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    yourself and family members in order to salvage. There is maximum tax relief of RM6‚ 000 per annum for premium paid for life insurance included your EPF contributions. Additionally‚ you can pay your parents’ medical bills to claim up to RM5‚ 000 per individual for payments. You may claim a deduction up to RM 500 per tax year for a full medical examination. There is a separate tax deduction up to RM5000 per year is given for necessary basic supporting equipment for disabilities suffered by yourself‚ wife

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    post-colonial America. The novel portrays the discrimination towards non-whites within Manchester county. Different from the history books‚ The Known World also indicates that not only white men owned slave but free black men were also capable of owning slaves. For example‚ Henry Townsend a free black man owned thirty-three slaves and more than fifty acres of land (Jones 5). Edward P. Jones uses institutional racism and intra-racial racism to illustrate discrimination towards race in social order‚ within

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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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    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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    is further perpetuated by the social and cultural environment‚ there are a number of techniques that may help in reducing prejudice. One method‚ for instance‚ is to implement a new form of legislation to protect individuals and cultural groups from discrimination (Hall‚ 2010). For example‚ the American Disability Act (ADA) is an American law that protects the civil rights of individuals with either physical or psychological

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    The Significance of Kokoda

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    The significance of Kokoda for Australian’s can be seen in many different ways. In a strategic sense and also in a symbolic sense. Firstly‚ the Kokoda Campaign saved Australia from possible invasion‚ or more precisely from being isolated from the United States of America . Secondly‚ Kokoda was the battle that lead to victory in the Second World War‚ as well as to improvement of Australia’s post-war practices and military operations. Symbolically‚ the Kokoda Track will be remembered when Australia’s

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    Racial Profiling

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    Kim Johnson Johnson 1 Professor John Aveni English 102 September 26‚ 2011 Racial grouping and categories can be effective and not effective. In the article “Racial Formation in the United States” by Michael Omi and Howard Winant they discuss their views of racial groups in the U.S and their effectiveness on people. In the article “How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America” by Karen Brodkin she discusses how in the past time Jews were considered something

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    Jeannell Purvis Majzoub EDUC 2120 10/5/10 The act of discrimination is as old as mankind. Over the years many people have struggled to overcome whatever discrimination they face or feel is unequivocally unjust. Unfortunately‚ discrimination still continues today. Although‚ here in America‚ we seem to have taken leaps and bounds away from the bigoted society we once lived in‚ discrimination remains. Organizations like the Ku Klux Klan‚ abolitionists‚ and the Women Suffragettes are no longer around

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    Racial Microaggressions

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    The idea of racial microaggressions has been around since the 1970s‚ you may not know any extremists‚ you think “I don’t hate black people‚ so I’m not racist”‚ but you benefit from discrimination. There are certain privileges and opportunities you have that you do not even realize since you have not been deprived in certain ways. Racial microaggressions are a type of perceived racism. They are more subtle and ambiguous than the more hostile or explicit expressions of racism‚ such as racial discrimination

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    Racial Profiling

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    arrests of over 1‚200 people in planned civil disobedience. In a trial that was moved out of the community where Diallo lived and to Albany in upstate New York‚ the four officers who killed Diallo were acquitted of all charges (“The Diallo” online). Racial Profiling is any police or private security practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because of his or her race‚ ethnicity‚ nationality or religion. This occurs when police investigate‚ stop‚ frisk‚ search or use force against a person based

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