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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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    free trade‚ they could still get profit for their goods. Also the colonies could freely trade with each other because now no longer are they competition they are all part of the same nation working together. The Fenians were a HUGE problem in the 1860’s. The Fenians were Irish American soldiers that were super aggressive. The colonies on their own didn’t have enough defence to protect themselves over the Fenians; they would end up taking over all of the colonies eventually. So they all came together

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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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    Unit 4 Essay - The Trail of Tears/Indian Removal 1815-1860 was a busy time for the United States of America. The country was still fairly new and everything was changing. The country had to deal with new land areas‚ Indian removal‚ nullification‚ a national bank‚ and everything in between. Whoever was elected as president had a large task ahead of them‚ not one president had it very easy. Ever since this country was founded‚ there was one substantial problem that lay ahead of them; the Native Americans

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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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    Women's Suffrage Movement

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    Women’s Suffrage Movement Women’s suffrage is the right of women to vote. The women’s suffrage movement was struggle to gain the same right to vote as men. WSM was between 1860 ans 1915. This essay will explain the “slow” progress of WSM. In 19th century women had no place in national politicis. They could not stand as candidates for Parliament and they were not allowed to vote. It was assumed that women did not need the vote because their husbands would take responsibility in political

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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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    American politics from the years of 1800 to 1860 was strongly focused on the growing issue of slavery as more and more Americans were moving out west. There was much controversy about what the right action plan for slavery was. This resulted in three different Anti-Slavery movements including Gradualism‚ Colonization‚ and Abolition. Gradualism is defined as a policy of gradual reform rather than sudden revolution. The Gradualism Movement was the first attempt by parts of the U.S (mostly northern

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