Essays on Hate

Esoteric:

Designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone: “Anime fans have some of the most esoteric interests I know.” (Said by friend in conversation). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). SYNONYMS: abstruse, deep, profound, recondite. ANTONYM: easy. (Roget’s Interactive Thesaurus).

Verisimilitude:

The quality or state of being verisimilar: “The dense language lends the film verisimilitude, and even lay audiences will be engrossed by the thrill of discovery” (Film review). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). SYNONYMS: believability, color, credibility, credibleness, creditability, creditableness, plausibility, plausibleness. ANTONYM: falseness, impossibility. (Thesaurus.com).

Evulsion:

A forcible separation or detachment: “I got an evulsion cut on my finger when I tried to open a ...

Hate crimes are criminal activities that are committed when person targets another because of their membership in a particular social group. Such social groups include religion, gender, sex, ethnicity and race. Hate crimes are usually motivated by bias, and may result in either injury, assault and murder. These crimes may also include destruction of property, bullying, insults, hate mail, verbal abuse and harassment. It is essential to highlight the difference between hate speech and hate crime as the two terms are often used interchangeably though they do not have the same meaning. Hate speech refers to criminalizing various categories of ...

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Answers two Questions from the list Q.1 Has social media already shaped these news items or their tone? Q.2 Does the social media forum below the news items generate useful political debate? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597584/Body-Liverpool-villain-kidnapped-fake-police-washed-Alicante-beach-having-tortured.html http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/05/us/michigan-hate-crime-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/20/world/asia/india-mumbai-gang-rape-convictions/index.html?iref=obinsite The three articles that I have chosen for our discussion on the role of social media are all articles that narrate different kinds of violent crimes. All the three crimes took place in different parts of the world. The first one is about a man whose body was found on a beach in Spain; most likely tortured for a long ...

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The oppression of the LGBT community, as well as their denial of civil rights, has become a commonplace fixture in today’s society. Many people see them as different, or abnormal. They see no reason to provide them with the same basic rights, such as marriage or parenting, that straight people are provided. Some feel so extremely about the LGBT community that they harm members, actions known as hate crimes, in order to instill fear, or set an example. The LGBT community is gaining progress in many separate states concerning their civil rights, but it appears that where progress is ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. In this paper, we argue that the economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here are mostly based on false generalizations (Stewart). This is to mean that most of the reasons that attend the commission of this crime are predicated on ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. In this paper, we argue that the economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here are mostly based on false generalizations (Stewart). This is to mean that most of the reasons that attend the commission of this crime are predicted on ...

This chapter reflects on the reactions of the communities supposedly protected by legislations against hatred crimes during inauguration of Hate Crimes Awareness Day in Alberta. Although it was meant for celebrating successes the hate crimes legislations had made over the past few decades, minority groups that included those of gays, lesbians and queers took the day to challenge them as regards safety and justice promotion towards them (Smith, and Jaffer 57). On this concern, Crawford and Nichols established that the legislations are ineffective to protect members of these categories, as they have suffered very much while facing them. ...

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This paper explores hate crimes against people with a homosexual orientation. It gives examples of such crimes in the United States of America. This paper also considers ways out from this problem and possible decisions. There are also viewed key reasons of homosexuality and government’s attitude towards gays and lesbians. This paper suggests to strength psychological help, for example to create psychological centers, for those who want to change their non-traditional sexual orientation. It is also recommended to punish people committing hate crimes, because it is a deviation as well. This paper examines studies of Helena L. ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. This paper argues that this economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here is mostly based on false generalizations. The topic on hate crimes committed by Whites against African-Americans in the United States is connected to two criminological theories namely: ...

There Is Nothing Wrong With You: Going Beyond Self-Hate is a book written by Cheri Huber. Huber explores and reveals the origin of self-hate, how it works, and how the readers can identify with it. In addition, the author gives tips on how one can go about self-hate. Cheri Huber discusses the different forms of self hate and how it can take control of people’s lives; nonetheless, she gives out a solution to self hate. According to Huber, some statements can be self-destructive, for instance, “You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are ...

