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    Freedom Summer.

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    Freedom Summer was a highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964. During the summer of 1964‚ thousands of civil rights activists‚ many of them white college students from the North‚ descended on Mississippi and other Southern states to try to end the long-time political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the region. Although black men had won the right to vote in 1870‚ thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment‚ for the next 100 years many were

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    Paton‚ author of Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ brings awareness to the racial discrimination that devastates South Africa. In Johannesburg and other cities alike‚ the African population considerably outnumbers the European community‚ but even so‚ it is mainly blacks that suffer from discrimination. The perpetrators of this unjust treatment‚ in most instances‚ originate from the white community; they defend their actions against Africans by claiming to uphold the belief “that because [God] created white

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    hear.’ This sentence sums up the very essence of free speech; it is‚ as Orwell believed‚ the mother of all civil rights. Without the unconditional freedom to offend it cannot exist. Ideas are‚ more often than not‚ dangerous things. There is little point in having freedom of speech if it only defends the most popular and innocuous of opinions. The freedom to offend can perpetrate racial‚ social or religious intolerance; however‚ conversely‚ it is also the only means available to fight against such bigotry

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    Voice of Freedom

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    Voices of freedom | Safe for Democracy: The United States And World War 1 | America and the World 125:Professor Cash | | Evan Kantor | 2/15/2013 | | In reading of this chapter and both documents‚ it really shows how the United States had to fight for its democracy and freedoms. There were two main points during this time that helped shape America. Eugene V. Debs was a man on a mission; he was arrested for delivering an anti-war speech and was convicted in violation in

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    Freedom of Speech

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    " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press" -First Amendment‚ U.S. Constitution. According to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution‚ one of the basic principles our country is based on is the freedom of speech. Because of this‚ as eras and ages have passed in this still young and growing country‚ this amendment has had a greater use then stated‚ as to just insure a

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    The Battle of the Sexes

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    net Project Planners Name Email Phone Program Title Battle of the Sexes Program Description 2 Hosts: TBD by panel 4-8 Audience Liaisons: SBW: Alphas: 2 Door Managers: SBW: Additional Members to serve as Ushers/ Secret Shoppers :) Program Managers: Me‚ Lauren M. You‚ Article Support: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-vanderbilt/the-hookup-generation_b_1304953.html http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/20/sex-love-and-the-hook-up-generation/

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    The American Freedom

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    The American Freedom The Civil Rights Movement was an era devoted to activism for equal rights and treatment of African Americans in the United States. During this period‚ people rallied for social‚ legal‚ political and cultural changes to prohibit discrimination and end segregation. Civil rights are defined as "the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially those guaranteed to U.S. citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress" (Wikipedia). The 13th

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    Freedom Rides

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    How significant were the Freedom Rides and the Tent Embassy and what has been the long term impact on reconciliation in Australia? Rights for Aborigines were very limited compared to those for immigrated Australians until very recently. A number of events in the 20th century helped bring more rights to Aborigines. Two of these events were the Freedom Rides of 1965 and the Tent Embassy‚ first seen in 1972. The Freedom Rides of 1965 took place in New South Wales from the 12th to the 26th of February

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    The Freedom Myth

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    all their variety of forms are‚ constructs that limit freedom while simultaneously providing avenues for productive growth of the population. Some to a greater or lesser degree than others. Though these constructs limit us to exercise our freedom‚ they are the primal factors for organization of matter in all sense. Without restrictions‚ everything would be confusion and chaos. From a societal point of view‚ there’s supposedly the freedom of speech and the like‚ but constantly we are reminded

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    Development as Freedom

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    502 Comparative Political Development Development as Freedom – Sen‚ Amartya p.3-11 “Development as Freedom” by the economist Amartya Sen mainly focuses on the development and the factors that are related with it. In this book‚ Sen explores the relationship between freedom and development‚ as freedom is a basic component of development and it’s a key to other aspects. In the Introduction‚ Sen states that freedom on one hand depends on many determinations: social and economic arrangements

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