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    Sexual Minorities

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    Sexual Minorities Tiffin University Angela Hofacker February 25‚ 2013 Instructor Nancy Golinski SOC360 Multicultural Issues in Society When thinking of the different minorities‚ the one minority that is sometimes not acknowledged as a minority is sexual minorities. These types of minorities can include those who are gay‚ lesbian‚ and even bisexual. For purposes of referring to sexual minorities‚ gays as a reference will be the primary focus. Sexual orientation has been deemed a hot and

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    Abstract This paper deliberates the issue that has developed between minority communities and the local law enforcement. Gau and Brunson (2010) indicates that aggressive policing is used by police to control social disorder. However‚ this has created an uprooting with the relationship built between the police and their community. The other four articles discussed within the paper supports Gau’s statement by giving the reader statistical evidence of the damaging effects that have occurred over the

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    Minority Cultures

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    going to have more benefits than having a monochromatic landscape. Why then do people believe that if there were a single dominant culture in the world they would be better off? Modernists often reference the abhorrent and archaic practices of minorities. They refer to the Arabs calling their women “merely sexual toys and breeding machines”. (Shaikh) They talk about female circumcision in the Maasai community‚ reminding us that the Maasai people think‚ “Cutting girls is something our people have

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    Minority Disinvestment

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    Minority Disinvestment A minority disinvestment is one such that‚ at the end of it‚ the government retains a majority stake in the company‚ typically greater than 51%‚ thus ensuring management control.  Historically‚ minority stakes have been either auctioned off to institutions (financial) or offloaded to the public by way of an Offer for Sale. The present government has made a policy statement that all disinvestments would only be minority disinvestments via Public Offers. Examples of minority

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    Minority Identity

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    policies that further the advancement of their group. Minority status is not just based on a numerical scale of how many people‚ whether it be whites‚ blacks‚ Latinos‚ Asians etc. are accounted for‚ but is classified more by the benefits and privileges offered to different groups. Historically‚ minority groups have been exploited by majority groups for economic gain. For example‚ the

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    Monetary Or Minority

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    Monetary or Minority When comparing the averages for the poorest five schools and the richest five schools there are some results that are obvious and some results that are inconspicuous. As within the name‚ the richest schools are richer than the poorest schools and the fact that those schools can spend more per student makes logical sense. Specifically the richest schools on average are able to spend one thousand six hundred fifty seven dollars and twenty cents more per student than the poorest

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    Predictive Policing

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    In comparing the use of information technology versus random patrol‚ I see it this way. Initially‚ the random patrol was implemented in an effort to deter crime. If an officer is able to make their rounds in an unpredictable pattern‚ the threat of crime should be reduced. COMPSTAT is a tool available to the officer to give direction (or emphasis) to their patrol. Assimilating available intelligence is labor-intensive and time-consuming. With the advent of COMPSTAT‚ the officer now has timely

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    Minorities In Advertising

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    Past literature regarding the portrayal of minorities in television commercials indicate that both psychological and interpersonal communication contribute to the main objective of finding how minorities are portrayed differently than their non-minority counterparts‚ and also what effects this has on individuals’ perception of minorities. There have been two studies done that have included either social influence or media influence in their study regarding the effects of media on individuals. The

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    and recurrently the victims are from a vulnerable communities‚ including ethnic and racial minorities‚ the mentally ill‚ the homeless and young people. To increase trust‚ Police have to act responsibly. Just to make these communities feel their presence in a positive way will do it enough. A sense of safety will surely induce in them trust in the

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    Ibrahim Bamba Prof: Daniel Simone Class: PSC 245 THE HISTORY OF COMMUNITY POLICING The movement toward community policing has gained momentum in recent years as police and Community leaders search for more effective ways to promote public safety as well as enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods. The roots of community policing come from the civil rights movement in the 1960s.Even though its origin can be traced to this crisis in police-community

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