From another angle, however, Jacksonianism appears as a political impulse tied to slavery, the subjugation of Native Americans, and the celebration of white supremacy "so much so that some scholars have dismissed the phrase "Jacksonian Democracy" as a contradiction in terms. ... In the West, the seizure of lands from Native Americans and mixed-blood Hispanics opened up fresh areas for white settlement and cultivation "and for speculation. ... Jacksonianism, however, would grow directly from the tensions it generated within white society. ... The people's best weapons were equ...

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In 19th century America, nearly any white person was a racist. ... This shows that he indeed belonged with any other white man in 19th century society that was just how America functioned at the time. ... In his famous speech at Peoria, Illinois, he states: "But in ascertaining the number of the people, for this purpose five slaves are counted as being equal to three whites. The slaves do not vote; they are only counted and so used, as to swell the influence of the white people's voted there is not instance of exact equality and the disadvantage is against us the whole chapter throug...

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In both stories, this opposing group consists of indigenous peoples who function as the objects-in contrast to the agents-of exploitation and colonization. ... Both Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gunga Din portray Europeans and indigenous peoples in starkly different ways. ... In Heart of Darkness, the dichotomy manifests itself whenever people are described. In a particularly salient example, the European chief accountant of a trade company is labeled "amazing" and his appearance painstakingly described by Marlow, the narrator: "a high starched collar, white cuffs, a light...

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Africans were brought to America solely for the purpose of bolstering the wealth of their white masters. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their origins in the late colonial era. ... During the period of 1680-1770, fully 75-85% of all people owned or worked on farms. ... Slaves were a free source of labor and allowed the white farmers to increase their agricultural production with very little corresponding increase in overhead costs. ... Voting rights were granted to all white, male, property-owning colonists "a privilege conside...

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Prizing feeling over than thinking, and trusting the heart rather than the head, people in the Great Awakening relied mainly on their minister to encourage their religious beliefs, and no longer the Bible. The ministers took to more than just preaching to white folk, also spreading the message of God to Native Americans and slaves. With the Great Awakening came the conflict in the religious community, in which the people broke off into two groups: those that supported the Great Awakening, the New Lights, and those who opposed it, the Old Lights. ...

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The ambiguity experienced by the peoples in developing Columbia and Venezuela regarding their citizenship as well as their place in society drew an even larger gap between the natives and the Spaniards. ... After the Haitians completed the only successful slave rebellion recorded in 1791 and gained independence in 1804, they bitterly sought to banish the white Frenchmen, revoke their land and rights, and restore an independent community on the island.   ... The biggest difference was their desire to have the Senate remain hereditary, and have one Republican Magistrate who was subject to th...

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This often encouraged white Americans to protest against slavery primarily because its existence impacted their own lives negatively. ... William Lloyd Garrison, a well-known radical abolitionist, called for the unconditional end of slavery throughout the country, claiming that he would do all he could to help secure to the colored people all the rights and privileges that belong to them as men, and as Americans (Document E)....

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" and "...the brrrr of those white guide things", conveying the extremities of his feelings and creating a relatable character with which the audience can empathize. ... This is further reinforced by the description of the physical differences which they share, through hyperbole juxtaposing her parents as the "whitest white people in the world" to herself as a "person of color.... Epitomized by the idiom "Open your eyes, people", the narrator begins to depict the natural world as a living, conscious web of connections; a foreign concept for most which en...

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Walt shows that as he grows older he grows into a wiser person because at the start of the movie people could put Walt into the class of a bully as he is very racist to everyone and he has a go at Father J you can tell he hates the Asians. ... So as you can tell Walt sees life in a black and white sort of way and Father J is the opposite he sees everyone as a different person with their own back story but as the movie progresses Father J changes and by the end he knows a lot more about life and death that's when he did at the start and not only that he changes his attitude because at the ...

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A lot of us do not see food being granted to us as an expiring, squirming chicken with its head chopped off, but as a beautifully packaged white-meat breast ready to be cooked and consumed. Physical proximity directs us to possess an unquestionable amount of realization and ethical contemplation for companion animals, such as dogs and cats, but is nowhere considered when thinking about factory-farmed animals simply due to the fact that many people are not informed of the results of their consuming of meat. ...

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The South's white population was ethnically was ethnically more homogeneous and less cosmopolitan than the North's. ... "The creation of the Confederacy was merely a political ratification of an irrevocable separation that had already taken place in the hearts and the minds of the people." ...

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Animal rights is based on the idea that animals and people should be equal and Animal Welfare is the idea that animals deserve the same protection people have against maltreatment or abuse. ... ConAgra uses large feedlots to fit as many animals as possible and feed them at the same time, there are times during this process that the animals are so crammed together that the animals appear as if they are a "sea of cattle, a mooning moving mass of brown and white fur that goes on for acres" (Schlosser 149). ... Although the animals are ensured protection through a series of laws many pe...