The documentary Erasing Hate offers an interesting perspective on the social reasons behind gang affiliation. Bryon Widner grew up in Albuquerque New Mexico and describes himself as a “street kid.” He was raised by an alcoholic grandmother who told him he was worthless. He was a chronic runaway. skinhead gangs provided the sense of belonging and family support he needed. He started in the White Power Movement when he was 14, and his evolution as a skinhead continued when he moved from New Mexico to Indiana. He was white and poor and was looking for answers in life. He was led to ...

Hate Crimes: Definitions and Introduction

A “hate crime” are “criminal actions intended to harm or intimidate people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or other minority group status,” as listed in the works of Herek (1989) and Levin and McDevitt (1993). In the 1990s, the issue of hate crimes, or “bias crimes,” has generated rising attention from activists, policy makers, and social analysts. Much of the amplified concern has displayed an inference in that all criminal activities have adverse impacts for the victim, bias crimes must be considered as a unique case owing to their heightened effects on the victim of the crime ...

INTRODUCTION

Hate speech is the free and unrestricted expression towards individuals based on their status in society, race, sex or physical appearance that is belligerent and dehumanizing to the victim and usually leads to their isolation from their immediate community. Hate speech takes many forms, but one thing that cuts across the board, is that it’s directed towards minority groups that have different characteristics to the dominant group and is fuelled by peer pressure (Gould 13). Institutions of higher learning have been plagued by numerous cases of hate speech which have led to violence and hatred among the students ...

Hate Crimes against Muslims in the U.S.

INTRODUCTION

- Define the social problem The hate crime first appeared in 1985: John Konirs Barbara Quesnel and Mario Biaggi published "Hate Crime Statistics Act". In 1989, John Leo “Hate politics” published an article. Interestingly, one of the first papers (1991) was devoted to violence against gays and lesbians. In the early 90s of the last century, the term "Hate crime" legalist acquired legal status, including legislative acts. It is a special legal qualification of a special kind of crimes against the person committed a criminal under the influence of hatred towards persons of other ...

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions that people can feel. They can be creative emotions or destructive emotions, and much of literature is centered around what happens when people feel these emotions about each other. The Shadow of the Wind is a novel about a love story between two people; it is also the story of a love affair between a man and a book. There are many mixed emotions that occur within the novel, and the narrator is young and naive, especially at first. However, he comes to realize, over the course of the text, that to truly hate is ...

The main object of this essay is to consider thoroughly what the notion “pride” means. Definition of pride is one of the most significant current discussions in today’s ethics and interpersonal communication. It is interpreted by numerous sources in various ways. Researching definition of this notion, one may find that it is interpreted either as positive or negative feeling from the point of view of ethics. It is becoming difficult to ignore the problem of definition conflicts concerning this notion. In this paper, we will consider this issue in detail. First of all, we will consider arguments ...

This paper seeks to examine the importance of hate crimes in the United States as well as statistics as offered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Department in the year 2012. The paper explores the legislation that anchors the reporting and collation of hate crimes in the US namely, the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act(HCPA) so as to provide further understanding about hate crimes and annual reports. The paper argues that the importance of hate crimes and statistics as compiled by the UCR is meant to address ...

What leads to violence in America? Hate. Hate is a strong emotion that leads to death, war, isolation and cruelty. These are virtues that lead to the violence in America. This paper will look on how these virtues affected the violence in America. It will reflect this through events of media stories and history events to understand the violence in America. It will all use these events of media stories and history events to show how they contribute together and lead into violence. Death is a subject that we hear constantly in our media. We have read stories of death through ...

