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    Title The animal rights group PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has been a controversial group for people inside and outside of the vegan community. PETA is known for publishing articles exposing factory farms, companies that test on animals, meat industries, etc. Many people disagree with PETA for the sole reason of them supporting animal rights, but there are also many people in the vegan community who do not agree with PETA’s ideologies. Contrary to what a lot of people think

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    After taking the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence and the Personal Self Assessment of Anti-bias Behavior by the Anti-Defamation League, I was pleased, overall, with my results. I did, however, uncover an area of concern which I might describe as self-deprecation of my culture of upbringing. I discovered that I am biased against educated White people, especially if they are overtly religious in a conservative/Fundamentalist manner, who have not profited from their education

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    all, revisionists insisted it was because affiliated bombing diminished the line of inventory to the concentration camp. Historical revisionists have truly made a mark on the world. Only 54 percent of the world’s population, surveyed by the Anti-Defamation League, has heard of the Holocaust. Additionally, East German children, who receive the knowledge of Jews suffering incredibly during the Holocaust, have never heard the word “genocide.” Another problem present in our society, is how people are not

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    Social Media's Negative Effects on Society Across seven continents, The Statistics Portal shares that there are “one hundred fifty five billion Facebook users, three hundred twenty million Twitter users, and four hundred million Instagram users, just in one month alone” (Leading Global Social Networks 2016). Surely such a boom in social networking should be a positive force in society, but one may find that digging deeper into the online realm can prove to be a negative pull on a growing society

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    The Anti-Defamation league established in 1987 honored Irene Gut Opdyke with the courage to care award in 2009. Irene Gut Opdyke truly deserves the Courage to Care award the most because of her sacrifice while hiding a few jewish people, saving 16 jewish lives, and

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    the Frog” has been used by many to show a facial expression even better than words with so many different varieties. Currently “Pepe the Frog” is considered a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation league (ADL). Reasons why “Pepe the Frog” is considered a hate symbol by the ADL is because of its use from “alt right” groups in anti-Semitic settings. Due to having so many different versions, there has even begun a trend of finding “Rare Pepes” which are “Pepe the Frog” memes that are so unique that they are

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    Nativism In The 1920s

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    Church. The first Klan that evolved was in the southern United States in the delayed 1860s, then distinguished by the early 1870s. This Klan supported radical traditional currents such as white dominance, white ethnocentricity, anti-immigration, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism, classically communicated through terrorism and at individuals or groups whom they opposed. especially in later repetition, specifically in unknown areas of the Midwest and West. Although the crew of the KKK swear to confirm

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    The Internet has made it is so easy for people to share there opinion on most every topic. This can be good at times but also can be extremely hurtful towards people especially if the goal in saying the hurtful words was to get a reaction. Hate Speech is an expression that is abusive, insulting, intimidating, harassing, and/or incites violence, hatred or discrimination. People are typically targeted because of the way they identify themselves ethnicity, religion, race, or national origin. In the

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    Religious hate crimes, were anti-Jewish. Another famous hate crime occurred on October 3rd, 2002. Gwen Araujo was beaten and killed by four men after they found out she was transgender. According to FBI UCR data base, only about 18 percent of single-based sexual preference victims occurred in 2015. In 1913, was the start to a non-profit called Anti-Defamation League. This group started the early civil rights movement and now today help, prevent, and educate about anti-bulling. The department of

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    Deviance has No Boundary Kha’Lin Wilson-Meeks Wright State University Terrorism has been a tactic used by humans since the beginning of time. The willingness and desire to use violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political change has only increased as time progressed. International Terrorist groups have evolved in tactics, inhumanity, and deviance, one of the up and coming groups that have carried out alike threats and attacks is the Somali terrorist organization Al Shabaab.

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