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    Racial Diversity

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    Associate Program Material Racial Diversity in Society Worksheet Part I Complete the following using the MySocLab Social Explorer Map: Income Inequality by Race (located on the student website) as a reference: • Select 1 racial group from the list below: o African American o Asian American o Arab American o Hispanic American/Latino o White/Caucasian • Write a 150- to 300-word summary of the economic‚ social‚ and political standings of that group. Use

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    Racial Disparity

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    Racial Disparity in Sentencing Racial Disparity in Sentencing Sharon Douglas CJA/423 November 29‚ 2010 Robert Wertz Racial Disparity in Sentencing Although the criminal justice system improved over the years‚ racial disparity and discrimination contributes to the overrepresentation of minorities in prison. Currently‚ the United States is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse nations (Scully‚ 2000). However‚ Caucasian is still the predominant race in American society‚ and statistics

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    true for every nation involved. Specifically‚ America underwent many major changes in tradition after World War II ravaged the world. Although Americans did not experience firsthand the destruction of their homeland like their European counterparts‚ the events of World War II did drastically transform America. One of the most major changes brought to the U.S. by World War II was the change in women’s role in society. Traditionally‚ women in America were not seen as a group of people who were supposed

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    Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the theme is that you shouldn’t discriminate anyone. One of the three who were discriminated in this book were the african-americans‚ the african-americans were the group of people who accumulated copious quantities of discrimination and presumably the worst out of the three. “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads‚ they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts‚ when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word‚ the white always wins. They’re

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    Racial Gap

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    Racial Gap Racism isn’t a very new topic. This issue has been there since many years and it is not reducing. Racism exists everywhere‚ especially in schools‚ which reflect in the student’s grades. There is a problem within our education system and that there is racial profiling that happens in which kids of color or minorities are not given the same preference or acknowledgment from not only their peers but their teachers too. Race has always been a deciding factor for many things. But‚ do our

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    Racial profiling.

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    There are several controversial issues surrounding racial profiling and the various problems that are encountered as a result of it. One issue is whether or not racial profiling exists. Most law enforcement departments refuse to undergo a study and they deny that racial profiling exists. These problems‚ coupled with the status of literature regarding this topic at this point‚ are more unreliable than scientific. In addition‚ the topic is controversial because the United States believes that it has

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    1950's in the U.S.

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    The 1950’s in the United States of America were characterized by a strong fear of communism‚ growing consumerism due to a healthy and fast growing postwar industry and the belief that the nuclear family is the heart of the American society. If we examine these three ideologies closer and oppose them to Stephanie Coontz opinion expressed in her essay “Leave It to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet: American Families in the 1950s‚”‚ we see that many myths existed about the 1950’s. After World War Two

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    1950's Nostalgia

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    1950s Nostalgia Real and Imagined Stephanie Coontz is a professor of Family History at the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. She is a nationally recognized expert on the family and an award winning writer. In her 1997 book “The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families”‚ Stephanie Coontz wrote an essay entitled “What We Really Miss about the 1950s”. In Stephanie Coontz’s “What We Really Miss about the 1950s”‚ she argues that we as

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    Racial Inequality

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    Racial inequality is regrettably imbedded in the history of the United States. Americans like to think of the American colonies as the start or founding of the quest for freedom‚ initially‚ the ending of religious oppression and later political and economic liberty. Yet‚ from the start‚ the fabric of American society was equally founded on brutal forms of supremacy‚ inequality and oppression which involved the absolute denial of freedom for slaves. This is one of the great paradoxes of American history

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    Discrimination

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    Shkarni ENG 110-04 9-6-2013 Discrimination This has been on my mind lately. We grow up in the world where equality is preached all around us. Because of this‚ a person may just believe that modern societies are void of discrimination‚ that we’ve evolved‚ that it’s a thing of the past. But discrimination happens every day and on many levels: race‚ disability and‚ religion. One day‚ you wake up and realize equality may just be a myth. You realize this when discrimination happens to you. While I

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