Essays Tagged: "minorities"

Can Geneics Cause Crime - Are genetic factors more likely to make one person violent?

than 26,000 Americans were murdered,and six million violent crimes were committedwith young men and minorities falling victimmost frequently".Sullivan also reported that about one in every 27 black me ...

(3 pages) 196 0 3.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Ebonics

o AmericanEnglish.During the last few years, as the world has become more sensitive to the rights ofminorities, women, animals, etc. a new form of changes has taken place. Thesechanges have become kno ... ialects, and have chosen to classify Ebonics as a SocialDialect. A dialect of a language, spoken by minorities, often discriminated culturalor social groups.Some quite contrasting views on the concept ...

(14 pages) 390 0 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment CasesThroughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice system,particularly in cases where the ... many of these killings occurred without any type ofdue process. As the judicial system has matured, minorities have found better representation butit is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty yea ... ote the dissenting opinion in a capital punishment appeal. He wrote, "It is temptingto pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that ourtreatment of them sound ...

(4 pages) 157 0 4.6 Dec/1996

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

Affirmative Action

iversity that required federal contractors to undertake affirmative actionto increase the number of minorities that they employ. He wanted to ensurethat minorities were recruited to have real opportun ...

(1 pages) 213 1 4.4 Jan/1997

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

Defining Racism and the Difficulties of Proving Discrimination

nd discrimination within the criminal justice system, in that there are individuals, both white and minorities, who make decisions, at least in part, on the basis of race. We do not believe that the s ... of race. We do not believe that the system is characterized by prejudice and discrimination against minorities 'systematic.' Individual cases appear to reflect racial prejudice and discrimination by t ...

(3 pages) 292 0 3.9 Nov/1996

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

Racism and the Death Penalty

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment CasesThroughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice system, particularly in cases where the ... many of these killings occured without any type of due process. As the judicial system has matured, minorities have found better representation but it is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty ye ... te the dissenting opinion in a capital punishment appeal. He wrote, 'It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them soun ...

(4 pages) 210 0 4.6 Feb/1997

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

Anti-terrirosm legislation and legal theorists

. Ely's argument has to do with the political process being obstructed and laws that target certain minorities. He argues that the law itself doesn't matter, unless a minority group has been restricte ... ed (lecture October 15th 2001).Ely believed that in a democracy the majorities always rule over the minorities; this to him is a problem. If the majority of people are always getting what they want, t ...

(15 pages) 283 2 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Process and Analysis Essay, TOPIC: MASAI MARRIAGE CEREMONY IN TANZANIA (any comments will be appreciated)

of Persia and Comorians from the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean. Asians and Europeans are small minorities in Tanzania. They practice a nomadic lifestyle, moving around within their territory, bur ...

(3 pages) 65 1 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

My experiences with Minorities Vs. Non-Minorities

ts they were treated as any other non-minority student. Therefore, I had little experience with minorities in a non-minorityschool. After the speech that was given by Michael Jefferson, I was ... judged without the chance to reallylearn. Some people even believe that combining the different minorities may causeproblems.        Combining minority with non-minority studen ...

(2 pages) 77 0 3.4 Mar/1996

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

Minorities on death row

Throughout history, minorities have been ill represented in the criminal justice system, particularly in cases where the ... any of these killings occurred without any type of due process. As the judicial system has matured, minorities have found better representation but it is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty ye ... te the dissenting opinion in a capital punishment appeal. He wrote, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them soun ...

(4 pages) 115 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Racism in America essay realtion to self and other cultures excellent 5 paragraph essay good ideas and helpful ideas relation with the book black girl and relation to self....

but she wouldn't blend in no matter what she tries.Growing up as a Black girl in a society of White minorities, it is very difficult to blend in. She says, "It's being 9 years old and feeling like you ... t just made me really mad. It was very difficult for me to hang out with the same crowd because the minorities where Mexicans. I felt like I was an outcast with no friends. I remember in elementary sc ...

(4 pages) 162 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Opportunities of Character, Not Color. Arguments for and against Affarmative action

tion programs attempted to undo past racial discrimination by giving preference to blacks and other minorities. The idea behind these programs was to help minorities gain the representation in the job ... ately, affirmative action has mutated into a thirty-year-old policy that places many underqualified minorities in positions over more qualified non-minorities. Preferential treatment of minorities has ...

(3 pages) 152 0 3.7 Nov/1996

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

The Errs of Dworkin

For many years, preferential treatment has been used to try to make up for past wrong-doings to minorities. There have been many cases tried over racial discrimination, with verdicts of both innoc ... ol of the University of California at Davis. Sixteen places are set aside just for blacks and other minorities, no matter how low their test scores are. That way, minorities don't even have to worry a ...

(6 pages) 50 0 4.0 Nov/1996

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

The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases

Throughout history, minorities have been ill-represented in the criminal justice system, particularly in cases where the ... many of these killings occured without any type of due process. As the judicial system has matured, minorities have found better representation but it is not completely unbiased. In the past twenty ye ... te the dissenting opinion in a capital punishment appeal. He wrote, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them soun ...

(5 pages) 121 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Affirmative Action

resident Johnson created reverse discrimination.Affirmative Action was created in an effort to help minorities leap thediscriminative barriers that were ever so present when the bill was first enacted ... ofemployees. The U.S. government, in 1965, believed that these employers werediscriminating against Minorities and believed that there was no better time than thepresent to bring about change. This ac ...

(6 pages) 508 0 4.6 Mar/1997

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

Changes of the Civil Rights Movement. Speaks of Cohen

civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. They saw a future where African Americans and other minorities would emerge from poverty to become fully integrated in American life. In 'Our Children A ... civil rights movement.The affect of the civil rights movement was that African Americans and other minorities would loom from poverty to become fully devoted in American life. Cohen is writing to the ...

(3 pages) 73 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Images of Native Americans. A personal opiniated essay on native Americans being set aside of the government, And that the interests of this people must no longer be ignored by the masses

perhaps. But, throughout the short history of the United States the interests of a large number of minorities have been repeatedly overlooked. None more perhaps than the interests of Native Americans ...

(8 pages) 273 1 4.7 Nov/1996

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

Historians, spend their lives pursuing the meaning of the past for the present. Speaks of how a historian works.

us is anti-Semitism. The Nazis were a group that had as a goal to purify the world of what we call minorities and so to keep it a White, straight, Christian world. History explains the evolution of t ...

(3 pages) 61 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Camouflaged Existence of the Living Prejudice in The Night of the Living Dead

movie, the night of the living dead.Being a victim of discrimination is nothing new or shocking to minorities; especially African-Americans. Nevertheless, no matter how old these ridiculous and preju ...

(4 pages) 56 1 3.0 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Hiring employees from minority groups.

this is all I have to offer, Thank you for your help, I am despirate noneHiring MinoritiesIn recent years preferential hiring has become an issueof great interest. Preferential hir ... ssues in today's society, yet preferential hiring continues tomake these factors issues by treating minorities as a group ratherthan as individuals. More importantly preferential hiring mayactually fu ... e all victims ofcrime some sort of compensation. Maybe there is another way to elevatethe status of minorities without bringing the issue of race or sex intothe arena. If what is desired by preferenti ...

(8 pages) 222 0 3.5 Feb/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community