What leads to violence in America? Hate. Hate is a strong emotion that leads to death, war, isolation and cruelty. These are virtues that lead to the violence in America. This paper will look on how these virtues affected the violence in America. It will reflect this through events of media stories and history events to understand the violence in America. It will all use these events of media stories and history events to show how they contribute together and lead into violence. Death is a subject that we hear constantly in our media. We have read stories of death through ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. argues in his article War of Words: Critical Race Theory and the First Amendment that there exists a tension between civil rights and civil liberties with specific emphasis on the freedom of speech and hate speech or freedom from expression. In the description for fighting words and group defamation with the citation of court decisions in 1942 and 1952, Gates explains that fighting words refer to the words used in their very utterances to inflict injury or tend to initiate an immediate breach of peace. He additionally describes group defamation as designed to prohibit public expression ...

Question I am responding to: How should hate crimes—such as firebombings—be punished?

A hate crime like firebombing clearly has a long history of a problem history behind it. People would not be committing crimes like that unless they were very, irrationally I would say, angry about something. Like from the reading where it discussed 20 incidents of vandalism against his newspaper and Tisdale recalled the fire bombing incidents more so than the other, this is an act not just of meanness, or racism, not an act of crew words or spray painting, but it is an act of extreme violence that legal bodies must punish with a swiftness and show the punishment publicly in ...

Crimes of hatred and prejudice have been on the increase lately in most cities in the United States of America. They range from verbal outbursts on the targeted people to lynching, shootings and even burning and vandalism. Almost all the time, these bias motivated crimes are committed against individual persons who are targeted because of who they are or what they do (Herek 1989). Those who commit these crimes always feel that their targets are mistakes in the environment in which they live in and therefore get the feeling of wanting to do away with them. At times these ...

Currently, in the United States and other developed nations of the world, obesity has become a rampant disease. In these countries, fat people have been made to believe that having weight is not always the best thing. Several researchers have ensured that fat people hate themselves to the extent of always considering reducing their weight. However, according to Ragen Christian, every person deserves respect and right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable, not contingent on size, health, or dis/ability (Chastain, 2008). There are several assumptions about being fat. These assumptions have always lowered the self-esteem ...

Perception

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (2011), many Arab Americans are Christian and not Muslim contrary to popular belief. However, perception continues to exist that most of the Arabs in the United States are Muslim. This is because Arab-speaking countries are often predominantly Muslim. For example, there is a perception that all native Arab speakers are Muslim. Bell (2012) defines Arab-Americans as immigrants from Arab-speaking countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Arab-speaking countries consist of Arab League members and range from Iraq in the east to Morocco in the west. It is important to note that people ...

Introduction

People normally have norms in the society. Usually, that which is not normal according to societal standards is described as queer. In most cases, this is viewed with a lot of prejudice. It is thus received with a lot of violence, and this is legally referred to as hate crime. Various definitions and descriptions have been used to explain the phrase “hate crime”. Initially, the phrase referred to a violation of criminal nature that is triggered by extreme hate. This definition was developed in order to specify the reason behind the hate. This essay will adopt the definition by the Uniform ...

The anti-defamation league was formed by Israel & International Civil Rights Education & Outreach. This league was formed with the main purpose of stopping the defamation of Jewish people as well as securing justice and fair treatment to all people. This has however developed over time to include other services like scrutinizing and exposing extremists and hate groups which are then dealt with accordingly by the relevant authorities. The league also monitors hate on the internet; provides expertise for domestic and international terrorism as well as fostering interfaith relationships (Adler, 2008). This is very important because it enhances the peace and ...

Introduction

Music has become a vital part in the modern world and in our daily lives. We listen to music for various purposes which include enjoying ourselves, informing ourselves about a particular topic, among other crucial reasons. The music industry has in fact grown tremendously and as a result of this it has in one way or another lead to many opportunities to be created where the talented people have ventured in. In fact, the society has evolved through music. For a very long time music has been accepted as a social change tool but many individuals do not realize that social change itself affects ...

