The Brownsville Community Council was created in 1996. The council was established with the goal of addressing poverty and crime in the neighborhood. Welfare, voting rights, and housing were arranged for the community. In additions, parks were built and a local newspaper established for the members of the community. No matter the attempts for social change, Brownsville took a turn for the worse. The crime and the violence escalated in Brownsville. As the death rate rised due to violence within the
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Good morning class today you will be hearing the not so interesting tale of Adam Vassell, a modern day legend. I was fortunateness to be born on the beautiful island of Jamaica, with two amazing parents and two kinda cool older brothers. My dad is a lawyer at one of the top firms in Jamaica and my mom is a personal banker at Wells Fargo. One of my older brothers attends USF (University of South Florida) and the other attends UWI (University of West Indies) but enough about them I’m the star of this
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The Trent affair was an affair that caused the United States and Great Britain to get very close to war during the first year of the American civil war. Even though war seemed very possible America and Britain avoided it and through that gained more confidence with each other and in each other. The confederate President, Jefferson Davis, sent James Mason of Virginia as minister to Britain and John Slidell of Louisiana to minister to France, seeking support against the north. Trying to avoid the union
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On this week, we discussed the topic of race and ethnicity. In the United States, the multi-cultural society forms many different variations in defining the race and ethnicity. Based on the video, ethnicity, as defined by the Professor Lee, is about the national origin, the certain boundary of the individual cultures. Ethnicity can be expressed in an alternate way to become a symbolic ethnicity when cultural values and customs are displayed in public. Examples in this chapter are T-shirt with Italy
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Prejudiced is the most important word in Jesus Colon’s “Little Things are Big” because it conveys an understanding of Jesus Colon’s fear of his help being rejected by the white woman. In Jesus Colon’s passage, he talks about his personal experience on a train ride. During this train ride, Jesus Colon felt the need to help a white woman with a baby on her right arm, a big suitcase in her left hand, and two children, a boy and a girl about the ages of three and five years old, following her. He was
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Do you understand how hard it is to leave someone you love or to escape from something you hate? Well, Jeffery and Harris do. A slave named Jeffery was to be sold. He begged and he begged for his new master to buy his beloved Dorcas. The next day Dorcas was put with a family and the master would not buy the whole family. So they got separated. Harris was a slave until he ran. On his journey, many helped him but one betray him. He and a family of three brothers were in the barn when it came 8 men
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Hitler’s ignorance towards his generals led to a very poor outcome in the battle of Britain and operation Dunkirk for Germany. During the battle of Britain the Luftwaffe had little to no plan of attack, it was not systematic or consistent. During the attacks on Britain the Luftwaffe chief Goering, decide to switch Plans and bomb the RAF. Hitler quickly grew impatient with the lack of results, due to this the Luftwaffe changed strategies once again, on Hitler’s orders, and started to bomb major British
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When talking about big events, mostly everyone will want to watch it despite being in the upper class or lower class. In the article, “Putting the London 2012 Olympics into perspective: the challenge of understanding mega-event” written by Maurice Roche, this article explains why there is a mega-event and why it occurs where we will see the idea of a mega-event. A good example of a mega-event is the 2012 London Olympics. With the Olympic already known for being on a big-scale of it being worldwide
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Summary In 1960’s there was a practice called the 60’s scoop, in which Indigenous children were taken from their families and were adopted by non-indigenous families. This process started up in 1960 and till 1985 around 20,000 of indigenous babies were taken from their mothers. This time was a destructive time period for the indigenous families and their cultural identities. Raven Sinclair is a victim of 60’ scoop, who was taken along with her 8 siblings from their mother and were adopted by a nonindigenous
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The research study by Poteat, Horn, and Armstrong considers the correlation between the level of belief in right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), the condoning of antigay acts, and the type of reasoning behind it in both religious and secular contexts. Although one’s adherence to RWA and SDO are reliable predictors of prejudice, little research has been done connecting them to the framing of antigay acts (Poteat, Horn, and Armstrong 2017). Social dominance orientation
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