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    Obituary Olivia T. Juliano, a 36-year-old singer and resident of Calabasas, California, died yesterday of brain trauma. In the police report, it stated that Juliano was polishing her silver collection when her custom golden cat statue started to wobble. The statue, modeled after her personal pet Luzbelley Anne, quickly lost its balance and fell onto the singer’s head. The husband had to identify the victim by just the cat tattoo on her lower back as her face was completely obliterated. The…

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    deal with on their quest to freedom. In particular, some of the topics that the video covered were some of the venues in which minorities couldn’t enter that were deemed “whites only,” how minorities had to sit in the back of the bus, the beating of Emmett Till, and the experiences of the small group of people who decided to fight for freedom and justice. The video clip mainly covers the struggles of minorities, and…

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    Leclerc actually became hearing impaired because of an inner-ear disease called Ménière’s disease, the symptoms of which include fluctuating hearing loss, vertigo, pressure, and tinnitus. Sean Berdy, plays Lecler’s love interest Emmett, a motorcycle riding, bad boy photographer. Sean is also an actor who is hearing impaired. Emmett’s mother, Melody, is played deaf actress Marlee Matlin. Their on-screen interactions and frequent arguments form the basis of a compelling and unique…

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    Merriam-Webster dictionary defines racism as “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race” (Racism). The United States is no stranger to racism as it had suffered from it for well over four hundred years. The stimulant that started the chaos of racism was slavery in which there were injustice and segregation of the blacks in the community even after the Civil Rights Movement…

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    The end of Jim Crow racism was by no means the end of racism entirely. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American behavioral scientist, published The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America in 2015 to “describe the lacking racial order of America in the post–Civil Rights era” (Bonilla-Silva 1359). Bonilla-Silva simply puts that the when the Jim Crows were revoked in the late 1960’s that didn’t mark the “end of racism” or even the “declining significance of race” by any means. Rather,…

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    you’re given some warnings. The museum frames certain things — lynching photographs, for example — within red lines, alerting viewers to their emotionally loaded content. The potentially most upsetting object in the museum was the coffin that once held Emmett Till, which was isolated in a chapel-like room of its own. Another space, free of any objects, was set aside as a sort of recovery station, and the museum had a grief counselor on call. On the third and uppermost history level, called “1968…

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    As time progresses, the works become more abstract in their formatting. Walt Whitman’s poem, being the oldest, has the most words and standard format for poetry. Zed Ander’s poem, being the most recent, has less words and an abstract view on poetry. Walt Whitman’s “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” portrays a series of images and asks the reader to “behold” the scene as if the reader was in the poem. The most unique aspect of the poem relates to the perspective from which the scene is displayed. There…

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    People are still dying, even after all those fights Black people has put against it. It seems that White and Black just cannot get along. The Civil Right was a huge part in Black history, and one thing that happened before it started, was the death of Emmett Till. A young boy that was killed for whistling at a white women, while he was leaving a store. His death kind of triggered the Civil Right. His mother was so hungry for what the White people had done to his son. They beat him to death,…

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    Racism has always been a problem in America. Up until the last few decades, it was a massive part in how the country was ran when it came to the different races being together. Even today it still causes problem between people, but in the early twentieth century, it was having an uproar about Jack Johnson. The author Al-Tony Gilmore wrote an article about Jack Johnson. Within the article known as “Jack Johnson and White Women: The National Impact”, he states how Johnson went through major…

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    The Trayvon Martin case is a challenge to psychological Science. It is hard to say if implicit bias played a role on Trayvon Martin’s death. Geraldo Rivera who is the host of Fox news stated that Martin died because he had a sweatshirt hoodie on when he was shot. Rivera’s remarks started criticism for indicating that black individuals who wear hoodies are thugs, and that this is the reason why Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin. Psychological studies have showed stereotyped cooperation’s connecting…

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