In 1948, when the National Party won the general election in South Africa, a system known as apartheid took place in the country. The National Party is a South African political party that was founded in 1914. ... Well, as the National party came in power in 1948, apartheid started and therefore resulted to different kind of inequalities between whites and blacks in many years. ... Afrikaans was a foreign language for blacks, it was the language of whites in the country. ... They weren't even allow to learn under their native language, instead of that, they were forced to use the language...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Apartheid, literally meaning separateness or setting apart , was the ideology of the South African National Party that made the segregation of and discrimination against non-whites government policy. ... The white minority strongly resisted African majority rule and during the 1940's the Afrikaner National Party sought to mobilize Afrikaner opinion. ... The white minority, fearing African majority rule, voted the National Party into office in 1948's whites-only general election. ... In 1950, the National Party introduced the Group Areas Act, which allocated separate living ar...

• Word Count: 2509
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Like anything else, the story of this event quickly rose to national attention through the networking and distribution of media and news outlets. ... Under the leadership of a political, national, figure in Sharpton whom leads the way in keeping racism relevant it seems that it spreads light on how a figure of the media can fuel the peoples fire on racism. ...

• Word Count: 3113
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• Grade Level: High School

Most women between the ages of 25 to 44 are in childbearing years, and thirty to fifty percent of them (blacks) are misdiagnosed because of cultural barriers, language, trust, and values between doctor an patient (NMHA 2). The National Mental Health Association has recorded that 63% of African American believe that depression is a personal weakness, 31% believed it is a health problem, 30% could handle it themselves, and 20% would seek help from friends and family. ... The rate of depression African American women is 50% higher among white women although, 25% of blacks account for mental hea...

• Word Count: 2505
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Giovanni's Room and Another Country "featured characters struggling to define sexual, racial, and national identities, and the matter-of-fact depictions of gay relationships in both books surprised many readers" (ht! ...

• Word Count: 2618
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• Grade Level: High School

English was the language to be learned by thousands of new immigrants such as the Germans, Mediterraneans, Eastern Europeans, Asians, and Africans (although for hundreds of years, Africans were not really counted as citizens). ...

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A new race-neutral language was developed to appeal to old racist sentiments and was accompanied by a new political movement that vied for "law and order" instead of "segregation forever.... Unfortunately, at the same time, the FBI was reporting dramatic increases in the national crime rate. ... As a result, the budget for the National Institute on Drug Abuse was reduced from $274 million to $57 million from 1981 to 1984, and the Department of Education's budget was reduced from $14 million to $3 million. ...

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In 1986, a young Irish woman named Anne Marie Murphy boarded an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv. She was interviewed by Israeli profilers, who became suspicious when they learned Murphy had a Palestinian fiancé. This, coupled with the fact that Anne Marie Murphy was young, pregnant, and a bit naive, caused the profilers to search Murphy's luggage. Inside, they found seven pounds of plastic explosives, set to detonate on the flight to Tel Aviv. Murphy was completely unaware that the bomb was in her suitcase (Simon 3). ...

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