5.07A Wild West Brainstorming: When I hear the word “cowboy” I think of.. 1. a tall slender man 2. boots 3. wrangler jeans 4. rural and southern accents 5. hats 6. fishing 7. respectful 8. flannel 9. guns 10. mudding 11. hunting 12. has manners‚ ex. Yes ma’am‚ Yes sir. 13. whiskey 14. leather 15. cows 16. poker 17. tobacco Outlaw: Black Bart Known as the master outlaw of his time. He had become the master at stealing from stagecoaches. He believed
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East/West Characterising Toilet attendant: “this in nothing yet.” “I don’t know if it’s a threat or a boast. This is what they call Berliner Schnaeize –snont. Its attitude; it in your face.” Anna: “I liked the sweeping rouge of words from ‘heartfelt’ to ‘heartsick’. And I liked the order‚ the directness that I imagined in the people.” On the former GDR “….its bewildered people.” “The demonstrators‚ in shock‚ obediently pulled their cards from their wallets. Then they seized the buildings
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Gandhi secured congress approval of non-cooperation movement in 1920‚ he also formed alliance with the Muslim supporters of the Ottomoan khilafat. It was the first mass political movement. The main objective of this movement is to boycott British goods‚ schools‚ law courts and advocacy of the use of charkha. The movement was supported widely the important figues including CR Das and Motilal Nehro gave up their legal practices. Popularization of ’khadi’ and ’charkha’ by the congress volunteers. This
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Independent India India acquired independence on 15 August 1947 though sections of the country were carved out and stitched together to create another new country‚ Pakistan. The “institutional” road to independence was perhaps laid down by the Government of India Act of 1935‚ where the gradual emergence of India as a self-governing entity had first been partly envisioned. Following India’s independence in 1947‚ the Constituent Assembly deliberated over the precise constitutional future of India. On 26
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How important was Martin Luther King in bringing about civil rights for black people in the USA? (50) Martin Luther King was instrumental and pivotal; in the civil rights for black people‚ and arguably the most important person. King was critical for the civil rights movement; he was massively proactive. This is evident from King’s first significant role‚ the 1955 Bus boycott - King put forward his method of non-violent protest as for correcting the inequalities of the American Society. Already
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“APING THE WEST” Of late the trend has been to follow whatever is done in the west and it is becoming a sort of in-thing to be doing it. Is it due to liberalization of economy that we are also attempting to liberalize our life style. Indians have started aping the west completely and the western influences can be clearly seen in our behavior‚ culture‚ attire and even language. Though to say‚ we are an independent nation but instead of promoting our culture‚ we are aping the west and one would
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Reconstruction and the West Reconstruction and the West The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? The south’s reconstruction failed for many reasons in my opinion. First off many states rejected the 13th Amendment. Furthermore‚ many of the southern states had no intentions of giving Blacks any type of true freedoms. Many states tried to make the African Americans as property-less as possible. They were
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The emergence of Islam in South Asia‚ West Africa‚ and Europe between 1000 and 1750 CE changed the way these regions developed. It affected them culturally‚ economically‚ and politically and many different ways. During this time period‚ Europe changed in their forms of architecture‚ trading‚ and rulers into more Islamic ways. They also saw many new inventions. However they never changed the way they practiced Catholicism. In West Africa‚ they improved trade and made new trading centers but stayed
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How important is ambition to successes? Thomas Jefferson‚ the third president of the United States‚ once said‚”Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” Thomas Jefferson then became one of the most influential leaders of all time and envisioned the United States to be one of the most powerful countries in the world‚ something no one at the time could imagine. It turned out to be true. Why was
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202G-02 November 28‚ 2012 During the late nineteenth century‚ the west had become a widely diverse place‚ populated by New Englanders‚ Mormons‚ African Americans‚ Mexicans‚ and Latinos as well as immigrants from Europe‚ Asia‚ and Canada. With so many different racial‚ religious‚ and ethnic backgrounds‚ it was impossible for the Native Americans to be the only group of people who suffered from discrimination and prejudice in the West. All of the groups of people listed above‚ were discriminated against
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