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    Existence of Discrimination : From the U.S to Vietnam In the article “Change of Heart”‚ which appeared in the March‚ 2005 Reader’s Digest‚ Mary A. Fisher tells the reason she changes her attitude forward minority of immigrants after she had been deeply racist against people who are immigrants and are not whites. In 1989‚ she bought a house in an interethnic neighborhood in Los Angeles in which there were many people from Mexico‚ El Salvador‚ the Philippines and Vietnam because it was affordable

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    DISCRIMINATION Discrimination is the unjust treatment of people or things‚ especially on the grounds of race age and gender. Everyone is discriminated in somehow on a daily basis it is something that everyone faces. As a colored skin person have come across this many times‚ I walk into a shop and everyone looks at me like I am going to steal something‚ I ask someone for directions and they just walk by me like I was invisible. This had been ongoing issues for decades and it still is‚ but it takes

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    there were discrimination and corruption in the society 75 years ago. The movie somewhat relates to discrimination and corruption to this day. For example‚ back in 1935‚ white people thought black people were lower than them. In 2013‚ some Americans think they are above illegal immigrants from Mexico. The racial profiling of Arabic people can compare to the thinking that every black person in the movie was a share cropper. Those are just a few examples of the movie’s relation to discrimination in today’s

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    In the articles "Discrimination At Large" by Jennifer Coleman and "Ok‚ So I’m Fat" by Neil Steinberg‚ both authors discuss the battle of being overweight and the discrimination they experienced because of it. Coleman begins her article by describing how "all fat people are ’outed’ by their appearance..." She states that all the people who wouldn’t dare utter any anti-gay slogans or racial epitaphs are the ones who verbally abuse her due to her appearance. This abuse began from a young age; people

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    The zero tolerance policy has been getting more and more heat from media and parents alike within the last couple of years. For children being sent home because of their hairstyles‚ or because they simply don’t have any hair at all‚ such as the little girl who shaved her head in support of her best friend going through chemotherapy. Although these things are understandable within the stance of following rules and the student code of conduct‚ is it really that important enough to deny a child their

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    part of his life and the boy may never be successful because of this one mistake he made while he was too young to truly understand what he did wrong. What is so bad about that fun little tool? Nothing would be bad‚ if the zero tolerance policy wasn’t in place. The zero tolerance policy states that any weapon or drug in the school will be removed and the student will be expelled for one year. Knives forgotten in pockets or even a screwdriver are considered weapons. Passing out a Tylenol to a friend can

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    According to Maria Menocal ’s Ornament of the World‚ medieval Spain was a haven from the religious intolerance and dark ages that Europe had succumbed to. When compared to scholarship by Thomas Glick and David Niremburg‚ the medieval Spain presented in Maria Menocal ’s Ornament of the World is very narrow and overly positive‚ as it does not show the intolerance between Jews‚ Muslims and Christians‚ the conflict within the religious groups or how the tension increased when Christians gained power

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    Zero tolerance policy has some beneficial factors but it’s mainly viewed now as a problem in schools with the academic levels dropping and student dropout increases. Schools also have problems with different teacher’s perspective on the rules and what they believe the rule means. Some show favoritism in schools and only set the rules for certain students while allowing others to feel like they have the ability to do what they want when they want to. Some overdo their “power” in disciplinary actions

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    Zero Tolerance Is Too Much

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    Zero Tolerance: How Much is Too Much? By Brooke West Arkansas State University Fall 2014 Zero Tolerance: How Much is Too Much? Introduction “Zero Tolerance” was first established in 1994 after the Gun-Free Act of 1994. This act stated that fire arms and weapons were not permissible on school property. The zero tolerance policy came into play to back the Gun-Free Act saying that any student that was on school property with a weapon and committing violent acts would be punished by suspension or

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    AQA AS Philosophy Revision Notes – Tolerance What is Tolerance? Weak and Strong Senses of ‘Tolerance’ • Tolerance requires difference – you don’t ‘tolerate’ something that you agree with. • However‚ tolerance isn’t a ‘live and let live’ attitude. • There are several ways of responding to things that are ‘different’ (with respect to attitudes and beliefs): o Someone can not care how other people live – this isn’t tolerance o Someone can not object

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