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    During the Civil Rights Movement‚ the United States was not how it is today. Blacks and whites did not get along. The blacks were enslaved up until the end of the Civil War‚ struggling and fighting for freedom. The Civil War did officially abolished slavery‚ but on the other hand it did not end discrimination against the blacks‚ they continued to endure the devastating effects of racism‚ especially in the South. On January 1‚ 1863 Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that

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    Major Inventions of the Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century They have been many major inventions within the late 19th and early 20th century. Throughout history‚ these inventions have made great impacts on society. Three of these inventions that made the greatest impact are the telephone‚ the telegraph‚ and the light bulb. Each of these inventions has made a different impact in some way but they are still some of the greatest inventions. The telephone has left a huge impact on the world

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    World War I had many factors as to why it started. These consisted of colonization‚ militarisation‚ assassination‚ and alliances. Colonization came to be a negative factor due to all the countries in Europe fighting for land and wealth of goods. Militarisation was another one of the factors due to the rapid development of the dreadnoughts by Britain and Germany. Assassination‚ from the death of Archduke Ferdinand. Alliances cause tension between countries. After Ferdinand was assassinated‚ allies

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    wrote “Theory of the Leisure Class”. He condemned and criticized conspicuous consumerism where status is displayed and conveyed through consumption. Jacob Riis- Early 1900’s muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives". He exposed the poor conditions of tenements. Lincoln Steffens-New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure’s titled "The Shame of the Cities". He unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal

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    The Great War lasted from June‚ 1914 - November‚ 1918. Many countries that participated in the Great War were imperialists‚ and there were many reasons why the war started in the first place. One reason was because there were multiple pieces of evidence showing the small nation‚ Serbia‚ gave the assassinator the weapons to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ who was the archduke of Austria-Hungary and the heir to the throne. His assassination triggered the outbreak of World War I. This first political

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    In the second half of the nineteenth century‚ there were many factors that changed the American city. As urbanization and industrialization developed simultaneously‚ cities were provided with supply of labor for factories and improved transportation. There was an obvious shift in population from rural to urban and there was an increase in immigration. Because of the industrialization‚ cities in the late 19th century went through significant changes not only in their size but also in their architectural

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    1. The civil rights movement was a struggle by African-Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to whites‚ including equal opportunity in employment‚ housing‚ and education‚ as well as the right to vote‚ the right of equal access to public facilities‚ and the right to be free of racial discrimination. This movement wanted to restore to African-Americans the rights of citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.Leaders of the movement predicted‚

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    Do you know whyNew School” become so popular in the late 1980s? Hip-hop starts at the 1970s‚ the beginning of hip-hop is starting by DJ Kool Herc. All of the early artists of hip-hop‚ deejays or MCs‚ were named ’Old School’. ’New School’ was a given name to separate the different style of hip-hop depends on when does it born and what was added. New school rap came out and became popular because the new technology of drum machine came out‚ the new generation of musicians‚ and a new type of image

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    like to be the front of a movement? Patrick Nagel created his own trend that was very similar to Lichtenstein’s pop art. Nagel was renowned for his neater‚ more refined take on Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art movement. Nagel’s artwork showed just how evolved art culture has become. Classical art always had the same bland take with few vibrant colors and the same subjects of still lifes‚ people exactly as they look‚ or landscapes. Nagel dared to follow the pop art movement and had no shading whatsoever

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    First wave feminism The first feminist movement begun in the late 1800s‚ but it was not as effective as compared to the second wave. From 1850s to 1920s‚ the feminist mainly focused on women’s right to vote. The Equal Right Amendment was introduced since 1920s but did not pass in the Congress until early 1970s. Most feminist in early twentieth century did not gave up on their thoughts‚ but them did not have a centralized views or issue. The movement was then lost its influence. The remained feminist

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