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    1. What is the difference between a. and a. Radical reconstruction aims to address social‚ political‚ and economic equality through legislative efforts. For example‚ socially they tried to address it by offering food and housing to slaves and providing better education for them to get a better life. Politically‚ the 14th Amendment helped them get equal rights and were protected under the law‚ while the 15th Amendment gave the right for colored people to vote. Economically there was a sharecropping

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    liberties of blacks and let go of their hate and anger against them. The social challenges from the Civil War continued well into the Reconstruction. It was just years before that war ripped through the battle grounds of southern states. Unfortunately‚ violence was no stranger to southerners whose past aggressions ran high because of personal loss and a failed rebellion. The Civil Rights Amendments were put in place to protect citizens but local law enforcement and white southern citizens were

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    Lincoln‚ the president of the U.S at the time came up with the plan to re-build the country after the war. He called it Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan was put to use right after the war in 1865 and ended in 1877. Within the Reconstruction Plan‚ Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. And also‚ during reconstruction period‚ we witnessed the emerged of Black Code which created the Fourteen and Fifteen Amendments and followed up

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    After the Civil war‚ President Lincoln reconstruction plans for the United States was to unify and reconcile the north and the south. Republican dislike President Lincoln reconstruction plan due to their belief that the south should be punished. Due to assassination of President Lincoln‚ President Andrew Johnson’s carried on with the reconstruction for the south. President Johnson plans range from disallowing freed slave’s freedom‚ returning land and property back to southerners‚ and establishing

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    One may question the content of Easterly’s work‚ however‚ is choice of titles and headings is remarkable. “Panaceas that Failed”‚ Easterly gives a summary of the economic models applied by a variety of developed states and international institutions‚ that have inevitably failed. The argumentation against the Harrod-Domar Model employed by the US and the USSR is infallible‚ it is true that the economic reasoning behind the Model can be defined as arguable‚ at the very best. Yet Easterly chooses to

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    Make no mistake about it‚ but some athletes never return from injuries similar to the one as Adrian Peterson’s ACL tear. If someone would have said that Peterson would be up for the 2012 MVP‚ everyone would have just laughed. Everyone but Peterson himself would have told you that it is impossible for him to be a contender. Future Hall of Fame Minnesota Vikings’ running back rewrote medical textbooks‚ anatomical knowledge and clinical reason during the comeback season of his reconstructive surgery

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    Reconstruction was an attempt to rebuild the South after the Civil War. It was noble in its aspirations; not only was Southern society and its economy to be rebuilt‚ Blacks were to be given rights and freedoms. They were to become Americans at last. However‚ this noble effort was ultimately doomed‚ and would fail. Reconstruction had to address post-war problems‚ and newly-freed blacks would need to be integrated into society‚ however‚ there were radically different ideas about how to approach this;

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    Q. Discuss Suzi Gabliks notion “Has Modernism failed?” “Has Modernism failed?” by Suzi Gablik published in 1984 confronts the social situation of contemporary art. It explores the relevance of spiritual and moral values in a society orientated around (1) “manic production‚ maximum energy flow and a fixation with commodities”. It deals with the Bureaucratic powers of the art world and the results this has had on art and how this has forced artists to retract from society into (2) “individualism”

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    granted black males the right to vote. • Reconstruction- plan to re-establish the south and re-admit them into the union o Lincoln- 10% plan o Johnson took away 10% plan o Amendments 13‚14‚ and15 • Black codes- way for the southerners to control the freed slaves o Freedman’s Bureau- congress plan for reconstruction • Protect the freed slaves‚ put south under martial law to enforce reconstruction and new amendments • Johnson vetoed it o Reconstruction acts- set up military to supervise former

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    cough medicine. This happened several weeks ago. Yet‚ place these individual incidents alongside the unending onslaught of natural disaster‚ insurgency‚ terrorism‚ corruption‚ poverty‚ natural resource shortage‚ and disease. Now you can understand why so many Pakistanis suffer from PTSD‚ and are driven to desperate measures. In 2008‚ in one of the most harrowing pieces of journalism I’ve ever read‚ Newsline’s Shimaila Matri Dawood wrote of Pakistanis murdering their children‚ jumping in front of

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