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    As James Cobb noted those claiming to be “purists” of Southern identities and histories are actually worshipping something that was never pure in the first place. Cobb’s thesis in Away Down South suggested that culture is part of and connected to identity and culture is a process of change that required adaptability to ensure success. The history of the southern identity is not a story of continuity versus change‚ but continuity within it. Often used stereotypes‚ for Cobb‚ strengthen Southerners

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    Reconstruction: The Post War Era Lindsay Pone Professor Goldstein History 105 Strayer University 01/30/2013 Reconstruction: The Post Civil War Era Friday April 12‚ 1861‚ America embarked into war with its biggest adversary; America! The American Civil War broke out‚ and what was believed to be a quick battle by the North‚ turned out to be a long bloody four years and left the country devastated. President Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United

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    To: Board of Directors‚ New World Computing Inc. From: Casey Hampton‚ Consultant (Vidhan Jain) Subject: Consultation report Date: Executive Summary: Working on a new‚ innovative and an easy to use product in the form of Pulse in the growing market of medical technology‚ New World Computing has tapped what is a very promising business idea. With limited competition and superior product design‚ the firm has immense potential to mass market its product and to reap the benefits of the

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    Teamwork is a good idea because you get to work with many people that all have their own opinions which help reinforce creativity in the group and increase productivity such as specialization. It can also be fun. Working in a team can make your job much easier and more efficient as long as you all share the same goals and work together to complete the task or project. Projects often require that people work together to accomplish a common goal; therefore‚ teamwork is an important factor in most

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    A New Way to Get News To be totally honest‚ as I traveled to Davis College on August 24 to watch Ken Rickard speak for the Society of Professional Journalists‚ I was not excited. I am a fan of the good‚ old fashioned newspaper‚ and I before this lecture‚ I had no interest in ever receiving my daily news from the Internet. About fifteen minutes in Mr. Rickard’s speech I became intrigued by how his company‚ Morris Digital Works‚ had taken the failing newspaper "Bluffton Today" and turned it into

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    by a Civil War. The south after the Civil War was in ruins with many of its major cities completely destroyed‚ its agriculture production at a halt‚ and the slave labor that economically drove the south freed. Moreover‚ millions of freedmen were wondering around the south‚ lost‚ without an education‚ money‚ place to live‚ or knowledge of how to care for themselves outside of their plantation. Furthermore‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ the moderate Republican president of the union and leader of the War in the north

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    The Reconstruction Era was the years following the Civil War which lasted from 1865 through 1877. During this period‚ the Confederate states were allowed back into the Union and the South was in the process of being rebuilt after the devastation caused by the conflict. After the Civil War‚ African Americans were facing a new world. They were finally allowed rights they never had before: however‚ could the federal government have done more? However‚ they really couldn’t have. At the time‚ the federal

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    The Reconstruction Era of the United States of America refers to a time of postbellum efforts to restructure the political‚ legal‚ and economic systems in the states that had seceded from the Union during the American Civil War. This period began when the Civil War ended in 1865 and continued for twelve years until its deterioration in 1877. A crucial period in the nation’s history‚ this reconstructive phase marked the first time the laws and Constitution were rewritten to guarantee African-Americans

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    Reconstruction was an attempt to rebuild the South after the Civil War. It was noble in its aspirations; not only was Southern society and its economy to be rebuilt‚ Blacks were to be given rights and freedoms. They were to become Americans at last. However‚ this noble effort was ultimately doomed‚ and would fail. Reconstruction had to address post-war problems‚ and newly-freed blacks would need to be integrated into society‚ however‚ there were radically different ideas about how to approach this;

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    a new front in the battle of ideas..Only one of these two men‚ though‚ has been heeded as knowledgeable in the halls of government power. And that man is Keynes. As time has shown‚ the theory of the role that government should play in the marketplace from Hayek has been long overlooked and only used as a tool from central planners to demean bad economic outcomes from the Keynesian economic policies that have been put in place. Beginning in the Great Depression era‚ policy makers in Washington latched

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