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    'Gorillas in the Mist '” (qtd in Green 1). Twenty-one years later, in 2012, George Zimmerman of Florida shot an unarmed 17-year-old Black high schooler named Trayvon Martin. Since Martin’s death, the amount of trust between the police and the black community nationwide has diminished and has divided the people of the United States once again. Two years after Martin’s death, Michael Brown, unarmed, was shot by the police in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner, also unarmed, who was put in a…

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    Racial Injustice

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    “Violence as a way of achieving racial injustice is both impractical and immoral. Violence never brings permanent peace.” Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke those words decades ago, and although those words were spoken years ago, they still relate to today’s world. It seems that the world has transformed into this culture of hate and inequality. Violence exists everywhere, slashing at the backs and throats of innocents. There is a world where people are still divided by the color of their skin and…

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    comparison between the author and this filmmaker is not lost on me. But again we 're looking at a “US documentary film” that is once again pointing out the struggle between industrialized nation and natural resources. This film does a fantastic job of establishing the scenery and giving us a sense of where we are, however I was more struck by the amount of close-ups used by the cinematographer. This use of close-ups underlined the intimacy that was prevalent throughout the…

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    Magic Bullet, It’s a book about a study on the American people and how their reaction to certain diseases has had a significant effect on the way people react or respond to the problem. In this particular book the author, Allan M. Brandt, concentrates his study on several venereal transmitted diseases such as syphilis, herpes, gonorrhea and AIDS. This venereal diseases are often labeled and often related to sinful behaviors, often related to a specific group of people, for example: the LGBT…

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    Old Spice use ethos with the help of Isaiah being their credibility. The Old Spice commercial narrator first appeals to ethos by establishing his image as the perfect man. to Old Spice use Isaiah Mustafa because he’s tall well built and handsome reinforcing the credibility of the body wash implying that anyone who uses it would be as attractive as he is. Isaiah also have diamonds coming…

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    Blevins, his love for Alejandra and her abandoning him, and his lost position at the hacienda ranch are three main events that leave John alienated, but enriched with worldly ideas and understandings he would take to the grave. Jimmy Blevins, fatally shot, provided John with intuition about the importance…

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    November 1938 a Jew shot a German diplomat in Paris. Hitler ordered a seven-day campaign of terror against Jews organized by Himmler and the SS. They used terror and economic deprivation when 10,000 Jewish shops were destroyed, along with homes and synagogues were set on…

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    Currently, the largest ethical issue facing the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is the idea of police misconduct in regards to racial profiling. This comes to light after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, who was shot and killed by a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri (Buchanan), in 2014. Three other unarmed black individuals were also killed by white officers in a two-month span surrounding Brown’s death, including Ezell Ford, Frank Alvarado and Eric Garner…

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    Euthanasia In America

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    oldest arguments against Euthanasia. The Roman Catholic Church is a big believer in dying the natural way, even if that means enduring a lot of suffering. Pope John Paul II expressed this belief publicly at least twice during his life, when he got shot in 1984, and in1994 while suffering from old age and infirmity. “Human suffering evokes compassion, it also evokes respect, and in its own way it intimidates.” (Paul, 52). Other religions also have strong beliefs against assisted…

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    Gun Control and the Second Amendment According to Schulman (1991), the text of the Second Amendment of the US Constitutions reads as follows: “a correctly structured militia, for purposes of state security; the right of the citizens to have and to carry arms shall not be challenged.” This is a paraphrased version of what is contained in the original constitutional document. Nonetheless, it captures the spirit of the constitution regarding the issue of guns and their possession thereof.…

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