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    different forms and ruined countless lives. No matter where‚ when‚ or who the oppression is affecting‚ they are all lessons to be learned and are a horrifying reminder that we as a nation have participated in one of these tragic events. The Civil Rights Movement and the Holocaust were tragedies that took place in two different countries and targeted two different races‚ yet they still both took many lives‚ and made many people feel as if they had no voice. Though these horrific events seem very different

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    Shostrom Sandra Castanon English 5-6 16 April 2013 Chicano Art Movement As artists began to actively participate in the efforts to redress the plight of Mexicans in the United States‚ there emerged a new iconography and symbolic language which not only articulated the movement‚ but became the core of a Chicano cultural renaissance. (Venegas) Chicano Art developed in the 1960s during the political eruption of the civil rights movements in the United States. This renaissance in the arts was in fact

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    The Temperance movement was organized and created to solve the growing problem of drinking in the 1800s. This paper will provide a brief overview of how the movement got started and the impact it had on American history. The drinking mainly arose in the period after the American Revolution when people drank due to the economic and social problems that occurred after the war. It then became an important part of nearly every kind of social function. Widespread drinking was just a way of life.

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    Amr Amr 12/10/2013 Egypt Burning: How one Egyptian revolutionary movement overthrew a dictator while one another overthrew a democracy. On the 17th of December‚ 2011 a vegetable vendor lit himself on fire in response to the corrupt and inefficient bureaucratic system in Tunisia. This small event by an unknown vendor led to the biggest and fastest spread of social movements in the history of the Arab world known as the Arab spring. Yet while the

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    History of the Guidance Movement Ronna Shanae Williams Texas Southern University History of the Guidance Movement Career counseling was first introduced in the early 1900 as vocational counseling it was used as a means to end poverty during the time when society was in uproar over a demising economy. “This new profession was described by historians as a “progressive social reform movement aimed at eradicating poverty and substandard living conditions spawned by the rapid industrialization

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    The civil movement was a huge movement that begun in the 18th century to secure African Americans equal rights and opportunities as any other U.S. citizen. It ended segregation of schools‚ public transportation and many other. It gave blacks the right to vote‚ and the right to equal education as whites. At the end of the civil war American slaves were emancipated but was not granted the basic civil rights of the 14th and 15th amendments of the U.S. constitution. Confederate states especially the

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    Abstract: What interests me in this topic is the fact that Rastafarian movement has always been an image of Bob Marley on stage playing his music and I wanted to prove that there was more than that to the movement. Upon some research I was able to find that the Rastafarian movement was first developed in the slums of Kingston Jamaica during the 1920’s to 1930’s and that in the slums of Jamaica which had an environment that was full of poverty‚ depression‚ racism and class discrimination. As a

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    Reformers differed on their goals‚ as well as their methods. This lack of an ability to speak with one voice hindered the progress with which reform took place. There were also major reform movements that met with failure‚ and as well‚ many areas that were ignored. However‚ when the Progressive Reform movement came to an end in

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    Reform Movements and the Expansion of Democratic Ideals The years between 1825 and 1850 marked the reform movement era that spread democratic ideals the country was founded on. Throughout the fights for equal rights‚ freedom of religion‚ and institutional improvements‚ citizens leaned more towards having a democratically governed country. This era was the time when everyone fought for the same rights white men had. Colonial women‚ who were expected to endure their husband’s abuse and alcoholism

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    Social Movements and Trends: Sexual Liberation Dewayne Conner HIS 145/ University of Phoenix Professor Battaglia In the 1960’s‚ America was in a state of continuous change. America was seeing a new trend and one of these changes was sexual revolution. The ultra-conservative ways of the country were on a steady decline‚ and liberalism was at an all-time high.   Citizens were beginning to be outspoken when questioning their government about its activities. Housewives

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