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    Dr Radhakrishnan said of Kamaladevi “She has the intelligence to think and the eloquence to transmit great ideas”. She also had the courage to challenge those who were in power as she did when she was a young woman working in the freedom movement. Few took on Sardar Patel as she did and survived in the political arena. She even challenged Gandhi whom she revered. Kamaladevi took Gandhiji’s teaching of pursuit of Truth to heart even if it meant challenging him. Gandhi‚ Nehru‚ Sardar Patel accepted

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    Charlie Solomons History Homework Year 11 Mr Thomas Why Did the Women’s Rights Movement Emerge in the USA During the ’50s and ’60s? During the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ there were campaigns for rights widespread across the USA - namely the Civil Rights movement as led by Martin Luther King. Eventually‚ co-operation between King and the Supreme Court had been reached. Consequently‚ women whom aimed to bring about Women’s Rights felt confident and motivated towards escalating their cause in order to bring

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    the Civil Rights Movement and what did they do? ONE FULL\ PARAGRAPH PER FIGURE. I. Malcolm X preached that blacks should stop letting whites set the terms for judgement on African American appearance‚ communities‚ and accomplishments. He stressed the African cultural heritage and economic self-help and proclaimed himself an extremist for black rights. After he came back from a pilgrimage to Mecca‚ he was willing to consider limited acceptance of whites. Rivals within the movement assassinated him

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    skin were treated as second-hand citizens and discriminated. Marian Anderson overcame the many barriers that had been set against her and achieved her dreams against all odds. She was also one of the first people who helped trigger the civil rights movement. As a young child‚ Marian and her family faced many hardships and had money issues. “When Marian was 12‚ her father died. Marian had to go to work to help support her family. She delivered laundry that her mother took in‚ and scrubbed the white

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    doing good things within society and acting with moral correctness. As a whole this religious revival encouraged democratic ideas and bettered the standard of the common man. The Second Great Awakening inspired several movements including the movement for abolitionism and the movement for temperance in society in the North. Abolitionism was an issue that the North and South were debating years before the Second Great Awakening took place in America. The Second Great Awakening inspired Northerners

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    How has the feminist movement affected performance art? The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminist’s world wide to make art that reflects women’s lives and experiences‚ as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art. It also tried to bring more publicity to women within art history and art practice. Corresponding with general developments within feminism‚ the movement began in the 1960s and developed throughout the

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    Communalism is a belief that all those who have a common religion also have‚ as a result‚ common social‚ political‚ cultural and economic interests and identities. It is a notion that religion forms the base of the society and a basic unit of division and that it is religion which determines all other interests of its adherents. Hence communalism is a phenomenon of superimposition of religious beliefs on all other aspects of a man’s life. Because in pre-independence India‚ communalism mainly manifested

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    radical black movements emerge in the late 1960s? The 1960s was a period of time during the civil rights movement was change was at its peak. Some may argue that the emergence of more radical ways of non violent protest had been the best option for black campaigners to asseverate their aims and issues‚ whereas others may argue that the emergence of historical figures such as Elijah Muahmmed and Malcolm X had bought about conflict‚ dispute and the reputation of the civil rights movement to decline drastically

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    When addressing to the success of the Indian independence movement‚ Mahatma Gandhi is always mentioned. To a large extent the importance of Gandhi to the success in achieving the independence movement is unadoptable. As the major leader of the movement‚ not only should Gandhi’s role in the movement and his ideology should be examined; moreover to determine the importance of him to the success‚ the world wide situation during that period should also be considered as one of the major factors in allowing

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    politically‚ economically‚ and socially. Many movements occurred during this time‚ particularly from 1825 to 1850‚ aimed to better laws‚ institutions‚ and society and to spread democracy overall. Although the religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements in the United States sought to expand democratic ideals‚ the temperance and abolitionist reform movements ended up limiting democracy. The religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements sought to expand democratic ideals‚ and

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