... when it came down to gproving how we're separate, and unequal. Kozol digs a little deeper to back up his word on being separate and unequal. In the following paragraphs I will summarize Kozol's article "Still Separate, Still Unequal" and continue on what needs to be done to solve this problem. Many people wonder do segregation still exist, but not many people want to investigate. Jonathan Kozol, did a little more than investigate. Jonathan Kozol pointed out, in most poor neighborhoods the schools have mostly black and Hispanic students (348). The percentage of blacks and Mexicans students were higher than fifty percent. There was a teacher who was 65 years old who taught at a majority black school stated that "Out of eighteen years, this is the first white student I have ever taught" (348). It's not very common that white students attend underclass schools. Kozol stated that there is a school in New York City named Langston Hughes that has 99 percent black and Hispanic students and only 1 percent white (349). Kozol has visited a school named for Martin Luther King Jr. this school was built in a upper middle class white neighborhood. The hope for this school was to have large numbers of white students attending the school just by walking, while black and Hispanic students road the bus or train (349). White...
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...Part I Define the following terms: Term Definition White privilege rights or immunities granted as a particular benefit or favor for being White Racial profiling any arbitrary police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or natural origin rather than a person’s behavior Racism The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race Reverse discrimination actions that cause better-qualified White men to be passed over for women and minority men Part II Complete the following using the MySocLab Social Explorer Map: Income Inequality by Race located on your student website: · Select 1 racial group from the list below: o African American o Asian American o Arab American o Hispanic American/Latino o White/Caucasian · Write a 250- to 350-word summary of the economic, social, and political standings of that group. Use additional resources if necessary, from the University Library or your textbooks. Even though all Americans have experiences hardship since the economic slowdown, African Americans have suffered greatly from this situation. The average income of African Americans has declined by 1.3 percent since 2000. Along with the decrease in income, the unemployment rate of African Americans has increased. African Americans also have higher rates of poverty and slower growing rates of employment than other minority groups. The political standing of African Americans is very interesting....
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...Jinwoo Hur EH 216 Poetry Analysis 7/7/11 White Lies Part: 1 In the poem “White Lies,” Natasha Tretheway describes a girl telling white lies as a child in a first person narrative. In the first stanza, she describes herself as “light-bright’ near white, high-yellow, red-boned, in a black place.” Red boned means a racially mixed person, and she is describing her skin as a light and near white color. The next stanza shows the readers what kind of lies she said. She told the white folks that she lived uptown, her homemade dresses were straight from Mason Blanche, and she kept quiet when a white girl called her white. Her lies shows that she wants to hide the fact that she lives in a black neighborhood, and she wants to pass as a white. The third stanza describes the punishment she received when her mom found out she was telling the lies. Her mom cleaned her mouth with “ivory soap,” claiming it would purify and cleanse the lying tongue. Part: 2 * Step 1: the technical aspects Yellow highlight: internal rhymes Green highlight: alliteration White lies –Natasha Tretheway- The lies I could tell, when I was growing up light-bright, near white, commas separate 2words each rhythmic high-yellow, red-boned, in a black place, were just white lies. metaphor First stanza is one sentence with commas for end stopping and caesuras. Introduces her background. A lot of imagery used such as “light-bright, near white high-yellow, red-boned, in a black place.” It is literal meaning...
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...31 May 2016 Why are the people of Englewood becoming more violent as the years progress? Word Count: 1693 Wiley 2 Table of contents Page 1…………………………………………………………………..…... Cover page Page 2……………………………………………………………………….Table of Contents Page 3……………………………………………………………………….Plan of Investigation Page 4-5…………………………………………………………………….Summary of Evidence Page 6-7……………………………………………………………….…....Evaluation of Sources Page 7-8……………………………………………………………….…….Analysis Page 9………………………………………………………………………..Conclusion Page 10…………………………………………………………………….....Bibliography Wiley 3 Section A: Plan Of Investigation Over the past years, The Englewood area of Chicago has accelerated as far as its crime rate....
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix F Part I Define the following terms: Term | Definition | White privilege | White privilege is the theory that describes the treatment of white people as exceptional over that of other races. While we often discuss the clear cases where other races are being discriminated against there is still yet another power at play. The world’s subconscious attraction to the American or European aesthetic. It is the advantage given out of the subconscious desire to give instead of the desire to withhold from others. | Racial profiling | Racial profiling takes place when law enforcement officials make a conscious decision to take action or not take action on the basis of race of the offender. If a police officer pulls a black person over while driving because he or she is driving through a predominantly white neighborhood, then that officer would be guilty of racial profiling. | Racism | Racism is the belief and actions taken based on the belief that race determines the level of human a person is. During the slave trades many traders treated the African slaves as dogs and believed they were such, cattle to do their bidding. They did not judge them on their historical knowledge of the group because they had very limited historical knowledge. They based their decisions about and treatment of the Africans solely on their race. | Reverse discrimination | Reverse discrimination describes the thought that the laws created to protect minorities...