Origin of the statute

Hate crimes are criminal activities motivated partly or entirely by the hostility of the perpetrator who perceives the victim differently (Jacobs & Potter, 2000). These crimes have great impact on the immediate victim and the group to which that victim belongs. Biases against the victim’s ethnicity, sexuality, debility, dialectal, or religion facilitate to commit hate crime. Hate crime statutes aim at stopping bias-motivated outrages. The federal and states have adopted hate crime laws in order to increase penalties for these criminal activities.

In the United States, hate crime statues began early in 1968. After the civil war in America, ...

Hate Crimes in North Carolina

Hate crimes are among the major type of crime committed out of bias and act of discrimination. In the United States, hate crimes prevail because of the differences in ideologies and cultural beliefs. However, the reasons and method of committing hate crimes vary from one state to another. In this paper, North Carolina would be the center of the topic surrounding hate crimes because of the many factors that would point out the state to be one of the places plagued by such crime. The definition and quick overview about hate crimes would be presented together with statistical data ...

The issue of hate has circulated in the social arena for quite a long time as people seek to establish a solution to this issue. It has existed since time immemorial, and was the cause for the slave trade that led to the demeaning of the African people. The same hate has found its way into the modern world where there are various reports of people who have experienced the bitter ends of hate. All over the world, there had been crimes that were propagated by hate; the killing of Jews by Hitler and the anti-Semitism movements, the massacre in Rwanda ...

Introduction

People usually have prejudices against each other. They will even engage in hateful behavior. It is not all times that hateful behavior leads to hate crimes. “People engage in hateful behavior…still, no one really believes a Columbia lecturer is about to be lynched” The statement is not however conclusive or true, due to hate, a Columbian lecturer may be killed. Hateful behavior may lead to crime. Hate crime is different than other crimes and therefore necessitates to be treated differently. There are several reasons why the penalties should be high for these crimes. It is a highly personal crime since an ...

Introduction

In the case of Synder V. Phelps in 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the decision that a Church’s protests and poems against homosexuality were not hate speech. The people’s speech was protected by the First Amendment. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas invaded the funeral proceedings of Synder’s son by displaying signs with messages such as “God hates you” and “You are going to hell”. The church members believe that as soldiers die in wars, God is punishing Americans for accepting homosexuality. The judge decided that although the public may not agree with the church’ ...

Hate Speech

Speech is an essential tool in the daily human activities, in making and achieving varied objectives and goals. The law has made it clear and given everybody the mandate to freedom of speech and communication. As a matter of fact, it has no explicit ruling on the quality and the gravity of the information relayed and passed on to the people, whether subversive of beneficial to the desired target. Hate speech as become an evident trend in the society with a remarkably clear cut pedigree and extraction based on some vital facts and issues. Hate speech can be referred to as a ...

Edgar Allan Poe is known for the horror and thriller in his stories. He has got special skills to make readers keyed up by his writing, presentation and special style of arranging incidents of any story. The author in his highly acclaimed story, Liegia has presented a new style of horror and thrill before the readers. The author is somehow very attached to the Ligeia as he addresses the story as the best among rest of his stories. This paper discusses the author’s work and further talks about one of the main themes of the literary work by the ...

Hate Crimes in the Community

Hate crimes are closely related to prejudice due to the nature of discrimination in both terms. Hate crime is a biased activity that targets people because of their religion, nationality or membership in a specific social group. Hate crimes is a legal issue that needs to be addressed by legal authorities since it involves a large deal of murder and violence. More so, it may involve assault since the victims may not be treated well by the haters. Engaging in this type of crime is considered to be a criminal offence that will lead to severe punishments in the law courts (Miller 2011). In ...

Positive and Negative Views Concerning Lawyers

The public view of lawyers comes from a number of sources. The news, television shows, movies, books, and personal experience influence people’s beliefs both in positive and negative ways. There are many examples both positive and negative that fuel people’s perceptions about the legal profession. On the negative side, the legal profession has earned a bad reputation because people believe lawyers are greedy, because people find the idea that lawyers defend criminals to be reprehensible, and because the language lawyers use is seen as too difficult to understand. On the positive side, groups like the Innocence Project and the ...

