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Mr. Zellmer Second Semester Study Guide (Unit 3)
Mr. Zellmer Second Semester Study Guide
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Religious Studies
10th Grade
05/16/2010

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Consistant Ethic of Life
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a term coined in 1983 by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin to express his ethical, religious, and political ideology. It was based on the premise that all human life (as Bernardin defined it) was sacred and should be protected by law
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
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an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Chicago from 1982 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983
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Seamless Garment
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Consistent Ethic of Life" (or CLE) ideology, which expressed his response to living in an age in which he believed modern technologies threatened the sanctity of human life. Bernardin's CLE philosophy is sometimes called the seamless garment of life
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Inclusion
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the act of including
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Exclusion
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the state of being excluded
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Solidarity
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union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc
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Discrimination
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treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit
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Racial Profiling
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the consideration of race when developing a profile of suspected criminals; by extension, a form of racism involving police focus on people of certain racial groups when seeking suspected criminals
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Racism
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a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others
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Reverse Discrimination
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the unfair treatment of members of majority groups resulting from preferential policies, as in college admissions or employment, intended to remedy earlier discrimination against minorities
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Stereotype
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a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group
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Prejudice
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an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason
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Redlining
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the practice of denying, or increasing the cost of, services such as banking, insurance, access to jobs, access to health care, or even supermarkets to residents in certain, often racially determined, areas
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities
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Affirmative Action
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the encouragement of increased representation of women and minority-group members, esp. in employment
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Black Like Me
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a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia passing as a black man.
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John Howard Griffin
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an American journalist and author much of whose writing was about racial equality. A white man, he is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959. He wrote about the experience in his 1961 book Black Like Me
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