Nuremburg laws By: Caleb Adkins What are the Nuremburg laws? When did they occur? Why did they occur? The Nuremburg laws were 2 laws‚ both commonly knows and the “Nuremburg laws.” It all begun in Germany in the September of 1935 under the Nazi regime. Due to Hitler’s plan of a ‘master race’ & anti-Semitism towards the Jews he created these laws to take away‚ and break off the Jews one by one. Many different people was involved in the Nuremburg laws some who were affected by the laws such as The
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Minority Police Brutality in Major Cities of the United States Since the first state-sponsored police forces in the U.S. racial discrimination in police forces has been a characteristic of the American landscape. Racial profiling and police brutality have their roots in enforcement of slave codes‚ black codes‚ and Jim Crow Segregation laws. We Charge Genocide‚ a petition submitted to the UN by the Civil Rights Congress in 1951‚ documented thousands of incidents of police violence against African
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Our government is known as one of the best standing democracies in the world‚ and it also has our president under the title of “Leader of the Free World”. However‚ how did our country’s government become this superpower today? What challenges did it have to pull through to get here today? It may come as a surprise‚ but our government wasn’t always the powerhouse it is after the Revolutionary War. We didn’t even have the Constitution at that time. That’s why people should educate themselves on the
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To be an educated black or colored man was rare in the 1800’s‚ so rare it could cost a black man his life. For Douglass to become an abolitionist was truly amazing seeing that the odds were not in his favor. Douglass put his life in danger many times and face many obstacles to become the educated man he was. With the help of Abraham Lincoln‚ Douglass helped in the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation to free and abolish slavery in all America. In the autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom by
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THE BLITZ Where and when did the Blitz start? At 4:56pm on 7 September 1940‚ the air raid sirens wailed as the luftwaffe (the German Air Force)‚ launched a massive attack on London. Around 350 bombers flew across the English Channel from France and dropped 300 tonnes of bombs on the docks and streets of London. Other places that were affected? Other important military and industrial centres‚ such as Aberdeen‚ Belfast‚ Birmingham‚ Cardiff‚ Exeter‚ Glasgow‚ Sheffield‚ Swansea‚ Liverpool
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There are many ideas and assumptions surrounding how the “model minority”‚ or the Chinese in America came to be. Coined in 1966 by sociologist William Peterson‚ the term "model minority" was first articulated in an article entitled "Success Story: Japanese American Style" in the New York Times (Peterson‚ 1966). The immigration of the Chinese to America and how they became the model minority in an age of discrimination while surpassing African Americans is worth learning. I feel it’s important to
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society because city states at that time had to become good in military matters to be able to defend themselves and able to expand to remain self-sufficient. The Helot rebellion also caused them to ramp up their military standard to be able to control the helots and to protect them from invaders. Sparta was forced to become a self-sustaining society because they would not be able to get any help from other countries. The training of Spartan warriors started when they were boys. The selection of Spartan
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Black Tuesday and Bank Failures: During the Roaring 20’s as people celebrated the triumph of war‚ no American would have ever guessed that their time of partying and fun would soon come to an abrupt end and that the years following would consist of them fighting for survival. October 29‚ 1929 was the fourth and last day that stock markets crashed and is widely known as “Black Tuesday”. Black Tuesday was the worst financial crisis in U.S. history‚ with it signaling the start of the 10-year depression
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Chapter 10 Outline I. The Rise of Popular Politics‚ 1820–1829 A. The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties Expansion of the franchise was the most dramatic expression of the democratic revolution; beginning in the late 1810s‚ many states revised their constitutions to give the franchise to nearly every white male farmer and wage earner. In America’s traditional agricultural society‚ wealthy notables dominated the political system and managed local elections by building up supporting
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The black lives matter movement is aimed to help a group of people find liberation in society that has kept them silent in the past years. This movement began with the killing of Trayvon Martin and eventually become popular with the series of unfortunate events that came after. Unfortunately many people of these minority communities have become victims of police violence but this has also only helped communities from all over the states come together as one. The purpose of the black lives matter
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