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    In the book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson analyses‚ explains‚ and elaborates the two essential and necessary aspects of making any decision. "The need to reduce dissonance is a universal mental mechanism‚ but that doesn’t mean we are doomed to be controlled by it. Human beings may not be eager to change‚ but we have the ability to change‚ and the fact that many of our self-protective delusions and blind spots are built into the way the brain works is no justification

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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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    Krystyna. Krystyna Chiger and Pavel Friedmann were forced to live in the ghetto from 1941 to 1942.They were forced to live there because they were Jewish  and the Germans were coming after them.Krystyna escaped the ghetto and lived underground in a sewer ‚Pavel lived in the ghetto for 7 weeks. As you can see there are similarities and differences. Pavel and Krystyna both lived in a ghetto fortunately they both escaped the ghetto Pavel got out by dying and Krystyna lived in sewer. Like Pavel ‚ Krystyna

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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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    Money In The Ghetto Essay

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    Money is such an important item in the ghetto. These people living here obviously want better for themselves. They say “I live here not because I choose to‚ but because I have to” (Jones‚ et al.‚ 1997‚ p. 200). There is nowhere else they can afford. And they know that “poor adolescents are more likely to be exposed to violence‚ to feel more alienated from school‚ and to be exposed to high levels of stress” (Steinberg‚ 2016‚ p. 119). But there is nothing that can be done. They are victims to the community

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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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    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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    African American Ghettos

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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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    Jewish Ghetto Essay

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    Jewish Ghettos If you where to take a trip back to Germany in 1939-1944 you would expect to see the holocaust‚ you would but there is a more overlooked event. This event was called ghettos‚ these ghettos where basically a neighborhood in a city with a high Jewish population that was turned into a place where the nazis could separate the Jews away form normal society and treated terribly. The Jewish people that where held in these ghettos could have been held in them for weeks or years. The ghettos

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    Essay On Ghetto In Germany

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    Hitler assumed office and only then his true colors began to show. Under his control‚ Jewish ‘ghettos’ were established. Ghettos were a small area used for housing Jews after they were forced out of their homes. Several families were crammed into a tiny apartment that might’ve even been too small for just one family on their own. But this was just the beginning of Hitler’s destructive journey. As if the ghettos weren’t terrible enough‚ labor camps were created‚ and then the extermination camps. Jews

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