Crimes involving illegal immigrants, the mob, hate and youth are on the rise posing challenges to the authorities. This is because they perpetrate a great deal of crimes that involve assaults and murder. Illegal immigrants refer to those people who sneak up into the country illegally, the mob refers to organized criminal gangs, crimes of hate refer to criminal acts perpetrated towards vulnerable groups and youths in crime refers to the aspect of juveniles who participate in criminal acts. Therefore, the following paper is a criminal law paper explains the issues associated with criminal acts involving illegal immigrants, the mob, hate ...

Discussion and Responses

Question: Discuss the similarities and differences between male and female robbers (weapon of choice, approach, targets, etc.). In the crime of robbery, male and female offending show some similarities and dissimilarities. For both sexes the goal and motivation to commit robbery is the same – acquisition of a targeted valuable item or items. It is the strategy or the manner of committing the crime that differentiates male and female robbery. For male robbers, physical confrontation with their victims comes with the territory, which manifests the masculine culture prevalent on the streets. Women robbers, however, use different strategies in committing robbery. ...

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Different theorists have come up with different ways of assessing and demystifying the issue of hate crimes. Many of them have proposed theories that have been used in detailing what happens when a certain choice is made in place of another. For example, in the case Sigmund Freud’s theory, it is noted that individuals are faced with a psychological choice on either to fulfill their inner desire of pleasure without regard on the consequences or to become socially conscious in every decision made including the actions taken. Skinner (1978) on the other have focuses on ...

Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is well known for its protest activities and the extreme position against homosexuality. Some of these activities include American flag desecration and picketing American servicemen’s funerals. Most individuals regard the church as a hate group. Due to this, the church is closely monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Centre and the Anti-Defamation League. Highlighted herein are the reasons why the church should not be allowed to continue with its disruptions and protests, especially disruption of assemblies like military funerals. The church may have its constitutional right to free speech, but I believe it should not ...

Cyber-hate

Cyber-hate is an offence of propagating hate majorly through the internet. It is rampant in the 21st century due availability of devices which enable access to the internet such as smartphones, tablets and computers. Cybercrime has become such a thorny issue that combating it has become the main agenda of many a government. The social websites were also invented in the 21st century. Cyber-hate is so important a topic since it addresses the issues at stake and pertinent to the human race, the shortcomings that come with them and probably considers recommendations for combat of such vices. Cyber-hate can cause trauma ...

Offense against the person is typically defined as a crime that is committed towards another person through the use of physical force, often causing harm. Unlike crimes against property, crimes against person are levied against fellow beings, with the potential for injury and death, in many cases. There are fatal and non-fatal offenses against the person, as well as sexual and non-sexual. These can be categorized as assaults and injuries, and all of them depend on the degree of harm that is levied against the victim (DPS, 2011).

There are many different crimes against persons, and they are almost always ...

Racism against Arab Americans: Key Concerns for law enforcement to overcome racism and promote better relationship with Arab Americans and other Middle Eastern Groups 1.0 Introduction Like Hispanics, Arabs are a linguistic and cultural community that share a common primary language (Arabic) and historical and cultural background of the Arab world, and not a religious or racial group. Never the less, Arabs have been “racialized” and discriminated on the basis of their perceived religion (Islam). A majority of the Arabs is Muslim but the largest Muslim countries, e.g. Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iran and Nigeria, are not found in ...

Introduction

Adolf Hitler is a famous leader who for a very long time been the primary figure in several debates. It is precise to classify him under the category of some of the most controversial leaders. He is depicted as a cruel and inhuman character who became the leader of one of the most illustrious nations in the world. Throughout his career, he used his ideologies and coercion to rise to a position of utmost power. His ideas were based on the creation of a better, superior and productive Germany. This essay will analyse the life of Adolf Hitler and his contribution to the Second ...

