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    In Latin America‚ the rise of wealth in the first world and backwash the development in the third world caused the unachievable with the “Trickle Down” of the third world (McKay‚ 2016). The reconstruction in the European countries were subsidized by the external assistant rather than their internal improvement (Richard‚ 2015) which call “Dependency Theory”. Dependency theory was designed to respond the modernization theory (Reyes 2001a). This theory focuses on the development of the third world which

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    to a personal experience of lynching in Memphis. Three black men were killed with their only crime being a competitor to a white-owned store‚ one of these men‚ Thomas Moss‚ being a good friend to Wells. Wells was out of town when this horrendous turn of events took place‚ when she had returned there were black people fleeing Memphis and her friend dead. Wells had believed she could live in the south and attempt to make it a better place‚ but when she saw the lynching of her friend‚ whom was a good

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    "In D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of Nation‚ the lynching of Leo Frank‚ a Jewish factory manager‚ in Atlanta‚ Georgia. Frank was convicted in 1913 for the murder of Mary Phagan‚ a thirteen-year-old girl employed by his pencil factory. There were a series of appeals‚ but all failed. The final appeal‚ was

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    It starts with just a moment of tailgating‚ or maybe the guy in front of you cut you off or wouldn ’t let you into the fast lane. In some cases it appears that incidents of road rage are caused by simple misunderstandings between drivers. A driver may make a momentary error of judgment but the perception of another driver is that he or she is driving aggressively. Then suddenly it turns into World War III on the highway. It matters little what causes it; a bad day at the office‚ a love affair

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    started‚ African American have more opportunities. This caused African Americans to move north some were forced while some migrated by choice. The Great Migration had many significant pushes and pull factors. The most important push factor were lynchings‚ also the most important pull factor was the amount of jobs available. To begin with‚the most important push factor during The Great Migration

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    Continual Immurement The third decade of the twentieth century quickly evolved into a roaring lion of new ideas‚ customs‚ and inventions. Automobiles became a common form of transportation‚ leading to more paved roads and pathways. Billboards with colorful advertisements ran alongside crowded highways. Flappers‚ a fashion trend popular with young women‚ wore shorter clothes and practiced a breakaway from older‚ traditional values. Jazz music became popular in Speakeasies‚ bars that sold alcohol

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    Politics and the State in Western Europe ca 1450-1521 Due to the ineffective leadership‚ the nation states of Frances‚ England and Spain utilized aggressive methods to rebuild their governments in the fifteenth century. This was accomplished though the revival of the monarchy and the unification of nations. The French leaders led their people and nation states to success. Charles VII‚ a sovereign viewed as weak and frail‚ proved himself a powerful leader. Charles (reigned from

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    hate. It was not just the graphicness of the lynchings that were disturbing‚ it was the pure look of apathy on the faces of the white men‚ women and sometimes even children surrounding the hanged body. It is terrible and almost impossible to think that this is a part of our past as a country. I knew that these atrocities happened‚ but I had never seen them. It might be a trite phrase‚ but “a picture is worth a thousand words”. One can read about lynchings in history books‚ essays or diaries like the

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    slavery‚ lynching‚ murders‚ the burning of crosses and churches‚ to the brutality that police officers have committed on African Americans‚ the black community has been affected tremendously in all aspects. The feelings and emotions of the African American society has been crushed and walked upon for over 400 years. In the nineteenth century‚ lynching was used to terrorize Blacks to maintain white supremacy. Lynching was open public murders of Blacks suspected of committing crimes. Lynching was normally

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    with the Indiana Attorney General in an attempt to bring the racist perpetrators of the heinous 1930 Marion Indiana lynchings of Thomas Shipp (age 17) and Abram Smith (age 18) and the attempted lynching of Dr. James Cameron (age 16) to justice. However‚ her work did pressure the Indiana legislature to pass a strong anti-lynching bill in March 1931. The Marion lynching was the last lynching in the North and the infamous photo of the heinous event inspired a Jewish NY songwriter to write the poem which

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