1. What is meant by diversity? Diversity literally means difference. Diversity recognises that though people have things in common with each other‚ they are also different and unique in many ways. Diversity is about recognising and valuing those differences. 2. Describe the community you live in. Highlight some of the variations you may observe in terms of: • Interests • Beliefs • Ages • Lifestyles • Personal‚ social and cultural identities. I live in a town called Braintree in
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Thesis: Prominent African American leaders sought to advance their people on an economical stage‚ create meaningful‚ purpose-driven lives‚ and create a sense of harmony and wellbeing. Oppression manifests in several different scenarios. Southern United States history shows remarkable lessoned learned from segregation‚ oppression‚ and injustices. Courage to fight these injustices takes strong leadership. Changing the ideas and views of the incumbent society is no simple task. The abolishment
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the largest socio-tragedies known to man: racism. While this pestilent issue has affected many ethnic groups‚ the most publicly known is the racial discrimination concerning African Americans. By my reasoning‚ along with many sociologists and psychologists‚ racism is the root cause of African American race socialization. Race socialization is the theory of verbal and non-verbal messages being transmitted to specific ethnic groups for the positive or negative development of behaviors‚ philosophies
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beginning of the 16th century when the name was first applied to the territory now referred to as South America. The period between 1600 and1877 represents a significant milestone in the American history. Therefore‚ the period is characterized by slavery‚ industrialization‚ and the rise of the American colonies‚ Civil War‚ and attainment of independence. Although some people enjoyed the freedom in this period‚ it marked a terrible time for the Africans and Indians who were captured as slaves to provide
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Music‚ which is what the topic of this unit is‚ is a fundamental consistent of human life that can be detected in every known culture‚ present and past. However‚ it varies widely between times and places‚ and it might have been invented in Africa. Our Discover New York class focused on music in New York City. The NYC music scene was described by Richie Unterberger as “immense‚ richly diverse‚ flashy‚ polyethnic‚ and engaged in a never-ending race for artistic and cosmopolitan supremacy”. There are
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It was a hot night‚ full of sweating bodies and flowing wine. The midsummer festival raged through the palace courts‚ and everyone’s soul rumbled with the beating drums and stomping feet‚ except for Hilde’s. Her soul was quiet and broken. Hands folded and head bowed‚ like a saint in holy prayer‚ she sat in her thrown on the platform and softly cried at her misfortune. She hadn’t meant to do it‚ of course. She hadn’t meant to throw the goblet so hard. But who could blame her? It was after mass that
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Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System Marc Mauer Assistant Director The Sentencing Project Prepared for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights April 15-16‚ 1999 Washington‚ D.C. 2 THE CRISIS OF THE YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Marc Mauer Assistant Director The Sentencing Project Introduction In recent years policy attention regarding the crisis of the African American male has focused on a variety of areas in which African American males
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Was it right what happened to Blacks and Jews back then? Terrible things happened to both African Americans and Jews. These events caused many people to change their minds about blacks and Jews. Today‚ people are still affected by what has happened. In the oppression of Jews and African Americans there was many similarities and differences. African Americans were brought into the US by Dutch slave traders. Many slaves worked on plantations for the whites and worked hard everyday. If any disobeyed
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What is meant by multiple intelligence? The generally accepted view of intelligence is that it is about cognitive or mental ability. Charles Spearman‚ one of the early pioneers in thinking about intelligence called it the ‘g’ factor‚ and intelligence tests have been designed to measure it. However‚ few people now believe that intelligence is a concept that can be described in such simple terms‚ and some have sought to explore our understanding of intelligence more fully. The best known and
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types of people. Injustice towards others can have very negative outcomes. Prejudice can demean people through race‚ religion‚ and gender. Racial bigotry alters the way people interact and live their lives. A major intolerance that divided people and devastated lives was the injustice towards African Americans in the early history of the United States through Jim Crow Laws. Africans first came to America as slaves with no rights. Many whites treated them as inferior and with cruelty. Even after
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