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    Racial Profiling

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    Racial Profiling A person should not be judged due to their appearance. Today skin color makes you a suspect in America. It makes you more likely to be stopped‚ more likely to be searched‚ and more likely to be arrested and imprisoned. When police officers stop or charge a person based on their race; that’s racial profiling. Racial profiling has been occurring around the nation for years. Statistics show that if a Caucasian man and an African American man are both driving a nice car and speeding

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    Prejudice and Discrimination Prejudice and discrimination have been prevalent throughout human history. Prejudice has to do with the inflexible and irrational attitudes and opinions held by members of one group about another‚ while discrimination refers to behaviors directed against another group. Being prejudiced usually means having preconceived beliefs about groups of people or cultural practices. Prejudices can either be positive or negative—both forms are usually preconceived and difficult

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    Against Racial Profiling and/or other forms of profiling in dealing with security and immigration issues.  Group Members: Shay‚ Bryce‚ Brandon‚ Ariana  Opening Argument  Main Argument: Racial profiling is defined as the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race‚ ethnicity‚ religion or national origin by the American civil Liberties union. How can something that… Racial profiling violates our constitutional

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    Racial Disparities in America’s Judicial System The mandatory imprisonment policies written for the judicial system are creating disparity of minority inmate population primarily due to non-violent drug crimes and the unjust mandatory minimum sentencing laws. America’s prisons are the most populated in the world‚ and they are disproportionately populated by minorities due to the set of mandatory imprisonment policies set in place. Over the past five decades‚ the disparity between races has widened

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    Today’s discussion will be the effects of discrimination and how it’s affecting within today’s culture. With discrimination increasing within the United States today‚ society itself is going to separate between whites‚ blacks‚ and other cultures that reside in North America. The areas that are affected by discrimination are as follows; businesses which can adversely affect the economy‚ social groups can be affected and therefore form radical groups against one culture. One job hires an individual

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    Racial Equality

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    “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”- President Jimmy Carter. Racial Equality...Will it ever be achieved in the United States? Studies and Interviews have been done to figure this question out all with different answers. In the book‚ To Kill A MockingBird by Harper Lee. The narrator‚ a little girl named Scout Finch‚ lives in Maycomb‚ Alabama in the 1930s. She attends a trial in which her father is an attorney for the defendant. The trial is about an African

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    • The USSR invaded Hungary to prevent an uprising and there was doubt that the Olympic Games would even go ahead. • The Melbourne Games did proceed‚ but the tensions between Hungary and the USSR led to a violent clash between the two countries during an Olympic water polo match. • Australia finished with excellent results at the Melbourne Olympics‚ coming in third behind the United States and the USSR with a total of 35 medals‚ including 13 gold. • Our greatest medal haul was in the swimming

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    Racial Mountain

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    The Racial Mountain   What is the Harlem Renaissance? The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that was prompted by the advocacy of racial equality that began in the early 1920s and lasted into the 1930s. Also known as the “New Negro Movement”‚ the Renaissance was the development of African American culture‚ and was the most influential movement in African American literary history‚ cultural literature‚ and music‚ theatrical and visual arts. Participants such as Zora Neal Hurston‚ W.E.B

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    Life in the 1950s or 2000s Monday‚ Febuary 11 2013 By: Lexie Barnes Would I rather live in America in the 1950s or America in the 2000s? I would most definatly live in America in the 1950s because there was no internet to cause drama‚ cyberbulling etc. It was a lot less expensive for everything then America in the 2000s and also kids were not as messed up as they have became in the 2000s. Firstly‚ now in the 2000s we have internet‚ yes it is benificial in some ways because you can

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    Homosexuality has been around for hundreds of years and exists in many species of animals including humans‚ but why are humans the only species that seem to reject the idea? Homosexuality goes back as far as the B.C.s and was widely accepted‚ then over the years some parts of humanity have evolved into hating others around them based on sexual orientation. People could be worrying about war and murder‚ yet they choose to argue over topics involving who a man or woman happens to love. Why do people

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