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    In the story Paul's Case, Paul grows up despising his middle-class neighborhood with tedious and boring patterns of living. After his mother’s death, his strict and abusive father brought him up which mentally affects him. All things together plant a seed of extreme contempt in his mind towards his home and his society. It also evokes his thoughts to build up his stories of his own desires to stand against and separate from the society. His insolent and rebellious behavior throughout the story…

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    Louis Comfort Tiffany was the most important and influential American glass artist of the twentieth century. His renowned body of glass works redefined modern glassmaking and has continued to influence glass artists in the present day. His works have become an essential and crucial benchmark for American glassmaking. Tiffany concentrated intensely on creating brilliant, high-quality works, and courageously reformed the glassmaking industry of the United States and the world over. From a young…

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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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    A language that was called “Nahuatl” were known by people who lived in the area of Central Mexico around 600 AD. It is believed that these people who spoke the language came from the North, travelled to Central American and settled. The people who spoke “Nahuatl” started to gain power and they were the dominant power around 1000AD. The Mexica, were people who were one of the last groups of people who spoke “Nahuatl” to come to that area and they were a big part of the rise or the founding of…

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    racism and forms of police brutality against African Americans. The movement was formed in wake of the shooting murder of Trayvon Martin after his killer George Zimmerman was acquitted. The movement was founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. These three African American women started the popular #blacklivesmatter in reaction to Zimmerman being acquitted (Murphy 1). The movement has since spread to other countries including Brazil, Canada, and several other countries (Adam…

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    violent and chaotic approach. After the recent homicides of young black teens across the nation, a group of African American women were fed up with the madness and decided to create The Black Lives Matter Movement. Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi are three well-known African American women initiated this renowned movement that has evoked many young and old to join and protest for the unjust homicides of young black teens. It all started February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida a…

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    beginning of the novel, Paul immediately distinguishes himself from other teenagers through his peculiar behavior in the classroom and distinctive style. For example, at a hearing with the school’s faculty regarding his behavioral problems, Paul wears “an opal pin in his neatly knotted black four-in-hand, [with] a red carnation” (“Paul’s Case” 1). His unusual choice in clothing compels the reader, the school’s headmaster, and the teachers to believe that Paul is unlike ordinary teenagers and…

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    Australian Business Australian Business is among the most developed and highly modernized and among the largest economies globally. Australia is among the wealthiest in the world, ranked as world 's 12th-largest economy. In 2012 Australia had the world 's fifth-highest per capita income, In an Australian Business prospective one of the most important points to be noted is on the countries Business culture i.e. knowing their manner of communication, management style etc. The other countries view…

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    The Black Lives Matter movement started off as a social media hashtag and grew into something more due to the founders Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors. The movement started as a result of the anti-black racism that has been embedded in the United States’ society for numerous years. The Black Lives Matter movement is a body of ideas and political interventions in a society…

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    Fictional Yet Practical Case Study It is vital to question how critical race scholars can empower people who do not have access to a higher education as a result of the systemic racial predispositions Blacks are placed in that scholars often discuss within CRT. Higher educational institutions are not readily available to a number of Black individuals who face harsher realities as a result of the racial biases set forth by institutions. For instance, a 16 year old daughter of a Black Muslim…

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