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Reforming the Los Angeles Police Department

and trickle down to the very last beat cop in order for there to be any improvement in how the LAPD approaches its racial inequity...

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

Middle Ages' Europe Magic and Witchcraft

understood. Externalisation of problems was far simpler than to look to rational explanations when science was only in its infancy...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

able form a friendship with the blind man over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face ...

TV and Stereotyping

the entire clan is characterized as wealthy, stuffed shirts. This proves that not only are minorities the subject of stereotyping,...

Ann Ferguson's Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

a child. Just as obvious, however, is the fact that we as a nation do not want or need children who have been brainwashed into th...

African American Youth Stereotypes

more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...

Racial Stereotypes and Their Influence

take advantage of the system, loud, proud, strong, exclusionary, desperate (women), abusive (men), criminals, dangerous, poor, une...

Death, Racism, and T.J. Hickey

between police and Aborigines when they can die at the hands of law enforcement without ever having been physically touched. This...

Assessment Questions Regarding Culture and Communication

the idea of a connection to a separate item while iconic items are those that are recognizable and perhaps universal (2002). In ...

Racial Conflict, Diversity, and Standardized Testing

their effectiveness in the testing situation" (Steele et al, 1995, p. PG). III. METHODOLOGY The student may choose to empl...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

The Godfather and The Sopranos Italian American Stereotypes

that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...

Airline Industry Evolution and Stereotyping

of travel, the industry had been equated with a "Coffee, Tea or Me?" attitude regarding stewardesses, something actually cultivat...

Gays and Stereotyping

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

African American Stereotypes and Cinematic Semiotics

rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...

Violence, Ethnic Stereotyping, and TV

to violence in the media and entertainment business as well, it has often been assumed that violence viewed on television can caus...

Inequality in relation to Gender Issues

they get married, and then start the cycle all over again with their own children. Employment/Benefits Although more women ...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

Grades Seventh through Twelfth and Dropout Rates

and test performance, inasmuch as stereotype vulnerability has proven to predispose ethnic populations to related test anxiety. "...

TV Comparisons of Friends and Three's Company

democrat and one-time peanut farmer Jimmy Carter became president, there were significant differences in attitudes among the older...

American Media and National Stereotypes of Germany and Great Britain

You Being Served, all serve up their own dose of British humor and stereotypes. Each show depicts the typical frouncy old woman wh...

BiPolar Disorder on Television

Stereotypes and stigmas about mental illness have been consistently fostered by the media but in recent years, there are some tele...

Racial Factors Within the Context of Sports

a high school junior who made jaws drop when he played; his skill was exemplary but he is white (Cray, 1998). In fact, he would be...

Female Protagonists' Bondage of James Bond

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

Comparative Analysis of From the Poets in the Kitchen by Paule Marshall and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

people to associate with one another, even if they are of the same skin color. Indeed, an individuals worth is sometimes based so...

Media and Race in Canada

2002), is a tremendously dangerous concept when large entities, such as the media, possess and routinely abuse the "power to enfor...

Reaction to Paper Tigers

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Asian stereotypes as presented in the article "Paper Tigers". A letter of response i...

Issues pertaining to Causality

This essay addresses two topics. First, single versus multiple-cause explanations are discussed and then the writer relates single...

New Zealand Immigrants and a View of the Muslim Community

now constitute about 1% of the population. The majority (77%) of New Zealand Muslims are overseas-born with the largest proportion...