Notion 3 : Seats and forms of power (African Americans) The Declaration of independence and the Jim crow laws : An american paradox Today I’m going to talk about the notion Seats and Forms of power and my issue is "Is the declaration of independence and the jim crow laws an american paradox?"To begin with I guess it would be appropriate to explain how the notion is related to the issue and in order to do that i’ll have to go back in the 19th when Lincoln abolished slavery(1863)
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Victor Ferreira The New Jim Crow Chapter 2 Incarceration rates in the United States have exploded due to the convictions for drug offenses. Today there are half a million in prison or jail due to a drug offense‚ while in 1980 there were only 41‚100. They have tripled since 1980. The war on drugs has contributed the most to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color‚ most of them African-Americans. The drug war is aimed to catch the big-time dealers‚ but the majority of the people
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I found my favorite quote after I read the book SOLD in class. The book was about a young girl who got sold into the sex slave trade and it illustrated her realization of how horrible the world can be. Even the people who should depend on can cross you and become untrustworthy. My quote is by Patricia McCormick who writes a main character named Lakshmi. The main character snuck down after a customer and saw the woman who owned her paying off a police officer to look the other way. She began to realize
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What a thing of beauty is the well-written 500-word essay. In some ways‚ it is the perfect length to express a certain level of knowledge about a particular subject. It is long enough to allow the writer to show familiarity‚ and possibly expertise‚ regarding her chosen topic. But it is not a length that requires copious amounts of research. When sufficiently motivated‚ one can manage to research‚ write‚ and revise such an essay in an hour or two‚ given enough practice. Given the fact that students
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The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ is a book about the discrimination of African Americans in today ’s society. One of Alexander ’s main points is the War on Drugs and how young African American males are targeted and arrested due to racial profiling. Racial profiling‚ discrimination‚ and segregation is not as popular as it used to be during the Civil War‚ however‚ Michelle Alexander digs deeper‚ revealing the truth about
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are commonly accepted; however‚ the novel Crow Lake takes a different stand from these myths. Mary Lawson‚ author of the novel‚ demonstrated isolations in many of its forms through the protagonist‚ Kate‚ and a small‚ desolated rural community that represented the primary setting of the novel‚ Crow Lake. By doing so‚ Lawson reveals the counterfactual nature of these myths and thus correcting the misconceptions that the society has about isolation. In Crow Lake‚ Lawson eliminates the misconception
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a very important and integral part of any safety and health system. Personal protective equipment is used in many industries and it’s very common for workers wear more than one type of PPE to protect against different hazards in the workplace. PPE should always be comfortable for the user‚ compatible with their body type‚ and effective when protecting them from the hazards. PPE is not always the first step to take when preparing or improving a safety
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different texts: Mary Lawson’s Crow Lake‚ and David Auburn’s Proof‚ though not necessarily in the most traditional sense of the word. The characters in both texts are greatly influenced by education‚ both formal and informal‚ which in turn‚ becomes a key element in their overall success. Formal education takes a powerful position in both Crow Lake as well as in Proof‚ and is part of the reason the characters In both find themselves becoming successful. Crow Lake From the very
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"500 years later" reflection “500 years later” is a documentary filmed the tragic and inequality treatment for African people after the slave trade. At the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ European colonists increasingly turned African slaves for labor to Caribbean and Europe. In the 200 years of slave trade‚ hundreds millions of African slaves were shipped to America‚ Caribbean and Europe. The Black inferiority and White supremacy is still dominate in the Western societies and it results
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