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    the United States, there are places where there is a large disconnect between law enforcement and communities. Examples of these places include New York City and Ferguson, Missouri where relationships between the agencies and predominantly people of color are difficult (Comey, 2015). Not only will education of individuals allow citizens to better understand their rights (ACLU, 2016), but also the education of the police through communication with citizens. Citizens should be able to feel like they play

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    about the roles of women and men inside the household, but can not do much because of the limited options jobs offer. The last reading is “Dangerous intersections”, in this reading I learned that when gender is linked to race it become harder for that person to get the support it needs. These readings are very interesting to me because even though they are not addressing the same problem, they all are interconnected by the same reason: women’s struggle to reach equality within society. In the reading

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    and the film is the social inequality. Rather it be at the suffering of a person of color to a woman or child; todays society still suffers from from the social inequality pointed out in the novel based on the 1930s, 1933 specifically and can be compared to some cases from the novel. Social inequality can be forced on anybody but more specifically pushes onto people of a colored ethnic background (color), the gender a person is born with or chooses to identify as (sexuality), or the religion they

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    within the color of the law, police officers work around the color of your skin. Are there racial disparities within The Criminal Justice System? There can be no other answer than yes. In this paper I will examine and prove that racial disparities do exists within The Criminal Justice System through the systematic targeting of people of color as well as through our Judicial System. Systematic Targeting Does anybody not find it interesting that in a country where people of color only make up

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    The desperation of gay men and women who are denied their right to love. It's the cry of help from muslims who are stopped in the airport because they look suspicious. The cry of help from people of color who are treated like animals, or objects. Prejudice is a battle fought by women, people of color and people of religion every single day, and for the rest of their lives. In no way is this kind of behavior new. This act of judgement has been bestowed on the world for hundreds of years. Despite history’s

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    Rosa Parks, a very important and influential black woman in history. When a student is learning about Blacks fighting for equal rights, it is almost certain that the name “Rosa Parks” will be mentioned. The story that students are taught is that she was a quiet woman who had had enough and refused to give up her seat on the bus, which is not entirely true. Yes, Ms. Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man because she was sick and tired of being treated in such a horrible way, but she was

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    paragraph is composed of nine sentences. The first paragraph serves to show the effect of the housing policies in Chicago. The first paragraph starts off by introducing the argument that white Chicagoans used laws and policies to keep Chicagoans of color, mainly black but also Jews and Asians, to certain parts of the city. The second paragraph in my selected passage is very short at only three sentences in length. This paragraph serves to set up the background setting for these new restrictive housing

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    Dr. Vaji Ethical Dilemmas

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    because Dr.Vaji is a professional who considers himself to be fair, honest, and warm-hearted. On page 33 principle E which is respect people right and dignity, help frames the nature of this dilemma because Leo is not being respectful of the students of color whether it’s in the classroom on in public as well. Also, I think principle C which is integrity because Leo has been falsifying information and have been passing it off to the professor as accurate. When it comes to this dilemma the stakeholders

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    any type of problems in anyway. I was never around any people of color until I was in the work force, where I found myself around all people of color. I wanted to get to know them and made many friends with all I came into contact with. I have never seen with my own eyes any type of discrimination ever. Although I have family who have worked for companies that use affirmative action. They have watched as people got hired because of color, and then took advantage of it. They would sleep on the job, and

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    corrupted in the sense of racial issues and the harsher treatment towards people of color. Examples of racism,

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