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Jazmin Lara Ms.Matlen ERWC, Period 1 15 September 2016 Racial Profiling In the United States of America today, racial profiling has violated everything the United States of America stands for and represents. Authorities do not have the right to be allowed to stop, arrest, disrespect or harass any individual in America based on their appearance. The general statement made by Timothy Garton Ash in his work, Behind the ban, is that burkas in a free society is a form of expression and it needs be…

Professor Harris Composition II (1002-40615) 3 October 2014 Where’s the Improvement? It is almost impossible to abide by any motto set by humans because humans are given choices, and choices are associated with emotions and feelings whether they are realized or not. Granted the option of choice, sometimes people do not select the best judgments. This is the flawed and imperfect nature within humans. We can learn from these flaws to avoid future blunders; however, racial profiling is a trend…

has become a big enough issue that they are still being brought up in the 2016 presidential election, as well as the young and more advanced political debates throughout the nation. According to Herbert, New York police officers are stopping and frisking specific people, including Hispanics and the black minorities in Bronx and Harlem. He specified that the least amount of people stopped and frisked were white people while they had the most amount of contraband than suspected minority groups…

The False Truth of Racism Racism is something that has been big on the news recently. Almost every day it seems like there’s some new problem occurring somewhere in the world that raise questions of if equality still exists. Examples of these problems are the multiple fatalities that have occurred within the past few years, for example: Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and most recently Terence Crutcher. These were very heavily televised cases in which a black person was killed and protests…

security measure were scanning shoes or limiting on carrying liquid is a step that can be avoided by future terrorists. Secondly, unreasonable “selected” list are subjects to innocent person to have a higher levels of security such as pat downs, frisking and interview with DHS screener. Thirdly, the most critical argue was same name can become as suspected terrorist that are subjected to extraordinary delay even late person found himself as suspected person list. These criticisms create a…

Different Privileges for Different Skin Tones Racial profiling is unacceptable. Police officers are taking advantage of their authority to racially profile people of color, by humiliating, harassing, and arresting them. It is not hard to perceive how people from different countries and skin colors are being racially profiled and accused of criminal acts. It is truly ironic how the "United" States of America is only united when it comes to certain ethnicities. Adnan R. Khan argues against…

Gun Control is an issue for all countries, especially America because Americans love guns and carrying guns as a human right. However, America tries to forbid gun usage might cause bad consequences against the society. For example, in 1917, Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United State announced that the United State implemented Prohibition, which is an act of prohibited manufacturing, transportation, import, export, sale, drinking wine, including alcoholic beverages. However, the…

"The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it." This quote sums up exactly what went wrong with the revolution on Animal Farm, as Old Major provided the animals with a picture of a utopian world where every animal was to work to his capability, and still never go hungry, and enjoy luxuries that were never even thought of with Jones on the farm. But when the revolution became a…

Innocence. Does it really exist in America? The book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, was not only written for his son, but for innocence itself. The book’s main idea revolves around the innocence of people who are often convicted of crimes and actions based upon their race, belief or ethnicity, someone who could have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, or even a person who could have just been suspected based on racial profiling and prejudice. In this essay, there…

Over the past few decades, the United States has contributed to the substantial war on drugs and its impact has continued to affect many people in more than one way. Unfortunately, it is a war that has focused its efforts on the criminalization of drug use and distribution. It has certainly not eradicated the mass destruction that has been marked in communities around the United States and globally. There is an obvious correlation between drugs, racial justice, and aspects that reach beyond…