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    Race and Culture

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    The word "race" as I see used in everyday life‚ particularly in the media‚ refers to a way of categorizing people based on similar physical characteristics. It also refers to the culture or identity of a people. By merely knowing one’s race‚ people can affix several meanings to that person’s background. Race seems to be a very crucial part of the formation of ones identity. There is also more of a tendency to describe culture in terms of race. For example‚ there is a "Black culture" or "Latino culture"

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    Poverty In The 1960's

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    In the 1960’s‚ the United States plumed in an economic way! About twenty percent of the United States’ population lived under the poverty line. The 1960’s focused on structural poverty and culture of poverty. Structural poverty represented various failures of the economic system‚ and cultural of poverty focused on the idea of there being deeply entrenched social and financial habits. When many of the people thought about War on Poverty‚ it tied into Lyndon B. Johnson and the sixties. With Johnson’s

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    1960s Music Analysis

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    UK rock 1960s: The Beatles from Merseybeat onwards. The essay will describe the key musical and stylistic features of the Rock genre during the 1960s with the ‘Merseybeat’ genre as the foundation of 60s rock. The essay will set out why the Beatles and the social phenomenon of the “British invasion” are crucial to development of the emergence and reception of Anglo-American Rock music during the 1960s. By the early 1960s‚ new upcoming artists started combing various British and American pop and

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    Space Race

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    The Space Race In the beginning of the 1950’s tensions were high between the Soviets and the U.S. The Cold War had become known worldwide as a nuclear arms race between two super powers. However‚ a new kind of race had begun between the two countries‚ The Space Race. This was a race to control the outer space surrounding Earth‚ which could ultimately act as a nuclear missile path. Controlling outer space with nuclear capabilities could mean massive destruction for the world as we know it. The two

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    Sociology Of Race

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    Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race” contend that race developed as an arranging component in the public arena because of political activities they call “racial projects”. These racial tasks stay progressing‚ making race a precarious social class that continually changing‚ as confirm by the changing way of race relations as the aftereffect of political activities. The political venture of racial equity stays deficient. In this manner‚ the major progress of race including institutional bigotry and

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    Space Race

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    The Space Race I. Thesis: Introduction to the Space Race II. Early year of the Cold War a. Reasons for the Space Race i. German V-2 Rocket ii. German Scientists b. Russian and American tensions i. Early Fights ii. Real reasons for interest in space III. Apollo and Soyuz programs a. What they were and what happen i. Political impacts ii. Scientific impacts

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    The Superior Race

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    The Superior Race People that live in a geographic location that has more resources‚ will gain more advantages over others. Native Americans and Africans‚ for example‚ lived in geographical locations that offer limited resources and no technology leaving them at a disadvantage. Whereas‚ Spaniards and Europeans live in a geographical location where there are a lot of resources and technology‚ putting them at an advantage. Jared Diamond‚ a Professor of Geography at UCLA and author of Guns‚ Germs‚

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    Race In The Hobbit

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    will invent a new race of beings or a writer will use other fictional characters from others in their work. It happens all the time in the movies you watch and the book you read‚ writer do it all the time to add a sense to fantasy to their work‚ a writer in particular who is fond of using fictional characters‚ is J.R.R Tolkien. J.R.R Tolkien wrote the fantasy novels‚ The Hobbit‚ The Lord of the Rings and much more‚ where he not only used fictional races‚ but he always gave each race their own characteristics

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    Music In The 1960's

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    After several decades of various composers in the like of Debussy‚ Schoenberg‚ and Stravinsky fearlessly challenging the establishment through their own thresholds for dissonances‚ the 1960’s saw a new‚ contrasting approach to rebelling against previously defined boundaries. Unlike the majority of movements found in Western Art music‚ this new movement did not immerge from the depths of European circles‚ but instead‚ in the United States. While there are several parallels that can be drawn between

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    property‚ doubled from 14 percent of the adult males to 29 percent. And loss of property meant loss of voting rights” (Zinn 47) suggests this statement‚ and reveals another way the poor were discriminated against: by being revoked of their right to vote. Riots did not come to a halt‚ but the lower-class attempted a different strategy‚ to better their lives rather than rise against the unfairness against them. “In the 1730s‚ a committee of the Boston town meeting spoke out for Bostonians in debt‚ who wanted

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