In the essay, "unpacking the Knapsack," Peggy McIntosh contracts multiple rhetorical strategies to contain her readers to validate her claim about racism as well as privilege. ... This act of acknowledging was most likely achieved just by reading through her essay, which means that the reader who agrees with her has nothing else that he/she is burdened to do. In her attempt to persuade her readers, McIntosh has used various strategies as those mentioned earlier. One of the most important strategies that she uses is what she does at the end of her essay. ...

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-Natives (Urban Areas) Act 1923 -Provided for residential segregation in cities. ... -Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act 1949 -Banned marriages between races. -Immorality Act 1950 -Banned sexual relations between people from different racial groups. ... The Constitutional Act of 1983 gave these groups the right to vote and direct representation in the parliament. ... Murder, terror and random violence became an important tool in the strategy of keeping the freedom fighters down. ...

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Civil Right and Racial Discrimination The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is applicable to private and public employers (except federal employers) and protects all members of other ethnic groups (i.e., whites, blacks, Asians, etc ) from racial discrimination. ... The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission states under the Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, " protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of race and color as well as national origin, sex, or religion-(Alexander, 2001). ... Since the Supreme Court only issues rulings regarding cases ac...

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Washington and Du Bois DBQ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both had their own individual approaches for dealing with Black Americans poverty and discrimination problems at the end of the 19th and beginning or the 20th centuries. Their opposing strategies both greatly assisted their race th...

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Four coping strategies to deal with racism on the job, according to Baskerville's article are: 1) Learn your prospective employer's corporate culture, and determine whether your presence there will be a good fit before you join the organization. 2) Don't immediately attribute racially charged confrontations to racism. 3) Remember, your job isn't who you are - it's simply what you do to earn a living. 4) Find ways to deal with others" negative behavior, because otherwise your work, attitude and health will begin to suffer as a result. ... The Civil Rights A...

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The people themselves call attention to themselves because they act conspicuous, and therefore lead the police officer to believe that they are doing something wrong. "The overall objective of drug law enforcement from which particular strategies flow at both local and federal levels is to immobilize traffickers of illicit drugs by either removing them from the market through law enforcement intervention, making the costs of trafficking outweigh the reward, and/or effectively reducing demand for illicit substances through the treatment and curing of the consuming population- (Manning 234). ...

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