Taking a leap into self-flagellation for the color skin they were born with‚ white students are wearing white pins to signify their "racial shame". Yes‚ students at Elizabethtown College have decided to wear white pins in the shape of puzzle pieces. The pins "remind them of their white privilege". This campaign was recently launched by the Elizabethtown College Democrats. They claim the goal is to make students "introspective about issues of race‚ especially in their predominantly white region
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In 1986‚ university students in China were dissatisfied with the lack of economic and political growth of China in comparison to other countries. According to Encyclopedia Britannica‚ “In addition‚ although the economic advances in China had brought new prosperity to many citizens‚ it was accompanied by price inflation and opportunities for corruption by government officials.” To express their distaste for the current government students began protesting for individual rights and freedoms. Accessing
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Hailee Scott Mr. Soens March 31‚ 2015 American Revolutionary War- The Boston Massacre Boom‚ Bang‚ Boom!! The Boston massacre was part of the American Revolutionary war‚ is it took place in Boston Massachusetts‚ on March 5th‚ 1770. The colonist mean and women protested agents the British troops. Many men were losing their jobs‚ and blamed the British troops for it. They gathered in front of the old state house and yelled at the British troop’s that were trying to calm down the crowd. The colonists
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The Massacre of Sand Creek is a tragedy that occurred due to the greed of American’s. American’s have been trying to take away the Indian American’s land for years to expand the United States and it isn’t new for American’s to burst in on the Indian’s territory and remove their rights. This isn’t the first time the American’s have taken control of the Indian’s land for the purpose of pursuing something that is on or in their lands‚ such as gold in the Rocky Mountains. This gold found in the mountains
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The Amritsar Massacre took place on April 13th 1919. It was committed by the British‚ who were colonized in India from the 1600’s to 1945. Before the Amritsar massacre‚ there was tension between Indian civilians and the British colonies for decades. This caused protests‚ mostly peaceful‚ throughout India. In March of 1919 the British passed the Rowlatt Act‚ invading the Indians privacy and decreasing their rights. On April 6th leaders of a peaceful protest against the Rowlatt Bill were arrested
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It was a bloody massacre. On June 3rd and 4th‚ 1989‚ Chinese protestors at Tiananmen Square were gunned down by the Chinese Military. Over 100‚000 protestors gathered in Tiananmen Square on May 4th‚ 1989 in order to protest the Communist government‚ the death of Hu Yaobang‚ as well as the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. After being warned of using force to break up the protests‚ Chinese soldiers and tanks entered Tiananmen Square and open fired. This bloody event killed and injured
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Have you ever wanted to know what read about what really happened in the Boston Massacre. It all started in Boston one fateful day. The British came to Boston and the people of Boston were not happy about it. By examining the boston massacre and the causes of it‚ It is clear that this was an important part in the revolutionary war. the Boston Massacre was that many of the colonist were upset by the fact that they had to share a house with a british soldier. This was called the quartering act.
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| * http://web.archive.org/web/20070928160208/http://www.windowsonhaiti.com/wucker1.shtml * | CloseHelp | * The River Massacre: The Real and Imagined Borders of Hispaniola Michele Wucker Sending letters directly between the Dominican Republic and Haiti has only recently become possible. For most of the last sixty years‚ their postal services routed the mail ninety miles north to Miami as if the two countries had decided that they no longer shared the island of Hispaniola. This is
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were treated horribly. The Great Plain Indians endured the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890‚ killing of the Buffalo‚ and many acts such as the Dawes act and Homestead. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29‚ 1980‚ near Wounded Knee Creek on an Indian Reservation. It was a battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians. This battle resulted in the deaths of 300 Sioux men‚ women‚ and children. The massacre
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during the time before the Revolution. He writes the article to show how the causes of the Revolution impacted the lives of ordinary citizens such as Hewes and the transformation he goes through. The article mainly regards the Tea Party‚ Boston Massacre‚ and the tarring and feathering of John Malcom in relations to the change from deference to defiance towards Britain‚ a common citizen into active participant‚ and a brave warlike patriot. The contentions of this interpretive essay were that certain
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