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    laws so the white man felt the need to go against those laws to keep his child. The theory of racial formation sees the constriction of race as a contested process of on-going conflict Omi and Winant (1994:74). The theory of racial formation also insists the ‘reality’ of race despite its origins a social construction. ”race can be defined as a concept that signifies and symbolises socio-political conflicts and interests in reference is different of human bodies winant(2004:155). When it comes to

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    Abigail Andrews. Amanda Bartlett. Amber Guiboche. The list of missing and murdered Indigenous women goes on (CBC, 2016). With an independent national inquiry now underway, hope is in the air to expose the social and historical factors to decode the systemic causes of violence that these women experience, and the impacts of institutional practices and polices. Policing of persons belonging to First Nations communities is not fair and equal under law, and should be changed in specific ways. Under-policing

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    This paper will analyze, the bill dubbed as the “slapping law”, in Russia. Using the perspective of Radical Feminist Thought, I argue that such violence is normalized through the lack of current public resistance to this crime and contends that women themselves begin to see this type of treatment as acceptable. Structurally, this paper will begin by providing a concise summary of the values of Radical feminism to give clarification on the standpoint of this feminist position in analysis of the current

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    Globalization, a contested concept among leading theorists in its definition, chronology, and measurement of effects, is almost certainly of a multidimensional nature if such theorists’ perspectives are all taken equally into consideration. The broad phenomenon of globalization can therefore be scrutinised more closely by separation and analysis of individual dimensions, such as its political, economic, cultural and ecological dimensions. This approach, while allowing for a more focused examination

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    000 Nazi’s were charged with war crimes, the Nuremberg trials were designed specifically to prosecute high ranking Nazi officials with whom the authority for the commission of heinous atrocities rested. The Nuremberg Trials would therefore be marked in history as one of its kind. Prior to its formation, war crimes were limited to the military courts of the individual countries and for the very first time the Nuremberg Trials would mark the inception of the concept of collective guilt as a justification

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    Perhaps in the future we will find more characteristics by which to classify a planet or non-planet. The flexibility of classification is important to consider; as we unearth more knowledge of the world around us, the categories we have today may be contested to show connections that we were previously unaware

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    In her essay “Cluster Fuck” Linda Williams discusses Errol Morris’s documentary Standard Operating Procedure. She believes that Standard Operating Procedure should receive more “scrutiny” for its investigation of the frame. She discusses how images of death and torture are framed by the people who take them and how they are then publicly received as the truth. Williams argues that Standard Operating Procedure asks the audience to question their visual interpretation and investigate the framing of

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    obligation zealously to protect and pursue a client 's legitimate interests, within the bounds of the law, while maintaining a professional, courteous and civil attitude toward all persons involved in the legal system. [13] Although a matter is hotly contested by the parties, a lawyer should treat opposing counsel with courtesy and respect. The legal dispute of the client must never become the lawyer’s

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    Since public space is a contested domain, devices may be placed to exclude the inappropriate users of that particular area (Malone 2002, 160-161). The inappropriateness of users may vary from one space to another. One example of this mechanism is the use of ‘hostile architecture’;

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    society. This assignment seeks to look at the role matter plays in making social worlds secure or insecure. This will be done by uncovering that which is often taken for granted about the role materiality plays in the social world through theories, concepts and examples of security in various settings such as the individual, the home, the city and other parts of society. Matter is often defined as mass that can be physically observed by the senses, it can be measured scientifically and is tangible

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