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    In American history there are many different cases where minority groups have been harassed and attacked violently. There was a time where mobs of people could lynch or beat up a black person just because they looked at you funny‚ didn’t follow the black codes‚ or just because they didn’t like you and most of the time the people got away and the black people just took it. Violence was everywhere in America at this time. “Jim Crow didn’t discriminate between “good” Negroes and “bad” Negroes; every

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    Most Significant Events Final Project K A University of Phoenix: Axia College Jonathan Tietz November 28‚ 2010 Most Significant Events of the 50`s‚ 60`s 70`s 80`s and 90`s World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945. This was a war that involved most of the world’s nations and all of the world’s greatest powers. When the war ended the events that followed over the next five decades had a great effect on the American people. There are some events that had more of an effect than others

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       On the surface both Great Britain and America fulfil all the basic requirements of democracy‚ they have universal suffrage‚ and both governments are regularly held accountable to the people. However‚ when it comes to judging which is the most democratic‚ you have to look at how each system works. When looking at the governmental systems up close it is easy to see them both as being less than full democratic.             In both the UK and USA any citizen‚ be they male or female‚ black or white‚ has

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    educational opportunities for the poor and for members of minority groups. Everyone deserves an equal chance of education it shouldn’t matter how poor a person is or their minority group. There are many reasons as to why school systems provide inferior education to the poor. The lack of parents participating in schools today‚ the lack of community support such as the local businesses‚ the higher levels of disciplinary incidents in the low income and minority schools‚ the payment rate the teachers are getting

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    lot of communication. That seems like a reasonable conversation for people that had a close bond. They did not talk every day. It seemed like they had something similar

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    populations can have adverse effects on both the viewers and the groups being represented. The two articles I chose to compare look into how advertisers choices on who to represent in their ads leads to certain outcomes. The first‚ by Spoor‚ Jetten‚ & Hornsey‚ addresses the overrepresentation of minority groups by larger‚ more powerful groups or organizations. Specifically in this case‚ the authors look at the overrepresentation of Asian Minorities at a specific university‚ and both the intended and unintended

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    INEQUALITY Minority group status- treated differently from dominant group *woman considered a minority group *has nothing to do with numbers 4 characteristics ascribed status- born into it ‚ have no control over it Treated differently based on ascribed characteristics U develop a self identity based on membership in this group we develop an awareness of a shared identity. Ethnicity- voluntary‚ fluid and multiple‚ cultural differences‚ not physical appearance. Race- a group of people

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    of as affluent whites giving to poor non-whites. Each racial/ethnic group‚ and even the communities within these groups have different philanthropic practices‚ but they all make important contributions to society. One commonality that I noticed for giving practices between minority groups is their tendency to send money “back home” to family or friends who are still living in their home countries. This is most commonly seen in Latino and Asian groups‚ and is an informal way of giving--an important

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    Racial groups describes a group that is set apart from the others because of physical differences that have taken on social significance. (Schaefer‚229) An ethnic group is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.(Schaefer‚229) Race refers to a person physical differences. For example; skin‚ bone structure‚ hair‚and eye color. Ethnicity refers to cultural factors. Examples of ethnicity are‚nationality‚ ancestry‚ and language. The comparison

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    Race is something I have thought a lot about with my intentions on becoming a teacher. Ninety percent of our teachers today are white (Lee‚ Menkart‚ & Okazawa-Rey‚ 2008). With being white I will soon be apart of this standard‚ as well as being a stereotype of an educator because I am a woman. Going up I have only had white teachers and could count the number of male teachers on one hand. My elementary years where quite different then my high school years. I attended elementary and middle school in

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