The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict in the summer of 1894 between the new American Railway Union (ARU) and railroads that occurred in the United States. It shut down much of the nation’s freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit‚ Michigan. The conflict began in the town of Pullman‚ Illinois‚ on May 11 when nearly 4‚000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages. Most factory workers who built Pullman cars lived in the
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In 1967 though 1970 the United States of America was fighting a war in Vietnam. In the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ a large percentage of American people were a free love and peaceful society. Over 6‚000 miles away in Nigeria‚ citizens were not even safe in their own homes because of the fear of being killed. Nigeria was in a crisis; they were in a civil war. The civil war included three different tribes: the Biafra (Igbo) people‚ the Yoruba‚ and the Hausa-Fulani. The conflict was so bad that the
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the ice it was easy to tell from his early playing days in the USHL that Gordie was special. Gordie Howe possessed skills never seen by any hockey player before and rarely seen since. Howe would very quickly evolve‚ later being signed by the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings in 1946. Over the next 33 years Gordie Howe was in the game of pro hockey (NHL or WHA). He set numerous records over the years such as most goals ever scored in NHL history at 801 (since surpassed by Wayne Gretzky) and most NHL games ever
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after‚ a series of “teach-ins” on university campuses‚ created a massive debate over the war and United States involvement. By 1967‚ there was massive opposition to the war‚ from students‚ the general public‚ congressmen‚ including William Fulbright‚ and even former members of the armed forces. This opposition was not the only tension in the nation‚ however. There were riots over the assassination of Martin Luther King‚ Jr. and over the actions taken by the Democratic Party at the Democratic National
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"Araby" Vs. "Going to the Moon" By: Heba Haidar Humans have always been curious beings. Their curiosity has brought about new experiences‚ and new knowledge that helped in the process of their evolution. Human children grow up and learn about the world by utilizing their sense of curiosity to gain new experiences in life. This curiosity that is built into us at birth is what drives us to be drawn to the unkown. "Araby"‚ by James Joyce and "Going to the moon"‚ by Nino Ricci are both short stories
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1950’s throughout the country in the 1960’s and by the early 1970’s had spread worldwide. Although the battlefields were very different‚ the lush forests of the Ia Drong Vvalley stand in stark contrast to the skyscraper littered landscapes of Chicago‚ Detroit or Los Angeles‚ it was war nonetheless. While company commanders like Hal Moore lead his legendary 7th Ccavalry Rregiment into the Ia Drong battle in a fight that would be immortalized in the movie We Were Soldiers Once and Young‚ hundreds of thousands
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Between 1915 and 1920 African Americans saw the greatest changes since the Civil War. In those five years‚ over 700‚000 southern African Americans moved northward‚ lured by the opportunities presented to them in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. As the U.S. geared for the first World War‚ African Americans filled the labor shortages created in the North. The U.S. entered the Civil War in 1917. Thousands of Black soldiers enlisted. They believed President Woodrow Wilson when he said "out of this
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know scaring misfortune of 30 years period for Indonesian Chinese ? Some Chinese say misfortune of 30 years period is coming in 2030. What is 30 years period? How was that kinds of past? Before you understand this periods‚ you should know about 8 main riot and slaughter concerning Chinese and Indonesian. 1 Song Hong River Affair‚ Oct.1740 In the latter of 1730‚ many Chinese Indonesian moved to live at Jakarta. The Dutch East Indonesia Company was scared of peace of order. So‚ in 1740 Company wanted
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The Hippy Subculture “The hippies—the rebels and dropouts of the Haight-Ashbury community of San Francisco—generated one of the most influential of history’s dress reform movements. Their style was so outrageous and anomalous that it alone could have made the hippie movement impossible to ignore” (Lobenthal) They wanted to show rejection of their parents’ lifestyles and morals and used their clothing as a way to rebel (Baughman) and also “wanted clothes that reflected their values and adopted
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Some topics I wanted to explore were Vietnam‚ race riots and hippie culture. I ensured that my questions would be open ended‚ such as beginning my questions with “how did you feel about [event]?” and then “why do you feel that way?” In terms of the interview structure‚ I thought of beginning with more general
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