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    DEAR FRIENDS.. THIS IS POOJA CHANDAK FROM CLASS IX. TODAY I AM HERE TO EXPRESS MY VIEWS ON THE TOPIC " THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN REALISING THE DREAMS OF DR. KALAM". AS ALL OF YOU KNOW‚ DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM IS AN EMINENT SCIENTIST AND HONOURABLE FORMER PRESIDENT OF INDIA. HE HAS A GREAT LIKING FOR HIS OUNTRY. HE HAS THREE VISIONS FOR INDIA. HIS FIRST VISION IS THAT OF FREEDOM. ACCORDING TO HIM‚ ’ IF WE ARE NOT FREE‚ NO ONE WILL RESPECT US ’. HIS SECOND VISION FOR INDIA IS DEVELOPMENT. HE WANTS TO SEE INDIA

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    unfair. The philosophical term for this is Civil Disobedience. According to Dictionary.com ‚ Civil Disobedience is “the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy‚ characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting‚picketing‚ and nonpayment of taxes.”. Civil Disobedience have been around for centuries and some of the most notable people participated in Civil Disobedience. Today‚ I will be discussing

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    Civil Rights Moments Diary Antonette Brown HIS/145 March 21st‚2012 Amy Champ February 21‚ 1965 Dear Diary‚ This afternoon I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear the great Malcolm X speak. When I got to the ballroom things was different there was protesters or police. Any other time Malcolm X meeting in the heart of Harlem had police everywhere. As usual I was with my boyfriend who followed every step of Malcolm‚ he believed that things needed to change and Malcolm

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    Reverend James Morris Lawson is a remarkable man who is known for his influential contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in both the South and in Tennessee. Lawson is also known to many as an important advocate for the philosophy of nonviolent protests. He was born in a place called Uniontown in Pennsylvania on September 22‚ 1928. His parents are Reverend James Morris Lawson Sr. and Philane May Cover. He was raised in a house with ten other children‚ nine of which were biological while one

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    about civil rights‚ often they think about segregation in the schools‚ and having separate drinking fountains and other issues of the time. Economy is not something that people take into consideration when thinking about the civil rights of African Americans. Economics was a big part of their struggle for equal rights. During the 1960’s the majority of African Americans struggled economically and often couldn’t afford to feed and house their families‚ they lived in the slums. Civil rights movement

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    Sharifian Govt 2305-73431 10 February 2018 Civil Rights versus Civil Liberties Many Americans utilize the terms civil rights and civil liberties in similar ways and believing that both are principles that defend the rights or liberties of the people. However‚ we fail to realize the ideas that differentiate the two phrases. 2 Civil liberties are the basic rights and liberties that are promised by the government because of the Bill of Rights. Civil rights are the rights that are obligated by the government

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    Frederick Douglass And His Fight For Civil Rights There are few people in the U.S.A. that truly acknowledge the black history of their country. Some say they do but they don’t completely understand what blacks went through before the late 1900’s. White people treated blacks as a different species than human. They thought of blacks as less‚ though they didn’t have life value just because of the color of their skin. Many whites thought the only reason blacks were on Earth was to serve them. Whites

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    since the Union defeated the Confederates in the Civil War‚ however‚ one speech given by a president during the time of tragedy still emerges as one of the most influential speeches in American history. President Lincoln’s term spanned from the beginning to nearly the end of the Civil War‚ from 1861 to 1865. The gravity of Lincoln’s presence was undeniable as he lead the North to winning the Civil War. One of the biggest disputes that sparked the Civil War was the topic of slavery. The North wanted

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    During the twentieth century‚ both the Civil Rights and the Women’s Rights movements had a comparable ambition in mind. They both wanted to gain the rights and opportunities that others had. In this research paper my goal is to compare and contrast both movements and how they went about chasing each of their goals‚ and at the same time express some of my viewpoints. The Black Civil Rights was a movement that began right when “Reconstruction” ended in the late 1870’s which granted all Americans

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    Civil Rights (The Truman‚ Eisenhower‚ Kennedy‚ and Johnson Years) Civil Right in the Truman Era • Post-war prosperity‚ Cold War rhetoric led to increasing assertiveness of African-Americans • Truman began to address civil rights issues‚ shortly after the war o 1946 - appoints commission to propose civil rights legislation o 1948 - Proposes civil rights legislations  Called for permanent Federal civil rights commission  Called for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee to end

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