Wednesday night‚ when police man Jim Mustapha was killed‚ killed by a Glock-18 handled by two teenage boys‚ Allen and Alex. Jim‚ a father of two‚ was a respected man among many people. Jim‚ was running a regular routine check in a neighborhood‚ when he noticed something suspicious about a silver car parked on the side of the road. Jim then decided to walk up to the car on the side of the street. He saw two young males‚ about 16 in age‚ the boys then drove off quickly‚ as Jim began running after them
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perspective of Jim Burden‚ and focuses on his relationship with his close childhood friend Ántonia. Both of the characters move to Nebraska at the same time‚ and influence each other’s lives greatly. Jim Burden grows up to have a deep connection and longing for his past and repeatedly renews the relationships between close friends and hometown. My Ántonia shows the stages of life for a character around the 1900s‚ starting at 10 years old to around the age of 20. The story is narrated by Jim Burden that
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are leaders. One is Marilyn Monroe. She inspired me to pursue my dream of being an actress. Another person I think is a great leader is Gabby Douglas. She was a gymnast and made me want to be a famous gymnast. Lastly‚ the person I think is a leader is John Dimaggio. He was a voice actor on Adventure Time and it made me want to be a voice actor too. If these people didn’t exist‚ society wouldn’t be society. One leader who made a great impact on society is Marilyn Monroe. She was born on June 01‚ 1926
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“Jim Cramer’s 25 Rules for Investing” “Jim Cramer’s Twenty-five Rules for Investing” teaches and suggests investors the effective ways and attitudes for investing. Some of the rules are practical experiences while some are psychological strategies that investors should have in mind. The following ten rules are the ones that I found best interested me: Rule 2: It’s OK to Pay the Taxes. Investors are feared for the taxes they have to pay on short-term gains from their investments. Thus‚ they
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The New Jim Crow “Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans” states Michelle Alexander‚ (the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) )‚ in an interview with a nonprofit‚ independent publisher of educational materials known as Rethinking Schools. A perfect example of Michelle Alexander’s statement is Sonya Jennings who is an African American mother
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I listened to the audiobook version of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and as I listened I walked through the streets of Boston. One night as I listened to Michelle Alexander talk about how African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police‚ I came across two Emerson Police Officers forcing a black man to the ground. He knelt down with his hands in the air as they patted his body down. Maybe he had done something do deserve this treatment
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Jim Crow Rule Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ also known as Daddy Rice‚ in 1828‚ which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand‚ the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. The Jim Crow term can be defined as a system of racial oppression. Not long after the Civil War had
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Jim Jarmusch is one of the prominent post-modernist directors whose works produced a profound impression on the audience and often evoked quite controversial emotions. His films are very original and convey the authentic message of the author‚ but the director often chooses such means of conveying his ideas that his works are perceived in different way by different people. In fact‚ some people enjoy his films and believe they are genius‚ while‚ on the other hand‚ there are people who do not really
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racial profiling. She worked at private law firms specializing in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits regarding racial and gender discrimination. She then later became a writer. In The New Jim Crow she exployed the prejustice that black people face in America. She noted that while slavery
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Southern States passed various laws of racial segregation‚ focused against the black sectors. By the turn of the century those laws were called the Jim Crow laws‚ both north and south. Between the 1880s and the 1960s the laws expanded. Jim Crow‚ within the context of this unit‚ refers to the official discrimination against or segregation of African Americans. Jim Crow legislation was officially instituted by the southern states when racial attitudes hardened in the 1890’s‚ shortly
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