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    implementation of Reconstruction policies was achieved in multiple ways. While not always a success‚ Reconstruction had a definitive impact on the social‚ cultural economic and financial issues in states throughout the South. It is not clear whether or not Reconstruction was more beneficial to the country or harmful‚ but it is true‚ without a doubt‚ that it had an enormous impact on the Southern states. Both Gilles Vandal and Horace Bond in their articles discuss the impact that Reconstruction had on the

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    Reconstruction Plan

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    Lincoln‚ the president of the U.S at the time came up with the plan to re-build the country after the war. He called it Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan was put to use right after the war in 1865 and ended in 1877. Within the Reconstruction Plan‚ Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. And also‚ during reconstruction period‚ we witnessed the emerged of Black Code which created the Fourteen and Fifteen Amendments and followed up

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    Surprisingly‚ i felt this immense satisfactory feeling I got from the end of each day‚ considering the amount of time I spent on travelling during rush hours and internal mental troubles I had to endure from time to time. I realise I wanted to do more to bring happiness to these children each day and give the greatest amount of value I could during this two weeks of “blessing in disguise”. Being a responsible citizen means being there for other people‚ not just looking out for myself or for my friends

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    1. There were four different plans for Reconstruction‚ but all had different approaches on how to recontruct the South. Abraham Lincoln’s plan was very lenient‚ and pardoned all Confederates who swore allegiance to the Union‚ except for high ranking officials. When 10% of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the Union‚ the state would be readmitted into the Union. Andrew Jackson’s plan was similar to Lincoln’s plan‚ except it excluded high-ranking Confederates and wealthy Southern landowners

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    ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES

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    ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES Economics is the social science that studies the behavior of individuals‚ groups‚ and organizations (called economic actors‚ players‚ or agents)‚ when they manage or use scarce resources‚ which have alternative uses‚ to achieve desired ends. SOCIAL ISSUES (also called a social problem or a social situation) is an issue that relates to society’s perception of a person’s personal life. A.EDUCATION is a form of learning in which the knowledge‚ skills‚ and habits of a

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    Baylor University E T&P How Opportunities Develop in Social Entrepreneurship Patricia Doyle Corner Marcus Ho The purpose of this article was to extend existing research on opportunity identification in the social entrepreneurship literature through empirically examining this phenomenon. We used an inductive‚ theory-building design that surfaced patterns in social value creation across multiple case studies. The patterns showed actors seeing a social need and prospecting ideas that could

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    Reconstruction Era

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    United States struggled through many issues during a period called The Reconstruction. With problems that came after the Civil war like segregation and unresolved problems with the seceded states. The Reconstruction era brought about repair from the slavery abolishment. The Civil War also caused great deal of pain throughout the states themselves having brought a big deal of hatred towards the North and the South because of their different opinions on views of people. They refused to‚ “work together

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    Reconstruction Goals

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    The Reconstruction Era was a period of time dedicated to rebuilding the nation after the Civil War. The South’s economy became devastated after the war. Southerners sought out to rebuild their territory and lives. President Lincoln was in charge of deciding under what terms and conditions the former Confederate states would need to follow to rejoin the Union. Radical Republicans saw Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction as too lenient.When President Johnson took office after Lincoln’s assassination‚

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    After the Civil war America went through a period of Reconstruction in order to rebuild and unify the nation. During this time both the North and South were looking for ways to redefine freedom especially for the newly freed slaves. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated so unexpectedly that no one really knew what he had planned or wanted to do in order to reconstruct the country. Looking back reconstruction was unfinished and created many problems for the nation. President Johnson believed that there

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    World War II and Social Equality World War II was a very important event in American history‚ but as bad as war is or seems to be there always seems to have better outcomes in the end. By the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941 and bringing America into the war it opened the eyes of all Americans to the problems not only domestically but internationally and the biggest problem that was discovered after the completion of World War II was the level of social equality around the world

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