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    postwar employment changes simply to economics. Anderson implies that the 1940’s period played a more prominent role in developments‚ helping to accelerate the economic changes that would come after WWII. Moreover‚ though such studies exist in abundance today‚ in 1981 few historians explored the effects of living in a society with severe sex ratios. Anderson points out that despite continuing occupational sex segregation‚ a lack of appropriate child care‚ and the lingering negative attitudes

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    ‘sit in’ all across America. * Blacks and Whites begin to get arrested but they continue with the moral of ‘non-violent demonstrations’ * White merchants begin to protest back saying that the protests where ‘bad for business’. * 1961 Lunch segregation is almost gone. * White merchants forced into integration‚ as due to the protests they lose business. | | Plessy vs Ferguson | It happened on June 7‚ 1982 on a whites only car party of a train. | The people involved were Plessy‚ the state

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    hierarchy‚ identifying those in each grouping who share similar levels of income‚ status‚ property‚ power and types of lifestyle. Social class is stratified by racial and ethnic groups in many ways but often times seen through residential segregation. Residential segregation is defined as the physical separation of cultural groups based on residence and housing according to the Department of Economics at the University of California‚ Los Angeles. (UCLA‚ 2011) The socioeconomic status (SES) of an individual

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    Segregation Issue in Saudi Arabia From what I understand the Victim who had been raped and beaten by seven was sentenced to 90 lashes by the judge in the Saudi Court and during that time the Victim’s lawyer then spoke out and said that it was practically to harsh of a punishment and at that time the Victim was then awarded 200 lashes because apparently you not speak out against the decision. The Lawyer has even been punished for speaking to the media about the appeal of the case and he is currently

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    special effects‚ the movies have the same effect on the modern population then it did back in the 1930s. As long as the population still turns to movies to feel hope and content‚ the industry will continue to evolve and develop new genres and marketing strategies. Movies still continue to affect society today as it did to society in the past and they continue to reinvent themselves like they did during the 1930s. David Germain‚ a writer for The Seattle Times‚ explained that "’in an era that brought harsh

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    Movies in the 1930 ’s Gangster films and musicals came from Broadway in the 1930 ’s. These two new genres symbolized the impression that Hollywood had on national culture during the great depression. Some musicals like gold diggers were not just made to be enjoyed but intended to go against the economic depression. It did just that by showing the spirit of optimism and cooperation. Gangster film such as "Public Enemies"(1931) and "Scar face"(1932) dramatized violence. Violence in those films were

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    video keep other races from tainting white blood (ABC News 2003). Early Americans basically had to keep this insinuation that blacks were inferior so that they could be kept under control‚ and used in the slave trade‚ and later this led to the segregation of blacks and whites when the slave trade ended. A great example of this was Samuel Morton

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    According to the passage the A Tale of Segregation‚ william and his father had to wait to get water because‚ of the white men. The white men were holding them back because they were black. The white men where bullying them because of what they believed in‚ and what has happen in the past. The white men considered them as good men‚ compared to william and his father they claimed. Another event that shows white men think they have power over black‚ was the intensely racist governor in alabama. George

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    Racial Segregation through the World Segregation is defined as the policy or practice of separating people based on their race‚ class‚ ethnic group‚ religion or gender‚ especially as a form of discrimination. Racial segregation is not an isolated phenomenon. There are examples of segregation that can be dated back to the earliest stages of mankind. All over the world‚ in hundreds of different cultures we can identify clear examples of segregation either by race‚ caste‚ gender‚ religion‚ age‚ etc

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    There are many words to describe the 1930s‚ but equality was not one of them. From injustice lynching and kills of blacks to the stock market crash of 1929 that lead the United States into the Great Depression. The 30s plausible could be the worst years in US history. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ she uncovers all the hardships there were living during that time period. The story takes place in Maycomb a small town in Alabama and is narrated by the main character‚ a little girl named

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