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The X Files: Negative Images Of Races
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... put the label of "El Chuppecabra" on a man that has a physical problem that he can not control. The Latino official tries to explain this by saying "They need something to live on, they use their myths to have a sense of hope." This puts a false interpretation of these people in the mind of the viewer. The viewer takes this statement and weather he/she knows about it; they associate all Latin Americans to this idea. Thus, Latin Americans are seen as inferior to this person. Another problem with this episode is that the local authorities can't figure out what is going on until the "white" FBI agents come along and "enlighten" them. Subconsciously, this can have a dr ...



Affirmative Action Policies
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... needed and handed over to unemployment when not. In other words higher paying jobs have now and always been filled by white male workers. Employers have moved millions of jobs to the southern states in past decades because of the lower standars of living in the south. Employers have also moved millions more abroad to areas with even cheaper wages.. millions of these workers now have a job and all the joys of unfair use-long ,a hard, arduous work under very low wages, under very dangerous conditions.--While millions of i=once better paid american workers have either unemployment and poverty, or jobs with much lower wages. Affirmative action, if successfully imple ...



Skinhead Violence
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... and football (soccer) hooligans known as "hools" to create riots and violence. From the creation of this cult until today it has supported violence, starting with beatings with boots and small weapons, evolving today into a terrorist like cult armed with deadly military weapons. Just like gangs in the U.S. skinheads also fight among each other. These fights are actually where most deaths by skinheads occur. And just like gangs skinheads have several different beliefs and methods of expression. These types of skinheads range from racist and violent to groups which are political but against racism and violence. The members come from a diverse range of lif ...



Evil From Morals
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... has been looked at in many different ways throughout the years. Philosophers like Socrates and Plato believed evil was a matter of ignorance. Ancient Persians saw good and evil as two principles, "engaged in a perpetual struggle."(Collier) In reality, evil is merely the absence of good. "The essence of all reality is good, evil is merely the faulty reflection of reality found in a world of particulars."(Funk & Wagnalls) There can be many different types of evil. Two of such types are moral evil and natural evil. Natural evil consists of things like pain and suffering, while moral evil consists of making ‘bad' decisions. "Moral evil depends on the exercise of human ...



What Are Teens Supposed To Do?
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... of teenagers has changed, not much has changed with what they can do. When they were younger they had plenty of things they could do and they would even be content with hanging out in the neighborhood with friends. Now that these kids are becoming young adults and are craving their independence it seems as though they are being left out of all of the fun. Here is the jest of the problem, Teenagers are too old to enjoy going to Chuck-E-Cheese and Discovery Zone and places of that nature, and they are too young to get into most of the night clubs and bars legally. To ad insult to injury there really are very few places besides the malls that Teenagers enjoy going ...



Human Desire To "fit In"
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... together in what ever group they are best suited to. It is a point of interest to many of the people who have stopped to think about this fact. The idea that people live according to how others will perceive then has been established as the rule, not the exception. The real question now lies in the reasons for this way of life. It was hypothesized by C.S. Lewis that this desire to belong and to fit in is a natural human characteristic. He believed that people have an instinctive drive to belong, in the same sort of way species reproduce. It is possible that his theory of instinctive necessity is accurate, and humans are as a whole are week and scared when they ar ...



Racism
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... ways of hatred. These kids grow up "brain-washed" that black people are their enemies and, taught by example, will continue this trend (The Volume Library; 1988). The Ku Klux Klan has been around since the end of the civil war. It is a roller coaster of a history. From extreme power, to rapid decline, and slow reemergence (Software Toolworks Encyclopedia; 1992). The clan, who is notorious for its violence, has a relatively innocent beginning. It was formed from some veterans from the confederate army and was first called the Kuklos Clan which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan. One person thought it would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan" as a parody of t ...



The Adults Are Always Right?
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... and their kids speak the same language, parents don't understand that we tune out of English when we want. If we know something is going to be asked of us and we don't want to do it, we turn our brains into "Nag Mode." To define Nag Mode, is simple. Every syllable that comes out of the mouth of an adult is heard as ‘ nag.' For example: Adults say: "clean your room! ." Kids hear: "nag nag nag!" Adults say: "Stop watching television." Kids hear: "nag nag nag nag nag nag nag." They think of us as being lazy, and irresponsible, selfish and useless. Some adults quiver when they hear how we will one day r ...



Violence Is An Appropriate Response To Racism
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... and a tooth for a tooth. But now I tell you do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If someone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too." What this means is, if someone hurts once, do not respond in a violent manner, turn the other cheek and let them do it again. It shows that Jesus was against violence. Gandhi said something similar: 'An eye for an eye and we shall all be blind'. Gandi meant that so mang people hurt other people that they would end up seriously hurt. Put this teaching into practise, if someone hurts you once let them do it a secong time is the message here. The other side to this statement is to agree that racists sh ...



The Advantages Of Stupidity
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... sensitive people. If one acts stupid, and does it in the wrong crowd, like a group of adults, it will seem more immature than funny. If one is forced to act stupid while dealing with lower life forms, for example, high school teachers, one may encounter barriers such as cruelty and insensitivity, with the utterance of statements like, "Think with your head straight!" or, "You have a brain, use it." Yet these are all true, there are still many advantages to stupidity. The first advantage is very easy to understand. Stupid people are never asked to do a lot. Many have noticed that people tend to steer away from someone they feel may be stupid. This is for a ...




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