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Anh Tran
Date: 2/11/14
Instructor: Langmo
English 93
Heroes
What automatically comes to your mind when someone asks you:” What is heroism? “. For children who always watch cartoon, they are easily said:” Superman or Power Rangers “. But in the real life, when I ask my younger sister: “Who is your heroism? “. She answered me firefighter and police. Because they used to help her friend’s parent from fire. In “Was every Ground Zero victim a hero? “, they express that every firefighters and police who used to attend the Twin Towers on 11 September have become heroes. Society always believes on firefighters and police that when they want to arrest or judge someone, they must always have evidence. They blind us from:” The various killings of black men by Cincinnati police over the past few years” according to Tim Wise. Instead of firefighters and police officer should have altruistic and great qualities, vice versa they still have racist, sexist and facility rate. So coppers and firefighters should not all be considered as heroes do. In order to coppers always have their own evidence to judge someone or catch someone to go to the jail, they still have racists who abuse their authority, and Tim Wise gives his opinion on the heroism of cops. New York City is considered as huge city with huge immigrates that used to build and protected. He denounces the intention of the Police Museum in New York City to honor the city’s police officers because the museum leaves out incidents of police corruption and police brutality (160). Moreover, Tim Wise mentions Operation Pressure Point–a drug sting in which street dealers of color were arrested while buyers who were white were free to go home (160). It is not easy for colored people such as Amadou Diallo and Abner Louima), minorities, are frequently subjected to police brutality and racial profiling. Racial profiling is defined by Tim Wise in two ways. First, it is “the over application of an incident-specific criminal

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