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    totally new approach to art history never got it back‚ the have lost it )-: How have women been depicted in modern art (1860-1960). How do these depictions reflect changing attitudes? Select a range of examples by both male and female artists to illustrate your answer. As I flicked through the heavy pages of the traditional and authoritative book on art history in my search of women seen through both male and female eyes and painted with the skills of a man’s and women’s hand most of what I

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    ECO 550 – Assignment #1 Assignment 1: Making Decisions Based on Demand and Forecasting Domino’s Pizza is considering entering the marketplace in your community. Conduct research about the demographics of your community‚ for example the population size and average income per household and other independent variables‚ such as price of pizza and price of soda‚ for this assignment. By conducting a demand analysis and forecast for pizza‚ you will be able to make a decision whether Domino’s should establish

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    February 1‚ 1960‚ four students‚ Ezell A. Blair‚ Jr.‚ David Richmond‚ Joseph McNeil‚ and Franklin McCain from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College‚ an all-black college‚ sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth’s policy of excluding African Americans from being served there. The "sit-in" technique was not new—as far back as 1939‚ African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria‚ Virginia library. In 1960 the technique

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    in activism from the 1960s to present. Specifically how today‚ activism is seen electronically‚ as people use the media to write protests to the oppressor instead of how in the 1960s activism was seen in sit-ins. Overall‚ Gladwell asserts that social media is not the best way to start a movement as it does not motivate people as much as a sit-in does. I cannot help but side with Gladwell as he has a good point in saying that social media does not bring the same results as a sit-in. I‚ as a social media

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    The focus of the video documentary "Ain’t Scared of your Jails" is on the courage displayed by thousands of African-American people who joined the ranks of the civil rights movement and gave it new direction. In 1960‚ lunch counter sit-ins spread across the south. In 1961‚ Freedom Rides were running throughout the southern states. These rides consisted of African Americans switching places with white Americans on public transportation buses. The whites sat in the back and black people sat in the

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    Darren Robinson History- Civil Rights Movement The segregation that many young African-Americans experience causes them undue stress which has been proven to undermine cognitive development. Even African-Americans from poor inner-cities that do attend universities continue to suffer academically due to the stress they suffer from having family and friends still in the poverty stricken inner cities. Education is also used as a means to perpetuate hyper segregation. Real estate agents often implicitly

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    Movement.” Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham‚ North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press‚ 2005. 75-78. Sitton‚ Claude. “Negro Sitdowns Stir Fear of Wider Unrest of South.” New York Times 15 Feb. 1960: A1. Tennessee State Museum “Modern Civil Rights Movement” Web. 22 Sept. 2013. ‹http://www.tnmuseum.org//›.

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    As a boy‚ John Lewis heard about the Montgomery Bus Boycott only a few miles away… the beginning of a Movement that he would become a leader within. In the 1960s‚ an eager college student who lived in an area that was very hostile to his race‚ John Lewis‚ became one of the most prominent Civil Rights leaders. While Lewis was growing up and becoming an adult in the harshness of the southern states of the United States of America‚ he realized the laws against his skin color‚ Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow

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    ”Mississippi Burning” The relationship between white Americans and African-Americans in the USA in the early 1960s Mississippi Burning is a movie that takes place in the early 1960s‚ 1964 to be exact‚ in a small town named Jessup. The relationship between the black and the white is very intense and the black people are treated like they are a step below the normal white man. The plot in the movie is about a missing person case (three boys fighting for the black people’s rights suddenly disappear)

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    The sixties were a time of revolution for the rights of individuals in America. There were many historical events that took place that made this country what it is now. From the marches‚ sit-ins‚ bus boycotts‚ the African Americans saw the opportunity to fight for equal rights at a time when the country was looking to change. Poverty was high‚ especially with African Americans‚ and all the tension from the Cold War and Vietnam building started movements of people. The public opinion was different

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