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    person rethink the way they were driving and convince themselves they made a mistake or would they think it is because they appear to be Hispanic? Racial profiling is the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ or national origin. Racial profiling does not work and is unconstitutional. Criminal profiling works if it is based off of behavioral factors‚ not race. Racial profiling is not

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    The Zany‚ an important minor aesthetic category allows us to better understand the history of work and the influence it has on designers. Both Charles Chaplin’s film Modern Times (1936) and The Tv series I Love Lucy (1951-57) explore the behaviours of the Zany within work culture. The minor aesthetic category is much less common and ‘major’ aesthetic categories such as sublime or beautiful; they commonly draw judgement or affective response. The Zany have helped us understand previous work cultures

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    Profiling based on race has become a prevalent method that cops and authority figures use to arrest or question an individual. Racial profiling is most noticed on the highways and in airports. Racial profiling occurs when law enforcement or security officials‚ consciously or unconsciously‚ subject individuals at any location to heightened scrutiny based solely or in part on race‚ ethnicity‚ aboriginality‚ place of origin‚ ancestry‚ or religion‚ or on stereotypes associated with any of these factors

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    Should Racial Profiling be a Legitimate Law-Enforcement Policy? Racial profiling is an act where all people of a certain race are treated as criminal suspects by those of law enforcement. This occurs when police investigate‚ stop‚ frisk search or use force against a person based on race instead of a person’s criminal behavior. It often involves the stopping and searching of people of color for traffic violations. One controversial issue in the discussion of racial profiling has been how to prove

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    CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Part 1 The English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Part 2 Old English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Part 3 Middle English adjective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Part 4 Early Modern English

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    Racial Profiling Throughout many communities‚ racial profiling has been brought up numerous times due to the fact that many feel as though they are being discriminated against through law-enforcement policies. Race and ethnicity play a big role in this debate because police tend to pull over individuals due to their color rather than if they have suspicious activities going on. It is said by Jim Cleary that several officers pull over people of a different race on a daily basis yet never record

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    Homosexual lifestyle is extremely harmful A question many people have is‚ what harm is it to allow same-sex couples the same benefits married heterosexual couples have? Or what harm is there in allowing gays to fill authoritative positions in society who act as role models for our children? The answer is that it is extremely harmful to our children and society as a whole. If our children have role models who are gay‚ they will think being gay is something that is acceptable by society.

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    contribution that sociologist have brought to the understanding of the subject has been vital though a closer look may reveal some loopholes of the sociological explanations of crime and deviance. Definition of crime varies from one area of study to another and it can be argued that a more comprehensive sociological definition of crime is the one provided for by Julia and Herman Schwendinger (1975) which defines it as any harmful acts‚ including

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    To what extent are Referenda Harmful in a Representative Democracy? Referendums are very harmful to a Representative Democracy. They undermine Parliamentary Sovereignty‚ allow our politicians to abdicate responsibility for major political decisions‚ prevent them from exercising their informed judgements‚ and can be manipulated by Governments. This is to say nothing of the premise of allowing important decisions to be made by an uninformed electorate that can be swayed by the Media Industry at

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    School governors are one of the country’s largest voluntary groups with around 300‚000 contributing to strategic development and raising standards of achievement at more than 30‚000 schools. School governors are members of their school’s governing body‚ which is known as a ’corporate body’. A corporate body has a legal identity that is separate from its members and as a result‚ individual governors are generally protected from personal liability as a result of the governing body’s decisions and

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