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    Michelle Jordan Professor Cheryl Williams English 202 April 6‚ 2013 “Immigrants” by Pat Mora “Immigrants” by Pat Mora is a poem about immigrants of Spanish descent who migrated to America with their families and their greatest desire is for their children to live the American dream. The poem is located in America‚ it describes how mothers “wrap their children into American flags and feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie”. These families want their children to be Americanize from birth

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    CYPOP5 – Task One Michelle Richards 14/08/12 The parents of Anjum a little girl who is new to your setting moved to England only 3 months ago. Yours is the first setting that they have used for 18 month old Anjum. They have very little understanding of the legislation covering home based childcare or the role of the regulatory body. Consider 4 pieces of legislation that are important

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    The Jim Crow Laws were made to segregate the whites and colored people. Colored people weren’t treated the same whites based on these laws passed in the southern states. Lots of people went to jail or even killed. People couldn’t go to the same bathroom as whites‚ or even use the same entrance as the whites. Some blacks were servants for whites‚ and whites would use other names for colored people that weren’t nice. Whites believe the black were cursed and chosen to be servants for the whites. And

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    The late 1800s were difficult for African Americans in the south. Though they had been emancipated‚ they still experienced quite a bit of scrutiny and thus Jim Crow laws came around not too long after. This particular article is from an African American publication after black and white sugar workers walked off a plantation in protest. Though the sugar workers in Louisiana who began organizing the Knights of Labor group were both black and white‚ only the blacks were targeted in a militia killing

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    Alexander Hamilton was born in the British West Indies then moved to the new colonies later on. Although he was not born in the colonies the the founding fathers never questioned his integrity or brains. He fought for our constitution‚ which is how we are where we are today. Hamilton was a big participant in the new government. He was the treasury secretary. Hamilton was a federalist who wrote more than half of the essays in the federalist papers. Hamilton had many ideas in the new colonies that

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    Jim Crow‚ originating in the late 19th century‚ was the name given to the racial caste system that implemented many anti-black legislations. Following the Great Depression of the 1930’s‚ the poverty that resulted from the economic disaster created more racial tension between whites and blacks. Working class white Americans blamed black Americans for stealing their jobs and homes‚ which influenced local and state governments to reinforce the “separate but equal” decision from the Plessy v. Ferguson

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    Jim Crow started after Federal troops pulled out of the South and white supremacist Democrats “redeemed” their state governments‚ meaning that former Republican state legislatures during the Reconstruction era were voted out by Southern whites and voted in the would be dominate Democrats for decades. The first laws pushed by southern Democrats were intended to suppress blacks first and foremost‚ and also stop at any means their vote. The dominating ideal of white supremacy still engulfed the South

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    COMMON SCHOOL MOVEMENT CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLING What were the key aims of common school reformers? What is your evidence? What are the key aims of schools and how similar or different are the examples from one another? What is your evidence? • Emphasized and encouraged urban school expansion as this system hit on the major aspects of common school reformers. • Responsible for the limited growth of charity schools that isolated the poor from others. • Encouraged the urban school system to move

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    rights. Southerners were able to accomplish this by creating barriers to voter registration‚ lynching‚ and segregation with evidence from the primary sources to back up my statements. I will characterize relations between blacks and whites during the Jim Crow era as a violent and cruel period in American race. Also characterized by legalized segregation‚ lynch group‚ and white power. African American had

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    production system. The production of the landowners decreased because the labors who worked on their crops were the African Americans but were freed. However‚ here is where the Jim Crow laws came in by charging African American for minor crimes and imprisoning them to continue their slave work legally but in jail. What Jim Crows laws of segregation where that the African American were put in a second-class status. Signs of where white and colored were put out throughout town legally letting the color

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