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    The ethnic and racial stratifications in the United States educational system have been reinforced throughout history by means of public policy on racial biases. The biases in which policies are formulated and applied, has created and expanded the achievement gap between White-Americans and minorities. These policies are not always directly targeting low-income schools, however it can be seen within the segregation of residential areas that has a direct impact on local schools. The racial and…

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    Discrimination Discrimination is a world wide case going on that nobody has ever gotten right or wrong. There has and always will be Racism going on around the world because people have the freedom to talk and people offend with their hateful words. Weather it is intentional or not, people discriminate against each other. It’s a natural thing that humans do because it’s the ways some of us are born and raised.The fight against discrimination has been an ongoing process and in order for us to…

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    Gender Inequality Over the years, we have observed a slow change being made towards to the portrayal of respect being equally distributed towards both gender. As time changes, the views of the society has gradually changed on how women are being portrayed in the world we live today. As Tuchman stated, “For our society, like any other society must pass on its social heritage from one generation to the next” (41). One can agree with this statement, it is to be known that any cultural value, it is…

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    Social justice is the fair treatment of all people, whether they have a different ethnic origin, gender, race or religion. Social injustice is the complete opposite. It is the unfair treatment of a group of people despite of their opinions. Throughout time we see how many people of different ethnic origins are poorly treated and discriminated because of their race, gender or beliefs. Gandhi: An Autobiography and The Help portray multiple insights of the world in the 1900’s compared to modern day…

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    Why does discrimination occur in society today? Discrimination is the act of denying rights, equitable treatment, or access to facilities to an individual or group of people because of their defining characteristics. The belief that certain groups of individuals are better than others drives the existence of discrimination in society today. The image of discrimination most people have is inequalities within minority groups, however that is not the only type of discrimination occurring in…

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    Abraham Joshua Heschel once said “Racism is man 's gravest threat to man ­ the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Racial discrimination has been prevalent throughout history; it can take many forms, but all deals with unjustified prejudice against others of a contrasting race or color. It can be mutual or one­sided, blunt or subtle, violent or verbal (What Is Racism?, 2). Children in school are mocked, adults judged, or, in worse cases, entire populations fall subject to a…

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    contains much more diversity. Included is an Indian and a legally blind Paralympian to name a couple. It has been proven that organizations that embrace diversity are able to cope with change and thrive. Trenton is an organization that discriminated against one of its own employees and seems to not embrace diversity. Summary MarShawn Demur, an African American, began working at Trenton six years ago in Detroit, Michigan. Marshawn applied for a promotion, operations manager, in Kansas and was…

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    Ableism can be defined by Campbell (2008) who argues ableism is connected with the production of ableness which refers to the perfect body by default (p.153). Campbell (2008) also argues that “the creation of a neologism that suggests a falling away from ableness that is disability (p.153). Ableism causes social marginalization and exclusion to those who do not conform to societies ablest norms (Dhamoon, 2009, p.113). The concept of ableism can be shown in the two readings the first one is…

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    The idea of having diversity in world-wide unique system has been controversial for decades. In England and Wales where ‘the white men’ stereotype was predominant from the beginning was highly debated; and not everyone agreed on changing this culture. Groups including disabled lawyers, BME- black minority, LGB – lesbian, gay, bisexual, women, persons with different religious views or persons from disadvantaged social backgrounds, with lower family income had always struggled to secure experience…

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    inferior. It is also important to treat each person the way that one would wanted to be treated in return. The organization would have to be understanding of language barriers and cultural barriers to not make one feel that they are being discriminated against or judged (Sachs, 1999). It is important to recognize that people from different cultures are different in a variety of ways, including different ways of looking at things, different ways of dressing and different ways of expressing…

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