Neighborhood Injustice

In Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto, Shelby argues that the urban poor’s refusal to work in legitimate jobs or engagement in criminal activity is justified as it does not violate the principle of reciprocity or neglect civic obligations. Shelby’s arguments focuses on determining whether or not deviant behavior is reasonable from the perspective of justice and reciprocity in society. This principle of reciprocity is derived from Rawl’s doctrines such as the basic structure of society and justice as fairness. In this paper, I will reconstruct Shelby’s argument that deviant behavior does not necessarily violate an individual’s civic obligations. I will argue that Shelby’s dichotomy of moral and civic obligations is arbitrarily defined

Superheroes; they save and protect the world’s people. They courageously stand up and battle against evil, anarchy, injustice, crime, and sin. When the world has nothing else to defend itself, they are the ones who are present with a duty to safeguard everyone. The superheroes you may know, such as: Superman, Batman, Iron Man, etc. all have extraordinary superhuman powers which they use to shield those in need. However, anyone can be a superhero. Throughout history, many people have become like superheroes not because of extraordinary powers, but extraordinary courage, bravery, humanity, and love. Those people made a choice to risk everything they had in order to save another human being. Is it the right thing for a person to stand up

On 11/28/2017, I, Officer Marisa Rhodeman #165 was working as a Police Officer in FTO Training along with WSU Officer Dillon Dickerson #155, for the Wichita State University Police Department (WSUPD), Wichita, Sedgwick County Kansas.

Thousands of immigrants moving to America during the turn of the nineteenth century have faced extreme diversity on their quests to fulfill their American dreams. Immigrants faced a multitude of hardships and battled prejudices that were rampant throughout America during this time period. However, for the most part, Hilda Polacheck, an immigrant emigrating from Poland made out fairly well in her life. Hilda experienced what it was truly like to be a poor working immigrant, however, she was able to break out of the poverty cycle and was determined to make the world a better place. With this success she was able to step back and look at the social injustices being committed in the United States clearly, without being blinded by the hardships and the tragedies of being a poor immigrant. Throughout Hilda’s Autobiography, as well as throughout history, an immigrant woman in the United States faced extensive discrimination as well as vast and often unjust limitations on their inalienable rights as citizens of the United States.

In reports on the daily news showed that, “ In 1989 there were 3,254 reported rapes in New York City one made us question our whole system of justice.” The many rapes that took place, but out of over 3,000 only 1 made individuals question the justice system. Why is it that when judges wrongfully convicts someone it’s in the nature to apologize when no proper investigation was done. These young men are innocent it took so much years just to prove that these men went away because of a system that failed them. Why should a black man be afraid to walk next to a white female in a park without her thinking he’s not going to harm her. The cases only arise mental issues that will later causes individuals to fear their own lives because they’re not

On the above date and time I responded tp the area of U.S. Highway and Ridge Road, reference a vehicle crash.

An individual was accused of rape in North Carolina, which is an offence that is punishable by death unless the jury suggests they want to give him life imprisonment. The defendant lived with his grandmother. Four officers appeared at his grandmother’s home to search the house; the officers lied about having a search warrant, but the grandmother took the officers word and believed him about the warrant, so she gave the officers consent to search the home.

Some of the group home residents were overheard saying they were allowed to fight in the group home. The residents are allowed to settle their own disputes and staff only intervene when the fighting becomes "too dangerous" but the residents are allowed to slap and push each other. It is unknown if anyone has suffered injuries and how often these incidents occur. Some teachers stated that group home staff Mr. Jones was thought to "aggressive" and that a male student wanted to say something without Mr. Jones being

In Bergen County, there are 78 school districts and three charter schools (“At a Glance”, 2016, p. 9). The education level in Bergen County is relatively higher than in other counties in New Jersey. In 2014, around 28.9 percent of the population ages 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree. Meanwhile, around 25 percent are high school graduates (“Educational Attainment”, n.d., p. 1-2).