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...“Why? You want to know why? ‘Cause we all tied up in a race of people that don’t know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies!”. A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry which portrays an impecunious African American family that lives on the Southside of Chicago. Their lives almost change for the better when a life insurance check of $10,000 comes after the death of Lena Younger’s (widowed wife/ mom) husband. A wife and two children all indecisive on what the money should be used for, the oldest son Walter wants to use the money towards the investment of a liquor store while the baby sister Beneatha who is currently in college wants to use the funds for medical school but the mom has ideas to spend it for the good...
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...Part of what’s traditionally known as the American Dream revolves around the idea of one’s ultimate “dream home”: from a white picket fence to an expanse of green grass for children and pets to play in and everything in between. However, a home this day in age can be seen as an indicator of success, independence, status, uniqueness in design, etc. Many factors influence the price of a home, specifically in the highly sought-after state of California. Having an interest in Home Renovation and Interior Design, I can highlight direct influencers of the value of a home in regards to those fields. Anything from a home lacking a master suite, to having low curb appeal can decrease the value of a home considerably, however, I was looking to analyze...
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...Chicago Street Gangs The City of Chicago is home to many iconic sites and famous things including Wrigley Field, Giordano’s deep dish pizza, Navy Pier, Portillos, and Willis Tower. Chicago residents live and work in some of the most affluent, wealthy, and glamorous neighborhoods like The Gold Coast and River North. Over the last couple of years though, the spotlight has been shifted from all of Chicago’s wonderful things to its poverty stricken neighborhoods, rising crime rate, murders, and drug problems. All of these things can be linked to what many consider Chicago’s biggest problem, street gangs. But today the city seems to be far more segregated and full of poverty in neighborhoods that are home to minorities. Many adults turn to the streets to make a living and children see their elders and in return do the same. These same poor neighborhoods have a failing public education system for the youth along with a bad relationship with police. According to the Chicago Crime Commission, “a 2012 Chicago Police Department gang audit found there are more than 600 gang factions in the city, with a minimum combined membership of 70,000” (cbsnews.com). With the large number of gang members in the city there is a lot of fighting going on over turf for control of drug distribution. This is mainly a problem occurring in minority communities all throughout Chicago. “201 of the 259 homicide victims were African-American” (chicagotribune.com). While blacks make up about 33 percent of the...
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...The Community I chose is located in Marion County, Indianapolis, Indiana. The population of Indianapolis, Indiana in 2013 is listed as 843,393 (CityData, n.d.). Indianapolis is the host of several major events every year which includes the Indianapolis 500 mile car race; the Brickyard which hosts the Allstate 400 Nascar race; the Indiana Black Expo Circle City Classic football games bring some of the best black college teams to our city every October; the Indiana Black Expo Summertime Celebration at the convention center downtown and the NCAA Mens Final Four Basketball Tournament which is one of the most popular college events that the city hosts every year. These are just a few of the events that Indianapolis host each year. The community I am observing is primarily composed of blacks and is in the 46202 zip code. It is located approximately six blocks east of a well “manicured” neighborhood known as the Old Northside and, approximately, a ten minute drive to downtown Indianapolis. Several of the neighborhood residents state that in the past 1012 years, there has been a slow influx of whites moving into the Old Northside neighborhood due to the construction of new houses, condos and renovations of older homes which. At one time, blacks were moved out of those same houses because they were deemed unlivable and were condemned. Needless to say, a lot of those houses were never condemned but, were boarded up for 1520 years until they were bought by contractors who renovated ...
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...Writers is tolerance, journal writing/empowerment, determination and last but not least is freedom. Erin Gruwell, the teacher starts on her first day at Woodrow Wilson High School. She is unprepared for the nature of her classroom because the students live by their generations history of strict rules and rivalries amongst other “groups.” Most of the students in her classroom are in gangs and almost everybody knows somebody that has been killed by gang violence. Once she steps in the class, Gruwell quickly learned that her students had more to worry about than homework; her students went home to gunfire, gangs, drugs, and a host of other difficult situations. Gruwell did not know what she was getting into. The students was convinced that they didn’t have nothing in common, or that they could learn from a white teacher because she never experience what they previously and currently was going through at the time such as violence and discrimination which was part of their everyday lives. Later Erin tries her best to connect with her students by talking their language and by referring to cultural artifacts they are familiar with but as she does it, they still manage to judge her because the students felt like she was just another white person trying to get over them....
