Race‚ Class‚ Gender‚ and Sexuality Fall 2010 WGST 304/SOCY 304/ POLI 305/AFRO 398R Section 001 Meeting Times: TTH 9:30-10:45AM Location: Currell College 203 Instructor: Dr. Sharon Lee White Phone: 777-4007(Please leave message) E-Mail: Leesg@mailbox.sc.edu Office Hours: By appointment only Course Description: This multidisciplinary course is designed to explore historical and contemporary aspects of race‚ social class‚ gender‚ and sexuality. Focusing on the intersection
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of the African American community was the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court
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Progressive and the actual police report were used to compare both sides of the Michael Brown’s death case due to shooting by police officer Darren Wilson. The comparison is to highlight how different the story is pictured from the mass media to the law enforcement report. The case occurred in Ferguson‚ Missouri on August 9‚ 2014. After reading both sources of information the differences vary in several ways the story telling is done. A difference from the actual police report and the online article
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Korematsu V. United States was a court case during the time of World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ people of Japanese descent were considered threats. As a result‚ Franklin Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066 on February 19‚ 1942. This Order demanded that each and every person of Japanese descent be moved to internment camps‚ regardless of citizenship. Fred Korematsu‚ a Japanese American citizen‚ refused to leave his home to go to the internment camp. Therefore‚ he was convicted
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DEM 304 Enable right and choices of individuals with dementia whilst minimising risks 1.1 Human Rights Act 1998 Under this act residents of the United Kingdom are entitled to seek help from the UK courts if they believe that their human rights have been infringed. The human rights act guarantees: • The Right to life • The right to freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading punishment • The right to freedom from slavery‚ servitude and forced or compulsory labour • The right to liberty and security
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W Marbury v Madison 1803 will forever and always be a Supreme Court Case that will live infamously in today’s history. During the election of 1800 against incumbent president John Adams of the Federalist Party versus the Anti-Federalist Party nominee Thomas Jefferson‚ with Jefferson being the victor. Before Adams were to leave the presidential office‚ he made what is called “midnight appointments” of new judgeships to counter act the Jeffersonians once in office. John Marshall‚ who was secretary
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Virginia is a United States Supreme Court case which laws prohibited interracial marriage. The case was brought to Mildred and Richard Loving‚ a white man and a black woman‚ who were sentenced to a year in prison for being married. The marriage violated the anti-miscegenation law‚ which prohibited marriage between classified
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judge granted Columbia 8.8 million dollars in damages‚ which is about $20000 for each of the 440 episodes. Feltner took the case to the supreme court on the argument that a jury should decide the amount of damages that need to be paid. The court ruled in Feltner’s favor‚ saying that the seventh amendment does in fact grant the right to a jury trial in copyriht infringement cases. “During the trial‚ The irony of it is‚ maybe -- you may be better off if you lose‚ because a jury may come in with a bigger
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Sentencing Paper CJA/234 September 30‚ 2013 Sentencing Paper Earlier responses to crime were to be brutal‚ which included torture‚ humiliation‚ mutilation‚ and branding. These kinds of punishments often attempted to relate the punishment to the crime‚ as close as possible. The first response to crime incorporated linking criminal acts to sin and developing strict punishments. Throughout the years‚ this thought process has changed into a more humane system. The reason for corrections
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In 2000‚ the Arlington Police Department received information stating that Earnest Leon Voyles had exchanged emails that contained sexual content with a fifteen year old girl from London‚ England. According to this informant the fifteen year old girl‚ “Amy Chang”‚ had been solicited for sex by Voyles and had arranged to meet with her in London to engage in a sexual relationship. Sergeant James Crouch of the Arlington Police Department was unsuccessful in contacting “Amy Chang” to verify the arrangement
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