror issues forth from the male‚ [illuminating] his essential nature and his basic purpose.” Along with this the right wing taking was a stand against it as well for its “immorality.” While the left defends pornography‚ as it claiming such things polerizes gender‚ ethic and sexual lines. Heartney acknowledges many feminist attempts in their justification of their views‚ quoting Alice Echols stating
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Mandatory Overtime Many hospitals are understaffed and make their nurses work overtime. Employers try to save money by having their employees work overtime rather than hiring more people. However‚ having nurses work overtime is an ethical issue. It affects the lives of the patients and the nurses. Mandatory Overtime as an Ethical Issue Mandatory overtime is important in nursing because it affects the care we are giving to our clients. In recent studies it has shown that long work hours can lead
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Many schools in America have banned books in their libraries for the content in certain books. the name behind this idea is called censorship. Books are censord because people feel like it will protect children from certain ideas‚ improve society‚ and keeping moral values. Main reason books are censored are for religion‚ sex‚ drugs‚ abuse‚ social issues‚ and more. Censorship on books has been a controversal topic for many years. Censorship in schools should not be allowed because it infringes on
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In the sample essay question Jozui is taking a major stand against advertisers who use big name celebrities to promote their products. Jozui feels that as the audience who watch these ads‚ the ad companies are trying to insult our intelligence by having us believe that if this celebrity is owns “A”‚ then we also must own “A” if we want to be great like them. I agree with here analysis of the situation and will address it in the first paragraph‚ but strongly disagree with her conclusion to the statement
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