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    Wear a mask, a sunglass , carry a bottle of water and an umbrella. This is how you walk in Kathmandu,Nepal, if you don’t want to be sick.Living in an unhealthy environment can bring a lot of health complications.You get sick and spend most of you time getting well. It was a surprise to visit baltimore ,because it was a very clean and green place. There were lots of trees and parks. It wanted to stay in baltimore, until I explored the outer county. I found there weren’t any bus shuttles, the houses

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    This world would not be what it is today without the amazing people who fought for what it has become.We used to live in a world of segregation and discrimination. If it wasn 't for the

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    all sorts of people. So because of this Black kids often went to schools with fewer supplies and less knowledgeable teachers while white kids went to the top of the line schools and had the best teachers in the world due to segregation. How did this all start? Well, segregation started when slaves became free in 1863. After a long time fighting

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    Saving Feminism: Fight Segregation The harsh relationship between women of color and white women has proven to be one of the main issues feminism has to confront. Intersectionality plays a role, which is both onerous to avoid and to address, since privilege is not easy to recognize. Internal biases also influence the fact that women from different races can’t unite. However, even though there are discrepancies between white feminists and feminists of color, a united, single feminist movement is

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    Racial segregation is a distinct social challenge that stem from both overall inequality and the racial wage gap. Because wealth is “the sum total of a person’s assets … [that is] built up over a lifetime and passed on to the next generation through inheritances,” wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap exists from the past. It was not until 1984 that the United Stated began to statistically record wealth inequality, however, the wealth inequality between freed black slaves and white men started

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    Impacts incorporate disengagement, conceivable avoidance, dampening, minimization, circumstances where self-regard, certainty and versatility can possibly be harmed. Types of segregation are sex, age, inability, sexuality, race, society, religion ,neediness, instruction, individual components and English Is not first dialect. . In our kids' middle we advance equivalent open door and we regard every one of the kids and their families. We help youngsters with dialect needs where English is not

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    The legal battle against segregation began in the 1930s, but the journey to battle segregation in court was to not desegregate schools. Rather, Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP Legal Fund members fought the legal battle as a way for the white man to uphold the Plessy v. Ferguson verdict, not to overturn it. When the Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson with Brown v. Board of Education in 1955, they requested the schools to desegregate schools with all deliberate speed. What this means is

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    analysis of Segregation and Desegregation: A Christian Approach by T.B. Maston (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959). Page numbers referenced are enclosed in parentheses. Throughout his book, Maston deceptively argues that desegregation would not necessary lead to integration. Maston states that the objective of his book “is primarily an attempt at an evaluation of segregation and desegregation from the Christian perspective” (p. vii). From his subverted Christian perspective, segregation is evil,

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    almost 350,000 people, 60% white and 40% black meaning white dominated in numbers. Racism occurred everywhere, Birmingham had no black police officers, firefighters, sales workers in department stores, bus drivers, bankers or even store cashiers. Segregation was dominant in Birmingham whilst racism being evident throughout the city. African American children in Birmingham were raised amongst

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    a first person involved point of view, through a fellow Brownie member from the African American troop, named Laurel. Because the story takes place in the 1960’s, ZZ Packer explores issues that are prevalent in that time period, such as racial segregation, prejudice and ignorance. Racism is defined as the “systematic

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