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    children being gunned down by law enforcement. Many afraid to call upon law enforcement‚ afraid of their own safety. Police officers should be a part of the community not against the community. We all know the story of Oscar Grant‚ 22 year old African American young man fatally shot by a Bart police officer in Oakland‚ California early New Year’s Day in 2009. Yes he was resisting arrest but he was hand cuffed lying face down. How can a police officer feel threatened when Oscar Grant was clearly restrained

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    Slave Treatment In the 16th and 17th centuries‚ the practice of slavery was growing throughout Europe. The Africans took part in the slave trade because they were able to trade slaves with the Europeans for money and goods. The Portuguese and the Africans had different motives as to why they wanted to follow through on their decisions to create a slave trade. The Portuguese introduced slave trade to Brazil as they had been given land in Brazil and the slaves could help with agriculture in the

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    There is a widespread and persistent problem of police brutality across the United States. Thousands of individual complaints about police abuse are reported each year and local authorities pay out millions of dollars to victims in damages after lawsuits. Police officers have beaten and shot unresisting suspects; they have misused batons‚ chemical sprays‚ and electro-shock weapons; they have injured or killed people by placing them in dangerous restraint holds. This is the first paragraph of an

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    Lucy Sanchez English 1302 Mr. Gonzalez 8 April 2009 Police Brutality Draft Who can forget the Los Angeles riots and the Rodney King beating in 1991? This case of police brutality was the most widely known. Over the years‚ it seems that police abuse remains one of the most serious human rights violations in the United States. It makes the people wonder if in fact police officers are doing their job and if they are here to protect us. Police officers get away with unjustified shootings‚ fatal

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    aspects of American culture‚ for instance‚ economics. The concept of Capitalism has been around for hundreds of years‚ originating in the medieval era. Capitalism is an economic system that deals with the ownership of production companies and selling produced goods for profit. Practicing capitalism focuses more on the business aspect of the economy and actually detriments the strength of the economy. It favors the elite living in the world‚ and most other people cannot utilize capitalism the way the

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    America’s upbringing was built off of the institution of slavery; the colonies would not have survived without the forced labor of the countless Africans who were stolen from their homeland and enslaved in this new foreign world. The overwhelming debt needed to be paid to Britain was the reasoning behind this inhumane‚ barbaric time in American history. These Africans were not only forced into performing back-breaking labor‚ but they were also subjected to constant humiliation by their owners. Most

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    resourcefulness in changing situations. Her delightful gouache‚ Night on HMAS Jervis Bay‚ finds Sharpe peering out of her makeshift tent on deck seeking an escape route to the bathroom. Sharpe’s handling of paint is assured in the many works she did of the East Timorese people‚ particularly the children. The intensity of their emotion reflects her compassion for and interest in what she observed during her

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    AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SPECIAL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Dr. S. Waymon This is a MANDATORY homework assignment that is due in class on Thursday‚ March 7th‚ 2013. (NO EXCUSES‚ NO EMAIL COPIES‚ NO LATE PAPERS) This assignment should be typed (single or double spaced) and STAPLED. UNSTAPLED COPIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. ANSWER QUESTIONS: What historical event happened in Jamestown‚ Virginia 1619? Write a brief summary about the institution of African American Slavery in America? What was the

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    Bowling Green‚ Kentucky c. Nashville‚ Tennessee d. Richmond‚ Virginia 4. How did railroad construction in the South differ from railroads in the North? a. Research clearly indicated that such investments would be of no economic benefit to the South. b. The South erected large‚ national railroad lines. c. The southern states believed that such construction should be the responsibility of the federal government. d. Railroads in the South remained local. 5. Which of the following is true of

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    The apartheid era in South Africa was a period of oppression and inequality that had attracted capitalism. To uphold racist order requires continuous scrutiny and recurring doings to brutally dismiss any effort that aimed at defying or posing any form of challenges towards apartheid or capitalism. The apartheid system served‚ both‚ to defend as well as to preserve the rights and capital of the previously white dominant class. The apartheid system also certified to maintain the cheapest potential

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