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    original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made‚ through disobedience‚ and through rebellion”. Although one may disagree with such an opinion‚ keeping in mind that society is taught at a very young age of what is wrong and what is right‚ sometimes obedience and disobedience fall under the same category. Like obedience‚ disobedience can also be seen as a virtue. The human race is taught to follow certain rules‚ obey authority‚ and to live their life the way the government sees fit

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    The Speech How are we going to protect our rights ? Discrimination is huge these days; it is calmer‚ but it was huge back then. In the past‚ African-Americans were only allowed to use specific water fountains and on the bus whites had to sit in the front and blacks in the back . The theme in the interview and the speech is that their needs to be a fight to make a change. In the past‚ white people were very powerful and had privileges that African-American people did not. This made African-American

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    Charles Mingus was one of the most influential and groundbreaking jazz musicians and composers of the 1950s and 1960s. The virtuoso bassist gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s working with such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong‚ Duke Ellington‚ Charlie Parker‚ Art Tatum‚ and many others. His compositions pushed harmonic barriers‚ combining Western-European classical styles with African-American roots music. While examining his career is valuable from musical standpoint‚ his career also provides a powerful

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    Civil Rights and Internet Monitoring What is internet monitoring? It consists of computer programs that are used to detect the internet activity of computers it located to. Many a places have been suppressed by governments not giving the people a right to view what they want on the internet. Some say the internet is a human right. Others say it is a privilege and should be watched over and scrutinized by the government and businesses for people at work. Many respected internet monitoring software

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    Latino Civil Rights in Schools One area in American society in which racial groups were separated was in school. Segregation of races and schools were common through the late 1940’s‚ until a Puerto-Rican Mexican family took action. Through this area the common race that known during this time where you were both classified as white or black and therefore left Hispanics unclassified. Depending where you lived according to McCormick‚ J. and Ayala‚ C. (2007) describes Felicita Mendez a Puerto Rican

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    been directly recommended by the Chief Examiner of HIS2P. Therefore‚ it is important to make detailed notes and to be ready to note the relevant answers down while watching the clip. The video provides a great overview for the early years of the Civil Rights Movement‚ taking you from the Brown verdict of 1954 to the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ starting in 1956. Name 5 ways that blacks were discriminated against in the 1950s: * * * * * * How does the clip portray the

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    It was 8th period and I was working on my Civil Rights project with my group. I was going to my first basketball game. My mom never lets me go anywhere‚ so I was excited to go to my schools basketball game. We were all packing up when my friend Citlaly asked‚ “ Are you going to the basketball game after school?” “Yes‚ I am. Are you going ?”‚ I replied. “Yes‚ but first I’m going to meet Dezerie in the quad.” As soon as I was going to reply the bell rang and I started walking towards my best friend

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    threatened to squeeze all the liberty from democracy’s lungs. On the domestic front‚ Americans fought‚ sacrificed‚ and even died as they rallied to enforce the purest of American values: “we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights‚ among these being life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness.” When Martin Luther King‚ Jr. declared he had a dream‚ Americans showed the world that there was no place for racism or racial prejudice in a nation that was founded on the fundamental

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    Founder of the American candy company “Mars‚ Incorporated”‚ son of Forrest Mars Sr.‚ Forrest Mars Jr was born in Oak park‚ Illinois and is one of the most wealth man in nowadays America. As the eldest child in the family‚ Mars got his MBA in New York University and inherited this huge business of chocolate‚ pet food and other products‚ which enabled him to enter this huge market at a very high starting point. Whether it was acquisition of world’s famous gum company “Wrigley” or opposition of coal

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    Slavery Colonization Civil Rights Movement Equals Marxist Theory Explain in your own words what is meant by the statement that Karl Marx is an economic determinist (p. 68). Consider both Marx’s assumptions about human nature (pp. 65-68) and his assumptions about ontology (that result in the concept of material dialectic) (pp. 68-71). How does his economic determinism shape how he views various social institutions? | | Marx’s thinking developed a concept of thought that human superiority over

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