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    The 1950’s were a time of fun entertainment and prosperity. Many famous musicians and actors were taking the stage to change the way people thought of music and films in America‚ and even change their racial views somewhat. Stars like Elvis Presley‚ Bill Haley‚ and Nat King Cole with their “rock n’ roll” music changed the way people viewed music and viewed other races. The film industry of the fifties set precedence for future American filmmakers and set the standard of the industry higher than ever

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    The 1920s and 1930s were interesting decades in the United States. WWI had just ended and the society was in the process of changing its eras and beginning a new chapter in its history. The 1920s in the United States is referred to as the Roaring Twenties. The reason for this is because of the "roaring" prosperity during this time period. The businesses and culture were booming in this era. The 1930s in the United States is referred to as the Great Depression. The reason it is called this is because

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    ‘Britain’s attempts to appease Mussolini in the 1930s were successful’ Explain why you agree or disagree with this view. (24 marks) Britain’s attempt to appease Mussolini were successful up until the Abyssinian crisis of 1935‚ as Italy were not in league with Germany but on the contrary‚ were opposed to German expansion and revision of the treaty of Versailles. However after the Abyssinian crisis‚ this stance from Mussolini disappeared and changed greatly. Hence British attempts becoming

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    comparison of drinking fountains in two schools. It quickly reminded me of the racist Jim Crow laws from the 1880s-1960s and how racial segregation existed almost everywhere in the United States at that time. However‚ I realize that this cartoon doesn’t portray the concept of racial segregation with a Jim Crow joke‚ but it makes a commentary on social segregation among public schools in the United States today. I slowly realized that all American public schools are not the same due to funding. The

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    The Nazi’s came into power in Germany in March 1933 when they pushed the elections their way by arresting Communist party members and their supporters. Also they had a massive amount of propaganda‚ Joseph Goebbels was the head of Hitler’s propaganda movement. Also the Nazi’s were aggressive towards their opponents‚ putting them down to make the Nazi’s look better. Even though they used some dubious techniques to get into power‚ once they were there‚ they did some things that were great for the German

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    the Jim Crow laws. These laws created an extreme enforcement of segregation between blacks and whites. In the United States’ Southern states‚ racial segregation was enforced until it was fully ended in every state in 1964. The Civil Rights Act‚ declared segregation wrong. The retraction of segregation led to integration of public schools. Although the Little Rock School Crisis was the initial effort to bringing an end to segregation in public schools‚ the bravery of the nine students who were willing

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    Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb Alabama‚ 1930. The book focuses on a six-year old girl named Scout‚ and her ten-year old brother Jem. The two spend much of their time with their friend‚ Charles Baker Harris (everyone calls him Dill) who comes to visit during the summers. The 3 children spend most of their time sneaking around the house of their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley‚ whose said to be crazy . Early on in the story Atticus Finch‚ father to Jem and Scout‚ agrees to

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    How segregation is plaguing the work space. Children of different ethnicity have to work in different areas and live in a different company town. Another way is that some others from different ethnicity may get paid not as much a white child. Or the child of the different ethnicity may not be able to work for that company at all. Segregation was a big parts of Child labor laws. The reason why it was a big part of child labor laws it is that one of the places that segregation and children come

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    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 to receive any literacy of any kind. Even after the Emancipation‚ funded was low for

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    Land Ownership in America During the 1700’s Native Americans in the early 1700’s saw land as a communal matter‚ while European people viewed land as an entity to be possessed and sold. To Native Americans‚ the concept of exchanging currency for land was undiscovered; property was to be used by all peoples of a tribe without tariff. However‚ Europeans had been doing this for a protracted period of time and the idea of boasting a plot of land was commonplace. When the British landed in Maryland

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