The Harlem Renaissance was an iconic movement of the nineteenth century. It was a social and intellectual eruption that was located in Harlem‚ New York. Legends such as Duke Ellington‚ Zora Neale Hurston‚ Aaron Douglas‚ and many more‚ all originated from this extraordinary movement. Claude McKay is one of the most legendary authors that contributed the Harlem Renaissance. McKay wrote many iconic pieces. To name a few‚ he wrote poems titled‚ “If We Must Die”‚ “Harlem Shadows”‚ and “America”. By doing
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John Lennon was revolutionary for music. He was the lead singer of the Beatles. He was also very influential in the hippie revolution. He had huge success in his career. From forming the Beatles to his death in 1980‚ he was one of the most influential musicians in history. He was born on October 8‚ 1940‚ in Liverpool England. His mother bought him his first guitar when he was 15. When he turned sixteen‚ John formed a group called the Quarry Men. They performed rhythmic prison songs of the American
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Clara Barton By: Caleb Eldrenkamp. Did you know that there were roughly 3‚300 union nurses in the Civil war?Clara Barton was one of them.Through out her childhood Clara Barton was a very intelligent and bright child.Clara Barton was born on December 25th‚1821.Clara Barton was the fifth child in her family including David‚Dolly‚Sarah‚and Stephen.Her parents believed in equal rights and taught her about equal rights.In her youth she was a girl who loved being outside.She learned many things at a young
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America’s exports‚ most of it in cotton. The cotton gin gave birth to the American mass-production concept and brought the South prosperity‚ but still contributed to the growth of slavery. While the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds‚ it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor. Because
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In the 1700s‚ racial superiority was rampant. For those born anything other than Caucasian‚ there were essentially no rights. France and its colonies – Saint Domingue in particular – were benefitting off the backbreaking work of the people the white Frenchmen deemed inferior. Rallying for the rights of those of darker skin tone were the Jacobins. Henri Grégoire‚ a founder of the Jacobin club‚ was a vital supporter in the movement for the rights of nonwhites. Examining the foundations of the
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Times in the 1920`s were not always the easiest‚ there were times when people had to walk to places‚ farmers used horses to transport goods‚ which could take hours or even days to get to the destination. All this was the life of people in the 1920`s until a man by the name of Henry Ford made an affordable option an automobile. This helped everyone in the world from farmers to the workers in industries‚ everyone benefited from this and the world became a different place with this invention. Automobiles
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Mary Whiton Calkins was the first woman to serve as the president of the American Psychological Association in 1905. Calkins’s dream was to do psychology and philosophy‚ but due to her time of upbringing‚ Harvard was the only school that accommodated her interests. In 1896‚ Calkins had done everything she could‚ by completing all requirements as such to receive her doctorate‚ but Harvard University denied her ability to receive her PhD in psychology‚ because of the fact that she was a woman (Calkins
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His first move was in 446 a.d. when Theodosius II refused to pay tribute. He began another campaign against the Eastern Roman Empire. After the campaign started an earthquake struck Constantinople and the people tried as hard as they could to rebuild the walls and stop Attila. He had different plans. Instead‚ he surrounded Constantinople and terrorized the cities around it forcing Theodosius II to pay a staggering two thousand one hundred pounds of gold on a yearly basis. Attila turned his focus
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Gibbon maintained that progress was defined by the‚ ‘free circulation of goods and ideas’ and an ‘open‚ plural society’‚ both concepts that did not exist in the Roman Empire. Through its formation during the later Empire‚ the already ‘centralised‚ monopolist‚ parasitic’ Church was placed in a similar atmosphere within the State. As well as this its teachings rejected the very ideas that Gibbon
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negroes are inferior and subject to slavery? The American Anti-Slavery Society searched the Bible to find out that every American who owns a slave is a “man-stealer.” People should never be forced to be “bought and sold like cattle.” Slaves question how ministers can preach a gospel of peace then turn around and whip a negro woman until her back
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