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    American Colonial Society The colonization movement‚ the relocating of African Americans from the mainstream of white American society‚ had its beginnings in the eighteenth century. As early as 1713‚ Quaker abolitionists begun to advocate that freed blacks be returned to African; and later by blacks‚ themselves‚ around 1787 by the likes of Anthony Benezet and Benjamin Rush. Some plans that later emerged‚ included the establishment of a separate colony for blacks west of the Mississippi River‚ others

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    The relationship between what society believes is important and worth protecting and how it is reflected in criminal law can be described in many ways. Society in general views actions such as murder‚ rape‚ robbery or even burglary as an act‚ evil in nature‚ public or of moral principles. These actions are considered to be Malum in se. Laws which are viewed as Malum prohibitum‚ consist of acts banned by laws such as speeding‚ drug use‚ or even prostitution. These acts are seen as regulatory infractions

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    self-preservation‚ searching for power‚ and (potentially at least) at war with others. For Hobbes‚ in the state of nature‚ there was a war of all against all and life is nasty‚ brutish‚ and short. Since individuals are rational‚ they agree to surrender their individual rights to the sovereign in order to create a state whereby they can be protected from other individuals. Locke and Rousseau further developed this idea of a social contract‚ although in a somewhat different form than Hobbes. Contributions of

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    During the Enlightenment‚ many new ideas were created. John Locke‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ and David Hume are thinkers from the Enlightenment. They all supported the creation of government that embraced their Enlightenment ideas. Locke‚ Franklin‚ and Hume are the most important thinkers. In the era of the Enlightenment‚ these thinkers were the ones who had the biggest impact on the world. John Locke focused on government. Locke created the idea of a “social contact”‚ which is important because it’s good

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    morals. Inserting one’s own culture in place of someone’s pre-existing culture is the basis of ethnocentrism. People have repeatedly become victims of deculturalization‚ especially in the United States‚ and by analyzing this ethnocentrism one learns the importance of sustaining different cultures in society. There are many methods of deculturalization‚ such as segregation‚ isolation‚ and forced change of language. When the content of curriculum reflects culture of dominant group‚ it is deculturalization

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    The American and French Revolutions were both fundamentally based on the Enlightenment ideas. The main ideas that they followed were by John Locke. His ideas inspired the Americans and the French to have a revolution. In these revolutions‚ the Americans had success and the French failed. The success that the Americans experienced wad due to the protection of rights they had. These rights are "Life‚ Liberty and Property." In America a constitution was put together that provided for a stable

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    Pursuit of Happiness.” Located in our United States Declaration of Independence‚ these are the words that were written by Thomas Jefferson. He is indeed the author of our declaration to gain independence against Great Britain. But what if these words did not come straight from Jefferson? Looking at the big picture‚ what if our whole constitution and government is based on ideas that were discovered‚ preached‚ and outlawed around that time? The Enlightenment Period (around the seventeenth and eighteenth

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    was on the Island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. While he was there‚ he met what he called the Native Americans “Indians”. As the Europeans started arriving‚ a rapid disease started spreading. This affected claimed lives and survivors. As the next two centuries went by the European Nations explored America and established colonies. The colonies sometimes took land from Native Americans. Spain had a voyage from the Caribbean in Central and South America. France then established thirteen colonies

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    negatively reflected one of the largest forced migration that would significantly affect the society and history for centuries. During the early 1600s‚ European servants would work along the side of African servants. However by the end of the century‚ workers would be separated by skin color and millions of Africans would be taken away from their homeland and experience a nightmare of inhumanity‚ and this was known as the Terrible Transformation. The origins of slavery began when the Spanish were in need

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    about how much society has changed over the years for all these different people? The diversity of Americans have had a enormous amount of change over the years‚ from voting rights to African-American and woman’s position in society African-American’s place in society has changed grandually over the years. Starting on January 1‚ 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamtion which states‚ "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within these said designated states and

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