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    Rob Hill Professor Terry Thuemling WP121G 5 November 2004 Behind the Walls of the Ghetto Commenting on the famed Los Angeles ghetto in which he grew up‚ gangster rapper Ice Cube asserts‚ "If you ain ’t never been to the ghetto‚ don ’t ever come to the ghetto" (Cube‚ Ghetto Vet). But why are American ghettos filled with so much violence‚ drugs‚ and inopportunity? In John Singleton ’s powerful drama Boyz N the Hood the harsh reality of youths growing up in South Central Los Angeles‚ a place

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    world but have you ever wanted to travel outside of Earth? As can be expected with the advancement of technology humans might be able to go and live on Mars. Living on Mars could be great experiance and have a good effect on the world due to the fact exploration helps us advance and we could be helping out the economy by creating jobs. While living on Mars could be a great possibility‚ there’s people who disagree with it. They say it would be too difficult because you would lose human luxuries. According

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    In the modern time‚ there still exist ghettos and for the racial inequality. The creation of ghettos usually comes resulting from the functioning of stigma and the attempts of constraining and criminalizing the racial group. Even nowadays‚ when the population changes‚ the ghetto still remains a ghetto‚ and they are mostly formed as a result of gang activities and seeking a shield. At the same time‚ there is a range of factors influencing the life in a ghetto. First of all‚ the state has an immense

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    The effect of mutations on living organisms Mutations occur when there is a change in the base sequence on the DNA strand. Most mutations have absolutely no effect due to them occurring in the introns‚ or the “junk DNA”. However some mutations occur on the exons‚ and these are the ones that can be potentially harmful to the organism‚ although in some exceptional cases random mutations can be beneficial‚ and pressured mutations are almost always beneficial to the survival of a species. Harmful

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    The ghettos played a major role in the ‘Final Solution’ because these areas were the beginning of a major method of separating the Jews from society. Previously Jews had lost citizen rights such as having a say in the government decisions. The ghettos lacked space for all the Jews to live comfortably and in luxury. The ghettos lacked schools‚ any form of news‚ there was no form of entertainment such as theaters or concerts. The Jews living in the Ghettos were forced to work where they would make

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    This investigation will be evaluating the origins of the ghetto and how the ghetto itself has helped to enforce racism within America. The rise of the ghetto has been associated predominantly within the black community‚ with origins from the late 1920’s. Evaluating the reasons for neighborhood segregation in the 1920’s is important because it shows an increased hostility towards blacks from whites‚ which further escalates at the beginning of the 1940’s. Looking at the time from the 1910-1920’s

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    The only time a problem in the ghetto gets addressed is when a cop murders a black male. Which by the way “every 28 hours a African American is killed by a security officer” according to alternet.com. Police brutality is a very big problem in ghettos all around the world. “Although black men make up only 6% of the U.S. population‚ they account for for 40% of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year” according to WashingtonPost.com.The officer that committed the murder usually gets just a

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    In the eyes of the Jewish‚ ghettos were the worst experience of the Holocaust‚ before all of the Jews went to the death camps. Making the Warsaw Ghetto a significant symbol of the Holocaust. Thousands of people were stuffed into tight communities and were exposed to diseases‚ starvation‚ and deportation. Children had to fend for themselves because their parents were powerless and had to stand by watch. Families in the ghettos also watched their friends and close relatives slowly disappear. To attempt

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    Ghettos‚ 1910-1970 After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed‚ most of the black population scattered to find their families and friends. About ninety percent of African Americans lived in the confederacy and around 1970 more than fifty percent lived outside of the south. Millions of African Americans sought to escape poverty in the south by moving to Northern cities where they hoped to find better lives‚ also seeking bigger opportunity and racial tolerance. Most of the migrants

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    Amongst many problems that living organisms face‚ one of the biggest is the change in the temperature of the environment. Why is this a major problem for living organisms? A change in the temperature of the environment disrupts many of the body’s enzymes and regulatory proteins‚ changing their shape and perturbing their function. However‚ organisms have taken two different approaches to tackling this problem we call this organisms endotherms and ectotherms but in this essay‚ we will talk about an

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