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    The End of the Race

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     The End of the Race Thinking about the outcome of mixing races‚ are Asians and Europeans distinguishable in the distant future? As intermarriage goes intense‚ there would be many minorities in race. In contrast‚ majorities’ attitudes toward minorities generate discrimination simultaneously; minorities are more likely to be exposed to prejudice. However‚ Steve Olson says that each mixed individuals are the key to weaken the barricade between races. Matthijis Kalmijin also supports

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    What do you believe about writing‚ and why? What do you believe about writing‚ and why? I believe that writing can be a great tool for everyone in order to express themselves freely. Not everyone is a writer; some people have to work at putting their thoughts and words together‚ before putting them to paper. We are all unique in how we express ourselves; some are just more creative than others. How do we as individuals‚ get to that point to be able to expand or elaborate further on paper

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    Refugees are people who are forced to flee their home because of wars‚ religious persecution‚ and natural disaster. These are the 3 main reasons why the refugees flee. It’s a tough decision for the Refugees to flee their home‚ because when they flee‚ they may have to left behind their family members‚ home‚ precious stuff‚ such as memories etc. And then‚ when they move to a new country as a refugee‚ they struggle a lot‚ such as- learning a new language etc. Which turns their life inside out. In the

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    Why Do Suicide Bombers Exist? Suicide bombing is believed to be one of the ultimate acts of terrorism. It is horrific in its results‚ and the act of bombing itself does not choose who it kills. It kills all‚ adults‚ man and woman‚ children‚ and the saddest thing is that it kills the innocent. The propagation of suicide bombing nowadays has been increasing‚ especially in the Arab world where it seems that peace will not reign there for years or so. That area of the world has been a battleground

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    How Do You Feel About Atheism? Lauren Martino Inquiry Skills Pre- IB Ms. DiVarco 29‚ April 2012 Word Count: 1277 0699118 Table of Contents I. Introduction A. Are there signs that Atheism is spreading globally within the past 20 years II. Body B. Population which believes in Atheism a. Start off with a block quote to catch the reader’s attention about which part of the world believes in Atheism b. Have statistics to show change over time of different

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    the road when suddenly; robbers attacked him‚ beat him‚ stole every possession he had‚ and left him there half dead. Later that day‚ a Jewish priest and a Levite walked by and ignored the Jew as if they had not seen him. However a Samaritan‚ a race hated by Jews‚ bandaged the man’s wounds‚ put him on his donkey‚ took him to an inn‚ and since the Jew was robbed of all his money‚ the Samaritan paid the innkeeper to care for him until he was well. Jesus tells this story because of how compelling

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    The Space Race

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    During the late 1950s to the mid 1970s‚ the US and the Soviet Union‚ the two Cold War rivals‚ engaged in a Space Race‚ a fierce competition for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The Soviet Union achieved an early lead in the Space Race by launching the first artificial satellite into the space with Sputnik 1. The United States quickly followed suit three months later with the launch of Explorer 1. Unsatisfied with being the second to reach space‚ President John F. Kennedy set his sights for a

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    Discrimination is the unfair treatment of people due to their race‚ age‚ religion‚ national origin‚ or sex. People discriminate for different reasons. The first theory is social transmission; people learn discrimination through social transmissions of prejudices. The second theory is similarity attraction hypothesis (byrne); people like other people who are like themselves based on exposure. The third theory is social identification and categorization (tajfel and turner); people feel like their being

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    Race and the Victorians

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    and issues in the metropole o Bill Schwartx‚ The White Man’s World (2011): ‘black and white are reciprocal entities… neither can exist without the other‚ for each is already the other’ (p. 184) - Historical debate on race in the British Empire o Brattlinger‚ Taming Cannibals‚ Race and the Victorians o Racism endemic to systemn (expansive view) o ‘Ideologies of racism and imperialism were deeply symbiotic and often indistinguishable frm each other.’ – at home and abroad o ‘Light touch’ of other

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    German defeat throughout WW1 and for the economic hardships in Germany. dictators believed that the supreme human possessed blonde hair and blue eyes which we should rid of the globe of Jews‚ gypsies‚ and also the disabled. dictators planned to try to do this by making his men‚ aka Nazis‚ to kill‚ mistreat‚ and abduct anyone guilty of such things. On September fifteenth‚ 1935 dictators began imposing the Nuremberg Laws that created it exhausting for Jews to participate in their traditional everyday

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