Since the horrors of 9/11, and in particular since it was revealed that Al-Qi-Ida were responsible, Arab Americans have been the subject of discrimination in America. The extent to which the discrimination is occurring is uncertain, and opinions on the subject vary. There have been reports of the numbers of hate crimes and discrimination against Arab-Americans, both prior to 9/11 and afterwards. Furthermore, there has been research and media interest into how police departments in different states treat ethnic minorities, including Arab-Americans. While discrimination against Arab-Americans is now less than it was immediately after 9/11, it is still a more ...

The Juvenile Offenders Learning Tolerance, or JOLT, program was set up by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. It is aimed at young people who have been involved in hate crimes. The program consists of a broad training program for staff who work with children and young people in schools, a positive change program for juveniles who are found to have participated in hate crimes, and strict prosecution of teenagers who carry out severe hate crimes or do not finish the program. JOLT classes assist juvenile offenders in accepting “responsibility for their misconduct, recognize biases, and develop a plan to counteract negative ...

Children need to be taught a wide-range of topics in school, which should include world religion. If children were taught world religion in school, then there would be less prejudice against those of different religions. Religion is a controversial subject, especially were children are concerned. In most cases, the topic of religion is either avoided or rather quickly turns from discussion to argument. Rarely are parents completely comfortable with ideas that are not their own being taught to their children. This closed mindedness is unfortunate as more than ever the world is becoming smaller in terms of communication. The more we ...

Hate has been a subject of debate among social psychologists yet it remains a subject that has not been the focus of sufficient research. Individual components of hatred such as discrimination and prejudice have been associated with the buildup of aggression and there have been several studies dedicated to analyzing their effects on the society, hatred itself remains fairly under-researched. Mob behavior has been analyzed and identified as triggering abnormally aggressive behavior in individuals who would otherwise be relatively passive. This can be categorized as situational hatred. There is also the aggression that is triggered by differences in social standing and ...

Internet and Terrorism

1: Describe the various types of exploitation that can occur over the Internet. Social Exclusion

Ideally, social exclusion is among the mildest forms of cyber bullying and to some extent it can cause severe distress. It can be described in simple terms as the online equivalent of leaving an individual from a group that is expected to have automatic membership. However, this may include the whole class not accepting a classmate’s friend request.

- Tagging Without Permission

Ideally, tagging is a form of attaching an individual’s name to an online image or photo so that images of another individual can be identified one’s a person searches for tagging images using her name. In the real sense, tagging an individual’ ...

Introduction

The Laramie Project is bounded upon the presentation of how and why hate crime is committed by individuals supposedly having particular negative disposition with regards controversial issues and culture that binds the society. The movie presents the case of Matthew Shepard being beaten to death because of being ‘gay’. However, beyond this theme, there is more to the story that is shared in the movie. It mostly depicts the overall conjunction that distinguishes how social culture could dictate the ways by which humans would perceive the severity of a particular issue and how these matters would actually affect them as ...

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The God created every one with equal capacity. God gave everything to us to live in this universe. The human beings are the only creature who were not satisfied with the wealth given by God, because some are taking more and some are forced to have less wealth this situation exists each and every were. The each and every part of the world is ruled by some democratic rulers; even some kingdom is ruled by kings. No one can say their rulers are good, there may be someone who always says his or her ruler is not ...

Arguably, the world we live in is getting stranger each an everyday. People have turned religion to be a scapegoat in condemning and justifying evil in the world. On a perspective of a veteran military, WBC (Westborough Baptist church) is one of a kind. The recent stand of Westborough Baptist church on thanking God for dead soldiers in the war front is a devastating and immoral act, especially to the families and the state that lose their loved ones in protecting the entire America. The church certainly, is known for picketing various funerals functions of American soldiers who never survived in Iraq warfront. Additionally, ...