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...Summaries #2 (pg. 25 - 54) William Peel was a rather small man with pleasing manners. William was planning to escape from his slave owner, Robert H. Carr in a rather unconventional way. He planned on boxing himself up and then being shipped off. William was escaping because his owner had recently been selling slaves and he was afraid that he'd be next. So, William was boxed up by a close relative and then shipped off. He was in the box for a total of 17 hours. He suffered great misery due to the tightness of the box he was confined in. After a long trip, the box arrived in Philadelphia where a devoted friend was scheduled to pick him up. They did run into a couple difficulties. The box was very heavy, seeing as it carried a man, and it...
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...after seeing Spike Lee's movie Do the Right Thing, my sister and I had a fight over lunch. It was one of those things you do with a lover, or sometimes with a close friend about politics, where the terms you disagree on are too buried to perceive or even to guess, at the time, that they're there. You can be agreeing about all the superficial details and about the largest of generalizations all along--my sister and I both found the film powerfully moving--and still wind up fighting about ... something--one of those disagreements that leave you dissatisfied and unexplainably angry. Her arguments weren't unfamiliar. I had run into very similar concerns, interpretations, and vocabulary in some of the mainstream criticism on the film. But it was only after stewing about our lunch for a couple of days that I began to figure out how completely at odds with the movie I saw was the one she--and those critics--had seen. The more I thought about it, the more I could see that these were no idiosyncratic subjective responses. Rather, our differences were bound up with Spike Lee's mix of styles of representation, which my sister and I responded to selectively and from very different perspectives. While Lee's representation of the Italians was moving and meaningful to her, she could find nothing in his portrayal of the black community that would provide for the same feelings. For, I came to see, while Lee uses to elaborate his white characters methods and narrative and cinematic techniques that...
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...has a population of 229,972 residents. The city of Gilbert is in the county of Maricopa. Land area is 43 square miles with approximately 5,354 residents per square mile. The metro area of Phoenix, AZ (including Gilbert and it’s other suburban areas) is known for the hot desert climate. Average temperatures are 80-100 degrees, with greater than 300 days per year of sunshine. With less than 10” rainfall annually, the area is considered to be arid. Summary of Tools, Description of Selected Community and Interpretation of Selected Data The following information will summarize the characteristics of the City of Gilbert, disaster assessment and planning, neighborhood safety, cultural assessment, a windshield survey of the community and a community scavenger hunt of available resources for Gilbert citizens. Population Economic Status Assessment Of the 229,972 residents in Gilbert, 48.7% are male (112,056). The median age is 32.2 years, with the median age for Phoenix residents being 36 years. 72% of Gilbert residents are White, 16.2% Hispanic, 5.5% Asian, 2.4% Black, 0.6% American Indian, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 2.8% two or more races. Median household income is $79,916 ($68,032 in 2000) as opposed to the Arizona median income which is $47,826. Estimated per capita income is $31,035. Median housing value is $209,300, as opposed to Arizona median housing value of $151,500. Median gross rent is $1,262. Cost of living index in Gilbert is 92.9 (US average...
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...supplement discussion of the issues. The Internet references cited in this publication were valid as of July 2009. Given that URLs and web sites are in constant flux, neither the authors nor the COPS Office can vouch for their current validity. Letter from the Director Dear Colleagues, Fear of crime has an incredibly corrosive effect on individuals and entire communities. This issue is of great concern to all of us in law enforcement. Fear negatively shapes all aspects of the quality of life of America’s communities. The COPS Office recognizes that people not only need to be safe, but they also need to feel safe. Treating both of these issues as two parts of a greater whole is a critical aspect of community policing. That is why we produced this document, “Reducing Fear of Crime: Strategies for Police.” This publication identifies promising practices that have the potential to directly address the fear of crime. It is written by Gary Cordner, one of the foremost experts on the issue of community fear in the policing field. Community policing is one of the most effective tools for reducing the fear of...
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...Why Organizations Change James De Gagne MTG/380 November 22, 2011 Tammy Walker Why Organizations Change Organizations change for different reasons, external pressures, the change in the economy, new product line, global influence, or internal pressure, a new business strategy, a change in the vision, or mission statement, reorganization, or acquisitions. When an organization changes the people within the company must also transition. Transition means a person has to let go, say goodbye, and live outside his or her comfort zone. To illustrate an organizational change I choose Budget Panels and their employees as an example. Budget panels went through a series of eras. The final era was the acquirement in 1986 by Hon Industries. This acquisition brought many transformations in the company, for the employees as well as new pricing, products, and services. This paper will follow Budget Panels transitions; describe the change transition curve, and the influence of global and internal environments. First, a small summary of how Budget Panels was originated and the organizations transition into the final era. Budget Panels was created by entrepreneur Gary White. Gary started Budget Panels in the garage of his home in the early 1980s. The company produced office partitions. The organization quickly grew and evolved from an entrepreneurial business to a professional management structure in a new location in Kent, Washington. The company also changed their name from Budget Panels...
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