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Sierra Amundson Jim Crow Summary Response Notebook The Jim Crow Laws were local and state segregation laws that ruled harshly in the South and remained enact until later in 1965. Throughout a documentary based off of the Jim Crow laws there was shocking information and information common but was gone into greater detail in this hour long video. This video gives a great viewpoint from both sides of the war on segregation with the interviews that had constructed. First, presented will be a…

evidence, someone would be punished. But no officer was prosecuted for murder, and the chief of the police department was simply asked to resign (Fausset, Perez-Pena, and Robertson, A1). In a more recent case, Terence Crutcher, had his car stalled in Tulsa, Oklahoma when armed cops approached him. They argued that he was not complying with orders and attempted to reach in his car for a weapon. However, his window was not open and Crutcher’s hands were in fact held high in the helicopter video of…

What Should the Government Do to Eradicating Child Poverty in the United States? In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Cassidy, a twenty one year old who was born into a successful household is on track to become a future journalist. Bethany, also twenty one years old, is currently in a residential drug treatment program, hoping for a second chance at life. Cassidy and Bethany are similar in age and personality; but, one distinct difference that led them to their current state is the environment they were born…

Recently, there has been an uproar of backlash against college campuses who do not believe students should have access to trigger warnings or safe spaces. Specifically, this issue is with the University of Chicago, but along the way, other universities have shown their support on the movement against “coddling” students. The idea that trigger warnings are negative stems from the viewpoint that students will use them as a way to avoid class discussion, or even assignments. However, that is not…

Ethical decisions are a part of our everyday life and even more so a part of the criminal justice profession. Except for a few other professions being under the microscope of the public about the decisions made, the field of criminal justice faces this every day. Ethics are instilled in us at an early age and are very vulnerable to outside distractions that can lead us array. That’s why it is important to have a reliable moral compass that deters us from doing the wrong thing ever. There is a…

concern among members of society as a redefinition of our values is questioned. Ever since its legalization, the implementation of the death penalty been among the most criticized issues in the world. Kathy was brutally murdered on June 1, 1985, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greg, her husband, was left alone to raise his two daughters of four and fourteen months old. Greg Wilhoit was arrested almost a year later and was charged with murder for her wife Kathy. He spent five years on death row for a crime…

The most common and considered the most humane method of execution used today is lethal injection. Lethal injection is the act of injecting a lethal drug “cocktail” directly into a person’s circulatory system. In Baze v. Rees (2008), the Supreme Court reviewed the three-drug protocol then used for lethal injection by 30 states. The court ruled that the three-drug cocktail at issue in Baze did not violate an inmates Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. This…

The cancer survival rates for a group of 1,015 metastatic non-small cell lung cancer patients who were diagnosed between 2000 and 2009.Lung Cancer is a disease diagnosed on the basis of numerous symptoms, cough, lung weakness, and lung failure with chemotherapy, mixed medicine, and healthy plans. Lung Cancer has shocked the nation by the infestation of the population with the disease, the disease has two main causes and a way to help your life prolong which is, unhealthy behaviors, genes, and…

Lynching was a punishment served by hanging and torturing an individual. Race, gender or age was not discriminative factors to who was lynched for crimes by white racist lynch mobs. The 19th century was when racial tensions first moved thru the United States, lynching developed into a common resolution for white mobs to anyone defiant to the law. As time progressed lynchings developed into a bigger problem known as race riots. Southern States introduced lynching early, African Americans were…

In 2004, Ann Anthony, Associate Dean of Nursing Division of Tulsa Community College, says that nurses were seen as the “doctor’s handmaiden” who performed menial task such as giving baths and feeding patients (p. 121). It was not until Florence Nightingale’s proposal to create training grounds for women who aim to…