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    health care attention that served many blacks in the inner-city communities. The health clinics depended on volunteer services from local doctors‚ residents‚ medical students‚ nurses‚ interns‚ along with people in the community‚ as well as low-rent and or donated spaces. Not only were the Panthers helping black but they were helping non-blacks as well (Bloom 188). The focus was to address the limited resources of the pressing health care concerns of poor blacks and the lack of adequate medical facilities

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    people who came over from Europe‚ to the new world‚ lived in colonies. Colonies were large areas of land ruled by the nations of Europe. For the most part‚ Britain ruled the thirteen colonies in America. Britain was very far away. It took weeks to sail across the Atlantic Ocean by ship. It was difficult to send people or messages back and forth that made colonists feel independent. They thought they could run their own lives. They had their own leaders and they made their own laws. At first‚ Britain

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    The Troubles in Northern Ireland: Why Did it All Happen? The Troubles refer to the thirty-year time span between the civil rights march in Londonderry on the 5th of October 1968 and the Good Friday Agreement of the 10th of April 1998. These thirty years were the most violent in the history of Ireland causing over 3‚700 dead and many more injured. One even described the period as‚ “…the transition‚ chaotic and rapid‚ from a civil rights movement (1966-68) to a bloody inter-communal strife (1969)

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    that visitors to other countries should follow local customs and behavior .Others disagree and think that host country should welcome cultural differences. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. There is always this controversial issue in societies that whether tourists to other countriesincoming tourists ought to obey local traditions or not. Some people believe that there are advantages of letting visitors to follow their own customs in a foreign country while others do not agree.

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    answer on who was the first set of people to inhabitant that country. It’s hard to say because in the first century India and China began a trade route with Burma further east in Vietnam. There are many things that caused Southeast Asia to become a colony. The main thing was that the Europeans needed spices and the only way they could get it in that time was to colonize Southeast Asia. The Europeans treated them in a mutual way you could say. It was mutual way because they brought good and bad effects

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    blacks demand for liberation became more and more relevant not only by blacks‚ but also supported by constitution and whites‚ which had a heavy influence on the government and the politic makers‚ in fact a compromise was needed at that time of history to make a balance between all as the necessity that rose up. In 19 century there was a meeting point between the economy growth and the demand of liberation‚ put a pressure on the should of the riches and leaders‚ in general leader gave the

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    American Literature influenced and shaped the American Colonies. Studying the six types of genres/categories helps us to recognize the magnitude of history in the New World‚ known as the United States of America Journals and diaries are noteworthy and play a vital role in history because people document their daily experiences that they faced. Several examples of historical figures are Christopher Columbus‚ Captain John Smith‚ and William. Mr. Columbus documented about his adventures‚ so that he

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    kings. 13 colonies made a stand. Long have they been ruled over‚ and wrongfully were they treated. They were beat down‚ and trampled upon. Attempting to break their spirits‚ and to own their souls‚ the mighty empire beat them‚ starved them‚ and taxed them. On July 4th 1776‚ those 13 colonies stood together as one. They became traitors of the king that once rule over them. They risked life‚ limb‚ and what freedom they had. In their quest to create a more perfect union‚ these 13 colonies defeated a

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    destroyed the Black family. A family is a social unit living together and people descended from a common ancestor. The debate focuses on Wilma A. Dunaway who posits that slavery did destroy the Black family‚ and her opponent‚ Eugene D. Genovese‚ who says that slavery did not destroy the Black family. By analyzing Dunway‚ Genovese‚ and a host of other writers I have gather my own ideas for one side to agree with. As above stated‚ it is Dunaway’s contention that slavery destroyed the Black family. She

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    Why Did Plymouth Succeed? The Plymouth Colony was one of England’s first successful colonies in North America. There were two groups of people who founded Plymouth: the Pilgrims‚ also known as Separatists‚ and the Strangers. The Strangers were called the Strangers because the Pilgrims did not know who they were. The Pilgrims were called the Pilgrims because anyone who took a voyage for religious reasons were called pilgrims‚ however Pilgrim spelled with a capital P is reserved for the The Pilgrims

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