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    Money seems to run the world. People need money to buy food, buy shelter, and support families. There are many ways to make money in order to survive, which most commonly involve working a full time job, but also include illegal means and gambling. Gambling seems to be an easy way to make money, but also a high risk… but not if the game is fixed. Despite the lack of prevalent hard evidence proving they fixed the game, the eight White Sox players involved in the 1919 World Series bribery scandal were

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    reading chapter 1 the thing I found most interesting was the abundance of people who argue that Egyptians were white. I’m more confused than I am surprised. This is typical of white people. Whenever the people of a region are savage,violent, and impoverished there is no doubt that they are black or brown. With that being said, when a civilization located in a predominantly black part of the world has brought forth advancements in geometry, architecture, art and science all of sudden…we’re not sure? I

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    Essay The way White people are portrayed can vary according to what part of the world they are from. Most of the time when they talk about White people from the South they get referred to as dumb. We also get portrayed as rednecks sitting around drinking beer and shooting guns. That is simply not the case most of the time. There are the select few that are like that, but most of the people from the south are not like that. We also get seen as super racist, but we are not. In the Marvel and DC film

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    article The World Is Not Black and White: Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot in a Multiethnic Context Implicit racial biases were examined in the decision to shoot potentially hostile targets in a multiethnic context. Results of two studies showed that college aged participants and police officers showed anti-black racial bias in their response times: the participants were quicker to “correctly” shoot armed black men or targets and to indicate “don’t shoot” for unarmed Latino, Asian and white targets

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    author. She is known for shows such as Grey 's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal, all of which have aired on ABC. I will be using Scandal to analyze the ideology of a black dominant women in a white male patriarchal world. The show is centered on protagonist Olivia Pope who is a professional fixer. If there is any crisis, problem, or scandal Olivia Pope is always the first person to call. Kerry Washington who plays Olivia Pope is the first black woman in

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    When the Jason Stockley Verdict came out, St.Louis went on lockdown, businesses closed, roads were shut down, and white people were scared. Another black man had been unjustly shot by the police, and people were understandably angry. When a friend and I conversed about going to a protest, a young white man told us that he didn’t understand why we were so angry, he said, “ you could have been born in some poor village in India and would have to work in a shoe factory,” this undoubtedly made me very

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    History II 16 February 2015 The Creation of the Great White Fleet and its Effect on World Affairs Theodore Roosevelt was renowned for his foreign policy that stated: speak softly and carry a big stick. This meant that Roosevelt handled foreign affairs with a tranquil state of mind, but also threatened with the military if things did not go as planned. Roosevelt utilized this ideology to navigate America in the right direction. The Great White Fleet abided by this policy, specifically. From 1907 to

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    The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson Prologue The prologue begin aboard the Olympic following a man named Daniel Burnham on April 4, 1912. Burnham is suffering of severe pain in his foot. Burnham tries to send a message to his friend Millet who is aboard the Titanic, but the message was not allowed to be sent. Burnham thinks back to the fair and reminisces of the people that helped with the fair and thinks about who is still alive from the fair. Part 1 The first chapter introduces Chicago

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    There was great speculation that in 1919, the White Sox fixed the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Even though there is factual evidence of such occurring, some members of the scandal still maintained their innocence, like “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. There was a trial about the scandal and the jury delivered a verdict of not guilty, however when Major League Baseball investigated, they banned eight members for life. In addition, prior to the trial, crucial evidence went missing from the Cook

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    Humans are the major cause of global warming. We use electricity all the time; electricity is made by burning fossil fuels, when this is burnt greenhouse gasses are sent into the air. We are chopping down trees that absorb CO₂ (greenhouse gas.) The world needs to do something about global warming fast, before it is too late. Scientist have suggested many

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