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  • Street Racing: On the Inside

    Street Racing: On the Inside

    For 19-year-old Jeff, weekends begin on a long strip of highway near Atlanta. rather than browsing the mall or going to the movies like others his age. Jeff joins a group of his comrades and spectators to witness a spectacular show of speed. As we pulled up to the meeting spot he looks over at me and says, "Welcome to the world of illegal street racing." "We have a cruising area where all the cars

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    Essay Length: 1,488 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Race in Relation to Movies

    Race in Relation to Movies

    For this entry, I chose to do the movie “Crash”. The movie is centered around race relations in everyday life. The movie begins with one storyline about a prominent white district attorney of Los Angeles being car-jacked by two disenfranchised black males. Another story focuses on a latino locksmith and a Persian shop owner who has his store vandalized, and blames the locksmith for not fixing it correctly. Another angle focuses on a white police

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    Essay Length: 606 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Top
  • Juvenile offenders: Race and Ethnicity

    Juvenile offenders: Race and Ethnicity

    Running head: JUVENILE OFFENDERS: RACE AND ETHNICITY Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity University of Phoenix Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity "Researchers have long observed differences in rates of serious juvenile and adult offending among ethnic and racial groups in the United States. These differences have prompted competing theoretical interpretations and public policy debates. However, conclusions about the racial differences in serious and violent juvenile offending have been reached primarily using individual-level data that, when used

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    Essay Length: 689 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Artur
  • Communications Between Races : The Civil Rights Movement

    Communications Between Races : The Civil Rights Movement

    Process Paper What is the key to understanding? Is it knowing what our predecessors were thinking? Or is simply just trying to put ourselves in their places. Whatever the case may be, understanding our history is vital in the progression of civilization. In an era when color was everything, understanding our history is what makes life in America today-so beautiful. During the time of the Civil Rights Movement, the blacks wanted to be free, but

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    Essay Length: 512 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • Racing Against Your Heart

    Racing Against Your Heart

    Racing Against Your Heart Friedman, M,. & Roseman, R.H. (1959). Association of specific over behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings. Journal of the American Medical Association, 169, 1286-1296. This study by Friedman came about in a very odd way, and dared to take a look at things not understood and in an area no one had before ventured. Dr. Friedman was having the upholstery redone on the couches and chairs in his office, since

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    Essay Length: 649 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • Whitbread World Sailboat Race

    Whitbread World Sailboat Race

    Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race The Whitbread World Sailboat race will start in 45 weeks, and Bjorn Ericksen, the master helmsman, has that much time to build a new vessel and test it, to recruit the racing crew and train it. This project is to be managed with a budget of $3.2 million. Managing this project successfully first requires to analyze Ericksen’s strategy, including his chief

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    Essay Length: 2,548 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Top
  • Race and My Community

    Race and My Community

    I am a White American that has lived in the same community since I was born. The influence of race in my community is fairly simple. I live in a small town with my group of people, Whites, being the dominate group, and only one other active playing minority group, Mexicans. The White people and the Mexican people have a feud against one another within my community. Racism and prejudice is quite high between the

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    Essay Length: 1,412 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Race, Class and Gender

    Race, Class and Gender

    Race, class and gender have been a topic for most books that have been written. A lot of books talk about these topics because it is something most people face. Whether you’re at work and can’t get a promotion because of your gender, excluded from a place because of your class or hated because of your race. Know matter what you will be faced with one if these topics in your life time. Dorothy Allison’s

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    Essay Length: 946 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Edward
  • Racing Technology

    Racing Technology

    Ryan McCallister 06/11/06 Racing has paved the way for many of the advancements in automotive technology used in everyday production vehicles. Since the beginning of the auto industry gearheads and engineers alike have strived to get the most out of their vehicles as possible. If racing benefits from these technological advancements then they should be introduced into the everyday driver. In the beginning this led to overall improvements in speed and durability. Now days

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    Essay Length: 502 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

    The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

    “The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality” The meanings of race, class, gender, and sexuality are definitely complicated and intertwined through intersectionality. To fully understand these meanings, one must first open his or her mind and recognize that social stipulations that society inflicts upon people need to be thrown away. One must ignore conceptions of something being static or natural (Mills 10). A naпve individual would consider race as simply a biological classification. However,

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    Essay Length: 999 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Top
  • Race and Ethnicity

    Race and Ethnicity

    Trent Bartling SOC 270 Reflective Paper 5 12/3/05 1. What do you consider to be the most valuable information you got from this class? Why do you consider this most valuable? I think that the most valuable thing that I took from this class is the fact that racism is still very much a major part of our society. Growing up in rural Iowa I always new that there were racist people, but I never

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    Essay Length: 633 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Victor
  • Race

    Race

    Today there are more than forty-two million Hispanic Americans living in the United States. They make up the largest minority in the country. Hispanic Americans are also the fastest-growing U.S. minority group, as a result of high birth rates and the continuing migration to the U.S. from the different countries abroad. Most of Hispanic Americans speak English, but continue to speak and use Spanish as well. In addition to language, Hispanic Americans have continued to

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    Essay Length: 254 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Tulsa Race Riots

    Tulsa Race Riots

    Outline I. Introduction pg. 3 II. Riot Beginnings pg. 3 -4 III. Statistics pg. 4-5 IV. Lives Changed pg. 5-6 V. Reparations pg 6-7 VI. References pg. 8 Introduction The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was a dark time in the history of Oklahoma. It all began with a simple misunderstanding, but had catastrophic consequences. Homes and businesses were destroyed, many African Americans and whites were killed, and Tulsa had lost its soul. In the

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    Essay Length: 2,004 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Bred
  • Race in My Community

