Victor Ferreira The New Jim Crow Chapter 2 Incarceration rates in the United States have exploded due to the convictions for drug offenses. Today there are half a million in prison or jail due to a drug offense‚ while in 1980 there were only 41‚100. They have tripled since 1980. The war on drugs has contributed the most to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color‚ most of them African-Americans. The drug war is aimed to catch the big-time dealers‚ but the majority of the people
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The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Revised Edition M I C H E L L E A L E X A N D E R © 20 I 0‚ 201 2 by Michelle Alexander All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form‚ without written permission from the publisher. Request for permission to reproduce selections from this book should be mailed to: Permissions Department‚ The New Press. 38 Greene Street‚ New York‚ NY 10013. Published in the United States by The New Press‚ New
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social structure‚ educational system‚ political system and sources of abuses in the administrative system. The Filipinos are ruled by the Spaniards in the 19th century. The Spaniards claimed all forms of taxes while the Filipinos are appointed to work with the Spaniards. The poor became poorer because of being slaves. The social structure of the Philippines in the 19th century is like a pyramid where in the Spanish officials and friars has the authority and power. They enjoyed their positions and
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. The tragedies in Poe’s life are reflected in his poem‚ “The Raven‚” and can be predominately seen through the comparison between the loss of his wife‚ and the narrators loss of Lenore. The apparent tone in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” seemingly represents a very painful condition of mind‚ an intellect sensitive to madness and the abyss of melancholy brought upon by the death of a beloved lady. The parallelism of Poe’s own personal problems with those of the narrator in “The Raven‚” and the repetitive
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Chapter 15LIFE AND WORKS IN LONDON(1888-89) 3. Stay in LondonLived in London May 1888 to Mar. 18893 reasons why he stayed there:To improve the his knowledge of the English LanguageTo study and annotate Morga’sSucesos de Las Islas FilipinasLondon was a safe place for him to carry on his fight against Spanish TyrannyFilipiniana studiesCompleting annotating Morga’s booksWrote many articles in La SolidaridadPenned Young Women of MalolosHad romance with Gertrude Beckett 4. Trip Across the AtlanticMade
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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was considered a pioneer in radical heart surgery and in the establishment of Provident Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was born on January 18‚ 1856‚ in Hollidaysburg‚ Pennsylvania. He was one of seven children. Growing up‚ at the age of 17‚ Williams worked part-time in a barbershop while he was living with one of his sisters. Williams received his preparatory and college education in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He later took a two-year apprenticeship with
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Where is Daniel Dennett? Daniel Dennett was a special ops agent for the U.S. government who was placed in a very unique situation. In order to complete a secret government mission presumably during the cold war‚ he was required to have his brain removed. Dennett had to have his brain removed in order to extract a warhead buried a mile beneath Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. With his brain removed from his body‚ though still connected and in total control of his body through radio transmitters‚ he asked one
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Duane Hanson he was born in 1925 at Alexandria‚ Minnesota and started being a realist in his early teens. He entered Luther collage in Decorah‚ IA. Known for his ultra-realistic sculpture depicting ordinary people going about their daily-life activities such as mowing lawns‚ sitting at tables‚ playing games and other normal stuff we do every day. After attendance at Luther College and the University of Washington‚ he graduated from Macalaster College in 1946. 1953 to 1960‚ Hanson lived in Munich
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Daniel Day-Lewis has been hailed as one of Britain’s greatest actors ever since he lit up the screen In My Beautiful Laundrette twenty-two years ago. Daniel day-Lewis demonstrates his great talent in My Left Foot as Christy brown who suffers from cerebral palsy and in Gangs of New York as Bill “The Butcher” cutting the leader of The Natives. In My Left Foot‚ Daniel Day-Lewis is Christy Brown a talented artist and writer who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Day-Lewis draws the audience into his world
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Boots is one of the best known and most respected retail names in the United Kingdom for providing health and beauty products and various services‚ operating in 130 countries worldwide with 1300 stores. It has a professional hair-care line consisting of shampoos‚ conditioners and styling products developed in collaboration with United Kingdom’s top celebrity hairdressers. The primary objective of the company has been to drive sales volumes and trade-up consumers from lower-value brands‚ while retaining
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