Stereotypes In Investigations

Stereotypes are a common tool used to judge others before fully understanding a situation or considering different points of view. Writers often use or create these stereotypes to get their own point across. Mencken, a writer that covered the Scopes trial, is an example of how stereotypes of southerners such as the Tennesseans, were used to compromise the outlook on how the trial was conducted and portrayed. Evidence shows that urban writers, such as Mencken himself, unfairly portrayed Tennesseans throughout the Scopes trial by insulting their intelligence and their overall demeanor.

Have you ever been caught up in a situation that you have no clue how to act towards? People were preasuring you to give them what you valued or even something that was accidently dropped and you wanted to return it to its owner. Even when you lie to cover something up. Well, after reading these two passages both of them had very hard choices for the character to make. In "Cover-Ups" Mrs. Kittredege had to lie and cover up the fact that her husband had done something very wrong but she did not want Jenna or anyone else to find out.

The danger of a single story is that they let the powerful downgrade the weaker because they create stereotypes, they can hurt the people, and no one gets represented from the culture.

I consider you have exposed a great discussion. To understand why people behave a certain way we use something called attributional processes. Frequently, we tend to leap to conclusions that people’s behavior is due to some characteristics of their personality rather than to some aspects of the circumstances in which we are. Stereotypes are dispositional negative attributions, (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2007). Stanger and Crandal (2000) consider that it seems that stigma develops out of an initial, collectively held motivation to avoid danger followed often by an exaggerated perception of features that promotes threat and accompanied by social sharing of these perceptions with others. What is more, they conclude that stigmas for the most part

On a daily bases people make excuses for everything. Everything meaning our actions and the things that we say. Common things that we make excuse for deal with sexist, racist, and heterosexist comments. Sexist is classified as saying that one sex is better than the other. An example of this is someone calling a male or female something that they are not. I do not like this because we are all humans and deserve to be respected and not called something that is degrading. We all know that racist is downgrading one race compared to another. An example of this is, saying that all black people are loud and ghetto. We all act the same but some people do certain things different from others. That’s just there way of living. I do not think that just because one person acts one way the whole race does also. Heterosexist is defined as heterosexuality is better than all other expressions. An example of this would be talking about how a guy dresses and calling him gay. I do not agree with this as well because it is good to stand out and be your own person not matter how others see you.

I enjoyed all 3 of the speakers we had in our class. I really enjoyed all of the funny stories they told us about sometimes having to "play dumb". I found it weird that one of the officers became a resource officer at a school because it seems as though the jobs are completely different. They werent exactly what I was expecting. I was expecting them to be tough, hard, and very serious they were actually really funny and honest. What suprised me most was the story Mrs. Baxter told us about how an officer accidentally shot a girl in the police academy during a demonstration. I was also suprised when one of the officers told us about how she had a past in real estate and became a police officer once the real estate market began to suffer.

As we close out the discussion on immigration and how it is intertwined into the criminal justice system, we can see that our legal system tries their hardest to ensure that they, Latino men and women, cannot prosper in our country. Immigration stems from a discrimination of a particular group of people, so because they feel this way their emotions get in the way of what they perceive Latino men and women to be. In the next section, we will go into detail of the various stereotypes and discriminatory actions that take place inside our legal system as well as our prison system. Stereotyping & Discrimination Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race,

In any cases the police were not the only section of the law that showed discriminatory actions, America’s court of law also tends to show acts of racial profiling, past and present. A study about the American court showed that for the same crime black defendants are given longer sentences than whites(Staples n.pag.). Explaining further the court of law assumes that black men will be more dangerous but also that a race is more likely to revert back to their old ways. A black man with the last name of foster was sentenced to court where the jury was all white. The Supreme Court later discovered that the prosecutors had kept black jurors from being in the jury meaning that Foster was given an unfair trial due to his race by the American court

This study focuses on the how different people response to different targets based on the race of the target based on their stereotypes. This study was brought on by the shooting and killing of an unarmed black man named Amadou Diallo who was thought to be an alleged rapist that the police were looking for. It is thought that the police officers shot Diallo based off of his race and stereotyping. The purpose of this study is to find out whether the police officers would have still treated Diallo the same way if he was White. The results were that stereotypes played a role in how fast an armed and unarmed African American male is shot and how fast an armed an unarmed White male is shot. Overall, African Americans were shot more whether they

Talking with each of the people. “Have you seen any suspicious figures?” Everyone would answer no. It seemed that no one saw a single thing. It was time after that to check around the bodies. One of the officer’s called out “Found something!” The detective quickly walked over, “What did you find?” As he looked down he would see a piece of a tuxedo. With each of the men wearing one that was questioned, it seemed one of them did it. “An odd coincidence.” On the drive back to the precinct the detective thought about all the things in his head. “There was the piece of the tuxedo missing, but both men wore one. Only thirty five men had access, three questions, and one let go. Two murders, no connection…Random…?” The detective had his answer by that time. As he walked into the precinct he had both men put into the interrogation room. “So who did it..?” Neither one of them answered. “Let me see your Tuxedo.” They showed him, with each of them having a piece missing… “So who is holding out..? Who did it?” Both of them looked at each other. “So, it was both of you, hmm?” Their faces went red mostly out of fear. Everyone in the room went silent, while the detective had handcuffs placed onto their hands. He would fully wander if they had actually done it together, or if it was just one of them. “Another day’s work completed.” He thought… “Another day’s

What if I were to tell you that you that for the rest of your life, you would be unfairly judged, and possibly even discriminated against, based on false perceptions and ideas gathered from influences that only resemble you in the vaguest of ways, most likely being, skin color? And what if no matter how an individual person chooses to carry oneself, they will still commonly be regarded as a member of said misconceptions? Enter, stereotype: “A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”(1)

People in our society from all around the world have a wonderful gift of being able to understand each other’s feelings at a personal level. Empathy can be described in many different ways, but is hard to put into words what it all entails. Understanding how a person feels is just the surface of empathy. Empathy varies from person to person, and each person may describe it differently. Without a doubt, empathy is a vital part of society and it is important for people to be educated and truly understand and practice acting in empathetic ways. It takes personal experiences, research studies, and spiritual beliefs for empathy to be properly described.

fter seeing that horrible junk paper in Scientific Reports, and after some correspondence with people who’ve submitted to the journal and reviewed papers for it, there’s a question that I think needs to be asked. Has anyone ever had a paper rejected from this journal? They’re supposed to review for accuracy, not impact, but if that paper under discussion got through, then anything can get through. Let’s set the bar lower, then: has anyone ever even heard of any substantial revisions during its editorial process? The number of people saying that they’ve tried to review papers for SR only to find the paper published basically as it first came in makes a person wonder. At least they do seem to be sending papers out for review, although you’d certainly wonder who “reviewed” that last one.

The Similarity within the picture would be the two people dressed in white. You would group them together because they are human, and clothing they are wearing are the same color tone. The unity within the picture would be the greenery in the background. The trees leave maybe proportion in size, but they seem to be of a circular shape on each of the branches. The two people in the front in the white colors bring your eyes to the waterfall and the posture of the two individuals in a sitting position brings your attention to the lower objects in the picture. The man’s posture dictates he is sitting in a chair, such as a director chair. And you can see that she is sitting on an object that looks like a desk, but it is the wall outside the villa.

As a doctor, some of my duties are caring the patients and educating them. Frequently, they have to change their behaviours to be healthy or to stabilize their condition. Shifting people’s mindsets and lifestyles is complicated in a culture where age defines wisdom. However, sceptical opinions about a young doctor can be diminished by experiences. I learn people’s characters in order to know what make them trust others.