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    The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose highlight advantages and disadvantages of universal themes in their novels. Both novels portray how ‘we are a product of the society in which we grow up.’ Through both novels we see the vulnerability of certain characters through their external pressures and internal motivations and how these desires are pinnacle to themselves and to those around. Characters in both novels portray the consequences and repercussions of stereotypical

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    NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Equality and Diversity Unit 1: Exploring Equality and Diversity Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk • Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference • Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your

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    Langert Professor Jereb English G110 18 September 2017 Prejudices in Cathedral Prejudice comes in all forms; whether it is due to someone 's skin color, religion, or disability, fear of someone who is different than what you view as normal is apparent all around us. Miriam Webster defines Prejudice as “injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard to one’s rights”. Although most people tend to associate prejudice with racism, that is not always the case. In quite a

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    Stereotypes as it says on Vocabulary.com “A stereotype is a preconceived notion, especially about a group of people.”Their are many types of stereotypes, but this essay is going to be addressing two types of stereotypes. Racial profiling and gender profiling.These are two of the most seen stereotypes.They're everywhere, we are putting these ideas in young children's minds.We need to learn to stop stereotypes. The first article Sports Stars: Jackie Robinson about Jack Robinson,Robinson deals with

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    Female officers in today's society are being bashed and brought down because of stereotypes and misconceptions, hopefully this essay will help everyone better understand the truth about female police officers. A stereotype is an overly simplified idea of a person or culture. A misconception is an opinion that is solely based of faulty thinking or understanding. Stereotypes and misconceptions are the reasons for us having the social groups we do today. They give us a place where we fit in. We have

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    Stereotypes… We all have had to deal with them. They may seem somewhat harmless and anybody who takes it seriously is obviously overreacting. But, what if I told you that these seemingly small things are the first step in a larger cycle? Behind racism, injustice, stereotypes, and etc. is fear, more specifically fear of the unknown. However, it is not fear that leads to racism, it is the insensitive actions that occur due to this fear and through the use of stereotyping they reinforce their fear and

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    When people hear the word prejudice, they think that refers to it as a racial prejudice among those who have fair skin and those with dark skin. However, prejudice is more than skin color. Prejudice is among gender, religion, culture, geographic origin and race. Prejudice has become a complex problem in our society. In the story "The Myth of the Latin Woman" written by Judith Ortiz Cofer, she discusses how people impose the identity of Latinas as terms of social stereotype. In the documentary ¨Straight

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    different in our own way. This leads to the issue of social discrimination occurring because people see themselves different from others, but believe they have a minority group that happen to be similar to them. According to the website “Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination”, Stereotypes are oversimplified generalizations about groups of people. Stereotypes can be based on race, ethnicity, age, and gender. Unfortunately, we are constantly being judge in the eyes of others that we begin to judge ourselves

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    The definition of a stereotype is labelled as a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image of a certain type of person, or thing. When looking at Crash, Freedom Writers , To Kill a Mockingbird and Where is the Love, we see this idea of stereotypes quite often throughout the texts. Stereotypes created by current society, and often go down the path of discrimination. This is where the unjust treatment of someone is categorized down to the grounds of race, age and sex. This then further creates

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    Associate Program Material Discrimination Worksheet Write a 100- to 200-word response to each of the following questions. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • What is discrimination? How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? • What are the causes of discrimination? • How is discrimination faced by one identity group (race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability) the same as discrimination faced

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