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Racial Biases Among Police Officers
1,304 wordsRecently racial profiling has become a prominent issue in America. After the incident with Rodney King, more emphasis has been placed on profiling. According to news reports, Rodney King was driving down the street in his hometown of L. A. when several police officers stopped him solely of the color of his skin. There are many conflicting information that reports that he was speeding doing about 100 mph before they stopped him. When he was stopped, he pulled out of the car, the police to deliver...
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American Legal System Racially Biased
1,414 wordsU. S. Court System (1) In his article Racially Biased Justice Still Infects American Courtrooms, Jesse Jackson argues that American legal system is biased towards representatives of racial minorities. He describes the incident at Jena High School, when six Black students were charged with aggravated assault, after they crippled up a White youth, who they suspected of being a racist. Apparently, there was a tree at Jena's High schoolyard, which was traditionally referred to as white tree, because...
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Gender Issues Related To Social Conflict Approach Theory
1,455 wordsGender Issues Related To Social-Conflict Approach Theory by [Students name] Sociology 1 Prof. Charles Levy June 03, 2008 Gender Issues Related To Social-Conflict Approach Theory Internet Explorer, AOL Browser Google, Ask, Altavista, Yahoo, Dogpile Introduction Understanding gender issues from a sociological perspective is very important. In the modern world, gender issues and gender roles are in so-called state of transition. It seems that the days when female and male spheres were clearly defin...
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Green Card Attitude Change
1,927 wordsCURRENT RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Volume 8, Number 3 Submitted: March 6, 2002 First Revision: May 23, 2002 Accepted: October 6, 2002 Publication date: October 9, 2002 ATTITUDE CHANGE: THE CASE OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE "GREEN CARD" IN GERMANY And Floral Ursula Piontkowski Ina Knocks Julia Rottmann Pia Thiemann University of Munster ABSTRACT THE SLEEPER EFFECT IS A DELAYED INCREASE IN ATTITUDE CHANGE WHEN A MESSAGE IS PROVIDED BY A NON-CREDIBLE OR BIASED SOURCE. IN AN EXPERIMENT, WE EXAMINED T...
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Social Psychology Green Card
2,031 words... information (M = 2. 33; SD = 1. 82) did not differ in their assessment of the communicator from participants who received the short version (M = 2. 53; SD = 1. 36), t (31) < 1, ns. In both conditions, the mean assessment of the communicator? s credibility was at the lower end of the scale which had the end points 1 and 9. Attitudes Towards the Green Card A single factorial ANOVA with the attitude scores at the first time of measurement as dependent variable reveals differences between the ex...
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Means Of Communication Time And Space
1,626 wordsMany scholars in the world considered Harold Innis one of the outstanding scientists on technology of communications in Canada. He wrote a series books in which he traced the growth of communication systems with the history of the development of Canada. He understood that Canadian society is between the cultural legacy of its European past and the expanding space of the American Empire. Innis realized growing dependency of Canada from America. He wrote: With their powerful communication system A...
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Attitude Change The Case Of Attitudes Towards
2,090 wordsATTITUDE CHANGE: THE CASE OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE "GREEN CARD" IN GERMANY And Florack, Ursula Piontkowski, Ina Knocks, Julia Rottmann, Pia Thiemann University of Munster The chosen paper discusses the study of attitude change (the sleeper effect) towards the green card for skilled employees in Germany. Besides this attitude change is examined as influenced by a biased source. The choice of this study object (attribute towards the green card) is explained by situation existing in Germany in 2000...
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Mao Zedong Theme
1,180 wordsChina Book Report Book: China Since 1945 Author: Stewart Ross (Note: This book is not described in full depth and detail but is just explained in a very general way, therefore Mahmoud Abdelkader uses The Modernization of China by Gilbert Rozman (Editor) excerpts to support his views) Type of Book: Illustrated Pages: 64 China Book Report The book China Since 1945, written by author Stewart Ross, opens in a description of the Chinese Empire in the 1900? s. There it describes the terrain of the Chi...
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Presidential Candidates Al Gore
1,168 wordsIs the Media Bias? Many people including myself believe that it is. On the other hand, there are people who believe that media is not biased and just states facts. These people (i. e. my dad), who believe that media is not biased also believe that everything on TV is true, in my experience. We see bias in media (print or broadcast) many times. It might be the subtlest of things that is unnoticeable to more blatant attempts. The fact is bias is everywhere and it is very difficult to separate the ...
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Stalin Lenin
3,904 wordsDo these sources give similar or different impressions of Stalin? These sources give different impressions of Stalin, however there are some similarities. Source A is a cartoon published in Paris in the 1930? s. It shows Stalin and the results of his policies according to the artist. The cartoon features Stalin showing three pyramids of skulls as if he was a tour guide. The caption under reads, ? Visit L? URSS ses pyramids! ? This translates to, ? Visit the pyramids of the USSR! ? This source is...
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Acute Labour Camps
3,907 wordsDepth Study B: Russia 1905 1941 Assignment B: Objective 3 Stalin: Man or Monster? 1) Study Sources A, B and C. Do these sources give similar or different impressions of Stalin? Explain your answer. (6) These sources give different impressions of Stalin, however there are some similarities. Source A is a cartoon published in Paris in the 1930 ´ s. It shows Stalin and the results of his policies according to the artist. The cartoon features Stalin showing three pyramids of skulls as if he wa...
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