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    3872865-128270Michael Faraday‚ FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the fields ofelectromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction‚  HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism" \o "Diamagnetism" diamagnetismand electrolysis. Although Faraday received little formal education‚ he was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying

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    Social Dichotomy Of Race

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    to define race‚ two common theories tend to develop. One theory is that race is biological. The second theory is that race is only a social construct. Both theories are correct. I believe that race is both. I also believe that race is such a complex concept that it can’t be explained in this simple dichotomy. Scientists argue continually about whether race is biological or not. I see both sides of this argument‚ which is possibly because I believe that those on the side that deny race as being

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    Race and Civil Rights

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    Rights and Bytes: The Technology of Civil Rights When speaking of race‚ it has been a popular factor in our society for centuries. In Steve Olson’s essay‚ “The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples”‚ he discusses human race and its genetic future. He also discusses how Hawaii has a lot of intermixed races and cultures. When dealing with race and what people consider themselves as you can refer it to covering. Kenji Yoshino discusses covering in his essay‚ “The New Civil Rights”. He states

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    Drawing the Color Line

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    Drawing the Color Line Drawing the Color Line by Howard Zinn the second chapter from A People’s history of the United States. The authors writes this chapter to explain racism and how it started‚ “a continent were we can trace the coming of the first whites and the first blacks-might supply at least a few clues” he wants to use history to try to explain why it started. In this chapter Howard Zinn gives us an insight on Slavery and racism in the early 17th century of America. This chapter does

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    The Cross-Race Effect

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    The cross-race bias‚ also called as own-race bias or cross-race effect‚ in recognizing faces is the idea that people can better recognize faces from their own race‚ relative to those of other races. In brief‚ the theory explains how it is easier to focus on individualistic features to differentiate individuals within their own face‚ but not in other-race faces due to lack of familiarity. This is particularly important in evaluating how accurate eyewitness identification is: cross-race effect plays

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    Biological Race Issues

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    Challenge defines race as “the taxonomic category of a subspecies that is not applicable to humans because the division of humans into discrete types does not represent the true nature of human biological variation. In some societies race is an important social category.” (Haviland‚ Prins‚ Walrath‚ McBride‚ 2014). Although the biological race concept does not pertain to human disparities‚ race remains a significant cultural and social issue. Prime example of biological and social race issues is in

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    Constructions of Race and Ethnicity Race has always been a significant sociological theme‚ from the founding of the field and the formulation of the "classical" theoretical statements to the present. No society is composed of genetically “pure” people. In spite of this‚ members of society tend to rank themselves into hierarchies based on race with one race assumed to be better than another. Although traditionally in the US the category white has been ranked higher than black or other categories

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    Race... Real or Fiction?

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    experience‚ I have come to the conclusion that race is a very narrow minded classification of human beings. The primary factors in determining race seem to be biological “surface” or “visible” traits such as skin color‚ hair type and facial features. However normal this may seem in our society‚ it is not without fault. As a culture‚ it seems‚ North Americans have a common desire to classify or compartmentalize just about everything including people. Race is a way that we identify ourselves with each

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    Race Crime and The Media

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    Race and Crime in the Media In the 1800’s African Americans were belittled and segregated simply due to the color of their skin; this was one of the most stereotyped controversies in history‚ and remains to be today. Dealing with race and its stereotypes that socially construct ones influence on what to think. Through the intersection of the inequalities of stereotypical racial depictions‚ and crimes had inequalities‚ and influenced by the media although the media is hegemony towards

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    Introduction Races are all around us. Whether we are Black‚ White‚ Latino‚ or Asian‚ people are still categorized into a particular race just by looking at them. Whites have been the dominant race‚ with Latinos leading the population of minorities. With all of the diversity in the United States history‚ there is also discrimination. Discrimination comes in many forms‚ and there have been laws placed to enforce it. Although it is now illegal‚ it may not be intentional to continue to discriminate

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