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    decreasing due to multiple factors. The first reason is due to efficient community policing. In the previous years, many people in minority communities didn’t feel as if the police were on their side due to tragic incidents such as the Rodney King beating. The Rodney King situation occurred in Los Angeles, CA but it had an impact nationwide. People in minority neighborhoods are not

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    most influential part of history that has shaped policing today is the accusations against police officers of police brutality. In the past several years, police officers have been accused on racial profiling and officer brutality. For example, the Rodney King scandal in California spurred a lot of civil unrest between police officers and communities. These actions are sometimes emotionally fueled by things such as race and cultural differences. As a result of these incidents, police are very cautious

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    Quote 1: “Before the flooding, Rodney was always on my case. Why don’t I clean more? I mean, his view was, once I quit working, the house should be immaculate. And for me, I never wanted to be a housewife ever. So, Okay, Ill do a little cleaning. Ill do a little housewife stuff, and I'll do stuff with cooking. So before the flood, he was like “Cant we get this place a little cleaner?" And ever since the flood, IM downstairs cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and he’s been on my case: ‘Cant you stop Cleaning

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    The audience sympathizes for Rodney King and the young victims and are angered by the bigotry of the vulgar signs, therefore the mood is suited to support the argument. Baldwin sums everything up by saying, “When you try to stand up and look the world in the face like you had a right

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    prosecute an officer on the basis of police misconduct, because it would look like the officer was only following procedure.     A case that evokes the meaning of police brutality, and is perhaps the most infamous case of police brutality is Rodney King’s trial. Rodney King was apprehended by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase on March 3, 1991. The officers hauled him out of the car and beat him relentlessly, while amateur cameraman George Holliday recorded it all on videotape. The four L

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    drinks and brought 10 of its members to Monster’s board (Zacks Equity Research, 2015). Moreover, Coca-Cola has become Monster’s preferred distributor, allowing to access to Coca-Cola’s extensive global distribution network (Investopedia, 2015). The CEO Rodney C. Sacks stated (2015), “the Coca-Cola Company transaction presents a unique opportunity for us. We anticipate that this relationship will provide us with complementary product offerings in many countries as well as access to many new geographies

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    Many studies have shown that AAT is able to help a wide variety of people. Many different diseases and disabilities have been proven to benefit from AAT. For example, in Table 1 in the equine-assisted therapy article, the author explains that each type of horse therapy benefits certain people. In dressage, a type of riding where the horse and rider work together to make precision movements, helps people with Polio, Parkinson’s Disease, and traumatic head injury (Ratliffe and Sanekane 35). Yet, AAT

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    Never Let Me Go is about a thirty one year old woman named Kathy H. Kathy is a carer for donors and she travels from care center to care center. She talks about her childhood at Hailsham and her childhood friends, mostly Ruth and Tommy, and the adventures she experienced. At the end of the book, we learn that Kathy lives in a world where her schoolmates and her are clones that are made for donating organs until they die or “complete.” They accept this fate without questioning it. Never Let Me Go

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    Peter Banyai Historiographical Paper Professor Hoag 12.2.2014 The Atlantic Slave Trade took place from the 16th century to the 19th century. Most of the slaves were taken from West Africa, but the trade also affected other parts of the continent. By the end of the trade, it became the biggest human migration to date. Generally, we know a lot about the effects slavery had in the New World, but we have less information on how the slave trade affected African societies. Although there were no scholars

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    Laurence made a habit of leaving the cabin at first light. He liked the idea that his mother might be totally oblivious to whether or not he came home at all during the evening. He had spent the previous day sauntering between the front yard where he chopped firewood and the shaded cabin deck where he drank cold lemonade. Every so often, mostly when Laurence was chopping apart the forest wood, an image of the ranger’s scarred and malformed face wandered into his mind. He could not think what sort

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