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How ethnicity has socially and culturally integrated with the help of music, media/entertainment, politics, sports, etc
How ethnicity has socially and culturally integrated with the help of music, media/entertainment, politics, sports, etc
Introduction
Ethnicity is a difficult concept to define. It is a relatively recent term; the first recorded use of the ...
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AMERICA'S POST-WAR ROLE IN THE WORLD
America's Post-War Role in the World
America's Post-War Role in the World
The years after World War One were an important turning point in the making of the American nation. The country turned away from the problems of Europe. Now it would deal with problems of ...
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AFRICAN AMERICANS
African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement
African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement
Introduction
The 1964 Civil Rights Act, passed in July 2, 1964, represents the most comprehensive federal legislation protecting the rights of individuals from discrimination since the post-Civil War period. This entry reviews the purpose and ...
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SCANDINAVIAN CULTURE
Scandinavian Culture
1. Society in general - what are your ideas on society as a whole? What is crucial?
The term society is used interchangeably to refer to communities of animals (ants, bees, monkeys) and humans. The essential difference between the animal and human societies is, beyond its complexity, the presence ...
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The little Rock Crisis
Introduction
The civil rights movement was born out of a desire to change the fact that black Americans were regarded as legally, politically and socially inferior to whites. The 1950s saw a number of legal victories, such as Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, although it ...
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THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA
The First Emperor of China
The First Emperor of China
Qin Shi Huang
One of the greatest despots in world history, Qin Shi Huang, who bore the original name of Ying Zheng, born in 259 BC In the year 246 as a boy, he comes to the ...
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The Battle of Gettysburg
History
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point (Robert, 1863, 12).
In September 1862, when General Lee ...
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Holocaust
Holocaust
Holocaust
Introduction
Winston Churchill described the mass murder of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its allies as “a crime without a name.” The perpetrators, the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany called it Die Endlösung der Judenfrage (the Final Solution of the Jewish Question). The number of Jewish victims is ...
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BLUE LAW
Blue Law
Blue Law
Introduction
The Blue Laws is also known as Sunday closing laws. The blue or Sunday closing laws, once deeply embedded in American government practice and public behavior, have largely vanished or become inconsequential in the United States. Initially they were inspired by a strong religious heritage that sought ...
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Trail of tears
Introduction
In this essay I have discussed the overall history of this event i.e. the trail of tears in chronological order and at the same time its impact on the Cherokees nation. John Ross who born in 1970 Born to a Scottish trader and a woman of Indian and ...