    Race in My Community

    Race in my Community Firstly to understand how race is socially and spatially constructed we must first understand what race actually is. Alex Watson an opinion columnist for the Western Herald stated that race does not and never has existed, “It is an almost entirely social construct with extremely minor differences in external appearance at its root. The entire concept of race is a misbegotten stepchild of 19th century pseudoscience…….” (Western Herald Online: Today race

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    Essay Length: 1,383 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Race, Poverty & Globalization

    Race, Poverty & Globalization

    Race, Poverty & Globalization INTRODUCTION How is poverty related to globalism, and why are people of color under the most severe threat from this process? Certainly, other people are also under a threat from this globalization process, and some would assert that democracy and capitalism itself may be undone by this process if it is not checked. To answer the above question and to understand why minorities and other marginal populations are most at risk,

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    Essay Length: 907 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Dangers of Race Based Medicine

    The Dangers of Race Based Medicine

    The Dangers of Race-Based Medicine An analysis of new drug therapies specifically targeted towards African American populations with hypertension I. Introduction to Contemporary Race-Based Therapeutics On November 11th, 2004, NitroMed, a Massachusetts based pharmaceutical company published a study on the effects of a new drug called BiDil in treating heart failure among African Americans in the New England Journal of Medicine (Taylor 2049). Since announcing the study, NitroMed’s research has sparked controversy surrounding the ethical

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    Essay Length: 682 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: David
  • Crash: Culture Shock and Race

    Crash: Culture Shock and Race

    The movie Crash incorporates aspects of anthropology such as ethnocentrism, race, and differing roles in society. Each of these aspects is revealed through the lives of different people colliding with one another and according to biases and personal prejudices. The title Crash metaphorically represents the culture shock we experience when we “crash” into people of different nationalities. Ethnocentrism, the belief in the superiority of one ethic or racial group over another, is an evident theme

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    Essay Length: 596 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Janna
  • Street Racing

    Street Racing

    Street racing is an illegal sport that is growing popular at an alarming rate. Street racing is the concept of high performance automobliles racing on public roadways illegally. Individuals will take a basic car and tune it up to be very quick and very powerful. The idea of street racing originates from the legal sport of drag racing. Drag racing is an internationally recognized sport governed by the NHRA, the National Hot Rod Association. Drag

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    Essay Length: 3,103 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Race & Ethnicity Discrimination

    Race & Ethnicity Discrimination

    Aaron Ramos 10/16/07 Race & Ethnicity In 1880, two years before the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, fewer than 200 Japanese lived in the United States. From 1899 to 1903, another 60,000 entered the United States, largely because of the acute labor shortage in California. The exclusion of the Chinese had left many menial and unskilled jobs without takers. The Japanese population at this time was concentrated largely on the Pacific Coast, with the

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    Essay Length: 2,243 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Anna
  • Is Sport an Area of Neighborhood Social Life Where Performance Counts and Race or Ethnicity Is Irrelevant?

    Is Sport an Area of Neighborhood Social Life Where Performance Counts and Race or Ethnicity Is Irrelevant?

    Topic: Structured Inequality: Neighborhood Sport and Race/Ethnicity Research Question: Is sport an area of neighborhood social life where performance counts and race or ethnicity is irrelevant? Neighborhoods in the United States are often segregated by race and have racial tensions. However, sport provides some opportunity for integration. Based on my reading for this assignment here is what seemed to be important points. Home neighborhoods matter more than sport in some instances, regardless of talent.

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    Essay Length: 2,758 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: regina
  • Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race

    Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race

    University of Phoenix Terry Norris January 20, 2008 Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race This paper analyzes the Whitbread World Sailboat Race case scenario presented in chapter 9 in the Gray and Larson text, Project Management: the Managerial Process. The Whitbread World Sailboat Race is a nine month round the world race. Bjorn Ericksen has been chosen by his country to head up the project of getting a boat and a team ready for

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    Essay Length: 3,483 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Janna
  • Online Race Courses

    Online Race Courses

    Online Race Courses Many people take college classes online as opposed to going to class twice a week. For many this is very convenient and provides a way to manage their busy lives while still going to school. Although online classes can be very informative and provide the same information as the student would receive in the classroom, some online classes should not be taught over the internet. Such classes that should not be taught

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    Essay Length: 374 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Car Racing

    Car Racing

    The world of motor sports has evolved over the last one hundred years. The cars have changed, tracks have changed, the fans have grown, and so has the competition. There are many different kinds of racing, some of the most popular are, Stock Car, Drag racing, dirt track, and rally/road course. Sock Car Racing is a form of automobile racing which is popular in the U.S., it features cars that are based on standard U.S.

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    Essay Length: 559 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • How Would You Use the Ethnicity and Race of Your Students to Teach a Lesson in the Subject You Are Planning to Teach?

    How Would You Use the Ethnicity and Race of Your Students to Teach a Lesson in the Subject You Are Planning to Teach?

    The culture of students is not the same. Students are raised in different environments. Some of them are rich; others are poor. The environment determines how students think, speak, dress, walk, etc. This leads us to know the fact that not all students are equal in terms of the way they living, speaking, intelligence, and so forth. Knowing students ethnicity, we know how they think and behave in the classroom by comparing them with their

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    Essay Length: 337 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Bred
  • Race: Social Concept, Biological Idea

    Race: Social Concept, Biological Idea

    Race: Social Concept, Biological Idea Gloria Ramon Race, in the common understanding, draws upon differences not only of skin color and physical attributes but also of language, nationality, and religion. Race categories are often used as ethnic intensifiers, with the aim of justifying the exploitation of one group by another. Race is an idea that has become so fixed in American society that there is no room for open-mindedness when challenging the idea of racial

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    Essay Length: 1,156 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Monika

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