This paper will attempt to explain the history and make-up of the SAT I, as it is compared to the recent day SAT I Test. ... The history of the SAT has origins that date back to the First World War. ... Following the war, the Army Alpha was adapted and transformed for the purpose of a college admissions test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) .The first test was experimentally administered to a few thousand college applicants in 1926. ... Rather an examination of a child's family tree or the educational history must take place instead. ... As it relates to parenting and family education history,...

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Some people have suggested that the employment system should work on a color-blind test (Plous). The color blind test is a method where race is not mentioned on applications. Employers determine how qualified an individual is by administering a test (Benoit). ... But frankly, this has never happened in the history of the United States. ... The color-blind test ultimately favors Caucasian people, even though it is meant to be fair. ...

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Wright Mills said "The Sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography"(the reading page 5 b). ... With in this problem I would like to use the sociological imagination because I can trace back to the history and biography of African Americans. For example I can go back to the history of African American which will lead me back to Africa. Where those people once had homes and where free till the one day the White man took them and bought them back to a new world which then leads to history and that this point I can trace a chronological records of significant events such as ...

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People often refer to IQ tests to determine intelligence but according to the Atlantic, "[people who discriminate racially based off IQ tests] misunderstand the implications of what those tests indicate even when they are credible; and they fail to find the moral, analytic, and political response to the questions of race and intelligence.... One could even extrapolate from history and these solid facts that sometime in the future, race may be almost indiscernible because of globalization. ...

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Although he never saw a presidency, King, Jr. did lead one of the strongest movements in American history which helped shape today's society. ... Three years later, King's nonviolent tactics were put to their most severe test in Birmingham, Alabama during a mass protest for hair hiring practices, the establishment of a biracial committee, and the desegregation of department-store facilities. ... If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ... However, white citizens were not required to pass any tests or pay any fees, also in...

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The above stated came forth through an acute critique and rejection of white psychology in terms of its methodological conclusions and the ideological premises it tests. ... (Pg. 443) Black psychology has set forth new definitions, conceptual models, and test theories that come from the heart of the Black experience. The history of the Association of Black Psychologist (ABP) indicate the development of divergent but overlapping schools of Black psychology, these schools are the traditional, reformist, and radical schools. ...

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At this time good character tests, poll taxes, white primaries, literacy, tests, grandfather clauses, and intimidation caused almost the complete loss of Black suffrage and representation. ... Reconstruction offered great promise and hope to Blacks but it failed to achieve all its goals, resulting in its many accomplishments disappearing into history in the decades directly following. ...

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The Tuskegee Study is widely regarded as one of the largest medical blemishes in the history of the United States. ... Bill Clinton, the U.S. president at the time of the Tuskegee aftermath, formally apologized to each member of the study at a ceremony devoted to the test subjects. ...

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When conducting research in American history, people will realize the amount substantial evidence demonstrating the mistreatment of black people in the United States. ... In his attempt to certify the success of their latest responsibility, white men have employed the long tested strategy of divide and conquer, with a view to breaking the ranks of non-whites worldwide. ... According to history, black people have been living in oppression to other races; he wants us to realize that there is no reason for allowing people who are of the minority have control. ...

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The reality in the American Dream contradicts its-self with the history of slavery, and the injustices with economics and inequality. ... In the United States, whites have a long history of manipulation of the virtues that hold this country together based on the Constitution of the United States. ... When I went to the recruiters after taking an aptitude test (on which I did very well and scored higher than the other recruits in the office) to see what jobs I qualified for I was then handed a stack of jobs an inch and a half thick. ...

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The Panther's Rainbow Coalition was a milestone in the history of black Chicago. ... They performed door-to-door testing alongside health professionals and they used the media to further their cause, "Alternatively, their home visits represented a form of itinerant, grassroots organizing that carried the Young Lords campaign to a much larger number of people beyond their periphery." ...

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Some would hold that a significant factor in the history of this professionalism is training, which imparts the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that form its foundation (Pinizotto, Bohrer, Davis, 10). ... This statement of protecting and serving the community sometimes is tested to its utmost when police officers are put in what they consider to be a life or death situation. ...

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It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on ...

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