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Psychological Article Reviews

article acknowledges the perceived weaknesses within a particular culture; however, it also identifies the fact that all students ...

Lead Poisoning and Asthma

Joseph, Havstad, Ownby, Peterson, et al (2005) explore lead poisoning as it relates to asthma. These researchers explore the hypo...

Racial Profiling and Racial Discrimination

"episodic" view of discrimination is probably inadequate because of the cumulative effects of discrimination (Measuring racial dis...

Administrative Position Paper: Excessive Force

upheld. This in turn has created liability and civil suits for the city, and has tarnished the image for both the city and the de...

Minorities Overrepresented in Special Education

for special education services (Samuels, 2005). It honed in on the minority problem as well. Samuels (2005) writes: "Districts wit...

Minorities and Low Income Groups and Investigation of Differences III

likelihood of ... overrepresentation in the criminal justice system" (Smith in Hanson, 2000; p. 77). Hispanics Point. Stud...

Social Justice and California Juvenile Hall's Minority Student Education

more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...

Parole, Probation, and Sociological Factors

twenty-five years. Last year just under 2.1 million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 m...

Peremptory Judicial Challenge and Racial Minorities

exclusively white legal society (Scherer 655). Political scientist Samuel Krislov agrees, adding that minority jurists reflect mi...

California Minority Arrests

Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, 2006). "In California the rate for Latinos is 9.4 per...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Sexual Minorities and Discrimination

is a "century-old belief that governments, both state and federal, should not be allowed to discriminate" the constitutional promi...

Federalist No. Fifty One by James Madison

Madison is whether utilitarianism has a place in the framework of Americas Constitution and if it does, to what extent is this ass...

Ethnic Discrepancies Regarding Cases of Asthma

in the prevalence of asthma. Akinbami, Rhodes & Lara (2005) suggest that "many studies have demonstrated that these large disparit...

The Model Minority Myth

Dr. Nakanishi points out that that a large number of Asian American students attend "multiracial, low-income...low-performing scho...

American Political Changes

no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...

Minorities and Brutality by Law Enforcement

brutality actually affects individuals (Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality, 2003). Consider the case of Aaron Willi...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Minority Men and Women and the Obstacles That Confront Them

the still stringent attitude society takes in relation to minority women in the workplace. The rumblings of gender inequity were ...

The Issue of Equality and Efforts to Achieve Equality

be representative numbers of minorities within the results. Feminists and activist groups not only took to the equality of opportu...

The Role of Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement

threatened the position of men, "especially as new machines permitted less skilled operatives to perform tasks formerly assigned t...

American Artists and Art from 1900 to 1950 Annotated Bibliography

world as well as that within the U.S. In comparison other articles reveal that American art has not been considered as successful ...

Overview of Share Differences and the Rights of Shareholders

on the issue yielding a fixed rate of interest for the investment. If an investor is looking for an investment by way...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and Depiction of Racial Minorities

beliefs maintained by the slaves when they still resided in Africa. There is also the perspective which argues that the childre...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Prejudice and Crime

optimism, there exists an invisible boundary line that, even though race relations seem to be improving, keeps the races separated...

Affirmative Action in Academic Institutions in California

academic affirmative actions programs in allowing affirmative action to be part of the enrollment process. While there is no ques...

Workplace Stereotyping and Discrimination

care needs for individuals in need of public welfare services. In the area where this office is located, a number of Hispanic peo...

A Case Study Involving Land Law

none repayment of a loan for which it was used as security. The issue of the house may appear straightforward, there are two hol...

UK Police Force and Issue of Racism

and Investigations Act 1996, and most recently the Police Reform Act 2002. These themselves have been the source of racial tension...