Papers 2771-2780 of total 9959 found.
…Office found a "pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing and imposition of the death penalty after the Furman decision." Professor David Baldus examined sentencing patterns in Georgia in the 1970's. After reviewing over…
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…factors, discrimination would be the variable that causes poverty. Racial discrimination from an employer could lead for that person to not receive a higher paying job, in which could lead to violence from the potential employee towards the employer. In turn…
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…to discrimination as a solution to their social and economic difficulties. In his essay The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin shared his life predicaments and some racial dilemmas that occurred in the mid-1900s. He asserted that people were mistreated because…
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…) were walking home from school one day when a bully decided to "play" with them. He punched them in the stomach and yelled racial slurs at them just because they were Chinese. It was not hard to see why this boy was so rude: when the parents tried to talk…
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…’s color barrier was a serious challenge. Branch Rickey warned Jackie about all of the racial slurs and name calling that would go on. Throughout the season, he received several unsigned letters threatening death if he continued to play baseball. Rival…
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…-and eventually the entire city-came to admire him. As impressively as it started, Mayor Daley’s time in office was not without its hardships. The problem most prevalent in Chicago was the growing racial tensions. Racial segregation and public housing issues…
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…, and rice. The value of Issei farm crops grew from $6 million in 1909 to $67 million in 1919. As time progressed, anti-Japanese feelings grew along the West Coast, some of it coming from racial prejudice. Many white Americans refused to accept nonwhites…
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…had given the SSTV-a racially select group of individuals-sole responsibility for guarding and running the camps, the SSTV constituted an elite within the elite structure of the SS. In other words, not only were the SSTV elite, but they were superiors…
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…Today’s Social Choices Forges Tomorrow’s Future Abandoning or discarding newborns, racial diversity, and the AIDS virus are, I believe, are three major social issues that we need to deal with in today's society. The number of newborns abandoned…
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…gotten in trouble for a racial remark. In 1986 at another local radio station, Tracht made a derogatory remark about Martin Luther King day. That radio station was picketed and received bomb threats from angry people before Tracht made an on-air apology…
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