¡¨ - Gary Laderman - 2003 A ¡§melting pot¡¨ is an accurate description of America¡¦s cultural diversity. Everywhere across the country many people from different countries and cultures have migrated to the United States. Some form subcultures or communities while others are dispersed and isolated. Over time‚ many of the ceremonies and traditions‚ such as funerals‚ associated with a particular culture have been influenced by or mingled with Euro-American customs‚ causing people to loose touch
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Mixture Melting Points Abstraction Determining the melting point is very significant in order to identify an unknown. In this experiment‚ measuring the melting point was done by using melting point apparatus. The melting point of the unknown sample #10 was 111.5˚C. There were two possible compounds which were dibenzoyl ethylene and o-Toluic acid because their melting points were 111.2˚C and 109.8˚C when each compound was mixed with the unknown. Therefore‚ the unknown #10 was dibenzoyl ethylene
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Introduction The melting point is defined as the temperature at which the solid is in equilibrium with its liquid‚ and this characteristic is very unique‚ so a substance can be determined by the melting point. Determination of the melting point is very important technique in many areas of chemistry especially‚ in organic chemistry area because the melting point is really significant in order to identify the purity and the identity of a substance. Measuring the melting point is a fast and cost-effective
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Pol Pot insane with power Pol Pot‚ the leader of the Red Khmer‚ ruled Cambodia from 1975 until 1979 and during that time he killed 1.7 million of his brothers and sisters by starvation‚ overwork and executions (CGP). Pol Pot wanted his idea of an utopia in Cambodia and he forced his ideas on his whole country and people. When I first heard about Pol Pot in high school‚ I could not believe that anybody would do this to their own people and country and wondered why Pol Pot would do this to his people
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African American culture in the United States refers to the cultural contributions of Americans of African descent to the culture of the United States‚ either as part of or distinct from American culture. The distinct identity of African American culture is rooted in the historical experience of the African American people. The culture is both distinct and enormously influential to American culture as a whole. African-American culture is rooted in Africa. It is a blend of chiefly sub-Saharan African
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To firmly grasp the underling influences that shape present-day social culture‚ especially in a country as diverse as America‚ social scientists endeavor to examine the real‚ un-retouched‚ and raw American Narrative from many different angles. What they then realize is that America is the sum of a significant amount of smaller‚ much more intricate‚ parts that can’t be easily taken apart for closer inspection without losing the elaborate levels of complexities that are tied to understanding the experiences
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African American culture African American culture in the United States includes the various cultural traditions of African ethnic groups. It is both part of and distinct from American culture. The U.S. Census Bureau defines African Americans as "people having origins in any of the Black race groups of Africa."[1] African American culture is indigenous to the descendants in the U.S. of survivors of the Middle Passage. It is rooted in Africa and is an amalgam of chiefly sub-Saharan African and
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main reasons for the formation of systematic oppression‚ racism‚ and prejudice towards African Americans in America. It has always been about economic‚ social‚ and political power. The English first kidnapped Africans and brought them to Britain to work as slaves in order to gain economic power. Jim Crow laws used to enforce segregation was used in order for white europeans to keep social power over African Americans in the United States. Similar laws were enacted and black people were denied rights
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citizenship rights were denied to African-Americans. The Jim Crow laws kept the separation of black and white soldiers. Black and white soldiers shared different bathrooms and were trained in different military units. African-American soldiers fought two wars: one over the Axis Powers and one with domestic racial prejudice. There is no sense for America to fight for democracy if America could not have even exemplified it. There was no motive to guide an African-American
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challengers that America faced during the 1920’s‚ for instance the south had millions of slaves that faces a lot of racism and they did not like being slaves. Many of them wanted to move north because there was supposed less racism and there were better job opportunities that would enable them to have better opportunities in life. When all the African Americans arrived in the
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