Police Brutality: A Big Issue In Our Country Today

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Police brutality is a big issue in our country today. This issue has been around since the civil rights movement but, was only towards a certain group of people .Now, Americans of any race, gender or age can become victims of police brutality. Police officers feel that they are above the law and that anything wrong they do will just slide. Often times there is proof to prove what an officer has done to a person but the judge either lets them walk free, or many times charges them something small.

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Arguments Against The National Anthem

There’s a controversial issue sweeping the nation about protesting the National Anthem. Some believe that protesting the national anthem is disrespectful. Those people are wrong. Protesting the anthem is not disrespectful so long as it raises awareness to equality, justice, and police brutality. The reason this protest became such a big issue is because people are starting to kneel during the National Anthem. Some of the players in the NFL kneel during the anthem on national television. This has…

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Police Brutality

A Critical Examination of Police Brutality in the USA In the land of the free and the home of the brave, a sobering reality persists: police sometimes act violently and aggressively beyond what they are supposed to apply. This casts a dark shadow over the American society. Every time we see the news or videos showing the police being violent, we realize that those who are supposed to keep us safe can sometimes be unfair and hurtful. In the United States, police mistreating people and using too much…

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Corruption In 1984

plights in society compare much to the contemporary issues occurring in the world today. The party policies in the novel 1984 prohibited many actions taken by the citizens in their society. Free will was forbidden such as love, intimacy, thinking for themselves, and doing whatever they pleased. Citizens of this society were under observation 24/7 by big brother abiding by the quote “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell3) and also looked out by thought police. They were being watched through television screens…

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Black Lives Matter Movement Research Paper

Over the past few years the African American community has faced many losses due to the increasing rates of police brutality and racial profiling. Every seven hours a American citizen is killed by a cop or a racial profiling american. Over the years we have worked together to make America safe but how many lives have to be taken until America is finally safe. In 2015 1307 Americans were killed, in 2016 1152 and this year it has already been 303 deaths. This has brought about one of the biggest movements…

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Mass School Shootings In America

America, a country everyone loves to hate. Deeply embedded in this country’s roots there are many problems that affect today’s society. America has been heading in the wrong direction for awhile now. Some of these problems are more recent and have been affecting America in different ways. This could be school shootings which have become more and more frequent and deadly or how America’s society sees weapons. Not only are weapons a problem, the educational system is lacking what is necessary to produce…

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Summary: The Second Great Migration

increase in police brutality. Though this has always been a problem, the power of social media has shed a light on how frequent and inhumane these acts of violence against the black community from police actually are in today’s society. Since the second great migration, law enforcement officers have acted under dual standards. Most of us have witnessed how in routine traffic stops, many blacks have seen their lives cut short for “resisting arrest”. This past summer we saw how Dallas police took down…

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Persuasive Essay On National Anthems

other professional athletes to join and protest as well. Today, you can see many, if not all, players and coaches of NFL teams kneeling or linking arms during the playing of the national anthem, and has in turn created a huge debate of whether Kaepernick’s actions were right or wrong. Kaepernick, and everyone else who kneels during the national anthem, should be allowed to because it helps bring awareness to obvious racial issues our country is facing that is not recognized as well as it being stated…

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The Role Of Racism And Race In American Public High Schools

serious and big race issues can be for others. In the curriculum we could go over the history of racism, where and how it still is a prominent issue today, student’s opinions, and possible solutions in the government or just life. Before any real progress can happen, we as a…

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African-American Race Relations

struggle to live as a black American. With our knowledge of the content of rap, we can see more in the depth of our nation's struggle for racial equality using the rap song "Trapped" by Tupac Shakur, "A Bird in the Hand" by Ice Cube, and "Dollar Day" by Mos Def. Although the current state of race relations in the United States has improved over the years this country is far from being perfect and still needs to improve race relations. We can see how our condition relates…

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The Trayvon Martin Case

One is a person feeling something is socially odd based assumingly on race. After that a person tries to take the law into their own hands.In either cases their is debatabe evidence on what happened. However, we have more evidence today mostly because of our communication through phones. While, the Emmett Till case we based solely on word to mouth. Both kids were murdered but it differed in severity. Because one Trayvon was shot while Emmett was beaten to basically to death then shot. The claims…

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