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    All countries around the world cannot avoid the protests from some groups of people because not all the decisions made by government can fulfill the needs of all people in the countries, and the methods to break down those protests are different from different views of people and the governments. Shall it be violent crackdown or non-violent crackdown? Which one can provide more benefits to the protestors? These questions still bear in mind of some people and government. Some people might think that

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    Between the 1930s and 1950s, the United States government created and implemented labor laws including establishing the minimum wage. However, in every single one of those laws, farm workers were left out. Because of this, farm workers were able to be paid and treated any way their employer wished. This spawned a series of protests that evolved into a labor union, led by a man named Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez’s actions during the labor movement make him deserving of the La Raza award because he achieved

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    Nonviolent Protests

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    We cannot turn on our televisions or get on social media without hearing about recent protests. Some peaceful and some violent, but what difference do the two make? We all have seen riots and we’ve seen how they can end: a spray of rubber bullets, dogs digging their teeth into screaming people’s legs, and the trashing of public places. We’ve seen the sit-ins and marches filled with people that have no fear in holding their signs high and proud. To some violence seems like the only answer, but the

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    A riot means a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd. Like the two riots we are going to see that happened in Baltimore City. Recently Baltimore had a riot but that wasn’t the first riot that Baltimore had, in 1968 there was a riot and this year 2015 another riot happened. The Baltimore riots are proof that things do stay the same. In the 1968 and th 2015 riots there are some similarities both riots started peacefully then turned to violence, in the 1968s the assassination of Dr. Martin

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    Sometimes you think you are bettering the world, when in reality, you are making it worse. Due to the recent inauguration, protests and marches have been appearing in the main cities of the U.S., as well as multiple foreign countries. These so called “peaceful” protests have become extremely violent and destructive, causing hundreds of arrests and injuries to the Republicans standing up for their President. Although the government’s decisions will not be affected by these protests, they continue

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    Baltimore Riots

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    of a young Baltimore man, Freddie Gray, while in police custody, sparked the flame in the city’s ongoing rage and riots. Autopsy reports showed signs of “high-energy injury “as the cause of death, suggesting neglect from the arresting officers (New York Times, 2015). When information was leaked of this tragedy, people in the community were negatively affected, and many began to riot. At this point, the question is not how to stop the rioting, but how to prevent it? In order to prevent such a widespread

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    Uk Riots 2011

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    UK RIOTS 2011 Between the 6th and 11th of August 2011 thousands of people rioted in cities across England participating in looting, arson and vandalism. The rioting occurred after a peaceful demonstration on the 4th of August in Tottenham over the death of local 29-year-old father of four Mark Duggan who was a victim of a still-unresolved shooting by the police. 1. Text 1 “Experts Cite Underlying Causes for UK Riots” is a news report by Al Pessin published on Voice of America website the 10th

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    article (2011). The author developed the idea that larger group allows people to express frustration through anger and violence and in extreme cases, robbery. Research by Chris Frith supports that emotional contagion had helped develop the 2011 English riots, involving unconscious mechanisms of transmissions between people, described in psychology as herding. Frith argues that social contagion occurs when contagion becomes higher than an emotional state, and many people

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    he needed to cut the book down from over 600 pages to fewer than 500 without losing a drop of the story. By just showing what the characters were thinking not only did he cut the story by over a hundred pages but made it that much more exciting. L.A. Confidential is a story that starts out in 1950. There are three detectives that are the main characters of this novel. Ed Exley is a up and coming, play it by the book cop who is battling against his legendary father who was chief of police and

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    on the rooftops. One man was found dead after being shot by one of the officers random rounds. On the fourth day, July 19-20th, 75 volunteers created an “outpost” on 125th Street and 8th Avenue to develop aid for teenagers and women in the closing riot. The group began arguing with two white reporters

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