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    Disability rights movement is something that is important cause many people know someone who is dealing with disabilities or have disabilities. People with disabilities struggled to have a normal life .Many people don’t notice them either or think of them when we think of equality. The disability right movement is important because it is about a series of people who overcame these struggles. Some of the struggles they went through involved their education‚ employment ‚ and accessibility

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    Third Phrase of Gandhi’s Leadership in Indian Freedom Struggle:1930 - 1947 Civil Disobedience Movement: There were so many cause of the civil disobedience movement but the main cause of the civil disobedience movement was the salt tax and Gandhi demanded that the salt tax should be abolished. The government tells the gandhi’s demand was not a legal demand. And then Gandhi started the civil disobedience movement on 12 march 1930 with his famous Dandi march. Gandhi marched almost 375 km with his followers

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    The disability rights movement is the fight for equal rights and opportunities for people with disabilities. In the 1800s‚ it was considered generous that the disabled were segregated from society. Many were regarded as freaks or aberrations‚ and were consequently locked up in asylums and sanitariums. In the early 1900s‚ the Eugenics Movement began to grow‚ which specifically targeted people with disabilities. A multitude of disabled people were forced to undergo sterilization‚ in an attempt to prevent

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    Rights Movement practiced similar methods as the Civil Rights Movement to gain recognition‚ which included sit ins‚ protesting injustice by marching on the streets‚ and bringing many cases to the courtroom. In the early 1800’s‚ a number of people with disabilities were placed in institutions where they dealt with poor living conditions. Since then‚ we began to see some progress including the classification of Mental Disorders‚ Education for the Mentally Disabled and Deaf‚ Institution for the insane

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    ------------------------------------------------- Origin of Non alignment movement[edit source] Nonalignment had its origins in India’s colonial experience and the nonviolent Indian independence struggle led by the Congress‚ which left India determined to be the master of its fate in an international system dominated politically by Cold War alliances and economically by Western capitalism and Soviet communism. The principles of nonalignment‚ as articulated by Nehru and his successors‚ were preservation

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    From 1955-1964 the civil rights movement organised a series of campaigns addressing transport‚ education and the segregation of public places. The civil rights movement rarely called themselves that but simply called themselves ‘the movement’ because it indicated that the goals of the movement were much bigger than civil rights’. Martin Luther King wanted not just the death of legal segregation; he wanted the birth of a ‘beloved community’ in which black and white people were an integral part of

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    com/loi/cjcc20 May 4th and June 4th compared: A sociological study of Chinese social movements Zhidong Hao a a Assistant Professor of Sociology‚ Department of Sociology‚ Anthropology and Social Work‚ Whittier College‚ Whittier‚ CA‚ 90608‚ USA E-mail: Published online: 27 Apr 2007. To cite this article: Zhidong Hao (1997): May 4th and June 4th compared: A sociological study of Chinese social movements‚ Journal of Contemporary China‚ 6:14‚ 79-99 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10

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    Assignment Social Movements and Gender Sociology - General Sociology Individual Assignment: Social Movements and Gender Select three social movements you believe significantly affect public opinion on gender issues. Write a 700- to 1‚400-word paper to explain the effects of these movements on gender. Address the following questions: Describe each social movement. What was the social and political environment when the movement occurred? Describe the effect each movement had on society

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    The African American civil rights movement was a very important part in American history. This is because in the 50’s and 60’s African Americans didn’t’ have the same rights as white people.This is until many historic leaders came such as Martin Luther King Jr‚ Rosa Parks‚ Ruby Nell Bridges‚ Malcolm X‚ and Jackie Robinson; got together to fight civil rights in a peaceful manner. Leaders Martin Luther King Jr. Introduction Martin Luther king was a great leader he fought for the rights of African

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    The Civil Rights movement that was initiated by Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. was a result of needed change within our society. Dr. King believed that these changes could take place without the use of force and carried out by nonviolent actions. Dr. King began a movement that initiated civil disobedience in order to bring about a legal change within the society. Many of the clergymen that associated with Dr. King saw validity in some of his statements in his speeches and the efforts for nonviolence

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