For my research paper I chose the topic of racial profiling and law enforcement. ... This article shows the one sidedness of reporting about racial profiling and its effect of law enforcement agencies. ... Law enforcement agencies have worked together in slowing the drug trade as shown in the article in the city journal. The DEA taught state troopers some common identifying signs of drug couriers: nervousness; conflicting information about origin and destination cities among vehicle Racial Profiling Isn't That B...

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• Grade Level: High School

Racism is a prevalent theme in the novel, which is displayed by the way the law allows it, the townspeople practice it, and how Tom Robinson suffers because of it. ... Things that showed how the law accepted racism was allowing the adults to gather around the county jail, ready to kill Tom Robinson. ... Also during the story they say that the black folks lived in another area of the town, near the dump. ...

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In Diamond Grill, Fred talks about his family history at the time near the first World War, a period in which Chinese people's position was at the bottom of the society. ... And it also mentioned that "Saskatchewan made a law against hiring white women to work in Chinese place". (57) "White women", "Chinese place". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Segregation was a vast setback for the blacks, which was the system of laws and customs separating blacks and that whites used to control blacks after slavery was abolished (Norton 590). ... They began to pass local and state laws that particularized certain places "For Whites Only" and others for "Colored." ... While these laws directly affected the social status of African American citizens they were implemented through political hierarchy. ... The sit-in tactic of nonviolence protest to the immoral laws was well used. ... These laws were difficult to follow and overwhelming, but blacks ...

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"Jim Crow Laws" or racial segregation was soon to play an important roll in history. ... Despite having the Fourteenth Amendment that states all citizens have equal protection of the laws, the Civil Rights Cases found a way around it. ... The near-total disenfranchisement of blacks in Mississippi led to a constitutional convention in 1890. ... In his "Niagara Address", Du Bois demands, "We want the laws enforced against the rich as well as poor; against white as well as black. ... She insists that the law must bring severe punishment to the lynchers, but that it couldn't be done witho...

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• Grade Level: High School

Justice is defined as the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law; the principle of moral rightness. ... She sat near the front of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. ... Supreme Court ruled that the segregation law was unconstitutional and the Montgomery buses were integrated. ...

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• That the laws of the land should always be upheld. ... But their dreams would not be fulfilled; instead they woke up to the sound of crashing of objects, and the breaking of everything near and dear to them. ... In a way, they became a form of the law. ...

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Anne writes about the unspeakable treatment that was socially imposed on African Americans, otherwise known as the Jim Crowe laws. ... They were laws that were set in stone, yet her innocence clouded her judgement about the racial differences that constructed the society in her neighborhood. ... She was intellectual and competitive in school work which allowed her to question morals and laws that was place in society. ... Though near the end I was quite disappointed about how she evaluated "The Movement". ...

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Hughes lived during a time when black people could be killed while law enforcement would look the other way. ... He writes of her, "She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all Negroes are as smug and as near white in soul as she wants to be."" ...

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There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. You"ll also come across a very interesting interview that taught me a lot about the culture in America as compared to that of another country. Also, I"ll give my insight on what book and movie I feel can help someone understand the culture of the United States. ...

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Her plans for Bob extend past their plans together, including "his" plans to return to school and study law. ... In early WWII, about 50,000 Japanese citizens living near the American west coast and their 70,000 American born descendants, virtually all children and young adults, were forcibly removed from the area, most of them to internment or relocation camps. ...

• Word Count: 1898
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• Grade Level: High School

Divided We Fall John Davis, a 28 year old African-American software engineer who has an annual income of $110,000, waits for a real estate agent in front of a beautiful two-story house in Kirkwood. He owns a small software company called Hi-Tex that is located only a couple of blocks from his...

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1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if the...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School