Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling

The problem of racial profiling is that law enforcement people such as cops can profile certain people because of their race. All races are being effected by this but the main ones are Hispanics, African Americans and Middle Easterners. The cause of this problem is crime rate rising and racism. Law enforcement tries to control and prevent this from happening but is hard to narrow it down. The reason it hasn’t be completely avoided is because its hard to tell if an officer stopped a person because of their race or ethnicity.  If this problem doesn’t get fixed, we as people will soon segregate and a nation that is know as the mixing pot due to all the races and ethnicity, will no longer be known for that.

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Racial Profiling: A Survey of African American Police Officers

            In this article, author David E. Barlow speaks about how racial profiling is a problem in law enforcement. He states “In certain patrol areas around Milwaukie blacks were overrepresented then other racial and ethnic groups.” Barlow also speaks about how it is so hard to prevent this kind of stuff from happening. Even if someone feels like they have been pulled over or whatever the case may be due to racial profiling, there is no exact way to prove it. The author also states “Findings imply racial disparity at the level of individual stops may be substantially explained by different policing strategies.” There for it usually goes un-dealt with or is not able to be proven.

Precis

In the article "A Survey of African American Profiling" The author explains an effort to provide data on racial profiling that are not as easily dismissed as anecdotal accounts of individual motorists. The authors conducted a survey of African American police officers in the Milwaukee Police Department in Wisconsin regarding their personal experiences of having been racially profiled, defining racial profiling as any situation in which race is used by a police officer or agency to determine the potential criminality of an individual. This study was not an investigation of the Milwaukee Police Department or of racial profiling within the department but rather of the extent to which Black police officers perceive they have been subjected to racial profiling by any police officer or agency. Police officers understand the intricacies, strategies, and techniques of law enforcement. Therefore, the observations of Black police officers on the reasonableness of situations in which they have been stopped by police have exceptional validity.

Outline

Outline

Introduction:

            Audience Attention: With out women the reproduction of the world would stop. The human race would cease to exist, but what happens if the women were to scared to go out and possibly find their soul mate?  With the uprising of date rape drugs we are heading that way.

Ethos: With thousands of women being sexually assaulted a year and not even knowing what’s going on at the time. Date rape drugs are effecting our society and with them so easily being smuggled into the U.S it causes such a problem when the assaulted can’t even remember who did it.

Thesis: Instead of going out on dates and getting to know someone, some men just want to go out take what they think is theirs without the concern of the psychological and physical damages it can do to a women. Hundreds of perpetrators that use date rape drugs often get away with it. How could this be? Later on in the paper I will discuss how, why and how to prevent this kind of stuff from happening to you, your daughter or a loved one.

Defenition:

-          For this paper I will speak about date rape drugs. I mean how they work the side effects of these kind of drugs and how to prevent this from happening.

-          Review of Literature

o   Fact about Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol,Rufies)

§  It’s a sleep medication that is known for its rapid and long sleeping effects.

§  It became big in the U.S in the 90’s and became one of the top “Date Rape Drugs” out there.

§  http://www.erowid.org/pharms/flunitrazepam/flunitrazepam.shtml

o   Facts about Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB)

§  It is also another sleep aid but is also a recreational intoxicant.

§  It is known for the short coma like sleep that can put the person into a sleep for several hours without being able to be woken up.

§  If mixed with alcohol it could be deadly.

§  http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb.shtml

o   http://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0601/p2619.html

§  Where exactly these drugs are being abused and distributed to young females and males.

o   http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/37/5/321.extract

§  The Effects of Rohpypnol.

§  The Cost of the drug

o   http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410558

§  The effects of GHB.

§  Suggestions on preventions

o   http://www.springerlink.com/content/x4045lh725214533/

o   What brings attention to the preditors

o   The cause of Date rape

o   Most common places of date rapes

-          Argument/Analysis:

80% you say, 20% they say

-          Conclusion

Working Thesis #2

With thousands of women being sexually assulted a year and not even  knowing whats going on at the time. Date rape drugs are effecting our society and with them so easily being smuggled into the U.S it causes such a problem when the assuslted cant even remeber who did it.

