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    Final Project: Kristopher Freitag Race and ethnicity and understanding its differences helped me achieve a certain amount of levity with the way I interact with others. America is extremely diverse‚ yet have an abundance of things in common. This is shown throughout history and right outside our doors‚ America‚ where our towns and cities are filled to the brim with personalities and of difference race and ethnicity share this culture that we call American society. I

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    Difference between race (biological) and ethnicity (cultural) – While the term ‘race’ emphasizes biological differences based on skin colour‚ ethnicity denotes the sense of belonging to a particular community whose members share common cultural traditions. Ethnicity isn’t just a question of affiliation; it’s also a question of choice. It’s also a question of group membership. And it’s usually associated with a geographic region. A race is a “local geographic or global human population distinguished

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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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    Race and the Death Penalty

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    Yiseily De los Santos December 18‚ 2014 Race and the Death Penalty The death penalty is an extremely difficult topic to discuss for many individuals. There are many individuals who have trouble accepting this form of punishment still exists in the U.S. because of they find it to be inhumane. A lot of individuals have argued that the death penalty serves no justice and the punishment is basically a crime for a crime. There has also been a correlation with race and the death penalty‚ specifically in

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    Bacon's Four Idols

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    Bacon’s “The Four Idols” Bacon’s “The Four Idols” is about the reasoning behind our difficulties in understanding the world around us. Bacon describes four types of idols which are the idols of the Tribe; the second‚ idols of the Cave; the third‚ idols of the Marketplace‚ and the fourth‚ idols of the Theatre‚ which in his point of view are natural features of human nature that are common to us all. In order to improve our understanding of the world‚ we as individuals need see things in the correct

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    J.C English 103 Professor Acosta March 17‚ 2014 The Marker of Race One can imagine that before the existence of racial categories one of the considerable categories for people was based on how they grouped themselves. However when an outsider is who names that group from a different perspective the association behind that name may change the social outcomes of how the group is perceived. The naming of a group can come with a perceive difference especially if the category of identity is merely

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    state. History shows a high state of civilization has been produced‚ the struggle of race with race‚ and the survival of the physically and mentally fitter race. To know if whether the lower races of man can evolve a higher type‚ the only course is to leave them to fight it out among themselves and even then there will be struggle for the existence between individual and individual. The struggle of race against race and also nation against nation are very similar. In the early days many were blinded

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    Cross Word Puzzle

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    Nicole misolas Lance albert calisura Alona marjalino WHY‚ HELLO THERE! YOU ARE A VALUED PERSON FOR READING THIS MAGAZINE. BUT BEFORE YOU GO ON WITH READING‚ WHY DON’T WE PLAY SOME PUZZLES AND BRAIN TEASERS TO RACK-UP YOUR BRAIN A BIT? READY? Cross word puzzle Math Time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ACROSS: DOWN: 1. 353 – 126 = 1. 526 – 322= 4. 46 x 6 = 2. 519 + 213 = 6. 26 + 330 + 12 = 3

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    We live in frightening times as violence continues to ensue over dogmas surrounding race and ethnicity. As a young millennial‚ I’ve witnessed the tragedies surrounding the deaths of Eric Gardner‚ Trayvon Martin‚ and Michael brown‚ create tensions tragically felt by communities because of race. According to Webster‚ Race is “A category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits”. It is a difficult social dilemma‚ due to the genetic diversity we experience in the United States. For

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    Summary Of Race As Class

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    In this article" Race As Class" by Herbert J. Gans‚ he illuminates that race is an irrelevant representation of individual groups of people since we are of similar species. The main point or the Thesis of this article is The last sentence of the fifth paragraph. “As long as people can roughly agree about who looks white yellow or black and find that the notion of race works for their purposes‚ they ignore its inaccuracies‚ inconsistencies‚ and other deficiencies”. As people we can interbreed with

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