2. Which of the following countries is least urbanized? # of people less or more - % ‚ fewer or ... #s a) the United States b) Australia c) Japan d) China. 17. The relative location of a city refers to its a) site. b) situation. c) genealogy of development. d) approximate latitude and longitude. -factory help cities to develop‚ Maquiladors (closer to the market‚ relative = situation) -site features (labor‚ capital‚ ) land? getting factories which help city devt 18.
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Running head: IRISH IMMIGRATION IN 1850’S 1 Irish Immigration in 1850’s Dorothy Mathews Eth/125 March 7‚ 2010
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As soon as we hit 100 mph the cop sires ambushed us‚ as if they were calculating their bust. “I don’t really feel like racing tonight” kept replaying as the cop’s sirens became less noticeable. Then‚ scenarios played with my mind. “What if I make a run for it? And hide in an alley‚ or something. I’m probably going to be arrested‚ pay bail‚ lose my license‚ take defensive driving‚ be on my record‚ and get grounded”. Although‚ what I was most worried about was being grounded because my parents rarely
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While the clause required states and other public facilities to treat both racially separate buildings to be operated and services be kept equal‚ the reality showed otherwise‚ and many African-American facilities became rundown‚ were underfunded and sometimes were limited. Segregation‚ forcefully put two perspectives on American society for both white and black populations. Much of the segregation lead to lower education rates for blacks because many of them who were former slaves were not allowed
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education Even after the Supreme Court decision in 1954 in the Brown v. Board of Education case‚ very little had actually been done to desegregate public schools. Brown v. Board of Education ordered the end to separate but equal and the desegregation of public schools; however‚ the court provided no direction for the implementation of its decision. Authority was pushed to the Attorney Generals of each state to create and submit plans to proceed with desegregation
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Associate Program Material Racial Diversity: Historical Worksheet Answer the following questions in 100 to 250 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • Throughout most of U.S. history‚ in most locations‚ what race has been in the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? • “Germans are the largest ancestral group in the United States; the 2008 census showed that about 17 percent of Americans saying they had at least some
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After persuading them that the neighborhood is about to be infiltrated by a minority community the homeowners will leave the area. This is called white flight. Institutionalized discrimination exists within the actual housing system‚ including redlining and mortgage discrimination” (Shapiro‚ 2004). Institutional bias is an unfair and prejudiced ill- treatment of certain people or certain groups of people by society. Institutional bias is one of the main reasons
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20 years‚ could be to blame for the amount of people on the streets. With the explosion of growth in the suburbs‚ these cities have created local governments that make it easy to keep low income housing out of their communities. Ideas such as redlining and predatory lending can lead to low income families not receiving the needed loans to move into housing‚ which can force them into the streets. The programs to help the poor and homeless are few and far between. There are five general programs
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Even without any segregation laws‚ African Americans encountered redlining‚ a practice that prohibited people of color from attaining valued properties based on their race‚ which led to naturally segregated communities. Another example from Sitkoff’s “The Struggle for Black Equality” is the discriminatory employment opportunities
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The economic challenges faced by African Americans in the post-Civil War era were rooted in a long history of exploitation‚ beginning with slavery. After the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War in 1865‚ millions of newly freed slaves faced the daunting task of building economic independence in a society that remained hostile to their progress. Reconstruction efforts such as the Freedmen’s Bureau aimed to address these economic issues‚ but progress was limited. The promise of “40
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