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    1920 Notes

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    Fighting the War at Home Teaching German was outlawed in several states The invention of liberty cabbage “Liberty Streak” Remember Belgium by George Creel’s CPI It gets worse Espionage Act- Spys were put away for the was The Sedition Act- Can’t say anything bad about the war Schenck vs. United States- Can’t help people get out of being drafted Great Migration- blacks moving north (race riots) Slackers- Label people they don’t like and get rid of them The Palmer Raids Attorney General

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    Media Portrayal of Blacks in an Ever-Changing Society One hindrance that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time is the way we as human beings deal with differences among our cultures‚ societies‚ and color. Although the American society has taken great steps in combating this chauvinistic concept‚ prejudicial views of black culture are still prevalent among even the most open-minded individuals. They are engrained in our minds in some form or another‚ and many times are subconscious. Tolerance

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    The Outsider by Albert Camus ‘The protagonist of the novel is condemned because he is a stranger to the society in which he lives.’ The Outsider‚ by Albert Camus‚ is a philosophical novel set in the mid 1940’s in the newly colonized country of Algeria. The novels plotline is that of a middle aged French Algerian man‚ Meursault‚ whose outlook on life is of an emotionally detached absurdist. Throughout the course of the novel it is understood that this outlandish philosophical view separates Meursault

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    Flappers In The 1920s

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    The 1920s were an age of dramatic political‚ economic and social change. For the first time‚ more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929‚ and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar “consumer society.” People did not have to worry about struggling with money. People had to rely on physical labor in the farm life but that changed when everyone started to move to the urban city with no physical labor

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    Serious case reviews (SCRs) The LSCB is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in each local area will cooperate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in that locality‚ and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do. LSCBs carry out functions set out in regulations (LSCB Regulations 2006‚ S.I. 2006 no.90). Their work includes • agreeing local policies and procedures for how the different organisations will work together on safeguarding • contributing

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    why the New Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) was so controversial. There were many arguments raised about the poor law amendment act of 1834‚ this Act was thought to be the most contentious piece of legislation passed during the era of the Whig’s. At the time‚ it was a lot about saving money‚ the upper class did not want to pay towards the poor law‚ as they believed they were lazy and unworthy. The taxpayers‚ and ratepayers believed it to be wrong they should be paying to help the poor. The workhouse

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    men-should observe in dealing with other people well. It is thought by many that the ideal conduct described in this book should be emulated by Filipinos and should not be cause for embarrasment even in these days. Filipinos do not need an Emily Post to teach them good manners because we already have Father de Castro who left behind golden rules which Filipinos ought to follow not only then but even now and in the time to come.) (In these times when our societies are dominated by new patterns of

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    On the day of the inauguration‚ I was overwhelmed with a sense of history. In the first decade of the twentieth century‚ a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer War and before my own birth‚ the white-skinned peoples of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against dark-skinned peoples of their own land. The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest‚ most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Now‚ in the last decade of the twentieth

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    CHAPTER I PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE INTRODUCTION RATIONALE One of the problems confronting Philippine society today is malnutrition. It has been reported that two thirds of the young population‚ mostly in usual areas‚ are malnourished. Malnutrition has also been found to have a direct effect on the mental development of children. Balanced nutrition supports mental process in test situation. The well hungers for the ability recalls information and relay it quickly accurately through hand-eye coordination

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    the money in her account was not hers‚ yet spent the money anyway. Scarlett should have contacted the bank immediately when she noticed the extra money that appeared in her account. Scarlett would have to prove that she deposited the money into her account‚ however; the bank mistakenly transferred the money into Scarlett’s account‚ proving that the money was not Scarlett’s. Section 334 (a)‚ Scarlett could be convicted of an indictable offence because the amount she spent was exceeding $5‚000.00. Therefore

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