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    Racism

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    Racism is something something we ’ve all witnessed. Many people fail to believe that race isn’t a biological category‚ but an artificial classification of people with no scientifically variable facts. In other words‚ the distinction we make between races has nothing to do with genetic characteristics. Race was created socially‚ primarily by how people perceive ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history‚ the

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    Don’t be Racist: Observations of Racism within Southern California In the textbook Sociology A Down-to-Earth Approach‚ James M. Henslin repeats a phrase coined in 1903 by Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois ‘The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races.’ This is phrase that all American should take into deep consideration in regards to how humans treat one another because of the various skin colors there are in today’s society. In

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    The Port Chicago Disaster

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    The Port Chicago Disaster On the 24 of July 1944‚ a memorandum was written from Captain W. S. Parsons‚ USN to Rear Admiral W. R. Purnell‚ USN. It was a report on the most destructive explosion on United States soil at that time. It was known as the Port Chicago Explosion. Captain Parsons worked in the Bureau of Ordnance as their Liaison Officer. So he was a prime candidate for the job. Rear Admiral Purnell was the head of the Military Policy Committee. This memorandum was not intended to

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    Chicago Race Riots

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    Document 22-5 page 138‚ “An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot.” This document describes how race riots exploded in the summer of 1919 in almost two dozen American cities. White mobs were attacking African Americans by beating‚ shooting‚ and lynching them. After a gory riot in Chicago‚ Stanley B. Norvell‚ an African American man from Chicago wrote to the editor of the Chicago Daily News‚ Victor F. Lawson. In the letter Norvell described the whites’ ignorance of blacks‚ pointing

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    I actually had an entirely different blog post in mind‚ but after the Chicago incident involving the assault on a special needs man it was difficult to write about anything else. Writing about anything else felt like a personal waste of time as this incident is truly what is on my heart and brain. I am assuming you have seen the news about the four assailants who physically and emotionally assaulted a young man with special needs. If you want you can read the story here. I’d rather not plunge

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    My City and Chicago

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    express their feelings and thoughts in their poems. Each writer has his own style. To give a poem their style they use a unique way of treating theme‚ structure and tone. Thanks to these elements‚ readers can compare and contrast similar poems. “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg and “My city” by James Weldon Johnson are two poems that are similar‚ but in their own way different. These poems are similar in the fact that they both talk about the proud the feeling for their cities; their theme and tone are

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    Chicago and India

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    8/26/13 Share 1 Top 10 Best 10 Worst 10 Most Popular in India: Top 10 Most Polluted Cities in India More Next Blog» Create Blog Sign In Top 10 Best 10 Worst 10 Most Popular in India Top 10 Things in India. Top 10 Things in World. Best 10 in India‚ Worst 10 in India‚ Top 10 in India. 10 Most popular in India‚ 10 most popular in world. Top 10 Movies‚ top 10 persons‚ top 10 country‚ top 10 in sports Home Contact Us About Us Thursday‚ 4 July 2013 Popular Posts Top 10 Most Polluted

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    How To Describe The 1930s

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    There are many words to describe the 1930s‚ but equality was not one of them. From injustice lynching and kills of blacks to the stock market crash of 1929 that lead the United States into the Great Depression. The 30s plausible could be the worst years in US history. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ she uncovers all the hardships there were living during that time period. The story takes place in Maycomb a small town in Alabama and is narrated by the main character‚ a little girl named

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    breast cancer.”22 She feels that such a class would ideally be as interactive as possible‚ with a variety of guest speakers to attest to the powers of black women.23 Although The Chicago Defender doesn’t take a stance within the article‚ it publishing such a piece alone is telling. Between these three articles‚ The Chicago Defender takes a strong stance advocating for more black women to involve themselves in the Women’s Liberation Movement. They feel that

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    Frb Chicago

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    Hi John‚ This email confirms your scheduled interview with us on  Thursday‚ September 29‚ 2011 at 11:30 AM.  Our office is located at 230 South LaSalle Street (at the corner of Jackson and LaSalle).  When you enter the bank building‚ please proceed to the security desk and let them know that you are here for an interview with Ling Pyng.  The security personnel will give you a temporary visitor’s pass (must be returned upon your departure).  After you obtain the pass‚ the security officer at the

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