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Georges (2012) carried out a research to establish relationship between varieties of religious experiences and manifest hate. In his article which was published in journal of religion and society data was collected in different states of USA. The data on level of religiosity was collected and grouped into three categories i.e. high religiosity, moderate religiosity and low religiosity. In determining whether one belongs to any of the group the researcher considered person’s belief on existence of supernatural being. Then manifest of hate index in each state was calculated. A regression analysis which was carried out showed: moderate strong ...

“Guilt by Association is not the American way!” stated Senator Durbin invoking that “We should all agree that it is wrong to blame an entire community for the wrongdoing of a few” (Fox News). The senator Dick Durban opened his first-ever hearing of the Civil Rights for American-Muslims address in the history of the United States. Durban is the 47th Senator of United States elected from the State of Illinois on November 5, 1996 and a Democrat from Springfield. He was reelected in 2002 and then in 2008. In the journey of a successful political career, Senator Durbin suddenly risked his career ...

- Can such violence also be attributed to individual violence, based upon the perceived notions of a "lax society?" As against individual violence, violent homophobic crimes are a manifestation of an irrational and visceral feeling towards homosexuality. The extreme vilification and discrimination against people with same-sex sexual orientation is often justified by invoking the notion of lax society, where ‘lax’ implies something that is ‘lacking in strictness’, ‘derelict’ or ‘not easily controlled’. This notion is rooted in the ‘right realism’ school of thought that regards all criminal incidents as social problems warranting prompt and practical solutions. (Right Realism and Crime, ...

Introduction

Anti-Semitism is referred to as hatred or prejudice against Jews. It is a form of racism practiced against the Jewish community as a result of various Jewish heritage backgrounds. Anti-Semitism is dated back in the 19th century through its manifestation by police, violent mob attacks, and military attacks on the Jewish community. There are various historic incidences that have delineated anti-Semitism across the globe. For instance, the Dreyfus affair in France and the Holocaust in Germany represent cases where millions of Jewish followers were concentrated in camps and killed. Anti-Semitism views and ideologies are still in existence in America beside other ...

International Media Policy

Abstract Aspects such as globalization, continuous technological breakthrough, the state of conflict, the visible separation between the West and the East, or Occidentalism and orientalism, which intensify the discussion about otherness and emphasize the racial hate speeches define the nowadays media context. Currently mass media negotiates its role in this environment, defined by the above-mentioned social coordinates. Because globalization entered the social normality, mass media followed the game imposed by this social movement and applied a globalized media discourse, sustained by the available technological innovations that allow for the rapid dissemination of media content throughout the world due to ...

In many instances, authors use powerful ideas that shift their readers in a way that intrigues their every day understanding of life. It is not debatable that Robert Browning and William Shakespeare were legendary writers of their time. It is also not ironic that although there are years separating the two writers, their work contains similar themes. As a common ground for my comparisons, this paper examines the common ideas and how the themes are brought out in William Shakespeare’s “Othelo”, and Robert Browning’s two poems “My Last Duchess” and “The Laboratory”. Using characters Iago in Othelo, The Duke ...

This film by Patrice O’Neill revolves around the theme of peace, conflict and resolution of conflicts. The film presents the story of Flathead Valley in Montana, and it follows a deeply divided population of Montana citizens who are faced with a myriad of conflicts. Flathead Valley’s people have lived in peace for many years. However, this peace is disturbed abruptly when the people find out about the uncovering of a terror plot to kill local leaders. The community is torn, not only by this plot, but by many factors. Many residents have lost their jobs in mining and timber, and ...

My understanding of diversity in the United States has undergone a tremendous amount of transformation in recent weeks and months compared to my own assumptions in the past. As a white person, I have understood a relatively significant amount of privilege in the United States as a result of my ethnicity – I do not experience discrimination on an everyday level like many do in minority communities. To that end, it takes me much more direct investigation and conscious exploration of American life and how it is lived to be cognizant of the systemic inequalities that occur in this nation. As I learn more ...