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    Disability Rights In the 1800s disabled people were considered meager‚ tragic‚ pitiful people unfit and unable to be in society except for entertainment. They assumed that they were simple minded and abnormal tons of people went under sterilization. Most disabled people were admitted to institution and asylums where many spent their whole lives. Separating the disable with the able was considered merciful actions‚ but it just served as a way to keep disabled people hidden‚ invisible‚ and out of site

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    When you think about what has changed between now and the 1800’s there are endless possibilities to mention. Most of the time however these changes have been for the better. When you come across something that hasn’t changed much one can’t help but wonder why. The similarities between institutionalism now and in the 1800’s are eerily similar. “In the 1830’s jail was an all purpose solution for a lot of issues” (Campbell‚ 2014). Intentional or not I still feel like this is still the case. The

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    Child Labor In The 1800s

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    In the 1800’s the production Industry developed on an extensive scale and the mechanization of industry resulted in the abuse of children who were forced to work in terrible conditions in factories‚ mines and mills. The poor treatment of young employees brought attention to the issue of child labor. The sources above are a few examples of the severity of working conditions for children in the 1800’s. Although they all discuss or represent child labor‚ the pictures offer a different view of the issue

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    million slaves were brought to America from the time slavery started to the time it ended. Americans were bringing slaves to their country from Africa since Jamestown‚ and they were bringing in slaves from Africa for about 245 years total. Slavery is something that will always bring back terrible memories into people’s minds because of how horrible of a time it was. First‚ there were many different things Americans forced slaves to do. They used slaves to pick cotton and tobacco for them (History.com

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    SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS PAGES 351-361 MORAL REFORM‚ ASYLUMS & PRISONS  Social evil --- alcohol; prostitution ( common in port cities)  Evangelical reformers approach o Rescue prostitutes o Offered salvation of religion‚ prayer & temporary shelter  Poor rate of success  Offered women domestic work which was low paying/restrictive  Campaigns against prostitution organized by women o Continued throughout the 19th century  Earliest‚ most effective anti-prostitution movement o Female

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    In Chapters 7 and 8 of the book Creating Black Americans: African-American History and its meanings‚ 1619 to the present by Nell Irvin Painter‚ the author shows that even after emancipation‚ African Americans made huge steps in the advancement of their own education and professional lives‚ even when faced with white supremacy groups that were doing everything in their power to push blacks back into being slaves and a subordinate people. This idea is shown when Painter says‚ “But black success threatened

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    The Wheel In The 1800's

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    the years. Shoes have also been improved throughout the year. Many things have been improved throughout the years. Some of the improved ideas that we have today are the cell phone‚ shoes‚ tires‚ also many more. These things all go back to the 1800’s. Cell phones are an approved idea because first there was mail‚ then there were the telegraph‚ afterward that it was the telephones. The telephone had been improved many times. The improvement of the telephone was the cell phone that

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    placed in classes‚ grades‚ or schools. Usually this is normal and easy to accomplish with the space of classrooms that are put in schools. Unlike today‚ in the 1800s public schools only owned one room. Students of all ages attended that same classroom at the same time. Those who were of different in race and gender went the school. In the 1800s learning was extremely significant. It was so significant that people who were students at the school Munroe Sod had to enter and leave through the window. It

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    Bibliographic Essay on African American History Introduction In the essay “On the Evolution of Scholarship in Afro- American History” the eminent historian John Hope Franklin declared “Every generation has the opportunity to write its own history‚ and indeed it is obliged to do so.”1 The social and political revolutions of 1960s have made fulfilling such a responsibility less daunting than ever. Invaluable references‚ including Darlene Clark Hine‚ ed. Black Women in

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    1) Origins of the State of Israel What is the Jewish claim to the land? Ancient Hebrews 3‚000 years ago. Forced out by different invaders‚ lastly the Romans. A tiny Jewish community continued to live there‚ having never left. What is the Palestinian claim? Also descended from Abraham. Lived along the coast – the Philistines. The land had been populated by Arabs since at least the 7th century. When the Arab conquerors arrived‚ there were Christians and a smaller number of Jews living

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