5 questions about my topic

The problem with date rape drugs is that there are tons of  people mostly women who are sexually assulted by offenders. Women of all ages are effected by this problem im sure some men are but women are mainly targeted. The causes of this problem is a few things 1. even though it is illegal in the U.S, it is legal in 60 other countries. 2. the country closest to the U.S that it is legal in is Mexico, and with drugs being so easily smuggled across the boarder Rohypnol would be one of the easier drugs to smuggle. ihave not yet found anyone who has tried to prevent the smuggling problem, but there are tons of adds that say dont leave your drinks unattended, watch people make your drink and never go to a bar alone. The future if this problem is not solved could be bad. thousands of women being sexually assulted a year and if they perepatrators are not caught they will keep sricking and getting away with it. I would also say that women would be more scared to go out and have a good time because they would be worried if they were to get druged up they would have an unwanted pregnancy and that would lead to the whole for/against aboprtion, which that is another topic for another time.

Rhetorical Precis-Paper # 2

Int he article Date Rape Drugs by John DePresca he speaks about the drug Rohypnol and exactly how it works. He states the side effects and how fast they take place. DePresca compairs Rohypnol to other date rape drugs such as valium and halcion. He also informs the readers that Rohypnol is the most common date rape drug and the cheapest to buy.

Working Thesis

Diets are not a punishment but actually a reward, because living in a country where the majority of the people have obesity problems and/or high blood pressure and the economoy where it is cheaper to eat out then it is to cook at home.

Healthier Living

1. Do deist actually work. 2. How do you have a successful diet. 3. How many types of diets are there. 4.Why exactly do people use diets. 5. How do you not cheat on your diet. 6. Whats the point. 7. How hard are diets. 8. Can it actually benefit me. 9. How do I start. 10. What is the right diet for me.

Most Effective Diets for 2011

If your list of New Year’s resolutions includes weight loss, you should know that all diets are not created equal. With the promise of fast weight loss comes faster weight regain, just as eliminating entire food groups increases the chances of giving up altogether. So, what diet really works?

In 2010, dieters didn’t even have to chew, as juice cleanses and the baby food diet, both popularized by celebrities, caused many to shun solid food for fast weight loss. Another fad diet best left undone: the junk food diet. Designed by a nutrition professor at Kansas State University, the diet consisted of Twinkies, Ho Hos and Doritos and left him 27 pounds lighter after two months. Even theeffectiveness of exercise was called into question.

To once again try to clarify all the conflicting information on weight loss, The Daily Beast revived a resolution from last year involving the latest scientific proof: Let’s figure out, as definitively as possible, which diets really work.

For our second annual ranking of the most effective diets, we took the largest, most recent clinical studies for the nation’s most popular diets, and compared the raw data using consistent criteria: six-month and 12-month figures for weight loss and participant retention, as well as 12-month change in body mass index. For 2011, we added clinical results published in 2010. (The last time, as best we can tell, that anyone undertook a similar exercise was back in 2007 by Consumer Reports, but they did not measure for BMI changes.) In doing so, we were able to find some clear differentiations in terms of which of 10 popular diets work better than others.

The answers were surprising. Mainstays like Jenny Craig and the Zone fared relatively poorly, while Weight Watchers and the Mediterranean diet did well. “To me, a diet is something that you count the days until it’s over and you miss the big picture,” says Dr. Connie Guttersen, nutritionist and author of The Sonoma Diet, and the new update The New Sonoma Diet, released this year. Guttersen says a diet should instead be “a way of eating that becomes a lifestyle.”

