My sophomore year was the hardest for my friends and me because we were suffering from racial trauma‚ which affects us mentally and emotionally. 2015 seemed to be an apex for black men and women dying at the hands of a police. When we were just starting to grieve over the death of Michael Brown‚ another report came out that a young mentally ill man named Matthew Ajibade was tasered in the groin area while being restrained in a chair by police officers. This inhumane action was a breaking point causing
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Last Saturday our country was reminded that we are not as tolerant as we like to believe. We are shocked by the images of white men and women marching with Nazi paraphernalia. We are horrified that someone felt the right to drive his car into a crowd of counter protesters killing Heather Heyer. After last Saturday‚ we can no longer deny the presence American who hold such a deep sense racism they feel justified hurting people who are of a different skin color or disagree with their beliefs. In
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This week we were able to read two articles that went along with our lecture. The first article‚ "Three Strikes and You’re Out: California’s new mandatory sentencing law on serious crime rates"‚ by Stolzenberg and D’Alessio. This article looked at information gathered from cities where the three strikes law was mandated. The research looked at monthly data and found that the three strikes law had no effect on recidivism or crime rates. Personally‚ though some may agree with the three strikes law
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Yearly Vaccination Legislation In The U.S‚ many lower-class people die every year because of preventable viruses. Vaccines are the solution to preventing the viruses‚ but unfortunately‚ not all Americans can afford the vaccines. Hundreds of thousands of lives can be saved with a simple piece of legislation. According to William Foege‚ “Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.” For this reason‚ the U.S needs to include more “tugboats” and create a public policy solution to the problem. The
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Do you agree or disagree with women participating in combat? I agree that all woman should have the right to fight in combat because you shouldn’t look at what gender they are but see what their strength and weakness are in fighting in combat. In my opinion I think some females fight harder and smarter then man in the military. They should be recognized for what they deserved in the military. Although‚ now military women almost forms one-sixth of U.S. armed forces‚ but they were assigned in lower
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On January 20th‚ 2017 President Donald Trump took office‚ he quickly made an executive order that banned foreigners from seven different countries from entering the United States for 120 days‚ these seven countries are identified as Muslim majority countries. Legal and illegal immigrants in the United states began to panic as they fear that their families will be deported immediately. Children of color are now living in fear because their future is unknown‚ they are also scared that their families
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Unfortunately for the customers at illegal bars‚ the quality of alcohol at these joints plummeted. The highest estimate put the average number of deaths a year to twelve thousand people (alcoholsolutionsandproblems.org). The lowest put the death toll at nearly one thousand (pbs.org). Many other consumers became afflicted with blindness (a reason speakeasies were called blind pigs and blind tigers)‚ sickness‚ and paralysis (alcoholsolutionsandproblems.org). Some people who followed to Prohibition
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1.7 million students sit down to take a test that will be essential when determining their acceptance into college annually. In 1926‚ the Scholastic Aptitude Test was introduced with the purpose of measuring aptitude or innate mental ability rather than the mastery of subjects learned. The test was developed from from an army IQ test‚ invented by a man who’s purpose of this test was to exclude minorities and immigrants. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is neither fair nor does it actually measure
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Water fluoridation is the addition of fluoride to the water supply‚ and in particular‚ 75% of America’s water supply. Despite the fluoridation of the public water supply being a topic of controversy‚ there are studies related to harmless side effects‚ strict regulation levels‚ and positive results from usage. Several groups believe that the fluoridation of public water is dangerous to the public’s health. In a February 2006 article in Journal of Controversial Medical Claims titled "The Debate over
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Statutory rights are permitted rights based on acts passed by the legislature. In our company and in most others we don’t agree with discrimination whether you are gay bisexual or straight you shouldn’t be judged or treated different because of it this. This also goes for religion‚ Colour & Age. With any job when you first start you should get a contract which explains your job role the responsibilities you need to deliver in your work place‚ the dress code and loads of other important stuff that’s
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