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    IF ANY‚ DID THE ANTI- ASIAN RIOT IN 2006 HAVE ON THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN SOLOMON ISLANDS NAME: FITHBERT NIVANI UNIT: PG 214- ASIAN INFLUENCE IN THE PACIFIC LECTURER: MR. BENARD YEGIORA REVIEWED BY: QUENTIN TALINGAPUA ------------------------------------------------- CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION 2. CAUSE OF THE RIOT 3.1 INCREASED NUMBER OF CHINESE IN SOLOMON ISLANDS 3.2 MAL TREATMENT OF INDIGENOUS 3. THE INFLUENCE THE ANTI ASIAN RIOT HAVE ON THE GENERAL PAUBLIC

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    Rigoberto Rodriguez Professor Beeles SPA 281 April 26‚ 2016 The Emergence of the Zoot Suits In the early ’40s in Los Angeles‚ several factors made the city remain under stress‚ contributing to conflicts known as the Zoot Suit Riots. Decades of discrimination have forced the Mexican-American community to turn inward. By the 1940‚ LA 240‚000 Mexican-American lived in a series of neighborhoods called barrios. These communities were traditional‚ conservative and self-contained. During those years‚ segregations

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    The 1990’s were filled with many joys‚ inventions and awesome people‚ but it was also filled with madness and chaos. Many things happened in America that shocked the people of this country. One of those events was the Los Angeles riots. The L.A. riots changed America and gave a new name to “protest.” Twenty-four years later people still remember the horrific incident. April 1992‚ four white police officers were acquitted of a savage beating on a man named Rodney King. This act of aggression was

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    The Detroit Race Riot of 1943 Race has been an issue that America has fought and struggled with since the Founding Fathers laid down its foundation. While American soldiers were fighting in World War II‚ there was also fighting on American soil between different races. African Americans and whites were having confrontations all over‚ but Detroit happened to be one of the worst confrontations between the two races. Many African Americans began to flock to Detroit for jobs in the Motor City

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    Camp Hill the day that lasted 72 hours On October 25‚ 1989 more than 1‚300 inmates at the Camp Hill State Correctional Institution rioted. The rioters took at least 8 hostages‚ lighting 4 fires and caused millions of dollars in damage. More then 35 staff members‚ 5 inmates‚ 1 firefighter and 1 state trooper sustain injuries in the worst uprising in Pennsylvania history. Inmates returning from an exercise yard in the late afternoon overwhelmed correctional staff and seized hostages. Inmates

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    Criminology Coursework – Assessing the riots... Criminology is focused on the attempt to understand the meanings involved in social interaction. Theorists have tried to explain sociological behaviour by looking at the patterns created by individuals that commit crime. The August 2011 riots are pivotal in explaining criminological behaviour since official statistics show that 865 individuals were put in prison by the 9th September 2011 for offences related to the disorder between 6th and 9th August

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    The focus here will be the 1992 Los Angeles riot that occurred shortly after the verdict of innocent was announced for the killing of Rodney King. This allowed four police officers who were involved to walk free in Los Angeles of 1992 causing an uproar in communities and neighborhoods across the city. I will analyze the 77th division police officers who responded in large numbers to a call in South Central neighborhood where they heard that another officer got shot. This was one hour after the King

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    Essay- Boal’s theatre of the oppressed Boal’s techniques in theatre are simple ways of being able to express yourself through acting he uses the effect of oppression being used against someone. His techniques give people the option to speak up for themselves and have a say in what they think should be changed or helped. Boal’s theatre created questions that went meant to be brought to the surface and let the public answer them with what they thought. Some of his techniques are image theatre‚ forum

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    population size by liberalizing in terms of the immigrants policies. To that‚ the government has thoughtfully planned their policies such that it allows optimal interaction among the people in the Singapore society. After the upsetting Mariah Hertogh riot in the 1960s‚ it had certainly left the Singapore population a deep impression and a take-away

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    1967 Race Riots: The Decline of Detroit The 1967 Detroit Race Riots were called “one of the most violent urban revolts of the 20th century” (Wang‚ n.d.). The riots were one of the main causes for Detroit’s harsh economic decline and deterioration. The once booming city with a population of over two million people produced products that changed people’s way of living. Today‚ Detroit sits in poverty and is the center of despair. Through the examination of civil unrest‚ deindustrialization‚ and trends

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