Experts agree that the most effective diets are feasible over an extended period of time, but there’s not a single solution for the entire population. “What I believe makes a diet ‘effective’ is that you can stay on it and that your body feels good on it. This will not be the same for each person,” says Brooke Castillo, a weight-loss coach and author of Why Can’t I Lose Weight? “Any diet that makes you feel hungry (liquid shakes) or tired (Atkins) may work temporarily, but won't last long-term because they put you at war with your own body… cooperation with our bodies is what lasts.”

Copy Cat

Plagiarism is a big deal from high school all the way till your career. the world wide web makes it so easy to steal other peoples work and claim it as your own, as simple as three clicks of a mouse and you have yourself a piece that people can think is brilliant. Various publishing groups are now taking strict actions to reinforce their publication policies. There are dozens of free tools to detect plagiarism , I-Thenticate, Turn It In and Cross Ref. are a few to name. also their is a new software out that still goes by the name Cross Ref, but the makers of Turn It In and the original Cross Ref merged to make the new Cross Ref even better. There were a few huge investigations of plagiarism, sampling of some articles (News Papers, Doctors etc.) the way the red flags were raised were with high human inspections in conjunctions with computational tools (E. Blast, Deja Vu). In two thousand nine, Deja Vu found two hundred twelve possible plagiarism, out of nine thousand one hundred twenty entered in the database. The average text from the original articles were 86%. 71.4% shared at least one highly similar tables. 42% also contained incorrect calculations, data inconstancies and reproduced or manipulated photos. The data collected with additional info based on their personal communications with authors and journal editors directly associated with one hundred sixty three of these cases of potential plagiarism. 93% were not aware of the duplicates of their work (originals). Out of the 60 who were caught plagiarizing  28% denied any wrong doing, 35% admitted to borrowing previous material published, 22% were from co-authors and 17% claimed they were unaware that their names appeared on the questioned it.

Literally Broke College Students

College sports have been around for ever, but so have scandals. in 1984 Vaccaro helped Michael Jordan promote his sneaker line and ended up started to open other peoples eyes with big money signs. Today some of the biggest scandals we hear about on T.V are about college athletes getting paid under the table from agents to try to get them persuaded to go to a certain team and will except money, houses cars and clothes. Reggie Bush, a Hisemen winner had to give back his trophy erased from history of college football legends and striped all of his records because he was found guilty for excepting bribes under the table from agents his senior year in college. even though he was the one who did it and he was accused for his actions the school he played for, University of Southern California, (USC) was striped fifteen scholarships the following season and was banned to compete in ANY bowl game for five years they also are not allowed to compete in conference championships. Bowl games bring in a lot of revenue for schools and their conference.

Video Games Are Changing The World

What I got from the video we watched in class was very surprising. She started off by first giving us facts, such as most kids who play video games play about 3 million hours which is equivalent to schooling hours from fifth grade all the way to high school graduation. She then gave a reason why people play video games, that video games always have a chance for an epic win and you can expect it to come. as in life you do not always know what or when the epic win will come, so people play video games to get away from "real life". Video games also have tons of people willing to help and be your friend to get the epic win, but in real life there is not always someone willing to help you along and keep you going. she states     "we play video games to get what we cant have in real life"   such as money nice cars or cute girls etc. I believe this statement could be very true. She also says that video games build trust which in real life you do not always know who you can and can not trust. Games have been around since the beginning of time. she told a story about how a tribe played games all day and ate the day after and did that day to day and  were able to manage to stay alive. all in all I think the video was a very descriptive and i will probably will not be able to play another video game without thinking about this video!

Chapter 1 Reading

In Chapter One of the book Good Reasons, the author explained the differences in a normal argument and arguments in a college paper. The different things that they brought up were really well such as, credible research, arguing and showing your knowledge of the subject or subjects. 

Ink Poetry

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I picked this blog because I really like poetry. I have liked poetry since i was about 8 years old, I don't really know why just kind of stuck to me. (fun Jesse fact). I also thought this is kind of cool how they put it together!