Chavez Ravine Over the course of time‚ Los Angeles has had many successes and failures. Many such success and failures are overlooked and forgotten due to time. Other successes and failures are buried by the government. One such example is Chavez Ravine‚ better known as Dodgers Stadium. Chavez Ravine‚ made up of three main neighborhoodsPalo Verde‚ La Loma and Bishop‚ was home to generations of Mexican Americans. The Federal Housing Act of 1949 gave Mayor Fletcher Bowron‚ the business opportunity
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The 1960s saw unrest‚ antiwar dissents‚ and a social revolution. African American youth challenged taking after triumphs in the courts in regards to social liberties with road dissents driven by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and additionally the NAACP. Dr. King skillfully utilized the media to record examples of ruthlessness against peaceful African American dissidents to pull at the still‚ small voice of people in general. Activism took on effective political change when there were large gatherings
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consequently created a dependency which precipitated reliance on borrowing and taking out liens just to survive. This reliance facilitated exploitation through sharecropping and tenant farming which created endless debt enslavement. Even worse‚ in 1890’s The “Jim Crow Laws” disemboweled the decade of Civil rights efforts made by the Radical Republicans by undermining the 14th and 15th amendments as the Supreme Court stipulated that the 14th and 15th Amendments were only applicable at a federal level
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The concept behind the quote ‘Deeds not words’ certainly marked a point of no return for the British‚ women’s suffrage movement. The Pankhurst’s diverted from the conventional rhetoric of other suffragist organisations such as the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and formed the WSPU in 1903. Convinced that petitions and peaceful protests were ineffective‚ the WSPU engaged in acts of civil disobedience. To quote Emmeline Pankhurst herself: "We are here‚ not because we are law-breakers;
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progressives. The progressives were not a single unified group and even had some contradicting goals. They were middle class urban dwellers and some were women. The progressives wanted to end prostitution‚ Americanize immigrants‚ antitrust legislation created‚ women’s suffrage‚ and the start of prohibition. An example of a group of progressive women who wanted to start prohibition is The Women’s Christian Temperance Union. This group was lead by Francis Willard. The goals of the Women’s Christian
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Discuss Bowlby’s work on attachment. Refer to the work of at least one other researcher in your answer. (12 marks) Attachment theory was developed in the 1950’s by psychoanalyst John Bowlby‚ who defined attachment as a ‘lasting psychological connectedness between human beings’. Whilst working with James Robertson in 1952‚ he observed that children experienced intense distress when separated from their mothers and if fed by other caregivers‚ the child’s anxiety did not diminish. This led to his theories
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Fight‚ fight‚ fight‚ is what women did before and after the civil war for the rights women have now. Women then were to believe that they were best to take care of the home‚ kids‚ and their husbands. They did not have any rights to make decisions that concerned financials‚ politics‚ and many other things that did not concern the household. It was said that if women were allowed to vote it would disrupt social order. But they wanted to show that they would maintain it. Women were beginning to want their
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Rights Movement Throughout the 1900’s‚ African Americans faced many unfair challenges like discrimination and racism. Colored citizens did not have the same political and social freedom as white citizens. Although there is still racism today towards African Americans‚ the Civil Rights Movement won more legal rights for black citizens and they were given the same rights as White Americans This helped create a less racist society. The civil rights movement was a very well-known movement that occurred
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the early 1900’s many women were recruited to work in occupations that were often reserved for men. The working positions that women were exposed to during this time period allowed them to perform tasks‚ than men were often deemed ‘capable’ for. Some examples of occupations that women often worked as included railroad guards‚ firefighters‚ and clerks. The American government was constantly trying to persuade the message that women were needed during this devastating time. In fact‚ women proceeded to
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opinion in the 1960’s‚ where women were house wives and did nothing else but "clean the house for hours or rearrange the flowers". This already is not typical of women today. Women today have jobs and are independent. Women in those days were portrayed as staying at home and being a homemaker. They cleaned the house‚ washed the clothes and dishes‚ did the cooking‚ and took care of the kids when they got home from school or when they stayed home from school for being sick. Women also did most of the
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