Often people think that a prejudice is based solely on an individual's skin color, but that is not always true. ... People have discriminated against other people based on these attributes since the beginning of time. Prejudice has become a complex problem in our society today and much of our world's history is based upon hatred. ... What is a hate crime? ... However, a hate crime is not really about hate, but it's about biases or prejudices; essentially hate crime refers to criminal conduct motivated by prejudice. ...

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Crime and imprisonment rates are higher in segregated black communities, which also exhibit higher levels of poverty (Burch, 2014). ... Lack of role models from the middle class due to limited interracial interaction has also been raised as an explanation for higher crime and imprisonment rates (Boustan, 2013). ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... Place-based solutions ...

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The end result is discrimination based on physical characteristics. ... Hate Crimes One of the most abhorrent and damaging forms of racial and ethnic discrimination in the United States is "hate crime." Racially motivated, hate crimes are more than just isolated incidences of violence against one individual or institution. ... A most publicized example of hate crime is that of James Byrd, Jr., an African-American from Jasper, Texas, who was dragged to death behind a truck in 1998. ... All these add up to inequalities and unfair treatment of groups of people based not upon their abilities ...

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Discrimination is defined as different treatment of others based solely on their membership in a socially distinct group or category, such as race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, or disability. ... Recently, a new race has been the victim of increased hate crimes. Since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers, statistics from an FBI report of hate crimes in American showed that the number of crimes against Muslim or Arab Americans jumped from 28 in 2000 to 481 after September 11th. It is shocking to believe that over 17 times the crimes in 2000 occurred in only three and a hal...

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However, opposition is not always necessarily based on a constitutional theory. It is also based on the notion that capital punishment is inhumane. ... This was based on the revelation that convicted murderers have been proven innocent by later DNA testing. ... My hypothesis is based on the desensitization of today's youth and less educated. ... Daniel Frank was put to death in the Colony of Virginia for the crime of theft. ...

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The reasoning behind the statement is that within this justice system defendants would rather do a short term sentence for a crime they did not commit rather than take a risk resulting in a long term prison sentence of upwards of twenty five years for the same non committed crime. ... Sentencing Commission (2010) reports that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10% longer than white offenders for the same crimes. ... A poor, uneducated person from a high crime area maybe more easily manipulated and intimidated by the police than an educated white person with ques...

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Statistics confirm that African Americans-particularly young black men-commit a dramatically disproportionate share of street crime in the United State. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. ... That is why, since the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, courts have typically ruled-based on the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause-that mere reasonableness is an insufficient justification for officials to discriminate on racial groun...

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Affirmative action decisions are generally not supposed to be based on quotas, nor are they supposed to give any preference to unqualified candidates (Froomkin). ... Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. ... History has had their share of hate crimes, dating back to the start of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a group of whites that hate and terrorize blacks. ... The KKK committed hate crimes such as burning down of black churches, and putting crosses to fire. ... The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). ...

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The city is full of crime for people have lost their moral values. The crime in the city strikes fear into the citizens and no one "can lie peacefully abed." ... He attends the trial in order to plea that his actions were based on fear. ... Society does not give him a second chance because his crime is tainted with the killing of a white man. ...

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Wright's apparent honesty, however, is intended to arouse awareness to the ignorant and racist part of society, divulging to them that they are part of the problem concerning African American commited crimes. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

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Previous to September 11, the majority of terrorism related crimes were committed by American citizens. ... The cards could be used to solve crimes and prevent terrorism and violence by having everyone's fingerprint in a database. ... Many acts of terrorism have been completed by American citizens and to judge based on race will do nothing but add to the problem. ...

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Second, voters were disqualified if convicted of any crimes. ... Washington, an African American man who graduated from a leading college, encouraged the black community to not only establish an economic base, but also create good relations with the white race. ... In part he reminds the white race, " We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third of its intelligence and progress" (42). ... She feels as though these spectators are just as guilty as the men committing the crime. ...

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Hate crimes, anti-feminism, racism and even genocide can take place anywhere and possibly these things happen everyday. ... This theory or concept can help us understand why issues of racism, anti-feminism, hate crimes and genocide even take place. ... A woman may feel that the cause of her lack of success is solely based on the fact that she is female. ...

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Huck Finn, therefore, serves as a spectator, judging them based on realistic observations. ... Although he still considers rescuing Jim as "stealing"" him, the fact that he would commit such a crime just for a slave still establishes great significance in the purpose of reversing the black-white paradigm. ...

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Racism is a crime of hate, hate against another person, or race because of color, culture or beliefs. ... The government had no proof any Japanese person becoming a traitor " The governments policy was based on the incredible notion that this group of people, solely on the basis of ancestry, had to be regarded as inherently disloyal to the United States." ... Even though all the Japanese people were accused of being traitors not one Japanese American was ever brought to trial for disloyal activities, none was ever charged with any kind of crime, except being ethnic Japanese. ...

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Although a diverse student body may produce some positive qualities around a college campus, it should not be considered a compelling reason to accept certain students over others based on their appearance. ... "By the time these minority students reach college-age, it is already too late for many of them; crime-ridden neighborhoods, poverty and failing K through 12 public schools are a brutal winnowing process"(Cose) Although these issues are very real, they must not be handled in a manner which places certain individuals above others. ...

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In the last decades of the 20th century, in the U.S. and in most nations, the legal system prohibited ethnic-based discrimination. ... This success is typically measured in income, education and related factors such as low crime rate and high family stability. ... (Pence) These privileges are unearned and are distributed based on values of the dominant group. ...

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In order to avoid being persecuted for crimes he was innocent of committing, Staples describes his efforts to make himself appear less threatening. ... By using more technical speech and citing other author's works, Staples creates a more intellectual tone in his story which gets his point across, and has a fairly strong emotional base. ...

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He has no remorse for any of the crimes or any of the violent acts he was involved in. ... Thus, as multi-culturalism, consumerism, Jewism and Jewish Christianity, crude capitalism, and prostitution became so rampant in the government that the "tax base" of the government could no longer support the needs of the white people. ...

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Highly esteemed scientists not only helped phrenology to sound factual based, but each added their own input as to why ethnic peoples differed so greatly in the hierarchal chain compared to the so-called superior Caucasian race. ... A belief, though, had given them a sense of obligation to their heinous crimes. ...

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According to members their religion and philosophy called "Creativity- is based on the external laws of nature, the experience of history, on logic and common sense. ... The site things such as black crimes, growing acceptance of homosexuality, interracial marriages, increasing drug use, and a lack of racial identity among white people of items to help back there belief. ...

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Animals are a vital part of advertising. Businesses in every market utilize animals in their advertisements to help promote their goods, service, or reputation. According to Forbes, in the 2011 Super Bowl, when compared to advertisements with animals, the average non animal Super Bowl ad was 14% les...

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