... had come to approve of married women earning money in business and industry.” (Mansbridge 22) The shift in attitudes encouraged women to work. The status of women changed after the war because they took on the same jobs of men while they were at war, proving that what a man could do a woman can do also. The war gave an opportunity, a chance for women to show off their knowledge, abilities and capabilities. Quite ironic, the jobs women obtained were partly forced into voluntarily jobs. Some of the women wanted to prove themselves capable of doing a “man” job, while others were indirectly forced into it because they had no male to support their family financial ...
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... into lines, and walk by a doctor, trying to hide any physical problems. Children over two had to be able to walk by themselves. If the doctor noticed anything wrong he would use a piece of chalk to show the person required further inspection. If, this was indeed the case, the person would be set aside in a cage. Another test was that of sanity. An interpreter would ask each person a few questions just to find a sensible answer to test mental stability. The last and most feared doctor checked for disease by lifting the eyelid. He scared children, and probably spread more disease than the people he checked. From an eyewitness account, his gloves were not sterile, an ...
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... Luther King Jr. was known as one of the leaders of the American civil right movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent resistance to racial oppression. As a Baptist minister King knew better then to use violence to fight against the oppression. But this did not mean he would stop from voicing his opinion about the problems that were present. One example of the problems that Dr. King tried to bring to the peoples attention in an attempt to fix it was the “law” that all the African Americans could sit only at the back of the bus and not the front, something that was abolished after Rosa Louise Parks made a choice to sit in the front of the bus because of her s ...
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... and made it a goal to establish the Catholic doctrines among the native population there. The Catholic Church and the Spanish monarch, however, looked upon the native population in the New World as souls to be saved. They did not consider or treat the Indians as equals. The implanting of , and the treatment of the native population by the missionaries and christian conquerors was detrimental to New World. Through men such as Cortez and Las Casas accounts of the conversions have been recorded. One of the reasons for this was the alliance of the Catholic Church with the Spanish monarchy. The status of the Indians was disregarded as the Christian conquers and miss ...
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... and Horowitz begin by trying to describe a "summary moment" (Collier and Horowitz 11) of the decade. This "moment" involves a revolutionary group known as the Black Panther Party. The authors seem to criticize this group by commenting on their appearances and their actions in certain events. For example, at a cocktail party, one Panther spit in the face of an army draftee because he brought a black friend from the army home while on leave. When the Panther returned to the party, the people present pretended not to notice that anything had happened. Later, when misunderstandings occurred between two guests at the party which resulted in one of them making a rac ...
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... based on the works of German political philosopher Karl Marx. In 1899, just as he was about to graduate, he gave up his religious education to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. While employed as an accountant in T’bilisi, Stalin spread Marxist propaganda among railway workers on behalf of the local Social Democratic organization. After moving to the seaport of Bat’umi, where he organized a large workers’ demonstration in 1902, Stalin was hunted down and arrested by the imperial police. A year later he was sentenced to exile in the Russian region of Siberia. He soon managed to escape, however, and was back in Georgia by earl ...
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... reserves remaining to oppose their advance. Too much time had been wasted and the last Confederate division, that had been left at Harper’s Ferry to supervise the surrender of the garrison, was approching the battlefield. They came upon the flank of the Union forces and drove them back. At the end Confederate generals urged Robert E. Lee to retreat, but he refused. At dawn, on the 18th, the army was still there inviting attack. Although more then 10,000 additional Union troops reached the battlefield McClellan made no move. Lee had had read McClellan’s mind, he also knew his own men. He knew that his soldiers’ prestige and morale would be strengthened if ...
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... adjusted to the economic conditions and they prospered. Workers rioted and had strikes, in attempt to obtain higher wages. Sixteenth century intellectuals blamed this inflation on the import of American treasure in Europe. Modern historians have a different opinion on the causes of inflation. The price of wheat and other basic foods increased before the arrival of American gold and silver. Evidence shows there was a population increase. Therefore, the demand for food rose faster than the production did. The inflation had a negative effect on all of society. Much tension existed in all levels of society. “Without doubt, the Price Revolution and the defensive p ...
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... courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York. He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the esta ...
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... Our spirits will live on, bringing forth rights to rule as we please." Going off to war is a tough thing to do. I am forced to leave my family, horses, plantation, and slaves to fight for the pride. The proudest of keeping those elements intact. Keeping those in order is a war in itself. -Jonathan Cort Dear Journal, August 17, 1863 The war front is quite an unimaginable experience unless you go through it yourself. We have little rations of horrid food. Hard tack full of meal worms and chicory coffee. Our Mamie's collared greens is what I miss most right now. I do not feel kindly towards the food, but as long as we are able to keep alive on hard tac ...
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