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    than whites (6). Former Presidents Reagan, the Bushes’ and Bill Clinton government, imposed racial projects and racial profiling cast new forms of racialized social control on black’s communities reminiscent of the days of slavery of the 1700’s and 1865s Jim Crow laws. The only difference in the 20th century is there are no lynch mobs. However, a new form of

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    A New Form of Expansion Before the start of the Spanish-American War of the late nineteenth-century and World War I in the early twentieth century, the United States had encouraged expansion as being a way of gaining power. For example, the Frontier thesis, conveyed that it is through the expansion of new lands that humanity would continue to progress. Also the United States portrayed its impatience to expand through Manifest Destiny: the desire to expand from sea to

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    Globalization processes have created new forms of extreme vulnerability that disproportionately impact the welfare of poor women of color living in border cities. As borders have become increasingly permeable and capitalism has transcended national borders, outsourcing labor has become a common practice within transnational corporatism. To meet the demands of the global North, gendered forms of labor have emerged in the global South that have resulted in the exploitation and abuse of poor women of

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    When thinking of bullying, most people tend to think about the original form, where the bully harasses the victim in person; but, in this generation, cyberbullying is a new form of harassment that goes beyond the schoolyard. This way, individuals can be bullied all day and any day, but when you ask teens today, 81% of them think it is funny. (NPC) This shows that most teens do not think of cyberbullying as much of a threat, even though the rate in has gone up. In 2008–2009, the School Crime Supplement

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    pursue other opportunities. The system allowed the tenant to harvest a piece of land while giving up a portion to the landlord. The landlords would often exploit the agreement and after expenses, leave the tenant with a paucity of money. Essentially a new form of slavery, Blacks became tied to this work as unmechanized cotton-picking is extremely labor intensive. In 1930, it is estimated that over 8 and a half million people lived under sharecropping conditions in the top ten cotton producing states. (Lemann

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    Bitcoin is a new form of currency that is entirely digital with no central authority. It can be traded anywhere; it is accepted for all sorts of goods and services. There are online market places and exchanges to allow you to exchange Bitcoin for USD or other currencies. But with an entirely digital nature comes the potential for a very risky business. The currency, sites, and transactions all have the possibility of being hacked. Theft is still likely to occur with digital currencies. The way transactions

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    Eliminating Cyberbullying Bullying has had a well known status for destroying the confidence and esteem of our world’s youth for decades. Recently, a new form of bullying has emerged and has taken over the technological environment. Similar to a student physically bullying another peer, we see victims hurt after an attack over misuse of the Internet. Cyberbullying has been much harder to track than face-to-face bullying. It has also been easier for someone to attack another merciless and guiltless

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    The three forms of capital can be obtained by having the others. Illouz introduces a new form of capital, which is emotional capital and is interrelated to the older three forms of capital. Unlike the old forms of capital emotional capital allows for more upward mobility and can assist in emotional labor. Overall contemporary culture has been transformed and allowed mixing of public and privates spheres because of the creation of emotional capital. Bourdieu wrote about different forms capital the

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    Imagine New York City right now with all its bright lights, crowded streets full of cars, and amazing architecture such as skyscrapers and subway systems. Now let a few decades go by and take away fossil fuels, what is left now? A dark city with empty streets littered by useless vehicles and empty buildings and tunnels. Why did all of this change and why was this simple form of energy removed? That is because at the current rate of consumption fossil fuels will not last more than a few decades, plunging

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    Insurgent warfare was not a new form of conflict to this part of the world however; the North Vietnamese communist government took it one-step further to create almost an ideal insurgency in South Vietnam. An insurgency was developed and controlled from the Communist North Vietnamese government in Hanoi leading to both an unconventional and conventional conflict with the goal of unifying all of Vietnam. The North Vietnamese communist leadership exploited an immature and illegitimate South Vietnamese

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