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    Sante Fe Prison Riot

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    Corrections Term Paper New Mexico Penitentiary Riot Santé Fe‚ New Mexico The New Mexico penitentiary in south Santa Fe‚ New Mexico was no stranger to violence. This penitentiary has seen two riots in its past one July 19‚ 1922 and the other June 15‚ 1953‚ these however were nothing in comparison to the events to come. In the early morning hours of February 2‚ 1980 two prisoners began what would be recorded as one of the most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional

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    The Red Summer refers to the summer and early autumn of 1919‚ which was marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States‚ as a result of race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county. In most instances‚ whites attacked African Americans. Red summer is in summer and early autumn On July 27‚ 1919‚ an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group

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    I’se a Man Political Awakening and the 1942 Riot in the Bahamas Abstract When Americans began building their World War II bases in Nassau‚ the Bahamians they hired expected the high wage rates that usually accompanied foreign contracts. Unfortunately‚ the Bahamian government had negotiated much lower rates than were expected. Green‚ with his cry ‚I’se a man‚‛ captured the indignation that many of his co-workers felt. After attempts to address the wage issue by collective bargaining

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    The Watts Riot Case Study

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    The Watts Riot It is August 17 1965 and‚ we just went through the worst week of our lives things are finally starting to calm down. As we are going into town to see what is left‚ and to access the damages‚ we try to understand how this got so out of control. In the course of seven days‚ 34 lives were lost and‚ more than 1‚032 were injured‚ the police had arrested 3‚438 people and‚ there are over $40 million in property damages (Watts Riots 2013). This all started from what should have been a routine

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    The 2011 riots took place between 6th-10th of August‚ several cities and towns across England suffered riots and looting as thousands took the street. The violence from this was seen to be after the shooting of Mark Duggan. However‚ the thousands that took to the streets had their other reasons to be rioting‚ making people wonder what were the problems with the society we live in. The people involved in the riots were between the ages of 11- 70. It shows how the amount of people getting involved

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    and diverse community. However‚ when a place becomes too diverse it may be start to corruption from within. One of the leading acts of corruption in Omaha began in 1909‚ and we know it today as the Anti-Greek Riots. This essay will take the reader through the background of the anti-Greek riots; it will also give the reader the information on this event while also tying this malicious event in to the national theme of this time period. The city of Omaha was settled by immigrants just like all of

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    and the consequence of the Los Angeles riots that erupted in the wake of the acquittal of the white officers who were caught on videotape beating him. However‚ the police using excessive force against unarmed black men leading to civil unrest has been repeated many times in the United States. The historic Watts Riots‚ a result of police harassment and brutality‚ took place almost three decades prior to the beating of Rodney King and the subsequent LA riots of 1992 (Marable‚ 90). On August 9th of

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    Why Do We Riot? "All of us‚ even the most sophisticated‚ intelligent‚ educated persons‚ are vulnerable to regression‚” says Ken Eisold‚ a New York-based psychoanalyst who studies group behaviour. By regression he means the primal state humans originate from‚ where an animalistic‚ pack-like behaviour was a strong pre-requisite for survival. Ken adds that there’s a primary desire to belong to a larger group and these groups can often be pulled from peaceful protests to violence by a few people

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    report on “American Inventors”. I chose to write about the inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt; who invented the Watt steam engine‚ and the Photocopier. He lived from January 19‚ 1736 – August 25‚ 1819. He was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer. While he was working at the University of Glasgow as an instrument maker‚ James became interested in the technology of steam engines. Watt realized that the engines being used at the time wasted a lot of energy by repeatedly cooling and re-heating

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    James Watt was born 19th January 1736 at Greenock and at this time no one would have even imagined his effect on the Industrial Revolution that was to occur within that century. When James was fifteen he had read books about and become accustomed to Philosophy (similar to modern physics). He had also completed many of his own chemical experiments and even started produce and construct his own products such as a small electronic device that startled his companions. He soon became interested in

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