Vocab #9

1. ultimate: maximum; decisive; conclusive
My ultimate goal is to graduate from college.

2. interactive: acting one upon or with the other.
We interact a lot during class when we have Socratic seminars.

3. principle: an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct
You have to have established principles in life.

4.guidance: advice or counseling, especially that provided for students choosing a course of study
or preparing for a vocation
We seek guidance in our lives when we feel confused.

5. collaboration: the act or process of collaborating.
We collabrate alot in class when we have group assignments.

6. formative: pertaining to formation or development
In our formative years of high school most people thought of it as a joke.

7. summative: something that is added 
The summation of all the numbers on the board was finally resolved.

8.racism: 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.
Racism is something that has been a problem for a long time now.

9.intelligence: capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity;aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
His intelligence is remarkable.

Racial Profiling Lives On

It seems like we will never learn. It seems like this will never change. This has been around for centuries and we still do not seem to get the memo. When are people going to finally realize that physical appearance isn't the only thing that matters. Its honestly very annoying how people discriminate just by someone else's skin color. I have seen this happen so much and it needs to stop. 

Notes 

• historic ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin that the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department violate the Constitution is being applauded as a major victory against unreasonable policing. 
• “This is a very dangerous decision made by a judge who I think does not understand how policing works,”
•  the Supreme Court has given police officers to target African-Americans and Latinos with little or no basis.
• Despite the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of that provision gives the police frighteningly wide discretion to follow, stop, question, frisk and employ excessive force against African-Americans and Latinos who have shown virtually no indication of wrongdoing.
• Officer can follow someone without any hint that they had done anything wrong. 
• If someone were a Latino, the Officer could argue that they “looked Mexican,” and therefore believed that they were undocumented.