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Black Panthers
Number of words: 959 - Number of pages: 4.... the government to be able to support himself and his family, and that no black man should serve in any military branch. The Black Panther Party refused to fight for a government that does not treat them as full citizens of the United States of America. This would reduce the military number of men drastically. The Black Panther Party may have seemed like they were revolting against America, but were only doing what they felt was right. A major difference between the Black Panther Party and other black nationalist groups of the day can be seen in the plan for a communist America: to them, .....
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Colonial Women
Number of words: 916 - Number of pages: 4.... woman could sue her husband for a divorce if her treated her without respect and abused or neglected her. Although women had the legal privilege to divorce a bad husband, she did not have any legal rights under the law. As soon as she married her husband, she lost all legal existence. For a woman to have any place in the legal system it was better to remain single. Single women, or Feme Sole had more legal rights than a married woman. She could own property, retain control of her earnings, and sign contracts. Feme Sole was a better legal status, but it was a socially unacceptable status. Unma .....
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America Expansion Of 1700s
Number of words: 1184 - Number of pages: 5.... minimized the size of Indian Territory by half. Now the Northern half was open for white settlement. As for the western Indians, such as the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapahos, American settlers went around them to settle the California and Oregon. The Americans decided to stay away from further conflict with the native Americans because they knew they were unable to move them away from their land.
Americans continued their western movement and put forth their domination over the Indians. The first step the United States took in claiming this new land for them was by establishing a land system .....
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Quebec's Quiet Revolution: What Is It? How Has It Changed Quebec's
Number of words: 1076 - Number of pages: 4.... hospital insurance, pension schemes and the beginning of
Medi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle with
Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars.
One of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire school
system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the
teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education
but Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted a
government-run school system that would provide Quebec with people in
engineering, science, business and commerce.
With the new fre .....
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Black Women And Their Push For Equality For African Americans
Number of words: 741 - Number of pages: 3.... for African Americans. Some organizations adhered to strictly peaceful protests while others, such as the Panthers pictured above, favored peaceful means of achieving equality unless violence was necessary for defense. The lists of courageous men and women who struggled for equality can be quite long. However, it is obvious that the picture of the Panthers lack the presence of women. This failure to acknowledge women in the Panther picture represents the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. With a few exceptions, African American women generally do not receive the credit they deserve for .....
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A Night To Remember
Number of words: 421 - Number of pages: 2.... lives when they are on any kind of transportation no matter how pointless it seems because we never know what will happen. If the amount of boats needed were on Titanic when it began to sink, many people's lives would have been saved. Society now understands that even though the lifeboats made the decks look worse, glamour is not always the most important thing when people's lives are in danger.
Another thing the Titanic's sinking taught people was that, in the end, whether you are first class or third class, we are all the same. No one person is any better than the next. Titanic ta .....
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Gilded Age
Number of words: 735 - Number of pages: 3.... does not scratch the surface, but tries to dig deep the of politics. Cherny also addresses social and economic changes. He said that progress merely provided a "gleaming surface of the . Just below that golden surface, however, lay twelve-hour workdays in factories, the widespread use of child labor, and large-scale business dealings…" (Cherny 4).
During the , parties changed their traditional ways of voting and elections. Parties were at war to gain political majority in order to have control in government decisions, so they began tactics to insure victories at the polls. Parties discour .....
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Reconstruction
Number of words: 305 - Number of pages: 2.... gave land-owner part of the harvest. Therefore sharecropping replaced slavery, and most freedmen and poor whites went to this act, and remained under control of landowners.
Last but not least, carpetbaggers, from the North, setup public schools in the South. This effected the Southern lifestyle in that all people would have an opportunity to learn. Being educated meant everyone would be smarter for the future. This definitely was a big part of the Act in the South.
All of the events mentioned above were direct results of the act . Without them the Act would have been a total failure. The .....
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Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
Number of words: 1970 - Number of pages: 8.... problems that were plaguing his own society. The statement that most readers today bring out of the play is that history has a way of repeating itself. Miller’s play was an extreme hit upon release and won a Tony award. The play is so popular today that many teachers in secondary schools use it to base their lesson around when teaching their students about 1692 Salem and there are multimedia activities based on Salem through The Crucible’s view. Miller is often asked to speak at events where similar "witch hunts" occur, acting as a sort of expert on the subject of Puritan Salem .....
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Clockwork Orange
Number of words: 1125 - Number of pages: 5.... doesn’t mention when or where this took place. But since it was shot in London during 1960, much of the culture of that time is shown throughout the movie. As I stated earlier the movie starts out by showing four young men dressed all the same, sitting in a milk bar. The milk bar sounds harmless but the "milk" they sold at this bar was laced with drugs that helped them in what they were planning to do: beat, rape and murder.for what they were planning to do: beat, kill and rape. After they leave the
milk bar, their first victim is a drunk homeless man. This is where Kubrick showed .....
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