Plessy V. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson. The case starts in Louisiana‚ where there is an issue with segregated railroad cars. Plessy wants to be a test case to challenge segregation on the railroads. These railroads are a part of interstate commerce‚ which falls under the national government‚ not state governments. Plessy‚ along with civil rights organizations‚ sees this as an opportunity to put up a strong case against segregation. He deliberately sat in an all-white railroad car to get arrested
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James Farney describes North American conservatism as an ideology focused on reacting to progressivism‚ resisting any changes from the perceived natural and historical. The three major areas of change that concern conservatives are the breakdown of the community‚ the breakdown of laissez-faire capitalism‚ and the breakdown of traditional family and gender roles. Each of these concerns maps onto one of the three branches of modern conservatism: traditionalists are primarily concerned with the community
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bureaucratically-minded middle class and the development of values to help cope with this new focus of society. Through and extremely detailed analysis of countless aspects of life during the period at hand; including the way communities functioned‚ the rise of progressivism‚ and the development of new foreign policy‚ Wiebe goes about attempting to prove his theory. When discussing the change of communities‚ Wiebe stresses that it is important to realize that Americans were lost at the beginning of the 1870s. Between
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People flooded the streets by the thousands. In every direction‚ businesses boomed and industry flourished. The very air of these streets was permeated by possibility. In this new age‚ dreams were just one floor of a skyscraper‚ one mile in a new car‚ one department store aisle out of reach. The Gilded Age filled America‚ a nation still healing from the stinging wounds of Civil War‚ with a new energy and spirit. In this time‚ anything was thought to be possible‚ if only one worked hard enough. But
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In recent years‚ Nevada has experienced unprecedented and rapid demographic changes. The most obvious example of this change is its rapid population growth. Nevada is currently one of the fastest growing states in the country‚ with a population estimation of 2‚700‚551 people in 2010. Migration has been one of the primary drivers of this population growth. Between 2000 and 2010‚ Nevada’s population increased by 35 percent. Roughly 73 percent of that population growth was attributed to migration. Large
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Primary Sources Progressivism and Liberalism Woodrow Wilson on Administration July 1887 introduction This largely dry essay on public administration‚ published by Woodrow Wilson during the time he taught at Bryn Mawr College‚ makes a revolutionary argument for a professional centralized administration in the United States. Introducing a novel distinction between politics and administration‚ Wilson demands a bureaucracy that would govern independently from the elected branches of government
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Discuss how the laws in your local community may be different from those in other communities around the state or country. Nevada laws are different from other states due to more lax laws regarding hot topics such as prostitution‚ homosexuality and drug laws. In Nevada‚ prostitution was made legal. Although brothels have been open and operating in Nevada since 1902‚ prostitution wasn’t officially legal until 1937. Another example of differing laws versus other states is the Domestic Partnership
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Although the Progressive movement is usually seen as a great achievement in the history of American development‚ some feel that the Progressives failed to comply with the standards of equality and justice they had set out to create. The Progressive movement was instigated as a reaction to the political and corporate abuses created by the Industrial Revolution‚. Religious groups‚ members of the press‚ and radical political groups had all been hungering for reform‚ with solutions ranging from subtle
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Institute of Medicine (IOM) report regarding the future of nursing as it pertains to nursing practice‚ nursing education and nursing workforce development. Next‚ a review of Nevada’s state-based action coalitions and how Nevada advances the goals of the IOM report. Lastly‚ two Nevada coalition initiatives will be outlined‚ discussing the advancements and barriers that need to be overcome. Future of Nursing
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