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    Ethnic Identity

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    year college prepares students to seek their identity more so than a 2 year college. Another article‚ written by Silvia Santos‚ Anna Ortiz‚ Alejandro Morales‚ and Monica Rosales addresses identity. It correlates campus diversity with students’ ethnic identity. They ultimately argue that campus diversity allows a more powerful insight to one’s identity. While both articles look at the way

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    Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice is a major theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. In fact‚ much of the novel is made up of events based on prejudice. One such event‚ and perhaps the most important and major event in this book‚ is the trial of Tom Robinson. Tom has been accused of raping Mayella Ewell‚ a white woman. The truth is that Mayella‚ who has never kissed a man before‚ actually came on to Tom and was caught by her father. He became enraged and beat her. He then fabricated a story

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    Religion and Ethnic Diversity ETH/125 Religion and Ethnic Diversity Buddhism was first found in India about 2‚500 years ago. Buddhism is an increasing popular religion that continues to be the leading religion in the Far East. Buddhism has advanced over to a large amount of countries that have embraced a vast variety of customs‚ rituals‚ beliefs‚ and practices. Buddhist’s do not believe that a God created Earth. Buddha is the only Master‚ Buddhist’s believe in. Buddhist’s acknowledge that

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    2. Discuss the effect that modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict. The effect modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict is not a great one. Early modernization theorists‚ who were quite optimistic about the positive effects of literacy‚ urbanization‚ and modern values‚ clearly underestimated the extent to which these factors might mobilize various ethnic groups and set them against each other (Handelman‚ 2011‚ p. 113). Modernization challenged

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    What Has To Kill a Mockingbird Taught You about Prejudice and Justice? After reading this book I had a great knowledge of prejudice and justice in the Deep South in the 1930s. In 1861 – 1865 war was on. Parliament abolished slavery in America in 1865 but the south needed slaves for their trade. So they carried on mistreating blacks‚ disobeying the law. After the war (with the North winning) blacks were still treated with injustice and inequality. The blacks still had bad jobs and most of them

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    Associate Program Material Discrimination Worksheet Write a 100- to 200-word response to each of the following questions. Provide citations for all the sources you use. * What is discrimination? How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Discrimination is not giving the opportunity and/or equal rights to people and/or groups because of prejudice. Discrimination is different from prejudice and stereotype because when someone is prejudice they have a negative attitude

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    Maycomb‚ that experiences racial prejudice‚ I know this because of what some of the characters say or experience. An example‚ is that Atticus’s children are bullied by townsfolk‚ because their father is a known lawyer for the black community. “Your father is no better than the niggers and trash he works for‚” said Mrs.Dubose. (Lee 135) This shows that even associating and/or working with black people in Maycomb county makes you “trash” and is frowned upon. This example plus many others throughout the

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    RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY Racial and Ethnic Diversity Scott McKinney ETH/125 January 26‚ 2013 Jade Pumphrey Abstract Hispanic/Latino and Jehovah Witnesses are both discriminated against for different reasons. In this essay I will go into more depth on why they are discriminated against.. Racial and Ethnic Diversity In this essay

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    How AIDS has Affected Black Communities There has been an alarming increase in HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Blacks constitute only 12% of the U.S. population‚ but they represent 41% of reported AIDS cases from 1996 to now. 55% of women with AIDS are African-American‚ and 58% of pediatric cases are among African-American children. Since 1991‚ AIDS has been the leading causes of death in African American men ages 25-44‚ and in 1994‚ the disease became the number one killer of African-American

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    According to the World Health Organization‚ a LBW infant is one born weighing <2500 g (5). Preterm infants are those born at <37 wk from the first day of the last menstrual period‚ regardless of birth weight‚ whereas growth-restricted infants are those born weighing less than the 10th percentile of birth weight–for–gestational age‚ regardless of whether that weight is <2500 g Thus‚ it is possible for both preterm and growth-restricted infants to weigh >2500 g. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/2/584S

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