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    unifying results of WWI in relation to its identity‚ the overall result was a divided society.” The experience of World War I consolidated Australians’ pride in themselves‚ with the emergence of the ANZAC legend bringing ideas of Australian identity into focus. The war opened up deep divisions in Australia‚ a main division being religious; between the Protestants and Roman Catholics. The conscription issue also deeply divided Australia‚ with many people both for and against it. During the 1920s and

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    A “House Divided” It was June 14‚ 1858‚ and we were on our way to Mr.Lincoln’s house. My Dad happened to be one of Mr.Lincoln’s colleagues;therefore‚ he was always helping him compose his speeches. We weren’t too far from his house so we just took our horse and small wagon. We have arrived at Mr.Lincoln’s house. It was always my job to tie up the horse so I walked round Mr.Lincoln’s house leading the horse to a post where there happened to be water and hay. As I tried tying up the horse I spotted

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    discriminating against those who do not meet their definition of pure. There are still small pockets of prejudice set out in the United States. Class Divided is a documentary about a third grade teacher‚ Jane Elliott‚ who created psychological experiment to teach her students demoralizing experience of being discriminated against by their own classmates. Jane Elliott divided her class by eye colors‚ brown and blue eyes‚ giving priority to one group and making the other inferior. Once a nice group of kids were

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    Divided consciousness was what we talked about earlier on in the semester‚ and this plays a huge part in what identity means to those during that century since many Indian children were brought over to the big cities in America to get education and have American culture planted in their heads. Because of this many Indians as they grew up they wondered who they were‚ thus setting up the divided consciousness that we talked about in class during this

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    for the expansion west had great impact on the United States. American settlers and business were attracted to western expansion as opportunity came up. Cattlemen‚ miners‚ and railroads had all greatly impacted the United States‚ but of the groups railroads held the most significant impact on the United States and the growth of the nation.     For years wild cattle had wandered the western open range until protein-rich beef was in demand to feed city dwellers in the east and miners as well as soldiers

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    In the play A Heart Divided it was fairly obvious that the playwrights wanted to make a statement with their work. They managed to cover both sides of the argument concerning the Confederate flag quite well. Symbols have a different meaning to everyone and it’s all about the context in which they’re used. My initial reaction to A Heart Divided was that it portrayed people from the South in a very stigmatized way. Characters‚ such as Mrs. Redford or Jared felt like they fit in perfectly with people’s

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    A class divided is a documentary about a teacher named Jane Elliot who teaches her students about racism first hand. She divides the students into two groups‚ the blue eyes‚ and the brown eyes. For the first day‚ the “brown eyed” children are not able to go to recess‚ or lunch at the same time as the rest of the children. They wear a blue collar around their necks so that they are obviously different at a distance from the other students. They are not allowed to drink from the same water fountains

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    Romans took up the concept and applied it to the western half of their empire. Asia—or the East—was similarly a geographical innovation of the Greeks and Romans. Asia was that land that belonged to non-Greek cultures of Asia Minor‚ particularly the Persians. The Romans‚ too‚ regarded lands east of Greece as Asia. The name was retained and applied to other cultures beyond the Turkish peninsula such as China and India. Although what we refer to as “Western Civilization” began in the area that today we

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    A CLASS DIVIDED Thirty years ago Jane Elliott taught the third grade in the white‚ Christian community of Riceville‚ Iowa. The day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed she planned an exercise that wouldn’t just show her students what racism is - rather‚ it would give them first-hand experience of what it felt like to be oppressed for something out of their control. Elliott divided her class by the color of their eyes‚ marked them with armbands and proceeded to treat one group as if superior

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    before were their friends‚ the sad‚ broken looks in their little faces literally made me cry! how easy it was to turn them against someone was eyeopening! i would encourage eveyone to use this as a wonderful life teaching skill. I found the CLASS DIVIDED show quite interesting and very compelling. However‚ I must say that I found it more of an example of OPPRESSION and not discrimination. Minority and race issues are far more complex and subtle than could be expressed in the exercise. There are

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