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    Progressivism Movement

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    Progressivism implies a philosophy that welcomes innovations and reforms in the political‚ economic‚ and social order. The Progressive movement‚ 1901 to 1917‚ was ultimately the triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism. In a general sense‚ the conservative goals of this period justified the Liberal reforms enacted by Progressive leaders. Deviating from the "traditional" definition of conservatism (a resistance to change and a disposition of hostility to innovations in the political

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    The Umbrella Movement

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    The Umbrella Movement‚ also known as Umbrella Revolution‚ began in September 2014. After China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress‚ also known as NPCSC‚ announced its decision on the proposed electoral reform of Hong Kong. NPCSC made it clear that civil nomination is disallowed. The two student activist groups‚ Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism‚ began protesting outside the government headquarters on 22 September 2014 against the NPCSC’s decision. In the evening

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    The Fatherhood Movement

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    divorce laws to increase the number of two- parent households. Some organizations focus on reasonable child support and visitation‚ as well as creative joint custody arrangements to combat fatherless ness after divorce. Still other sects within the movement encourage responsible fatherhood through counseling for "Deadbeat" or "Dead-broke" Dads‚ job training and placement to increase the likelihood of child support payments and educational seminars to teach men how to be emotionally supportive fathers

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    The Hippie Movement

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    The three most important events in California history is woman suffrage‚ the hippie movement‚ and black radicalism. For many decades‚ women were treated unfairly and discriminated against‚ but it wasn’t till the suffrage movement began in California which women were finally standing up for themselves. In the 1870s‚ the state legislature granted women the right to serve as an elect member of the school board and as superintendents. (Rawls and Walton‚ "California History" 2012) Laura de Force Gordon

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    2nd Generation Reforms

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    Economic Reforms in India since 1991 India was a latecomer to economic reforms‚ embarking on the process in earnest only in 1991‚ in the wake of an exceptionally severe balance of payments crisis. The need for a policy shift had become evident much earlier‚ as many countries in East Asia achieved high growth and poverty reduction through policies which emphasized greater export orientation and encouragement of the private sector. India took some steps in this direction in the 1980s‚ but it was

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    The Temperance Movement

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    Temperance as a movement‚ started in the early 19th century. Before this‚ although there were diatribes published against drunkenness and excess‚[1] total abstinence from alcohol was very rarely advocated or practiced. There was also a concentration on hard spirits rather than on total abstinence from alcohol and on moral reform rather than legal measures against alcohol.[2] An early Temperance movement started during the American revolution in Connecticut‚ Virginia and New York State‚ with farmers

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    Health Care Reform

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    Basic overview of health care reform (3 articles): The Health Care Reform is making a huge economic impact as it has very important insinuations when it comes to the US economy. Hence it is important to understand what is going on with this topic. In “Health care reform stands: How it impacts your coverage” by Parija Kavilanz‚ it states that the Supreme Court supported the health care reform meaning that it is obligatory for people to purchase coverage by 2014 and if not they will have to be

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    ECONOMIC REFORMS IN PAKISTAN There is a widely shared consensus about the nature of reforms that Pakistan should embark upon. This consists of two components – stabilization and long term structural reforms. Under the first component the economy has to be stabilized with the help of fiscal consolidation‚ widening of tax net and mobilization of domestic resources‚ cutting down the losses of state owned corporations‚ curtailing wasteful development expenditure and assigning priority to removing supply-side

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    Abolitionist Movement

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    America’s society today would be vastly different without the influence of African Americans in the past. The abolitionist movement was not in vain‚ for it has changed the hearts and minds of almost every individual alive today. The economy of the South was richly built upon the backs of slaves‚ and slaveowners quickly rose to power. The development of slavery can be looked at as a process‚ and one that took a firm hold. Social Darwinism fueled the slave trade through its duration and increased white

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    Khilafat Movement

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    The Khilafat movement (1919-1924) was a pan-Islamic‚ political campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government and to protect the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I. The position of Caliph after the Armistice of Mudros of October 1918 with the military occupation of Istanbul and Treaty of Versailles (1919) fell into a disambiguation along with the Ottoman Empire’s existence. The movement gained force after the Treaty of Sèvres (August 1920) which

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