Although it started as a stage comedy act, it quickly spread nation-wide and became a character in shows and movies that white people came to assume of black African Americans. ... Individuals can undergo four strategies to deal with assimilation: separation, assimilation, marginalization, and biculturality. ... The school ecology model "suggests that school-based prevention strategies that include the entire school ecology in the prevention process are most successful in reducing the risk for substance abuse among young African Americans" (p. 149). ... Providing a linkage between the prev...

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In the essay, "unpacking the Knapsack," Peggy McIntosh contracts multiple rhetorical strategies to contain her readers to validate her claim about racism as well as privilege. ... This act of acknowledging was most likely achieved just by reading through her essay, which means that the reader who agrees with her has nothing else that he/she is burdened to do. In her attempt to persuade her readers, McIntosh has used various strategies as those mentioned earlier. One of the most important strategies that she uses is what she does at the end of her essay. ...

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A major factor in the success of the movement was the strategy of protesting against discrimination without using violence as an alternative to armed uprising. ... Robinson led the Women's Political Council, which plotted strategy for a one-day bus boycott in Montgomery following Rosa Parks' arrest. ... The Civil Rights Movement also acted as a training ground for the eventual participants in the women's liberation movement. ... Advocacy continued and turned into legislative success in the passage of the Civil Rights Act. ...

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This was Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and local state and federal government adopted a new era and developed new strategies in which "business" was conducted. In 1972 the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was implemented. Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was passed into law. ...

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Not only is he found guilty of violating the Immorality act, but he is also disowned by his father for violating society's ideal of racial purity. ... One strategy that she uses throughout her narrative is to shift the blame for Pieter's actions to other people, especially other women. Sophie does not attempt to hide his responsibility in committing adultery and violating the Immorality act, she justifies these actions as the result of female influences on his life. ...

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The social conditions in which minorities endure are tough which makes them act a certain way. ... There should be a focus on balancing law enforcement strategies and demand reduction approaches emphasizing prevention and treatment. 2. ...

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The Great Awakening of the 1740's proved to be an instrumental event of the new African-American spirituality with its focal point on a "personal relationship" with God and conversion of the masses, rather than the liturgical and theological focus prior to the awakening.3 This development enabled lay preachers with no theological background to attempt mass conversion using emotional strategies rather than ideology to persuade non-believers, and created a more accessible Christianity that the slaves could grasp and integrate into their own spirituality. ... In the public eye, slaves demo...

• Word Count: 1954
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African American Women tried to form different ways to enjoy America's pastime, they were ready to embrace basketball as part of their own culture and strategy to challenge Jim Crow and inequality. ... Will Pascoe stated that society has an impact on all sports, saying, "Sports can act as a mirror of society's values, custom, and culture....

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1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...

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Ever since the Congress of the United States passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the United States has achieved a significant progress on the subject of establishing equal treatment for all citizens under the law.3 Many laws and theories aim for fair and equal rights among people despite their race, gender or age and discrimination has been seemingly disappeared from society. ...

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