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    parks‚ bikes and tennis‚ spectator sports‚ baseball‚ and so much more. Industrialization and Urbanization lead to difficulties for everyone especially those in the working class. Industrialization lead to huge disparity of wealth and class in the United States and Urbanization lead to massive problems that were almost and still somewhat are too difficult to solve. The Industrialization era included many revolutionary inventions. Some examples are Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter in 1867 and

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    Segregation in the United Sates has been a controversal topic throughout history. With many people turning on African Americans or black people. The 1960s were a growth of progress within a small amount of time. Before the Civil rights movement in the 1960s‚ many schools were segregated‚ with white people in one school and black people in another. In that time period black people were highly discriminated against. It would have been very uncommon for a white person to have a black friend or

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    socialism in the United States. The history of socialism in the United States will be presented and examples of its failures will be given. Next‚ a series of theories as to why socialism has failed in the United States will be given‚ and finally‚ the theories will be applied to discover whether they are valid or not in explaining why socialism has been unsuccessful in the United States. Introduction Socialism has been prevalent as a world system for many decades now but has failed to materialize

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    from outdoor relief to efforts to teach the poor how to escape their poverty. Beginning in 1817 with New York’s Society for the Prevention of poverty‚ institutions collected the poor under one roof‚ oversaw their actions‚ and forced them to work. The state of New York formalized this policy in 1824 with the County Poorhouse Act‚ which required every county to build at least one institution to house its poor and‚ ideally‚ to teach them the emerging middle-class ethics of thrift‚ constant industry‚ and

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    social construction of disability The purpose of this essay is to discuss the social construction of disability in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. I will do this by taking a historical perspective on eugenics and by looking at how disability has been viewed and treated in the past and present. This historical perspective will draw links between eugenics‚ common day stereotypes associated with persons with disabilities and how professionals use their skills to try and cure disability (medical

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    candidate‚ the United States remains a democracy rather than a dictatorship. Voting allows everyone to influence the policies‚ bills‚ laws‚ etc.‚ that circulate throughout the House and the Senate. Consequently‚ these laws become the laws of the country‚ which are to be obeyed by every U.S. citizen. Moreover‚ voting also allows for poll numbers to change. One vote could change the outcome of the election; therefore‚ every vote matters. Advocates of the voting policy influence the United States by remaining

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    TO WHAT EXTENT IS NATIONALISM A POSITIVE FORCE?Nationalism has been viewed as both a positive and a negative force‚ and both positions have been demonstrated today and throughout history. It is the biggest social and political force of the world. It unifies people and makes them stronger. It can lead to a stable economy‚ patriotism and even ultranationalism. But‚ one could argue that all these things‚ especially ultranationalism have had bad consequences such as crimes against humanity‚ fascism and

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    thought to only happen in Middle Eastern countries such as Yemen‚ Pakistan and Iraq‚ however there is an increased number of “honor killings” being reported right here in the United States. As individuals immigrate from various cultures and religious backgrounds‚ traditions and ways of thinking are often brought into the United States. Muslim women are expected to act in a certain manner‚ and are male family members decide which manner that may be and inflict punishment on those who reject or defy these

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    Slovak immigration to the United States began in the late 1870s‚ when Slovakia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire administered by Hungary. Because U.S. immigration officials did not keep separate records for each ethnic group within the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ it is impossible to determine the exact number of Slovak immigrants who entered the United States. Between 1880 and the mid-1920s‚ approximately 500‚000 Slovaks‚ mostly men immigrated to the United States. Before 1899 U.S. immigration

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    Xenophobia in South Africa Prior to 1994 immigrants from elsewhere in Africa faced discrimination and even violence in South Africa‚ though much of that risk stemmed from the institutionalized racism of the time due to apartheid. Post 1994 and democratization‚ and contrary to expectations‚ the incidence of xenophobia increased.[1] Between 2000 and March 2008 at least 67 people died in what was identified as xenophobic attacks. In May 2008 a series of riots left 62 people dead; although 21 of those

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