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    133-134). The African-American Civil Rights Movement was a goal to end racial segregation and prejudice against African-Americans by use of non-violent and violent‚ protests and demonstrations. The movement took place during 1950’s-1960’s (West’s Encyclopedia of American Law‚ 2005). In American culture and society‚ racism and segregation

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    The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to right the wrongs of unfair treatment of African Americans in the United States during a time known as the “Jim Crow Era”. This movement was held during the 1960’s and was successful in innumerable ways. African Americans fought for the same citizenship rights that whites took for granted. This movement w was successful in combating job and housing discrimination‚ school integration‚ and equal justice for women. The highest achievement of success of the

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    Discus the reasons and motivations for launching the Hundred Flower Movement and subsequent Anti-Rightist movement. The main thrust of the Hundred Flower Movement‚ is summed up in Mao’s maxim‚ "Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend” (bai hua qifang‚ bai jia zhengming). In this essay‚ I will investigate the reasons why the People’s Republic of China thought it was necessary to start a policy self-criticism and how this‚ in a matter of months‚ descended into

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    CHAPTERS FROM HISTORY: Students’ role in the Pakistan movement THE All India Muslim Students Federation (AIMSF) was the most formidable pressure group in League’s favour. Jinnah served as a role model to students who took to him as to no one else. Indeed‚ the adherence of the youth to the Muslim League had far reaching consequences in terms of building up the League as a mass organization and of vastly strengthening Jinnah’s claim to supreme leader of the Muslims. Between 1937 and 1946 there

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    Background The Standard Chartered Marathon has been organized by Hong Kong Amateur Athletics Association for 11 years since 1997. Now it becomes a signature international sporting event in Hong Kong and was recognized as a "Brand Hong Kong Event" by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. The Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2007 was successfully held on 4 March 2007‚ attracting over 37‚000 runners to the starting line. With the generous support of the public‚ the Standard Chartered

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    Tactics have always played a strong role in many activists and social movement group. Past social movement organization used tactics such as sit-inns‚ marches and boycotts in order for people in authority to enact change. Today as some of these tactics have become routinized‚ some activist and social movement organization have taken it into their own hands to change tactics so that their message will have a stronger effect. Tactics can be seen as a form of communication and performance claimant use

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    Independence Day‚ observed annually on 15 August‚ is a national holiday in India commemorating the nation ’s independence from British rule on 15 August 1947. India attained freedom following an independence movement noted for largely nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by the Indian National Congress (INC).[1] Independence coincided with the partition of India‚ in which the British Indian Empire was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan; the partition

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    Examining the Impact of the 1950’s on the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement‚ is generally identified with what occurred in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States‚ though it was active long before this‚ and continues it activity to the present day. The goals of the movement were to end racial segregation and other forms of discrimination against African Americans while obtaining federal protection of the rights of citizenship contained in the Constitution and relevant federal law

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    International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 3‚ Issue 3‚ March -2012 ISSN 2229-5518 1 Implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm M.Pitchaiah‚ Philemon Daniel‚ Praveen Abstract—Cryptography is the study of mathematical techniques related to aspects of information security such as confidentiality‚ data integrity‚ entity authentication and data origin authentication. In data and telecommunications‚ cryptography is necessary when communicating over any unreliable

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    Born in Jamaica‚ Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements‚ to which he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global movement‚ known as Garveyism. Garvey would eventually inspire others from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement. Inspired by these experiences‚ Marcus Garvey returned to Jamaica in 1912 and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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