Hate Crimes Theories in the Gwen Araujo Case
However, this was not who Gwen was. She was a trans woman. Moreover, Gwen was victim of a heinous hate crime and was murdered on October 3, 2002 for simply being who she was. Gwen was seventeen years old when she murdered by four men in Newark, California (Rook, 2016). But let’s review what led to the night of Gwen’s murder. Gwen met her assailants, Michael Magidson, Jose Merél, Jaron Nabors, and Jason Cazares, during the summer of 2002. During…...
Hate CrimePsychologySocial Issues
What Hatred Is and What It Leads To
What causes someone to hate? And does this hate ever go away? From the assigned discussions, chapter five of the textbook, and pages fifty-one to one hundred and twelve from Hate Crimes: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas, it is evident that hate exists because of a person’s upbringing, their life experiences or their personal opinions of a person or group of people. In the case of the KKK Organization, hate is passed down from generation to generation,…...
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Pittsburgh shooting: Social Кelationships
Social relationships send inappropriate signals during a hate crime gunfight. Robert Bowers went into a synagogue where he was armed with several handguns as well as an AR-15. He took all of 20 minutes to take the lives of 11 innocent Jewish worshipers. We as individuals have no right to decide who lives and who dies in this world. Just because someone doesn’t agree with everything, we say doesn’t give anyone the right to decide the only way to live…...
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An Essay on The stress of Cops at Work
In this assignment, we were asked to write an essay about the stress that police officers experience on the job. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that law enforcement is a stressful occupation. If it wasn’t, many more people would be applying for the position. That being said, there has been a growing disconnect and disenchantment in recent years between the public and law enforcement. Protests against police is nothing new, especially in the Northeastern states. This…...
Hate CrimeWork
White Male On Terrorism
In May of 2017, a 35-year-old white man from Oregon named Jeremy Joseph Christian harassed Muslim teenagers on a train in Portland, telling them “We need Americans here!” Two men interfered, but Christian stabbed and killed them both after the intercession. A 64-year-old white male from Nevada opened fire on a crowd of more than 22,000 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas with more than 50 dead and at least 200 injured. These incidents aren’t the only…...
Hate CrimeTerrorism
Social Situation Analysis Paper
The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council currently receives almost 100 reports per day of hate crimes against Asian Americans on their website Stop AAPI Hate. Most of these crimes involve verbal harassment or shunning centering on the victim’s race or their face masks. According to the report, Attacks most often happen in California (43%) and New York (19%), two states with large proportions of Asian Americans. Also, most of the victims are female (Jeung, 2020). Cases of hate crime…...
Hate CrimeSocialism
Victims of Cyberattacks On The Internet
In December 2016 Kurt Eichenwald was the target of an online cyber attack implemented through the use of Twitter. Eichenwald is an American journalist and author who covered much of the presidential election in 2016. On December 11, 2016, Eichenwald was sent a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) displaying strobes with a bright flashing light, intentionally designed to induce an epileptic seizure. Embedded in the GIF was the sentence, “You deserve a seizure for your posts”. The Eichenwald posts that John…...
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