Lyndon Johnson was elected landslide victory and with this he pushed for legislation he believed would improve the American way of life‚ such as stronger voting writes. When it came time to pass the voting rights act‚ in 1965‚ there were 6 AfricanAmerican members of the US House of Representative and no one in the US senate. By 1971 there were 13 AfricanAmericans in the house and one who was apart if the US senate. After this act passed the 15th amendment ratified in 1970 prohibiting the state
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Eduardo Alfaro March 19‚ 13 Block E The Great Depression and the New Deal * For the election of 1932‚ republicans chose Herbert Hoover as candidate. Democrats chose Franklin Delano Roosevelt. * FDR was in a wheelchair. Her wife was to become the most active First Lady in history. Ex. Influenced the policies of the national Gov.‚ battled for impoverished and oppressed. In addition‚ Roosevelt’s oral skills made him the “premier orator of his generation”. * Democratic Roosevelt attacked
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The Middle Ages can be viewed as a time of progress‚ innovation‚ and greatness by the number of things. There are two things I consider to be essensials: 1). The innovation and advances in agricultural and trading system and 2) Magna Carta. During the time of late Antiquity and Middle Ages‚ most of the people in the Europe were farmers and worked on the Master’s lands. They heavily relied on the previous system called "two - field system." However‚ In the Middle Ages‚ this has improved‚ and they
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Family helps mold every person into who they eventually will become. The family is a guide for the success of a child’s future. The stability of family creates a building block for how the child will progress throughout life. When parents divorce‚ the children are left with no stability causing them to lose basic concepts of childhood that may carry with them throughout life. Children of divorced parents have less success and happiness creating less productive citizens in our nation. Watching parents
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The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925‚ opens the reader in a fictional town of West Egg in New York in the summer of 1922. Fitzgerald described the novel in a Jazz Era‚ with lavishing parties. There were two versions of film produced‚ 1974 directed by Jack Clayton and 2013 directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ which follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick‚ and shows the roaring twenties life style. The Great Gatsby indicates the American Dream as
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3 Entrepreneurship similarities and differences The Entrepreneurs that I am comparing and contrasting are Elon Musk‚ Sir Richard Branson‚ and Jim Garlend. The difference in character traits between these men is rather easy to point out. Elon’s main goal was to change the world and had the ability to convince people he was going to do so. Richard was intrigued by adventure‚ and beating the system which led to his first experience behind bars for tax evasion. While Jims motivation was leaning towards
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ago‚ the concept of family was entirely different than what it is modeled as today. The typical family was generally working or middle class‚ and it consisted of a husband who worked to support the family‚ and a wife who stayed home to tend to the house and children. The structure of the traditional family along with the general nature of society‚ have since changed however. No longer does the word “family” have a universal application in society. The supreme portrait of family is ever changing
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similar and differences in physical and mental health in different ethnic groups and cultures. The importance of understanding how ethnic groups and culture view mental and physical health can be crucial in therapeutic settings and can be seen as wrong or unusual to us because the lack of understand of their viewpoints. People come from different ethnic groups and the range of diversity varies and varies over time and between different populations‚ the knowledge of knowing the differences of physical
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The TV series “Modern Family” stays true to its title. From watching season 2 episode 8‚ it is clear that the show addresses many stereotypes. Although there were numerous examples of misrepresentation‚ a lot of the episode focused on racism and masculinity. In one scene‚ an African American family moves across the street from Jay’s house. While they were moving in‚ Jay just happened to be installing security cameras. He was worried about what his new neighbors would think and said to his wife‚
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ARISTOTLE‚ MILL AND MARX‚ CONTRAST SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Of the many Greek moralists and writers‚ Aristotle offers the most psychological and insightful accounts of virtuous character. This is particularly true to observation as most of the character treatments with respect to philosophical insight are focused mainly on Aristotle’s analysis. The reality of life is that humans abide by choices and elements that define how we live which are enshrined in ethics as described through the works
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