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    The two projects I chose were UAlbany Campus Building Historical Tour and Mapping Segregation. The audience of the first project UAlbany Campus Tour are former, current or potential students, parents seeking for historical information about the school and possible employees interested in becoming part of the UAlbany community. I came to the conclusion on who the targeted audience were based on the type of information provided by the project. The UAlbany Campus Building Historical Tour provides the

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    role in the everyday lives of everyone be it European or African descent. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which takes place in the small Alabama town of Maycomb, the major characters are all damaged by the effects of racism and segregation. _When one thinks of innocence, one of the first things to come to mind is children. In the novel, many of it’s main characters including it’s protagonist are still in their childhood. One of them, the protagonist’s brother, Jem Finch, undergoes

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    One of the reason of segregation is unequal funding of schools, indigent neighborhoods have lower funding of schools. This is due to school funding being tied to property taxes. Poor neighborhoods have lower property values therefore lower school tax funds. Here is the solution that can be applied to solve this problem of school segregation. Each state should count a total number of students in their state and collect a State Education Tax from all citizens at whatever the state's legislated amount

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    and no child left behind organization. Education is an access to opportunities, as well as a pathway for young students to pursue and be fruitful. Although in the United States, education is unequal due to segregation being a major problem in the United States that has been facing with. Segregation in the classrooms is a problem in public schools. Columbia High School was one of the schools in the United States that was a segregated school. Columbia High School is a campus that is well known with great

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    Segregation in Society according to Pride and Prejudice The novel, Pride and Prejudice, though written over 200 years ago, is the classic example of a coming of age romantic story. Although its main plot is based around the young woman, Elizabeth Bennet, falling in love with the proud Fitzwilliam Darcy, it is important to mention that there are other subplots and major themes, which are also relevant and equally important. One of the overarching themes of Pride and Prejudice is class distinction

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    The Great Debaters is a fantastic true story with insight into the world of segregation during 1935. The movie takes place in Marshall, Texas during 1935. We can see during the beginning of the movie that there are obvious racial issues in the city because one of the main characters, James Farmer Jr., states that Marshall, Texas was “the last city to surrender after the Civil War," The movie is about a poet and professor, Melvin B. Tolson, who teaches at the all black school called Wiley College

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    blacks and jews being slaved by someone who discriminates against employees. In the I”ll Run Democracy, 1942 picture the man told them to stay in there Jim Crow tanks. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation. The laws let discrimination and segregation keeps blacks and jews from getting jobs. In the other two pictures Listen Maestro and German Manicure you see Uncle Sam telling the war industry to keep making the blacks and whites work together to create a good sound. which

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    public education was in full development because it was important to the nation that any child may succeed in life when give the opportunity. To begin with, does segregation of a child in a public school define the basis of their race? The U.S Supreme court in the Brown V. Board of Education, the Supreme Court made it a point that segregation of white and colored children in public school has detrimental effects on colored children. I do not agree to this, how is it that a colored child would have any

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    female? Why not female surgeons and male nurses? These are simple and frequent questions that can be answered by most Sociologist and Theorists. Sociologists and Theorists equate this type of job inequality phenomenon with occupational sex segregation. Sex segregation in the workplace is one of the most visible signs of inequality in the labor market. In almost every work setting, it is rare to see men and women working at the same job. When they do, they usually perform different tasks, with unequal

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    Segregation and inequality remains prevalent within schools across the United States. The Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, is prominent for her support of school choice and the use of school vouchers. School Choice programs have only been found to exacerbate school segregation and make it worse for minority students.7 (Wilkerson-Bridge Magazine) Urban public schools have been struggling for a long time and white parents have had the opportunity to leave those districts. They have moved their families

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