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    society is as bad at the top as the bottom Riot: A noisy‚ violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of people‚ by a crowd protesting against another group‚ a government policy‚ etc.‚ in the streets. It can be a disturbance of public peace which is carried out by three or more people working together in a disorderly manner carrying out their private purposes. Consternation was upon my face as I was walking through Leicester’s town after the riots had transpired and observed every demolished

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    Some topics I wanted to explore were Vietnam‚ race riots and hippie culture. I ensured that my questions would be open ended‚ such as beginning my questions with “how did you feel about [event]?” and then “why do you feel that way?” In terms of the interview structure‚ I thought of beginning with more general

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    London riots escalate as police battle for control Vikram Dodd and Caroline Davies The Guardian‚ Tuesday 9 August 2011 • Full-scale alert as violence spreads across capital • Disorder breaks out in Birmingham city centre • Prime minister‚ mayor and home secretary return 1 The prime minister cut short his holiday and flew back to Britain as London witnessed devastating scenes of violence stretching the emergency services beyond limit on a third night of rioting in the capital. 2 Buildings were

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    citizens‚ mostly from India‚ Pakistan‚ Africa and Hong Kong. Those imigrant workers where discriminated in different ways‚ in 1958 rioting broke out‚ and soon after there where hundrets of protesters‚ also new generation of teenagers joined the riots. Eventualy the number of protesters rose to about 50.000. This generation emerged from 1950s" baby boom". It was richer and more image-conscious. Along with this new generation‚ also emerged popular culture. Electronic goods become available to everyone

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    America is the most diverse country in the world and people come here to live the “American Dream”. Paine’s assertion is still true today that America is a diverse nation‚ however‚ the “the taxes are few” and there being “nothing to engender riots and tumults” is in fact not true today. America is known as the world’s “melting pot” for a reason. People want to come to the greatest nation on Earth. Throughout the history of America people have immigrated from a wide variety of war-torn‚ famine‚ poverty-stricken

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    TO: High School Principals and College Advisors FROM: The Fund for Public Schools – Arlene Dominguez SUBJECT: “Civil War Draft Riots of 1863” Essay Contest DATE: September 27‚ 2013 Application Deadline: December 16‚ 2013 The Fund for Public Schools and the Union League Club of New York are pleased to invite applications for the “Civil War Draft Riots of 1863” essay contest. In order to commemorate its 150th anniversary‚ the Union League Club of New York established this essay contest to

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    National Guard to accompany them. They were serious about making their organized physical presence felt. They began marching to the drumbeat of the guardsmen and asserting their right as women to participate in public affairs. On October 5‚ 1789‚ a riot began. The women gathered in large numbers at the Hotel de Ville to complain about the high bread prices and the shortage of food. They publicly said that "men didn’t understand anything about the matter and that they wanted to play a role in affairs"

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    people took the time to look at both sides of the story instead of jumping to conclusions‚ we would have a better grasp on the situation at hand. When these heated debates and controversy arise‚ people handle it differently some protest‚ some start riots‚ and others just sit tight and let it run its course. I’m the type that would just let it run the course‚ because I don’t believe that protesting accomplishes

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    before on history. Police can’t respond to as many home invasions as they should because they are trying to control the rioting public. Groups of angered citizens that have reached their breaking point are rioting across the entire country. Most of the riots started out as peaceful protests‚ but as the prices climbed‚ so did their anger. When the first group snapped in September of 2019 and started destroying public property and burning down gas stations it was like the domino effect. Soon‚ groups all

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    The Great Depression was one of the most severe economic situations the world has ever witnessed. The efforts of the Canadian government to aid the country with the economic crisis that plagued the nation from 1929 to 1939 was ineffective. This was shown as relief camps offered people little comfort‚ people were reluctant to use “the dole” as they wanted to show their pride‚ and the weakness of the government made people question the strength of its leaders. Firstly‚ as a relief effort by the

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