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    Despite the 13th Amendment being passed in January 1865 declaring that slavery was illegal in the United States in reality it had no effect to solve racial issues as white superiority was maintained through legal loopholes. The creation of legally enforced segregated societies through the Jim Crow Laws treated Black Americans as second class citizens. Furthermore‚ the establishment of Black Codes in the Southern States were designed to keep the blacks inferior to whites economically‚ socially‚ politically

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    1950’s Social and Political issues The 1950’s has been portrayed as the decade of prosperity. Throughout the 1950’s there were many Political issues like a cold war‚ a war against Korea. There was also a big step in segregation between The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education. The events that the United States went through during the 1950’s is what made The United States today. The 1950’s just wasn’t peace and comfort‚ there were a lot of problems like the war against Korea. In 1950‚ just five years

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    WW1 was a great lie

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    The Great War Is The Great Lie WWI was spawned in 1914 and lasted until 1918‚ four years. The way people mainly got sucked into doing this crazy war is that the government would print these posters that persuaded people to join the army by it looking nice‚ otherwise known as false advertising if you wish. The main cause of WWI was in 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. The war started the same year and conflict spread across the world very quickly. On the outbreak of war in

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    P3 Factors that influence equality in health and social care This report is looking at how social‚ cultural and political factors that affects the equality of opportunity and how discriminatory may happen in a health care setting. I have chosen the Rushey Green Medical centre to see how this may occur in that type of environment. These factors have great influence on equality of opportunity because they all play a part in how each individual are seeing and treated. They ensure that everyone is seen

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    Outpost of Progress

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    situation that is the reality. When arriving in Africa‚ the two white men have very high hopes. Carlier and Kayerts soon realize that they are entering a whole other world much different from their home of Europe. In Joseph Conrad’s “ An Outpost of Progress”‚ the two men working at the trading station are on an emotional roller coaster. The horror of this situation is too much for Carlier and Kayerts to handle. Throughout the course of the story‚ the men had a lot of trouble keeping hope. When

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    Music In The 1960s

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    The 1960s was a decade of liberation for music‚ public opinion‚ dance invention‚ and The binds of racism(Blanton). In the 1960s the majority of the Vietnam war was fought‚ the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 also the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968. The Vietnam war‚ John F. Kennedy’s‚ and Martin Luther King Jr assassination affected music in the 1960s by causing nation protest such as Woodstock‚ causing social unrest and depression and pushing and enlarging the Black Power

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    and political revolution‚ that changed the entirety of the country’s dynamics. After the close of the Civil War in 1865‚ the Union held a clear stand against the institution of slavery. After President Lincoln was assassinated‚ his vice president‚ Andrew Johnson‚ popularly seemed unfit for the task of reconstruction of the country. Congress‚ Constitutional amendments‚ racism‚ and hateful terror groups would develop the civil rights movement‚ that would be a national transformation. Between 1860-1877

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    Equality‚ diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people TDA 2.4 Task 1 TDA 2.4 – 1.1 These are some of the relevant legislations‚ which forms a basis for government statutory codes of practice and school policies and procedures that are equal opportunity and inclusive practice. Special Educational Needs And Disability Act 2001 - makes it lawful for people who provide education to discriminate against people with a special educational need or disability. Disability Discrimination

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    A Bridge of “Progress” ---------character analysis of Makola As the only native workers and cultivated nigger in the trading station‚ Makola in “An Outpost of Progress” by Joseph Conrad seems to be a bridge between the natives and the white men. Moreover‚ Makola is not only a bridge as an interpreter for natives and the white men‚ but also as a bridge connects civilized and savage culture as a victim of “progress”. For the two white men from light society to the wide Africa‚ Makola as an

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    himself a political compromiser when he repeatedly broke his own belief system. Thomas Jefferson had an egalitarian nature. He was the first president to allow members of the opposite party to be in his cabinet‚ fulfilling the positions of attorney-general‚ secretary of war‚ and postmaster genera. Obviously‚ this shows he allowed Federalist beliefs to impact his views. Jefferson was hypocritical though because although he originally believed all men were equal‚ he owned slaves. He was willing to

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