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    Essay Topic I: EthnicityRace and Culture: Austria Austria is not a big country; it’s ranked on 115th place in total area and 92nd in total population. But not so long ago the Austrian-Hungarian Empire was one of the “big players” by the end of the 19th century in Europe. That Empire has been a mixture of many different and strongly varying cultures and ethnicities‚ which remains as one of the reasons why it probably fell apart and got divided into different nations. So what is it now‚ that

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    Order 1 Race and Ethnicity Race is the classification of human beings into classes based on their traits‚ ancestry background or the relations they may have. Ethnicity focuses on a social group with common ancestry background. The target audiences of the article I read is the American population at large as well as people across the world who have concerns about race and ethnicity. The most important lesson I have learnt is that race and ethnicity are ways of seeing and understanding the world around

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    What Respect Means to You

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    Emma 13‚ Oct 2011 Respect Others the Way We Want to be Treated To me‚ respect means we honor people’s opinions‚ their feelings‚ their values and their religions as well. It also means we accept people as they are without any prejudice and conditions. However‚ as soon as I got into college‚ I realized that respect is also something that I have to earn from others‚ which means that I not only have to get involved into them‚ but also have to be trustworthy to them‚ and that is how a friendship

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    Dreams and What They Mean Psychologists seem to fall into two groups regarding dreams. The first group believes that dreams have no real purpose; while the second group believes they do have a purpose‚ although this group cannot reach a consensus on what the purpose might be. Sigmund Freud is probably the most famous of the dream theorists. He believed that dreams helped to preserve sleep by keeping individuals from waking as a result of physical urges such as needing to go to the bathroom

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    Race / Ethnicity: Compare and Contrast Although the topic of the certain short stories and poems have different themes and comprehension of what corresponding works that might have similar or different topics‚ will tell a person what racial background and ethnicities are represented in the short story “Country Lovers” and the poem “What It’s like to be a Black Girl”. Finding out whether the characters are the same‚ if the setting is different between the two‚ if the theme told outright or

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    My initial or immediate reaction to the lesson on race and ethnicity through our lecture‚ readings‚ individual and group participation was slightly surprising. I discovered I didn’t consider myself the same as society classified me. This discovery was actually rather frustrating. I don’t want to be known only as a 34-year-old‚ Caucasian‚ female. I don’t want to be aggregated or perceived as someone who is lumped into the same category as everyone else. I want to be perceived as I see myself

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    Comparative Paper of Race/Ethnicity Kimberly Stratton Ballantyne ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Fawn VonFrohling March 28‚ 2011 Racial background and ethnicities are represented in the short stories “Country Lovers”‚ “The Welcome Table”‚ and the poem “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl”. All of these stories have a main character or protagonist black female. All three of these women deal with some degree of discrimination because of their color. The hardships that these women suffer

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    A. Collins Bart Stykes Intro Sociology November 6‚ 2012 Race and Ethnicity One problem that seems to be increasing over time is the unmarried birth rates in America. Increasing from 18.4% of all births in 1980 to over 40% in 2010(FP-12-06)‚ the current rate is showing that over the last 3 decades teens are becoming more apt to engage in pre-marital sex. The changing in norms and values over the past three decades has lead to a huge increase in unmarried birth rates increasing. It’s not really

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    based on raceethnicity‚ age‚ gender‚ sexual orientation—almost any characteristic. They may be positive (usually about one’s own group‚ such as when women suggest they are less likely to complain about physical pain) but are often negative (usually toward other groups‚ such as when members of a dominant racial group suggest that a subordinate racial group is stupid or lazy). In either case‚ the stereotype is a generalization that doesn’t take individual differences into account. Where do stereotypes

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    re-examine my beliefs‚ values and assumptions. In particular‚ Sociology has increased my awareness of inequality in society‚ such as ethnic differences and discrimination‚ of which I was previously unaware. This interest was enhanced after reading ‘Race and Ethnicity in Education’ by Gill Crozier in Sociology Review. Crozier’s article about ethnic minorities underachieving within the education system made me realise the impact racism can have on an individual’s future and this theme of inequality has pervaded

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