Reading about the San Francisco State College Strike‚ it became very clear how racist and hypocritical the U.S. educational system was. Students‚ faculty members and community activists had to fight hard for equal access to higher education and a new education curriculum that would include studies of the history and culture of all people including ethnic minorities. As Asian Americans were facing similar systematic discriminations‚ they joined other racial groups to initiate and support the student-led
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Bibliography: Stokstad‚ Marilyn. Art: A Brief History. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall‚ 2007. Gombrich‚ E.H. The Story of Art. New York‚ NY: Phaidon Press Inc.‚ 2005. Weems‚ Erik. "Francisco de Goya: The Third of May." 14 November 2006. "Women Come to the Front." Library of Congress. 14 November 2006. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html "Avant-Gardes." Jahsonic.com. 14 November 2006. http://www.jahsonic.com/AvantGarde.html
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long silence. Yes‚ for me at that time‚ America was truly just Hollywood and Disneyland on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. But soon enough‚ I would find out the real America by myself. Before I knew‚ I was already breathing the air of San Francisco‚ my first stop. The Hip-Hop music coming from the radio was really loud‚ and people were trotting. I could even feel the fast beat of that city in the car. Something was not in that rush though — the pigeons. They were taking a walk leisurely on
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Introduction For nearly two and a half years between 2008 and 2010‚ San Francisco‚ California was host to two parallel worlds. Simultaneous to the quotidian urbanity‚ a burgeoning venue for spatial and ludic interrogation intertwined itself with the city’s urban fabric. The evidence of this second world sprouted gradually: strange flyers on street corners advertising fantastical and unbelievable technologies‚ cryptic graffiti‚ and a pirate radio station that was only within range from the city’s
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According to history books‚ Francis Drake declared that San Francisco Bay was claimed by England‚ he named it “Nova Albion” (New England). He was first attacked by Latin American Natives. Expecting to refuel and repair his ship (The Golden Hind) Drake halted in an inlet along the California drift. Once on shore Drake
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believed that executive autocracy was the only manner of ruling‚ believing that might was unarguably right. This giving root to his fervent desire to raise a well trained Prussian army and is the reason for his success in the Danish‚ Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars as well as collapsing the Bund and uniting Germany. Throughout his political career Bismarck shrewdly operated in a manner that many would describe as deceitful‚ cunning and unscrupulous yet in a time period of less than 7 years he
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When Bismarck was appointed Prussian chancellor in 1862 by King Wilhelm IV‚ The democratic attempt of unifying Germany had failed and there was widespread sentiment among the Germans in favour of unification. There were a number of obstacles in Prussia’s way of unifying Germany. Among them were foreign powers’ interests in Germany‚ In other words‚ In order for Bismarck to unify Germany he had to eliminate all the other powers that posed a threat to German unification. Since the political approach
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In 1871 the new German Empire was established and became one of the most important developments of the nineteenth century. This essay will outline the historical debate of whether Germany was unified by "coal and iron" or "blood and iron". The contributions of Otto von Bismarck will be looked at as well as economic‚ nationalist and military factors in the unification of German. Various sources will be used to show historians views on the subject and that of people who were present at the time.
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wagons to the Northwest and hopes and dreams skyward. The cry was GOLD and the California Gold Rush was on. The Gold Rush had a profound impact on the settling of California. Hundreds of thousands came to find gold‚ and many of them stayed. San Francisco became the great emporium of the Pacific. The Gold Rush also had a tremendous impact on the culture. It spawned such words as pay dirt‚ prospector‚ lucky strike and bonanza that became popular during that time. Hollywood capitalized on it
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In 1862‚ Bismarck said that ‘the great questions of the day will be settled by blood and iron.’ Although there is undoubtedly some degree of accuracy in this statement‚ the most important reason for the unification of Germany‚ which ended ‘the great questions of the day‚’ was ‘coal and iron.’ This is a quote from British economist John Maynard Keynes‚ who argued that the industrial and economic preparation before the wars‚ which united Germany‚ were more important. This is because the economic strength
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