Victor Ferreira The New Jim Crow Chapter 2 Incarceration rates in the United States have exploded due to the convictions for drug offenses. Today there are half a million in prison or jail due to a drug offense‚ while in 1980 there were only 41‚100. They have tripled since 1980. The war on drugs has contributed the most to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color‚ most of them African-Americans. The drug war is aimed to catch the big-time dealers‚ but the majority of the people
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Hi my names Mae and I am a black that wants freedom. It was back in the 19th century the Jim Crow Era the worst time ever for me at least. We the blacks had no rights well not a lot at least and I didn’t know why. When we walked the streets white people would give us looks. Like mean looks this didn’t bother me much not as much as the fact that they would beat us if we were bad or even if they didn’t like what we did. But sometimes they would hang our kind. Let me tell you something that was not
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Throughout all of his adventures Jim shows compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim always assumes the other characters in the book will not take advantage of him. One incident proving that Jim acts naive occurs halfway through the novel‚ when the Duke first comes into the scene “By right I am a duke! Jim’s eyes bugged out when he heard that...” In the novel‚ Huck Finn‚ one
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Jim Morrison "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to letting a person be what he really is.... Most people love you for who you pretend to be.... To keep their love‚ you keep pretending performing. You get to love your pretense.... It’s true‚ we’re locked in an image‚ an act and the sad thing is
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Jim Elliot Would you give your life for something you believed in? Jim Elliot died trying to bring people to Christ. This might be all you know about this famous martyr‚ but he didn’t start out as a missionary in Ecuador. Early on in life‚ Jim’s parents introduced him to many missionaries who sparked his interest in mission work. In college‚ he became ever more focused on his goal of spreading the Gospel to the world. Finally‚ he went to the mission field where he began full-time missionary
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Throughout the course of the novel‚ In Dubious Battle By John Steinbeck‚ we see the progression of the character Jim Nolan. Nolan undergoes a significant change from what we learn about him and his previous life‚ to whom we get to know him as at the end of the novel. A man first viewed in a dilapidated state from an unfortunate and lonely life with seemingly no purpose transforms into a man passionate about his life and actions. This drastic change makes the novel incredibly intriguing by showing
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This quote uses metaphor to further the understanding of Antonia’s character and her portrayal in the novel. Jim Burden in this passage is contemptibly looking back on the awe that Antonia once made him feel throughout their childhood. This serves to exasperate Antonia’s representation as a loving mother figure. We see how she takes care of her children and how her loving nature has manifested itself into sons who‚ “stood tall and straight”. She truly is a source of compassion which people draw
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The book‚ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ has a few different themes. The themes that stuck out to me from both readings and lectures are ignorance and denial‚ and the failure of colorblindness. The central theme of Alexander’s book is basically that the American system of mass incarceration is a systematic effort to ostracize people of color just like the old Jim Crow laws did in the 19th and 20th centuries. The present-day prisons make it
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Dr. Jim Laub is the President of the OLAgroup and is the creator of the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA). Jim currently serves as the Dean of the MacArthur School of Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University . Prior to this appointment he served on the doctoral faculty of Indiana Wesleyan University’s Ed.D in Organizational Leadership and as the Director of the undergraduate Leadership Studies program where he developed a unique degree program (Minor and 2nd Major) in Leadership.
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similarity between the Jim Crow and the new American justice system? The new American justice system was believed to be a refined version of the previous Jim crow that promised equality and liberty to all races. The term “Jim crow” refers to the practice of segregating people in the Us The New Jim Crow was published during the year 2010‚ it is a book written by Michelle alexander‚ a credible well known American rights litigator and legal scholar and is best known for this book (The New Jim Crow). She is
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