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    Press Release Adam Yassa CJA 304 Oct 29‚ 2013 Dr SAMARA Press Release Racial Profiling In California‚ the criminal justice system is experiencing problems that appear overwhelming when it comes to racial profiling .Racial profiling not only respects individuals Legal rights‚ but it is considered ineffective policing. On Monday‚ the ACLU of Southern California released a report investigating more than 700‚000 cases in which Los Angeles Police Department officers stopped pedestrians and/or drivers

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    Though Turgenev’s disdain of the serf system is consistent‚ he clearly values his Russian heritage over the new regime of westerners. His main way of portraying this is through the depiction of the two love interests in the doctor’s life; the peasant girl Aleksandra and his more recent wife‚ Akulina‚ the merchant’s daughter. Aleksandra is young and beautiful. While she is presumably

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    referred to as a "perfect" society. In their attempt to escape the persecution they had come so accustomed to‚ they set up their own rigid belief system based on the inclusion of the human soul and the exclusion of everything else as being unimportant (Wolff 14). The belief system of the Puritans allowed for several different types of theologies‚ two of which are the Covenant theology and the Paradise theology. The Covenant Theology is‚ in fact‚ the theology upon which the Puritan sect of religion

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    How does p’Bitek communicate his ideas about the clash between Acoli and Western culture through his presentation of the ritual of dance? Throughout “Song of Lawino” p’Bitek represents various contrasts between Acoli and Western cultures‚ by focusing on different aspects of the every day life of the Acoli. His representations of the ritual of dance‚ which defamiliarises Western culture and ways‚ presents his passion to keep Acoli culture alive and strong‚ without it becoming westernized. P’Bitek’s

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    wrote before he was shot by the natives. He described that the Christian civilization is "riddled through and through with dilemma". The manuscript by Arthur shows that although the Westerners have suppressed the natives and destroyed their culture‚ their own civilization is full of destruction and tragedy. The Westerners think of themselves as superior and suppress the natives. From the passage it is shown that they deny giving education to the natives because they think that it would not help the

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    Chapter 1 From X-Rays to Ion Beams: A Short History of Radiation Therapy James M. Slater Abstract Radiation therapy (RT) developed in several eras. Patients’ needs for more effective treatment guided the efforts. The development of ion beam therapy (IBT) can be seen as a corollary in this continuous endeavor to optimize disease control while minimizing normal-tissue damage. It could not have materialized‚ however‚ without the curiosity‚ ingenuity‚ and perseverance of researchers‚ engineers

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    Introduction: The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development"‚ "high human development"‚ "medium human development"‚ and "low human development" countries. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy‚ literacy‚ education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being‚ especially child welfare. It is used to

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    The cultural influence of difference in focus and categorization In the research article‚ “The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception” provided by Richard E. Nisbett and Yuri Miyamoto‚ there is evidence that perceptual processes are influenced by culture. The research found that Western cultures focus on salient objects and use rules and categorization for purposes of organizing the environment‚ whereas‚ East Asian cultures focus more holistically on relationships and similarities

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    defined “general sociology” (positivism) subject matter as “the whole of historical life insofar as it is formed societally”. Simmel disagrees‚ through his discussion of sociology as a method he finds that this is sociology’s first “problem area” (Kurt Wolff‚ 1950)‚ he never defines his subject matter but I feel that it is the “forms of sociation” that he is interested in. Simmel‚ although he never gives us a strict guide book to his methodology and many times contradicts himself‚ was trying to form

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    It puts more stress and pressure when parents talk about how well an athlete will do. “During car rides to games‚ listening to parents remind us how to do this or that in the game‚ can be boring” (Wolff and Groehner). If a child gets bored just talking about the game‚ most likely it’s just going to make them even more nervous and puts more pressure on them if they don’t do what the parents say. “My dad comes to watch all my games. On the way to the

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