race riots which have stemmed from police brutality against Americans of minority descent. One of the most infamous race riots were the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 which stemmed from the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Officers (Martin‚ 2005). In 1992 the Los Angeles Riots began following a verdict which had acquitted the four police officers who had beaten Rodney King to within an inch of his life (Ralph & Chance‚ 2014). According to Ralph & Chance (2014) “By the time the Riots (or
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This essay is about the development of social welfare in Hong Kong before the change in sovereignty in 1997‚ which is divided into four stages. The main factors affecting the development of social welfare in Hong Kong before 1997 will then be discussed. There are four phases in the history of social policy in Hong Kong before 1997. They are Residual social policy‚ Partial social policy‚ The Big Bang Social Policy‚ and The Incremental Social policy Phase 1 is Residual Social policy‚ which was between
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On August 9th‚ 2014‚ Michael Brown‚ an African American 18 year old male‚ was shot to death by a white male police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson‚ Missouri‚ causing nationwide protests and violent riots in Ferguson. After two weeks‚ these riots subdued‚ but two months later the protests resumed when the grand jury decided not to indict Wilson. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee also has race as a substantial factor. In the story‚ African American Tom Robinson is accused of raping
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fine how it was. This reason doesn’t make any sense though. Of course people will rebel violently or riot‚ but that is an effective way to get your point across. Take the Kent State Riots as an example. People rioted and protested against the US expanding the Vietnam War into Cambodia. These riots became nationwide and President Nixon eventually withdrew troops from Cambodia. Many successful riots prove that something bad can turn out to be
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In 1967 though 1970 the United States of America was fighting a war in Vietnam. In the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ a large percentage of American people were a free love and peaceful society. Over 6‚000 miles away in Nigeria‚ citizens were not even safe in their own homes because of the fear of being killed. Nigeria was in a crisis; they were in a civil war. The civil war included three different tribes: the Biafra (Igbo) people‚ the Yoruba‚ and the Hausa-Fulani. The conflict was so bad that the
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each necessary causes for the violent event‚ but were not individually sufficient. Most importantly‚ based off of first-hand accounts of wage laborers present during the riots‚ the origins of a working class consciousness emerged in Baltimore City‚ mixed with the turbulent political and economic factors‚ and produced the violent riots of 1812. This paper argues that the peaceful demonstrations‚ similar to the ones common in the early republic‚ unexpectedly turned violent in Baltimore City in 1812 because
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Introduction In the fall of 2014‚ Ferguson Missouri‚ a suburb 10 miles north of downtown St. Louis‚ became the sight of a full-blown riot‚ after the police killing of Michael Brown. Once the global media caught wind of the killing‚ the news spread like wildfire throughout America‚ as well as foreign nations. The purpose of this paper is to show how decades of corrupt politics‚ segregation‚ and deceptive real estate practices helped fuel the tension and fire of‚ not only Ferguson residents‚ but
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triggered by the Great Migration of African Americans to the North. About twenty five cities nationwide in 1919 began to erupt in race riots and this time would later be known as the "Red Summer". Between 1910 and 1920 the African American population in Chicago doubled‚ leading to heightened tensions between African Americans and Caucasians. The worst of the race riots occurred after a 9 year old African American boy accidentally swam into
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Cited: Film: Crips and Bloods: Made in America Staff‚ FindingDulcinea. "On This Day: Watts Riots Erupt in Los Angeles." FindingDulcinea. 11 Aug. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2012. <http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/July-August-08/On-this-Day---Watts-Riots--Erupt-in-Los-Angeles.html>. "Watts Riots." PBS. Ed. Luna Ray Films. PBS‚ 2002. Web. 01 Nov. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html>. Winter‚ D. D.‚ & Leighton
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all respect for police officers and is what eventually leads to these protests and violent riots. These riots that have occurred show that those members of the community are out for blood and will do whatever it takes for their voice to be heard and to stand against police brutality. One of the most famous riots that happened here in California were the Los Angeles Riots‚ also known as the Rodney King Riots. Rodney King was caught speeding by the police but because he was afraid that his probation
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