Essays Tagged: "Caucasian"

Racsism

are guilty of racialdiscrimination.For centuries conflicts have taken place among three main races,Caucasian, Asian, and Negro ranging from snobbish social exclusion, tostate- sponsored genocide. Rac ...

(5 pages) 192 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Full description of Best Disease- about one page long bibliography included

related to the steady vision loss feature of Best disease.Best disease mostly occurs with European Caucasian from early childhood to adolescence (3 to 15 years old) with both genders when their visio ...

(2 pages) 93 0 4.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Devastating Racism in "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury's

nce of this minority is also communicated. These three points are effectively displayed through the Caucasian characters' thoughts, speech, and actions. More specifically shown through their ignorant ... d at the level of secrecy the African-Americans take on when attempting to migrate. The majority of Caucasians in this town consider themselves 'better' then any one black man, because of the colour o ...

(5 pages) 28 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Minorities in Canada.

da is the Canadian Indians' own country, for they were well settled here long before the arrival of Caucasian immigrants from Europe. Yet they are still highly discriminated against. French explorers ...

(7 pages) 93 1 3.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

"Culture, Not Race" by Mark Nathan Cohen, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 1998, pp.B4-B5.

versity"We... have to stop teaching or accepting the idea that humans are dividedinto three races - Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid- an idea that is at least 50 years out of date."Culture, Not Race, ...

(2 pages) 80 0 2.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

"Heritage Camps", adopted children being sent to hertiage camps.

The number of adopted Asian children by Caucasian parents has been increasing rapidly. Adoption is not a new way to start a family, but the ... is not a new way to start a family, but the way the adopted children are being raised has changed. Caucasian parents adopting babies from China, Korea, and The Philippines have formed Heritage Camps ... can culture. Yet they send their children to a camp with more children who are Asian and adopted by Caucasian parents. This shows the children that they are different. They need to be sent to a day ca ...

(2 pages) 24 0 4.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Rabbit Proof Fence - A Movie by Phillip Noyce.

fairsorders that they be sent to Moore River settlement for being half-caste (oneAboriginal and one Caucasian parent), there is great sadness in the JigalongAboriginal settlement. The girls arrive at ...

(3 pages) 95 1 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Racism, a certain kind of prejudice.

alizations toward a specific group.For centuries conflicts have taken place among three main races, Caucasian, Asian, and Negro. Racism is an unmerited fear or dislike of a people because of their eth ...

(3 pages) 96 0 3.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

What are children watching?...The Influence of sexism, violence and expliotation in children television.

can be "cool." Children's movies and television have in the past been very sexist, racist, and very Caucasian oriented. Now, even though times have changed, sexism, exploitation, and violence are stil ...

(3 pages) 138 0 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Osteoporosis

osteoporosis as a female, men can get this, too. Also, osteoporosis tends to happen to women in the Caucasian and Asian races. HOWEVER: there's more of a chance of getting osteoporosis because of your ...

(1 pages) 68 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Golf: The Changes of the Game Question: to analyize a common problem in today's History

t how race has impacted the game of golf. Golf was a game that was once known as one played by rich Caucasians. Most early golfers were comprised of British and American citizens, which were Caucasian ... h were Caucasian. In the 1960s, the great well-known golfers, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus (both Caucasians) were often seen at the top of the scoreboard. In 1961, the PGA finally withdrew its "whi ...

(6 pages) 50 0 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

PAst present and future racism

ice, and discrimination. For example, in our readings the Article Psychology and race discusses how Caucasian doctors believed that Caucasians had larger cranial capacity to house more cerebral matter ...

(8 pages) 165 1 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Race

most people are brown. When youfill out an application you check off Hispanic, African American, or Caucasian. There is nomixed category on that application like African American and Caucasian.Further ...

(3 pages) 175 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Distinguishing Between Race and Ethnicity

people are generally classified by other people. Racial classification is divided into three parts;Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid. It is said that our "human ancestors" are responsible for much of ...

(1 pages) 137 1 2.6 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

How life is affected by those in certain marginalised groups.

andmother to two grandsons, aged 11 and 8, whom are bothher eldest daughters children. Pauline is a caucasian, heterosexual female and has adisability which occured from an accident in 1978. This disa ...

(7 pages) 111 1 4.2 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Stomach Cancer

The disease affects men twice as often as women, and is more common in Afro-American people than in Caucasian people. Stomach cancer is more common in Japan, Korea, parts of Eastern Europe, and Latin ...

(3 pages) 38 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Who Said You Can't Have it Both Ways?: The Double Standards of Promisquity analyze an advertisement using feminist theories about sex, race, and class.

e). In the subject of gender and race, men are the superior sex, and women the inferior. Similarly, Caucasian is thought of as the superior race, and people of color, the inferior. In the Lifestyles a ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Court cases dealing with the 14th amendment

uisiana placed a law giving separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Plessy- 7/8 Caucasian, sat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train, and refused to move to the car for black ...

(14 pages) 171 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Racial Profiling in America. This is a look at a specific problem in policing today. The subject is Racial profiling during traffic stops

g under our constitutional rights and it is an "un-American" way of thinking to target only blacks, Caucasian, or Hispanics or any other ethnic group as a group of wrongdoers (Harris, 2001). It underm ... iding whom to enforce the law. They may see two cars speeding with a Hispanic driving one car and a Caucasian driving the other. The officer may pull over the Hispanic driver because he/she is raciall ...

(10 pages) 181 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Koreans Facing Discrimination in America

lized Koreans from owning property and limited leases in California. They were often turned away by Caucasian landlords when they were attempting to find housing. The action of the Alien Land Act prov ...

(4 pages) 60 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology