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    Literary Movements

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    American Literary Movements American literature has progressed through many great phases throughout history. One such literary movement was romanticism. Romanticism was a movement characterized by a fascination of the supernatural and strong emotion. Regionalism is another interesting period of American history. In regionalism‚ the author tends to focus on a specific area‚ and tries to convey the “local color”‚ or traits of the specific area. A third example of literature movements in America was

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    Social Movement

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    PAD201AE | Social Movement | KONY2012 | | Mariam Chobanyan | 2/3/2013 | | In March 2012‚ the founders of Invisible Children released a video in hopes of bringing awareness to the world’s number one criminal‚ Joseph Kony. The “Stop Kony” movement aimed to make Kony globally known in order to get him arrested. Joseph Kony is a military leader in Uganda. He is indicted war criminal and the international criminal court fugitive. Joseph Kony is responsible for kidnapping children and

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    Benghazi Movement

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    The Movement and Maneuver used in the Battle of Benghazi. On 11September‚ 2011 four great Americans lost their lives in Benghazi‚ Libya including the first Ambassador since 1979. This paper will analyze the movement and maneuver techniques used by the Global Response Staff (GRS) who were the first line of defense for the Ambassador and his team. We will also look at the actions taken by outside forces‚ including both Libyan and US military‚ and see where those actions‚ or lack of‚ could have led

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    The Hippie Movement

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    The three most important events in California history is woman suffrage‚ the hippie movement‚ and black radicalism. For many decades‚ women were treated unfairly and discriminated against‚ but it wasn’t till the suffrage movement began in California which women were finally standing up for themselves. In the 1870s‚ the state legislature granted women the right to serve as an elect member of the school board and as superintendents. (Rawls and Walton‚ "California History" 2012) Laura de Force Gordon

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    Hippie Movement

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    ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- THE CONTROVERSY OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

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    The Dreamers Movement

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    DREAMers The DREAMers movement has used unique strategies and tactics to change public policy while concurrently lobbing to gain political representation for those youth who arrived to the United States as children. Several tactics used to further these strategies are storytelling‚ marches‚ hunger strikes‚ and online activism. This movement holds conferences on immigration‚ education‚ politics‚ leadership and civil rights as their form of lobbying in order to educate others on the movement and to express

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    Progressivism Movement

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    Progressivism implies a philosophy that welcomes innovations and reforms in the political‚ economic‚ and social order. The Progressive movement‚ 1901 to 1917‚ was ultimately the triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism. In a general sense‚ the conservative goals of this period justified the Liberal reforms enacted by Progressive leaders. Deviating from the "traditional" definition of conservatism (a resistance to change and a disposition of hostility to innovations in the political

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    The Archigram Movement

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    Very little has been written about the visionary‚ predominantly British architectural movement‚ Archigram‚ since it first came to prominence in 1960. Of the scant texts available (of which many are in Japanese‚ as opposed to English)‚ the authors generally attempt to describe this radical form of architecture only in terms of its designers/innovators - Ron Herron‚ Michael Webb‚ Warren Chalk and Dennis Crompton - and the ways in which it differs from the pre-existing traditions. The fascination of

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    Abolition Movement

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    The Abolition Movement One of the most important events that took place in the world was the Abolition Movement that started in the early 1800s. This event is the first to start with getting rid of slavery. This was the era where slavery was very powerful. At this point there were many different opinions about slavery but some thought they should abolish slavery. The Abolition Movement started until William Lloyd Garrison started his crusades. “In December 1833‚ the three most active

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    Revolutionary Movement

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    REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT The reasons for the American Revolutionary Movement are diverse and numerous; however‚ one reason stands above them all: economics. Ever since the first settlers began to colonize the United States‚ economics have been present as the foundation for the country. Our society today is derived from money matters just as it was in the time before and during the Revolution. The British fighting the French and Indian War was a base for strong financial changes that led to the Revolution

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