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Here are 10 examples of unintentional prejudices obvious to bystanders but which may go unnoticed by individuals participating in making unconscious decisions leading to bias.

In today's politically correct America, everyone is a winner. Everywhere, from schools to homes, people are being told that they are perfect the way they are. While this may be a sign that we, as Americans, are living in a more peaceful world, it also can be disastrous for the

In, “Dog Lab”, Claire McCarthy is a student as Harvard Medical School. She is strong willed with a drive to become the best doctor. Upon hearing about a “dog lab”, she became interested in what the lab had to offer. During class one day the professor introduced the lab, in which students were required to perform an operation on a living dog. This shocked McCarthy in the sense it would require her to go against her morals. This would teach her a Signiant life lesson of having to do something against you believe in for the betterment of something. McCarthy explains “The lab took all day. We cut through the dog’s skin to find an artery and vein, into which we placed catheters. We injected different drugs and chemicals and watched what happened

In life people are often misunderstood for who or what they are. Whether it being who they are or their skin, hair, personality, traits, clothing, religion, or their body. When growing up it seems no matter where I go I always see be misjudged. Usually is my skin, or the way I talk,or the way I act.

The book, Overstory Zero, by Robert Heilman shows readers the lives if Douglas County citizens. One way the author manages to convey this is in the short stories contained within the book. The two stories that are the some of the best representations of these concepts are “Degrees of Understanding”

American Literature Testing the nation(must change) “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

People will judge, by looks and acts. All it takes is an act of kindness, or a little bit of help to put a smile on their face. It could be that man who is begging for change, or the child in middle school who dresses a bit differently. This is made of in the story To Kill a Mockingbird, is a black man named Thomas Robinson, someone in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, it may not be as everything seem. This makes a case and to explain that appearances do not always match up with reality.

Universal Bias: The Disabled It is reasonable to argue that, over the last century or so, the United States has made great strides in addressing issues of injustice. Feminism, the Civil Rights movement, and activism from gay men and women have transformed laws and greatly changed the ways in which

I discovered that I had a reading disability over the course of my first three years in elementary school. This made schoolwork strenuous, which made finding a solution a priority. I fell behind in every subject; but giving up was my last option! During all of this, I felt like I lost myself, along with my “spunky” attitude. By the time I reached the end of fifth grade, my eye doctor suggested that I take my EOG literature test in a separate room, reading every word out loud. This is the test that changed my life. These EOG

Many times, in books and movies, authors and directors have what seem like a flawless character, but who is truly flawed in many ways. People are attracted to flawless characters, loving how they are pure ,but when it comes to flawed characters, people usually think of them as having an ugly personality and features. By making the character seem flawless at first, the character seem sympathetic, but then halfway through the story, the character is most definitely not sympathetic. Louisa May Alcott, the author of Behind a Mask or A Woman’s Power, portrays Jean Muir to be thought of as flawless, being “nineteen” and well educated (5). Jean Muir, however, is not what she shows on the outside, as seen at the end of chapter one, she looks like

Looking or Seeing Making prejudgments about someone can give you a very wrong understanding of a person. In “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the narrator’s wife is having an old friend of hers over and he happens to be blind. The narrator is not fond of blind people, so he makes rude jokes and comments about blind people even though he does not know anything about a blind person, just things he has seen in movies. Something one can take from “Cathedral” is that there is a difference between looking and seeing and the difference can make or break someone as a person. Looking is having the regular normal vision, while seeing is more deep, caring, and understanding.

Conor Fleming The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ignorance The Novel: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, makes a strong presence by its continued, if not redundant display of itself. Far too often in society people 's lack of knowledge on a given subject causes their opinions and actions to rely strictly on stereotypes created by the masses and often makes the people not willing to change how they view a certain people or situation. This is usually called ignorance, and it plaques societies everywhere and Mark Twain knows that and actively criticizes that. This is curable but people have to become open-minded and leave their reliance on society 's viewpoints behind them, which is unlikely to happen when people are

Carl Gustav Jung was a famous Swiss psychiatrist that once simply said: “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge”. To clarify, we as humans have this constant need to know everything about everything; to understand something is to think in every aspect; who, what, when,

People can be born with the world having low expectations of them. It does not matter if they know anything about us. We are often judged based on our appearance, race and cultural expectations. These judgments can often lead to people discounting us and lowering their expectations of us. These

Meixner Essay #4 December 2, 2008 “A Smile Is Worth So Much More” People often judge or misperceive others appearances in a less than equal manner before they even know the true nature of the person. Every day we make assumptions by what