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- 4521: Jackie Robinson
- ... that schools, jobs, opportunities, careers were severely limited"(Falkner 28). Jackie had his eyes opened to prejudice at a very young age. "Everyday prejudice was Robinson's silent companion wherever he went, to and from school, to the neighborhood parks, to the segregated movie theaters, to the curbside markets where the Bond- Bread truck, the vegetable truck, the milk truck, sold their wares because most local food merchants refused to welcome ...
- 4522: Labor Issues
- ... the gaps in compensation between: the non-educated and educated; women and men; and African Americans and Caucasians than do their nonunion equivalents (Gamboa, 1999). Median earnings of non-union Ohioans without and with high school diplomas in 1997 were $6.50 per hour and $8.75 per hour, respectively. A union member without a diploma, however, received $11.20 per hour (Gamboa, 1999). Again, these data are similar for non ...
- 4523: Martin Luther King Jr. Vs Malc
- ... suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who shared the dream of being a lawyer with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X’s anger and disillusionment caused him to drop out of school. He started to use cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X’s hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his ...
- 4524: Media Violence
- ... inner-city youth by a rival gang, or the brutal rape and murder of a child by their parent? Perhaps the news contributes more than just an insightful knowledge of events. Perhaps Columbine copycats and school bomb threats may never have arisen if the entire world hadn't witnessed the blood-soaked terrors via cable television. An early study performed by Liebert and Baron in 1972 concedes that the willingness of ...
- 4525: Communism East Europe
- ... familial decisions was removed. In schools, the teaching of the social sciences was curtailed and Marxist and Leninist theories were expounded. In the late thirties fees were reintroduced for the three upper forms of secondary school. This effectively meant that only those who could afford to pay these fees could send their children on to further academic training as these were the forms which prepared children for higher education. (33) Under ...
- 4526: Affirmative Action
- ... man holding her same job. This is encouraging to me, yet discouraging at the same time. Racial differences are also an issue. From my own personal past experience, I had a friend in my high school that worked for a man who owned a lumber yard. By no fault of his own, he could not get to work on time one day. When he called to let his boss know the ...
- 4527: Cultural Diversity: Campus Climates and Classroom Instruction
- ... a scholarship program offering $10,000 for very good African-American students as an added incentive for coming to the campus. In addition, to scholarships there have been increased recruiting efforts toward targeting black high school graduates living in West Tennessee, but what about the other ethnic backgrounds. How has the university tried to recruit Native Americans, Asian American, or Hispanic cultures to the campus? Maybe the university could offer more ...
- 4528: The Study of Psychology
- ... presentation. In the broad study of psychology, many studies deal with specific subjects. Right now, this class is researching the study of human learning. This class took learning in only one way we thought of school. We did experiments that we were concerned with and that created a bias. This bias led the groups to try to prove their experiment instead of finding the truth. There will be a bias in ...
- 4529: Immigraton Laws
- ... Rumbaut, 615) Those most likely to benefit from this situation are also those most supportive of more restrictive measures. Higher than average support for a "zero immigration" policy was expressed by those without a high school diploma and incomes below $15,000 per year.(Pending Legislation) Also, curiously enough, the highest level of support for tougher measures against illegal aliens came from Midwesterners (85%). (Pending Legislation) Another popular misconception is that ...
- 4530: What Psychology is to Me
- ... dealt only with psychoanalysis, and I would imagine that this is a common misconception. The possible career fields for a psychologist is much greater than I had imagined it to be, it includes everything from school counselors to psychiatrists to sensation and perception researchers. Each different area of psychology has many differences from all of the other areas, but the origins of these areas enables them all to fall under the ...
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