[Hi Alamouta: I appreciate that you gave me a synopsis of your professor’s instructions along with your essay. It made reviewing your paper much easier for me. Because this paper is primarily for an ECON class‚ I only marked areas that I thought needed either some clarification or some minor grammatical corrections. You made no spelling errors – good for you! It made reading your assignment very enjoyable The only area we need to look at is misplaced modifiers. The rule in English is that a word
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bag of Skittles‚ a can of iced tea‚ and some money‚ so unless Zimmerman felt he was in danger of contracting a deadly form of diabetes or a lethal cavity‚ he has more explaining to do. But whether the item is as innocuous as a bag of candy—or‚ as in Amadou Diallo’s case‚ a wallet—the assumption is that the natural state of black men is armed and dangerous. If Martin was so threatening‚ why didn’t Zimmerman wait for the police to arrive‚ particularly after being told not to follow the suspect? (“We don’t
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Samba Diallo is the victim of forces beyond his control’. Discuss this view of the protagonist of L’aventure ambiguë. In L’aventure ambiguë‚ the colonization of Senegal by the French have led to different and often conflicting views from different characters‚ clashes of different cultures and practices of religion‚ as well as the education that was provided by the Diallobé and from the new foreign schools. These few examples are useful in explaining the term victim’‚ i.e. what he is a victim
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noise outside and naturally looked out the window. The song American Skin (41 shots) is referring to a young man named Amadou Diallo who died in 1999 after being shot by four plain-clothes NYPD officers. The officers believes Diallo to match the description of a large serial rapist and (according to the officers) loudly identifies themselves and order Diallo to “show his hands.” Diallo then reaches into his pocket and take out his
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Annotated Bibliography “Police Brutality (Special Report)” facts on file. Issues & controversies. Web. March 2009 This article points out several different cases involving police brutality linked to New York City police departments. In the case of Amadou Diallo four plainclothes officers shot and killed the 22-year-old immigrant from Guinea while he was sitting in his home in the Bronx. Mistaking his wallet for a gun he was shot at 41 times‚ 19 of the shots hit him. The jury‚ racially mixed‚ acquitted
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell explores the idea of “thin-slicing‚” which is the act of the brain only using a small bit of information to make a decision. These types of snap judgements are sometimes thought to be inferior to well thought out and studied decisions. Gladwell shows that well researched decisions are not always better decisions. Rapid cognition‚ or “thin-slicing‚” is observed in many cultures and is used by many people around the world. In some ways‚ one can make the case that “thin-slicing”
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Police Brutality in the United States Police brutality is a fact of American life. In most major cities across the country‚ officers abuse their authority in the most flagrant ways. New York City and Los Angeles are the most notorious for police brutality cases. In New York‚ when mayor Rudolph Giuliani took office in 1994‚ he instituted a "zero tolerance" policy‚ the theory that allowing small crimes to pass unpunished will encourage disrespect for the law in larger matters. This led to a huge increase
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Based on police reports‚ witnesses and Wikipedia Diallo looked like a man that had a warrant out for his arrest that had previously raped 29 victims. So the four police men thought they had found the victim‚ even though it wasn’t the right guy. The four police Edward McMillon‚ Sean Carroll‚ Kenneth Boss‚ and Richard Murphy followed Diallo until he was on the steps right outside of his apartment door. The police’s then yelled “NYPD” as Diallo was putting his hand in his pocket about to pull out
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the law because of these people? Why do people run from the cops? The same reason people stick up their middle fingers when they confront us in the streets when they aren’t looking‚ distrust. The Tim Thomas case‚ along with the mishaps of the Amadou Diallo situation are perfect examples of racial profiling. Is it right to do so? Some say that racial profiling helps the crime rate go down‚ while others strongly disagree. Rodney King exposed how corrupt the Los Angeles Police Department was‚ while
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of racial bias. The stop and frisk searches have been done for decades. In Massachusetts‚ a law passed in 2000 required police officers to record the race and gender of the person there stopping. Of the shooting of an unarmed black man‚ Amadou Diallo‚ in 1999‚ then New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ordered a report on the use of stop and frisk searches by police. Percentage who received a verbal warning‚ 18.6% were Whites‚ 13.7% were Blacks and 14.5% Hispanic. ("Update..."
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