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    white people. The most pathetic discrimination happened by black men. In the past‚ People considered them as unknown people because black men were lack of identities. It did not matter if they are slaves or freeman‚ fathers or children‚ religious or not. The discriminations were happened in public places‚ medical facilities‚ education and other community services. Seats for blacks‚ schools for blacks which lack of fund‚ and sometimes unfair treatment also received by African American people from

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    Ordinary People  Significance of Title:  Ordinary People is named so because it tells the story  of a year in the lives of “ordinary” (normal) people.   Author:  Judith Guest   Biographical Information:  • born March 29‚ 1936  • American novelist/screenwriter  • studied English and psychology at the  University of Michigan  • graduating with a BA in education  Date Published:  1976  Historical Significance:  In the 1970s the interest in studying the human mind  arose in many people. In an interview Guest said

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    eradication of slavery‚ Black people were still ostracized and treated horribly in mainstream society‚ despite claims that they were free. There are widespread notions that Black people were and are treated terribly in the South but that when they move and migrate to other areas‚ the treatment ceases. The lynchings stop‚ the policy changes are better‚ and the micro-aggressions are nonexistent‚ but this is simply not the case. The idea that the South was the only place where Black people were mistreated is rooted

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    In today’s generation‚ people so loosely use the word that is demeaning and caused so much hurt in the past. It is amazing that people have selective amnesia and conveniently forget that the N-word brought among hurt‚ confusion‚ death and betrayal. Now people are trying to say that the N-word can be used as a word of endearment‚ a word that sets apart an enemy from a foe. Of course depending on the tone and nature that the term is spoken in. I have been deeply offended and distraught at the thought

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    different living habits from HK people. Taboos in their own culture are often unknown to or neglected by HK people‚ thus causing cultural conflict to some extent. For example‚ South Asian people are quite traditional and conservative‚ so one taboo is that they cannot be touched by people of another gender. Another factor causing their difficulty in integrating into HK people is that most of them are living underprivileged‚ often being looked down upon by local people. That is what I saw in a supermarket

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    community; with Indigenous people 12.5 times more likely to be hospitalised for violent assault and spousal assault rates of hospitalisation being 35 times higher. Suggested reasons for this are the normalisation of violence at an early age‚ which is supported by the high rates of juvenile detention‚ social inequality‚ alcohol abuse‚ mental health issues and different cultural opinions and education regarding violence. However‚ the issue of over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice

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    THE MOST FAVOURITE LEADER OF TURKISH PEOPLE “MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK” İntroduction: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first President of the Republic of Turkey and the anti-imperialist leader of Turkey until his death in 1938. Mustafa Kemal was born on‚May 19‚1881. His birth place was Salonika. He was given the name Atatürk (Father of All Turks) later. His father’s name was Ali Rıza Efendi. His mother’s name was Zübeyde Hanım. He also had a sister whose name was Makbule (Atadan). When the Ottoman

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    Can People Change Over Time? “I didn’t know who to blame. I tried to find somebody. I began to blame it on black people.” These are the words of C.P. Ellis‚ a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan‚ as he described his way of thinking to Studs Terkel in “C.P. Ellis” (400). “C.P. Ellis” has many similarities with Vincent Parrillo’s theories of prejudice in his essay “Causes of Prejudice” (384). Parrillo explains that the causes of prejudice are psychological and sociological. Parrillo describes three

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    Languages are‚ of course‚ one of the prime tools of cultural expression. So it should not surprise us to discover that the decline of indigenous cultures is also having a serious effect on the languages of the world. Indeed‚ an indigenous language disappears every two weeks. It is estimated that by the end of the 21st century‚ 5‚500 of the current 6‚000 languages now spoken will simply be as dead as Ancient Greek and Latin. Behind each language is a culture‚ the expressive richness of a living tongue

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    The term boat people came into the political lexicon in the 1970s with the Vietnamese escaping communism to settle in other New book Sivan about Ethiopian refugees heading to Yemen countries. Then the term started to be used in other spots of the world‚ including the Caribbean in the 1980s when Cubans and Haitians flocked to the United States fleeing political and economic downturns. In the past couple of years Ethiopians and Somalis are joining this group in leaps and bounds; Somalis fleeing chaos

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