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    (King‚ 1963). Another example‚ during speech King mentioned Emancipation Proclamation (governmental prescription‚ which abolished slavery) to emphasize that even still now‚ after five score it was signed‚ Negro life is not free. The aim and the effects in the result of both examples are to awake audience emotionally for certain actions‚ actions which will abolish segregation. Actions‚ which doctor King proposed‚ - are peaceful protests. He persuades crowd not to generate meetings into riots‚ people

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    One would think that a country would inevitably fall from peasant riots‚ wars for power‚ lack of resources‚ etc.‚ if it was isolated from the rest of the world. However‚ this is not always the case‚ as can be seen with Japan. It thrived while being isolated from the rest of the world for over two hundred years before it opened its ports again. It is important to understand the context behind Japan’s isolation starting in the Sengoku period. This time period was also known as the “Age of Warring

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    Up until the 1960’s the civil rights movement was practiced through peaceful protests established from the idea that equal recognition amongst all peoples was only acquired through non-violent acts. In the late 60’s these techniques transformed into fast and more efficient methods with different value sets. The changes within the Civil Rights movement occurred because African Americans were sick of the painfully slow progress accomplished through the civil rights movement‚ didn’t agree with the idea

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    Causes of Conflict in Sri Lanka : Citizenship rights In 1948‚ Sri Lanka granted citizenship to those who were either born there in Sri Lanka or those fathers and grandfathers were born there. As a result‚ many Indian Tamils found themselves stateless. Though India tried to solve the problems‚ many Indian Tamils continued to stay stateless in the 1980s.In 2003‚ Sri Lanka passed the Grant of Citizenship to the person of origin Bill-Citizenship was given to any person or descendants of Indian

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    Civil Rights Act of 1964 By the summer of 1963‚ after a series of violent demonstrations in the South‚ particularly in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ President Kennedy pushed for a very strong civil rights bill through Congress. The first of its kind since the Civil War‚ this bill drastically called for the end of all segregation in all public places. In the eyes of the civil rights movement leaders‚ this bill was long over due. Kennedy began by sending the United States Congress a "Special Message

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    The film Eye on the Prize: Episode IV: No Easy Walk gives an insight of African Americans and their fight for Civil Rights. The film marker exhibits the hardship African Americans and some whites in American went through to get rights for all. The film uplift the African American community to get what they wanted and not to stop until it was achieved. They wanted equal opportunity like any other whites in American and the same jobs positions as them. The film marker was sympathetic to the civil

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    Third famous event was on September 15‚ 1963 four girls walk into a church thinking that they would be protected from discrimination‚ but ended up getting bombed for walking into the church. Fourth famous event is when Betty Friedan published a book “The Feminine Mystique” about how middle aged housewives worked and talked about their rights or lack of rights. It was a best selling book about women’s rights back then. Finally‚ on 1996 “The Stonewall-riot” was a riot started by gays and a police officer

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    persecuted minorities in the world. Many Rohingya have fled to ghettos and refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh‚ and to areas along the Thai-Burma border. Their plight came to international media attention in the wake of the 2012 Rakhine State riots. ------------------------------------------------- Etymology The term "Rohingya" comes from Rohang‚ the Rohingya word for the state of Arakan‚ from where the Rohingya originate. Though some Rohingya historians‚ like Khalilur Rahma‚ contend that the

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    America won’t invade; afterwards insisted that American missiles need to move from Turkey as part of the deal. We ended up agreeing and both sides moved their missiles The Thousand-Day Presidency: JFK was assassinated in Dallas‚ Texas in November 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald‚ who was later killed Lyndon Johnson was sworn in‚ and JFK became a martyr. Arms building‚ Vietnam were two issues left unresolved Nonviolence and Violence: Congress of Racial Equality set up freedom rides through South to

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    Section IV - International Studies in Peace and Conflict To what extent can it be argued that by the 1960s‚ Diem’s rule of South Vietnam had been successful?? By the 1960s Diem’s rule of South Vietnam was not successful. His policies were deeply unpopular‚ his regime was corrupt and based on a system of brutality‚ and nearly every sector of society opposed him. However‚ Diem was clearly successful in consolidating his rule and providing early stability to the regime when he first came to power

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