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    Greyhound Lines

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    Greyhound Lines is the intercity bus transportation company which operating on low profits and unable to meet the customer demand (Greyhound‚ 2011). Based on the case study‚ in order to reduce operating costs and improve customer service‚ reduction in employees‚ routes and services has been done. However‚ this action leads to discourtesy of customers. Besides this‚ the introduction of Trips which is mainly to resolve problems in the highly complex software actually creates lots of problems. The problems

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    Racial Profiling

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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 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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    Racial Profiling

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    Huttner- Eng 101 Research Paper 03/27/2012 Racial Profiling Racial Profiling exists in today’s society. It has become a serious issue within communities. Racial Profiling can be defined as the practice of subjecting citizens to increased surveillance or scrutiny based on racial or ethnic factors rather than “reasonable suspicion”. Over the years‚ police and other law enforcement officials have come under fire for using this practice. The issue of racial profiling is determining whether it helps

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    Racial Profiling

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    Racial Profiling The definition of racial profiling is prejudging someone by their ethnicity or racial profile based on the stereotypes that an ethnic group may carry. Racial profiling acknowledgement in America has grown rapidly over time and has really been on the rise since the September 11‚ 2001 bombings of the Twin Towers in New York City and of the Pentagon in Arlington‚ Virginia. But is racial profiling defensible to the American public policy? Some people think like Scott Johnson

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    Racial Profiling

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    Justice defines racial profiling as a police-initiated action relying on race or ethnicity besides the behavior of any individual who is suspected of engaging in criminal activity. Amnesty international‚ on the other hand‚ defines racial profiling as the use of race‚ ethnicity‚ and religion‚ to target individuals or groups by law enforcement officers because of lack of trustworthy information linking the aforementioned groups to crime or a scheme (Leonard

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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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    Racial Autobiography

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    race group mistreat or persecute another group. It is essential for us to remember to treat others the way you want to be treated. My story of racial slurs are many‚ I have been called many slurs by many non-whites. It does literally no effect on our race. But sometimes it really angers me. What really saddens me though is I heard minorities use racial slurs against other minorities. Some friends might say it for fun‚ but it irritates people and if they are too sensitive‚ those slurs should not

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    Romeo And Juliet's Fault

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    “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal‚ love leaves a memory no one can steal” (from a headstone in Ireland). When people die their loved ones often face depression and mourn for a long time especially if that loved one is someone you raised and watched grow up over the years. Sometimes individuals like to blame people for their loved ones death when in actuality there could be just more than one person to blame or no one at all. The death of Romeo and Juliet in William Shakespeare’s play is very

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    The New Madrid Fault Zone

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    The New Madrid Fault Zone History The largest earthquake sequence the United States has ever experienced happened east of the Rocky Mountains starting out in Northeast Arkansas on December 16‚ 1811. On the Richter scale‚ it was ~7.7 and five hours later AK experienced an aftershock of a magnitude of ~7.0. A little over a month later on January 23‚ 1812 New Madrid‚ MO experienced an earthquake with a magnitude of ~7.5‚ and again on February 7‚ 1812 reaching a magnitude of ~7.7. By March 15

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