STUDY GUIDE Hate Crimes Spring 2013 This study guide is offered as a starting point for your studies. It is not exhaustive. All topics covered in class lectures‚ readings and films may appear on the exam. The Hows and Whys of Hate Crime Laws What is a hate crime? A crime motivated by racial‚ sexual‚ or other prejudice How many hate crimes were recorded by the FBI in its most recent hate crime report? 6‚222 According to the Petrosinos article and our text‚ were there hate crimes before
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Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 2011‚ Vol. 16‚ No. 1‚ 80 –94 © 2011 American Psychological Association 1076-8998/11/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0021708 I Know What You Did: The Effects of Interpersonal Deviance on Bystanders Merideth Ferguson Baylor University Bruce Barry Vanderbilt University Using social information processing theory‚ we explore how interpersonally directed deviance affects work group members who observe or are aware of these insidious behaviors. In a field study
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All around the world people are becoming victims of hate crimes. Hate crimes are crimes that are attached to strong feelings of hate of someone’s ethnicity‚ religion‚ sexual orientation or disability. These crimes usually suffer more extreme penalties because of this. Everyone can be affected by hate crimes but some groups are hit harder then others. Racially African Americans are the most affected. They have over 3‚400 victims a year. Religiously Jewish people are the worst affected because they
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10 “Bad” Things That Are Actually Good for You Source: http://www.rd.com/slideshows/10-bad-things-that-really-arent/ 1. Computer Games They isolate children socially and distract them from learning‚ right? Think again. Researchers have found that kids who clock up regular console time can improve their hand-eye coordination‚ their grip on science‚ even their IQ. Clock up means make a record of Console means comfort A British study of 700 children found that simulation games developed
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Rundown on Hate Crimes The Anti-Jews were standing outside of a synagogue chanting “kill the Big Noses” while Jews were inside having prayer. The term “Big Nose” is a stereotypic term used against Jews‚ making fun of their big noses. Verbal abuse is the first step to hate crimes. People who commit hate crimes should be tried with the highest charge possible and if found guilty‚ the most cruel sentencing possible. DEFINITION AND LAWS Based on the definition of hate crimes and current laws‚ hate crimes
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The Hate List by Jennifer Brown is about the aftermath of a school shooting. Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend Nick was the shooter‚ she had no idea that he was going to shoot up the school but she was implicated in the crime because she made a hate list of everything her and Nick both hated. Nick had taken his victims off of the list. Valerie was wounded trying to stop him and then Nick took his own life. After the summer Valerie had to come back for her senior year and face the guilt and move on with
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Where Are You Smooth Talking? The saying goes the only difference between a tragedy and a comedy is the ending. Meaning no matter how tragic or comedic a story begins‚ the ending is what determines what type of story was told (thus what genre it falls in). This concept of endings is greatly exemplified through the comparison of the short story Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and the film the story was based on called Smooth Talk. Both works contain an abundance of similarities
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Love and hate are two powerful and intense emotions that define humankind. Both emotions are independently defined as opposites but are almost compatible in terms of how they make one feel. Love and hate are also dependent emotions‚ you feel one because of the other. They are like two halves of a whole‚ one cannot exist without the other. Hate is the absence of love. We love to hate but hate to love. Love and hate are not as complicated as people make them out to be but they have different levels
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ADVERTISING MAKES YOU BUY THINGS YOU DO NOT NEED! IT MANIPULATES YOU! GROUP PROJECT Members: CALL Guillaume‚ AUDOUSSET Geoffroy‚ BAYRAK Samet‚ VASKOVA Petra‚ PISTECKY Jan‚ KOPECKY Daniel‚ HEYDRICH Lukas‚ FISER Martin Marketing Project – Group 7‚ Msc. CULS Prague‚ 2010 “God damn it‚ an entire generation pumping gas‚ waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes‚ working jobs we hate so we can buy sh** we don ’t need.” Tyler Durden
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i thank You God by e.e.cummings In ‘i thank You God’ cummings expresses his spiritual rebirth with the renewal of how he sees the world‚ as if for the first time. The first instance of his playing with punctuation and grammar appears in the title and first line. He lowercases "i" and capitalises "You" to show the difference between the speaker’s view of himself and God‚ placing God above the speaker. The line draws from Cummings’ perception of God in his later years of life‚ when he believed that
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