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    Week 2 Assignment 2 Jeanette M. Patterson University of Phoenix Abstract: Based on the ideals of a penitentiary‚ what it should be like? What was the principal goal of a penitentiary? What were the differences between the two prison models? What were the benefits and drawbacks of each model? Which model was considered to be the winning model? There are two types of buildings that help keep people in line. One is the jail cell‚ the other is the penitentiary. A jail is almost for short term

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    Russian Immigrants In the late 1800s and early 1900’s many Russian immigrants journeyed to the United States of America. Russians wanted to move to America for opportunity. In Russia‚ they did not have many opportunities. In the United States‚ Russian parents will be able to send their kids to school‚ and they can get a job easily. Not only could they send their kids to school‚ but they would be in a safer community. Russian farmers wanted to improve their agriculture also. One of the main reasons

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    A democratic country aims to have an accountable government that serve the best interests of the people it is governing. The UK is a liberal democracy which ensures that citizens should be able to influence governmental decisions made. But how far is the UK democratic? An element of Britain’s governmental system is that there is no written constitution. This means that‚ theoretically‚ the government are free to pass any legislation as long as they have the majority in parliament which could be easily

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    After the Civil War‚ there was a surge of new technology in the United States. Inventors like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell made new and exciting things that changed the way life was. Thanks to things like the Bessemer process‚ industry soared and big businesses were formed. Labor unions too were affected by this new technological growth. There was a big impact on all aspects of American lifestyle as a result of the inventions of this time. Thomas Edison was one of the most important inventors

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    Rights Movement in the sixties were in a large part caused by the youth of the time. Not only did colored youth feel like there was a transition needed but white youth felt that something needed fixing. The youth of the time founded organizations that were built to fight racism and the youth effectively held and organized protest for equality for all throughout the nation from Alabama to Washington D.C. Youth had the greatest impact on society and were the backbone to the Civil Rights Movement. The

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    The civil rights movement in the 1950s was a very controversial and important time in not only this nation’s history but in world history. Leaders from within the African American community like Malcolm X‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Rosa Parks‚ and many others had been pivotal people during this time. Although there is still a fair amount of inequality and injustice between races to this day‚ it is not the equivalent of what people had to fight to achieve what they believed. Groups in the 1950s had

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    America in the 1800s and early 1900’s was a place of great unrest. The westward expansion created a tenuous environment for pioneers and settlers with Native American tribes; and cities in the east started to explode as waves of immigrants began arriving to fine their “New World” American dream. The wealthy in the northeast‚ generally white Americans of English protestant ancestry‚ felt a sense of urgency and entitlement to maintain control of the social‚ political and financial power in America

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    Enlightenment is the time period from 1650 to the 1800s where a period of time that challenges the society and old ideology‚ where the traditional ideas about god and human’s place on earth became mixed with new ideology about science‚ logical reasoning and freedom. New understanding about human behavior which could rectify human failings which leading to unlock the sources to increase liberty and prosperity‚ shaping the human nature into more acceptable form such as opening schools. Education provided

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    Savannah Olson Mr.Brown English 11B Period 2 20 March 2015 1960’s Hippie Movement The 1960’s Hippie movement was brought together by a group of individuals that had the same beliefs. Although they were associated with drugs‚ they also made a very large impact on todays society and past history. As individuals joined the hippie movement they often began to mock their parents‚ shut out patriotism‚ and became very devoted to hard work. They would put their mind to accomplishing something and

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    The articles that were assigned were accounts from Spanish men who actually lived during the 1700’s to the mid 1800s‚ and their impact on the Indians. They were able to document different situations in which the Natives were exploited or abused‚ although some portions of the readings like the one by Father Junipero of the San Diego Mission‚ or that of Captain Alejandro Malaspina are completely one sided. Both make it seem to the reader like the Natives were uncivilized and didn’t have a fear of

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