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    Until the 1960s‚ birth control pills were inaccessible and widely prohibited‚ which essentially was leaving contraceptive decisions solely to men. In 1960‚ Margaret Sanger’s oral contraceptive was approved for use by the FDA . While birth control was still denied to a vast body of women in years following‚ this event influenced the beginning of sexual awareness and openness among American people. Now‚ sexual openness is widely debated and opinions surrounding the topic range in levels of tolerance;

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    reflections of this paper discuss the wage gap between black and white workers in the United State labor market. According to a study‚ in the past four decades‚ black workers fall behind in their wages‚ making less than the white workers‚ due to racial discrimination. Although‚ a study‚ researchers from the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute‚ said a disparity which disparity is lack of similarity or equality concerning the wage gap needed the governments’ official’s attention to

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    repeated but not all. That is why this paper will be different than if I was writing about the 1960’s or the 1980’s. The political climate of the 1970’s actually turns out to be quiet interesting. It is interesting to hear about the Vietnam War and about the Watergate scandal that went on. It is also interesting to see just how the public was changing at this time. These are the things that make studying the 1970’s so fascinating. There were many different political and social outcomes that came from

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    Introduction Overall the 1970s were a strange decade. People were shifting from a time in the 1960s‚ where the rights movement and helping one another was prominent; to a time in the 1970s‚ that trust was lost in the government and the “Me Decade” began‚ to where everyone was concerned with looking out for themselves. The 1970s were filled with huge events that are still prominent and talked about in today’s world‚ including: Watergate‚ the Vietnam War‚ and the Energy Crisis. I want to discuss

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    Racial Formation

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    University of Phoenix Material Appendix E Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Racial formation |Sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created‚ inhibited‚ transformed‚ and | | |destroyed | |Segregation

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    Patrika Anderson 9/7/11 African Diaspora/Edwards Critical Issue Report The Issue: Is America becoming more unequal? Significance of the Issue: I ask how America is becoming more unequal‚ if she wasn’t equal to begin with. The great Karl Max said “America has always been unequal to and that it’s based off of the philosophy of “Capitalism”‚ which is an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production‚ distribution‚ and exchange for wealth is made and

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    year 1960 was a year of new ideas and new beginnings. During the Cold War‚ the Civil Rights Movement and the changes in youth culture‚ Americans were looking for a new leader. The election of 1960 was a gateway to change in America. With a close popular vote Electoral College vote‚ the election brought in a new president with new ideas and beliefs. This change helped America during the Cold War and the Space Race‚ making America become one of the most dominate countries in the world. The 1960’s was

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    Segregation In The 1960's

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    Before the civil rights movement of the 1960’s‚ freedom for the citizens of the United States of America was treated as equal but separate through race. Even though both black Americans and white Americans both retained the freedoms that were bestowed to them by the Constitution those freedoms were attained in a segregated manner. Examples of such cases of segregation can be seen in the social freedoms of education and public services‚ where black only and white only schools exist and public places

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    Racial Profiling

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    The amount of racial profiling in this country is an issue‚ which is why we should do are best in attempting to decrease it by requiring police officers to wear body cameras. Racial profiling is the use of an individual’s race or ethnicity as a reason to proceed with enforcement. The cause of racial profiling occurs every day‚ law enforcement all over target innocent people of another ethnicity or race and humiliate‚ scare‚ interrogate‚ search‚ and beat without evidence of criminal activity. Enforcement

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    Political Strategies in America during the Eighteenth Century Introduction The eighteenth century was a period of many changes in both America and Europe. Many wars took place in different battlefields including the entire American continent‚ All Europe and the Atlantic Ocean. Many groups of people awakened and fought for independence in the British Colonies. And European and American philosophers defined the period as of the enlightenment. By the year of 1650 the European population was 103

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