My research was mainly focused on police brutality and racism against African Americans. The key findings in my annotated bibliography were, (1) African Americans who have not violated any traffic laws are stopped and frisked by the police, (2) African Americans are ticketed by police more than whites, (3) African Americans are often handcuffed and humiliated by the police compared to others (4) In general African Americans have the fear of police at all times while driving, (5) African Americans are more often discriminated by the police and the studies show that police are an extension of white supremacy, (6) Based on surveys, majority of the people involved in the surveys had a negative view of the police, (7) brutality and racism of police
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This means I was challenged, to second think almost everything that I previously knew about some of the topics discussed in my culture 320 and other classes. I feel I have acquired actual knowledge, discovered ways for critical thinking, something which I have not achieved in at least 25 of my total 27 classes that I have taken so far both in Northern Virginia Community college and at George Mason University.
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In my future coursework, I am planning to continue to work on critical thinking and expose myself to acquiring more knowledge through independent research specifically on the issues and challenges of minority groups in the United States. This became an extremely important issue to me after conducting my research on the police brutality against African Americans. In order to understand all aspects of why the minority groups in the United States are marginalized and treated differently, I might need to expand my knowledge on economics and mainly the neoliberal polices.
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Writing is my biggest weakness and therefore, I cannot explain every reason why this course should be a required one, but as a whole, my views of the world and issues here in our own country has been dramatically changed and challenged. The one thing which I think would greatly contribute to the understanding of students will be spending more time on Angela Davis book on prisons. Other than that, there was no single class or reading which I did not learn something new, useful and practical. I think anyone’s academic career will only be worth if they get more opportunities to expose to real knowledge as I was in this course. We certainly live in a world (in America) where a large number of our fellow human beings are suffering the most and the sad part is that a vast majority of people do not exactly know about their problems and therefore, never think about a solution. So the only recommendation which I have is about allocating more time to study the complex issues in our prisons and jails, a place where my brain cannot stop thinking about those who live there for no reason and a place where justice should take the lead and save those who live in pain and
This means I was challenged, to second think almost everything that I previously knew about some of the topics discussed in my culture 320 and other classes. I feel I have acquired actual knowledge, discovered ways for critical thinking, something which I have not achieved in at least 25 of my total 27 classes that I have taken so far both in Northern Virginia Community college and at George Mason University.
Section E
In my future coursework, I am planning to continue to work on critical thinking and expose myself to acquiring more knowledge through independent research specifically on the issues and challenges of minority groups in the United States. This became an extremely important issue to me after conducting my research on the police brutality against African Americans. In order to understand all aspects of why the minority groups in the United States are marginalized and treated differently, I might need to expand my knowledge on economics and mainly the neoliberal polices.
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Writing is my biggest weakness and therefore, I cannot explain every reason why this course should be a required one, but as a whole, my views of the world and issues here in our own country has been dramatically changed and challenged. The one thing which I think would greatly contribute to the understanding of students will be spending more time on Angela Davis book on prisons. Other than that, there was no single class or reading which I did not learn something new, useful and practical. I think anyone’s academic career will only be worth if they get more opportunities to expose to real knowledge as I was in this course. We certainly live in a world (in America) where a large number of our fellow human beings are suffering the most and the sad part is that a vast majority of people do not exactly know about their problems and therefore, never think about a solution. So the only recommendation which I have is about allocating more time to study the complex issues in our prisons and jails, a place where my brain cannot stop thinking about those who live there for no reason and a place where justice should take the lead and save those who live in pain and