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    Time Magazine’s tradition of choosing a Person of the Year began in 1927‚ who influenced the world the most that year. One of their most controversial selections was Adolf Hitler in 1938. However‚ Hitler was the most appropriate choice for that year because he met the requirements of this award‚ by affecting the news more than anyone else‚ impacting the world‚ and having his effects still felt today. Firstly‚ Hitler affected the news the most in that year. He contributed to one of the greatest news

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    In the hot summer days of 1858‚ London was collapsing. The government could barely function‚ and everything was out of control. What worsens the situation was the overwhelming foul smell surrounding the town‚ coming from River Thames. Everyone would dump human‚ animal‚ and industrial waste in the river. The flush toilet had been invented‚ but the sewerage system hadn’t which meant all the waste got flushed straight into the river. The result was a strong‚ rotten smell‚ a fatal disease like cholera

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    day. The Great Depression took over America in the 1930s after the stock market crash of October 29‚ 1929. Americans relied too much on credit and put everything they had into the stock markets‚ debatably the worst mistake americans ever made. The Great Depression led to many difficulties in the 1930s for the American people and government; they dealt with these problems accordingly. The Depression led to many hardships for Americans in the 1930s. While the rich were getting richer‚ the poor were

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    In the 1930s‚ a plethora of lynchings were happening throughout the United States.  Many black men and women were being falsely accused of crimes that they did not commit  and were put in jail. Some whites believed that they deserved worse than what they were  already being put through‚ so they invaded the jails and kidnapped many blacks and lynched  them in front of large crowds of people. Abel Meeropol wrote the poem‚ Strange Fruit‚ as a  protest to these lynchings. The poem describes the injustice of blacks and whites faced during 

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    After the war and during the early 1930s there were four leading causes of death: heart disease‚ cancer‚ pneumonia‚ and infectious and parasitic diseases including influenza and syphilis. One every twenty Americans were too sick for work or school usually taking approximately ten days for a full recovery‚ however‚ people began taking vitamins‚ insulin‚ and other nutrients which helped create a longer lifespan for the average American. Even with these factors to consider‚ the biggest issue was a

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    Australian assimilation policies of the 1930s. The following statement‚ "The assimilation policies of the 1930s had a devastating effect on the Indigenous community‚ which is still being felt today. While promoted as protection for the Aboriginal children‚ the policy actually aimed at wiping out the Aboriginal race"‚ is incorrect and unsupported. It was not the actual assimilation policies that caused the devastating effects on the Aboriginal communities but the influence of the White Settlers

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    differences and structure inequalities. Race divides people through categories which led to cultural and social tensions. It also determined inclusion‚ exclusion‚ and segregation in U.S society. Both inclusion and exclusion tie together to create the overall process of segregation — one notion cannot occur without resulting in the others. Segregation is a form of separation in terms of race that includes the processes of inclusion and exclusion. Race was the main factor that caused conflicts among people in

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    The 1930s was filled with many interesting and knowledgeable events that marks our history that we see we see it today. Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs became the biggest grossing film in the 1930s. Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Fair Labor Standards Act that raises the minimum wage from 25 cents to 40 cents an hour and limits the work week to 44 hours. A New York Scientist predicts that the United States will reach the moon by 2050. At the end of the decade the United States entered the Second

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    Reconfiguring the Turkish Nation in the 1930s* SONER ÇAGAPTAY** This article studies Turkish nationalism during the 1930s. In this decade of Kemalism par excellence or High Kemalism‚ the rise of ethnicist nationalism in Turkey was accompanied by the ascent of the “Turkish History Thesis.” The article presents an analysis of Turkish nationalism in this era through Ankara’s population resettlement policies. Consequently‚ it examines Turkish nationalism in the 1930s through the interaction between the

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    of blacks in the South because of legalized segregation‚ voting restrictions‚ and the Separate Car Act and the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision helped further segregation with supporting separate-but-equal laws‚ stated that the Separate Car Act was constitutional‚ and it made segregation legal. The Jim Crow affected the daily lives of blacks in the South because of legalized segregation

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