A 12 year old boy faces grown up murder charges for the murder of his father’s fiancé who happened to be eight months pregnant. Jordan Brown who was 11 years old at the time, was responsible for the death of Kenzie Houk and the fetus that was still in her womb. On February of 2009, Kenzie Houk was found on her bed with a bullet through her head. Many suspects were investigated but all of the evidence pointed to the young boy as the primary suspect. There were no witnesses to connect him to the murder but when investigators interrogated the victim’s oldest daughter, who was 7, she stated that she heard a “boom” before leaving for school with Jordan. The youngest daughter of the victim, who was 4, was the person who discovered the body on the

n the fourth paragraph of The letter from birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King says, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' The circumstances surrounding the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Micheal Brown, and Eric Garner are some examples of Dr. Martin Luther King's assertion. The case dealing with Trayvon Martin was with a Mexican man named George Zimmerman fatally shooting a 17 year old African American high school student. This took place in Sanford Florida, on the night of February 26,2012. The fatal shooting of Micheal Brown occurred in Ferguson Missouri. The young 18 year old African American high school student was shot on August 9, 2014. Unlike Trayvon Martin, young Micheal Brown was shot by an white Ferguson police officer

The reporter said if she has so much money, why is she on food stamps and drawing a government checks. The reporter said Matthew slaps Kelly around, and if the children are with her, he would slap her around in front of them. Then, the reporter said Kelly mainly has the baby (Colton) with her because she is making Matthew believe this is his baby. The reporter said she’s using the baby to keep Matthew around so she can get drugs. The reporter said one night, Kelly left the baby in the car and he was crying so badly, Dana Johnson went and got the child out of the car because Matthew and Kelly were fighting. The reporter said Kelly didn’t even know that Dana had went and got the child. The reporter said Matthew works on cars, and he lives in Burnsville going north towards Tennessee by the 12 Trucking Company next to Newcomb. He lives in a brick house with his father and sister, and the safety concerns are unknown. In order to reach mom, you can contact Matthew’s phone, and if they don’t answer, leave a voicemail. The reporter last saw the child 1 month ago and have not discussed the allegations with the alleged

There exist a number of key elements in Washington’s presentation utilized to exemplify the theme of abolishing social injustice such as voice, body, personality, actions, and dialogue. In the film, the director organized the events in a chronological order that allows the audience to gain an insight into Malcolm X’s shifts in persona. In order to accomplish Malcom’s change in mindset and character, it is key that Washington can play about four different personalities. In the beginning portion of the film, Malcom’s alter ego “Red” pervades. In order to create the character “Red”, Washington manipulates his voice so that we recognize a character who resembles a gangster who comes from an impoverished community.

People always praise our world is beautiful and peaceful, but they ignore the injustices still exist and some of them without good solutions. Although people believe social injustices are unfair and will bring pain and tear, they are used to treating them as air because they never experience these unequal things. Likewise, the discrimination occurs both in upper class and regular class between Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. For example, there was an obvious discrimination happened in the speech of the Republican nomination for president election. At that time, Donald Trump, who was one of the speakers, believed that force illegal immigrants repatriation can be the best way to make America great again. Because Mr. Trump recognized these immigrants only bring drugs and crimes to the U.S., and they occupied a large number of jobs which made the unemployment rate increasing currently. In addition, he said if he becomes the president, he will declared three principals and two of them can be social injustices. Firstly, America has to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border that stowaway cannot enter America illegally. Secondly, the laws must be fully enforced illegal immigrants to go back to Mexico. In addition, Mr. Tramp is not the only person who gets rise to injustices, but the social injustices and discrimination also happened in various aspects.

Though the concept of social injustice is universal in nature, the experience varies with each person. Factors like a person’ race, or gender can further influence the severity of the injustice; victims caught in the overlap between discriminations often go unrecognized by the law and society. Many people recognize the names Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice as African Americans who were murdered by local police. But names like Michelle Cusseaux, Tanish Anderson, and Meagan Hockaday often receive less feedback even though they are also murdered African Americans. The only distinction between the sets of names is gender. Even within racial injustice, discrimination is present between genders as some cases get national