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    Personal Social Identity

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    first-generation student played a major part in my social identity. Both my parents were immigrants from China, who became to America for better opportunities for their children. As the first Asian-American family to move into the street I grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, my family faced a lot of discrimination and prejudice. Despite that, my parents worked hard in order to provide me and my brother the opportunities they did not have back in China. Raised by my grandparents, being Chinese is…

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    Hate And Hate Crimes

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    The Psychology of Hate and Hate Crimes *In the United States today, we can see a huge cultural diversity. People come from all over the world in search of a better way of life and move to be in the land of the free. However, with such a huge cultural variety in America this leads to individuals having radical opinions of other races, religions, genders, and sexual orientations. How does an individual create this way of thinking? Are people born with prejudice? These are some of the questions…

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    In society there are tons of issues, from social issues to racial issues and so on. Throughout the semester we’ve watched numerous movies and read stories. Many dealt with different issues and many also related. Here are a few examples and stories we’ve read and watched which shows human condition “Saturday Night Fever”, by John Badham, “Do the right thing”, by Spike Lee, The death of Yusuf Hawkins, 20 Years later, by Sewell Chan, and The killers by Ernest Hemingway. In the film, “Tribal Rites…

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    Discrimination In Jaimonda

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    The two topics I will be focusing on in this paper are, adapting and facing discrimination. The name of the person I interviewed is Raimonda came from Lithuania. She moved to America when she was 3 years old. Moved into a small apartment in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, New York. When she lived in Deizimelis Lithuania, she said it was a very small town. People were poor. People grew their own food majority of people who lived in that town only had one car per family. They would have to drive a…

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    15340117 (SP) JUSTIN STEINBERG TAKE-HOME EXAM PART 1 #2 The Underground Man is about the life of man who goes into a complete state of alienation and isolation from all of society. He believes to be on a higher level then everybody else but has so much hate and humiliation towards himself. He starts of the novel by saying how he is a sick man, a spiteful man, an unattractive man and how he is very sick. He has a liver problem but he refuses to go see a doctor. He claims to be superstitious…

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