The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ is a book about the discrimination of African Americans in today ’s society. One of Alexander ’s main points is the War on Drugs and how young African American males are targeted and arrested due to racial profiling. Racial profiling‚ discrimination‚ and segregation is not as popular as it used to be during the Civil War‚ however‚ Michelle Alexander digs deeper‚ revealing the truth about
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Jim Valvano was just some Italian kid from Queens New York who played college basketball for Rutgers University as a point guard from 1964-1967. In 1967 Valvano was able to lead his team to a third place finish in the NIT tournament‚ this is where Valvano’s leadership skills came to surface. Valvano then started his coaching career as the freshman head coach and an assistant coach on the varsity team. From there he became the head coach at John Hopkins University for 1 season‚ Arguably his greatest
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Katie Davis "People tell me I am brave. People tell me I am strong. People tell me good job. Well here is the truth of it. I am really not that brave‚ I am not really that strong‚ and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am just doing what God called me to do as a follower of Him. Feed His sheep‚ do unto the least of His people." These words from Katie Davis speak volumes of this young woman’s heart for the people of Uganda. In December of 2006‚ 18 year-old Katie Davis from Brentwood‚ Tennessee
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Jim Crow’s segregation In the South had states passing codes to classify race‚ it became known as the "one-drop rule.’’ The definition meaning is that if a single drop of "black blood" runs through your veins you’re black‚ this practice is known by many names such as "one black ancestor rule‚" "traceable amount rule‚" and "hypo-descent rule‚" it meant that mixed race people were assigned to the status of a minority group. The first registrar of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics was Dr. Walter
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definition embraces the idea that the amount of punishment must be proportional to the amount of harm caused by the offense. A more recent version‚ supported by Michael Davis‚ discharges this idea and replaces it with the idea that the amount of punishment must be proportional to the amount of unfair advantage gained by the wrongdoer. Davis introduced this version of retributive justice in the early 1980s‚ at a time when retributive justice was making a recovery within the philosophy of law community‚
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through the cracks above me. I slowly tilted my head‚ trying to figure out where I was. It looked like a small cave or something. The last thing I remembered was diving behind a pile of rocks before a grenade went off and my world exploded. My name is Jim Golemafi and I was an ex-army commander recruited to fight in the Afghanistan war. As my eyes slowly started to adjust to the dark cave‚ I carefully scanned each corner‚ hoping this wasn’t some animal’s hideout‚ or worse‚ the Taliban’s. In the very
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Desperate loss and hopelessness fill so many homes. It is all too common to hear about a father walking out the door‚ a mother broken and defeated‚ and the children suffering through it all in fear and abandonment. Feelings such as these are found in Jim Stevens’ poem "Schizophrenia." The poem shows the conflicts that exist within the house. However‚ the crisis that the family is experiencing is not expressed directly‚ but indirectly‚ through the house. By personifying the house in every aspect‚
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patently false and dangerous mindset. The segregation and stigma of race is still very much alive in our society. Instead of a formalized institution such as slavery or Jim Crow‚ America has found a new way to continue the marginalization of blacks by using the criminal justice system. In Michelle Alexander’s book “ The New Jim Crow”‚ she shows how America’s “ War on Drugs “ has become a tool of racial segregation and how the discretionary enforcement of drug laws has resulted in an overwhelmingly
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Captain Brierly and Jim: Long Lost Brothers? In reading Conrad’s novel‚ the character of Captain Brierly is one whose story is minor in role but highly significant in the understanding and development of Jim. Shortly after the inquiry of the events that took place on the Patna‚ Brierly commits suicide‚ thus abandoning the ship of life. Even with his small and mysterious incorporation to the novel‚ I find that Captain Brierly not only helps me understand Jim much better‚ but more over I see a connection
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The Radiant Child‚ directed by Tamra Davis‚ offers a fascinating and enlightening story behind Jean-Michel Basquiat‚ an artist that died young and left a massive impact on the art world. A man famous for his exaggerated and shocking paintings‚ Basquiat was best at evoking strong emotion from those that viewed his work. Enter Roland Barthes and the concept of bliss and pleasure within a text—the two works match up almost perfectly. Through usage of eerily foreboding text and‚ in contrast‚ light and
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