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Figure 1 -Oil on Canvas Oil on canvas was done by Robert Rauschenberg it contains JFK, as the most dominant image, Pop artists, often portrayed famous people into there paintings and show them in different ways "Icons of the new reality came to be provided by pop art" JFK was by now one of the most famous and loved people in America, two years after his death he was already becoming iconic, and paintings like oil on canvas only reinforced this. ... "It's not just Kennedy himself it's what people see in him. ... Only beating Nixon by the smallest margin in history, the win was a ...

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Scott's nihilistic connotations elapsing from dark film noir attributes depicts the nightmarish dystopia of consumerism, characterising Deckard, a powerless hostage of fate facing social corruption, "If you're not cop, you're little people". ... " Roy values his existence; "I want more life" and obfuscation of his longevity conveys his dehumanisation, "I've seen things you people would never believe". Roy is depicted as man's saviour, a fallen angel in the final scenes symbolized through the white light cast upon him. Referencing &quo...

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, which parallels the experiences of white Australians to that of the Indigenous. Keating urges society to acknowledge the Indigenous culture and enrich their experience of belonging by questioning "can we find just solutions to...the people to whom the most injustice has been done." ... Initially described as people who cannot keep track of their surroundings, the migrants' disorientation is compared to "a homing pigeon circling to get its bearings ", the simile indicating that they were united by fear, therefore stressing the human need of finding a community to belong to. ...

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Through religious ritual and practice, people "make sense of the world, reach decisions and organize their lives," which was evident during my visit to the Hindu Temple in Flushing, Queens. ... However, Lakshmi does not approve of greedy people who only worship her for the sake of material fortune and physical beauty, through which Asad's authorization process becomes evident and the deity gains her symbolic power. ... There were five elements of the Aarti: 1) Wicks (fire); 2) White cloth (space); 3) Wisp (Air); 4) Water; 5) Flowers (Earth). ... They remind people to keep God ...

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On his last day as president, in his memorable farewell address to the White House staff, Richard Nixon offered a kind of apology to those whom he had not rendered the doubtful honor of a visit during their time in the West Wing. ... It is likely, after all, that a great majority of people in the West would concluded that the economic growth that got underway at around the time of the industrial revolution has put us on the right track, especially as most of the benefit derived from it has gone, so far, to the poor, whose immiseration, the common lot of human beings from the origin of the spe...

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Furthermore, the metaphor within Iago's soliloquy as he describes Desdemona as 'free elements' whose virtues he will turn into 'pitch' foreshadows how the innocence of the lovers will be undermined by Iago's manipulation whilst aligning with critic Helen Gardner's statement 'to Iago, the world and other people exist for him only to be used' (The Noble Moor, 1955). Through the way Brabantio's complete faith in Iago's bestial imagery 'old black ram is tupping your white ewe' allows him to accuse Othello of 'thou practice...

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The historical background are an effort from the author to show the reader that this famous case which has been made to look like a positive thing did not do to much to actually help the African American people as much as the popular belief thought it did, showing that this case had many downfalls and that the struggle for the segregation of school was still one that had to be fought for many of years to come. ... Then seeing the efforts made by the white residents of the country to try and desegregate schools by not sending their children to predominantly black schools. ...

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The English contrast the "old and wise People of Maryland" with the Indians "rash expressions", scolding them for bringing into question the strength of their Covenant Chain which "had contracted some rust" (50, 47). The English continually criticize the Indians, telling them what their people do wrong, and demand that they fulfill their wishes such as bringing forward the accomplices in the fur trader murder, and signing a portion of the treaty at the threat of breaking the Covenant chain, which protects them. ... Then, towards the end of the conference, the Engl...

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Much of the literature on political psychology presents compelling evidence in favor of the notion that people subscribe to either liberal or conservative political ideologies because they think or process information along different psychosocial dimensions. ... The theory claims that there is a "matching process that takes place whereby people adopt ideological belief systems that are most likely to satisfy their psychological needs and motives" (341). ... Therefore, what Jost et al. find is that "intolerance of ambiguity, by increasing cognitive and motivational tendencies to...

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People trust them to make informed decisions that hopefully serve their purpose in the best way possible. ... Some software engineers may feel distanced from the people they affect due to the machine and programs that interface between them, but it is reality that these interfaces are merely a medium and as time flows, the level of responsibility placed on them will only grow. ... They learned by trial-and-error and on-the-job training, implying that they risk learning bad practices of other people rather than the best industry practices. ... Usually branded as white-collar work', for mo...

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He further argues that the needs of the African-American community call for a shift in political strategy whereby the blacks would have to ally with white unions in order to have an economic agenda, which he further states that it is time to move on from protest to politics. During the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, which begun after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, Rustin opposed the campaign due to his concerns about civil disobedience in which he argued that the plans were vague and had lacked any direction as well as it did not address the key issues of the day...

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Introduction Terrorism, often specific to the area in which it occurs, is a special domain for the exercise of state sovereignty and, in this context, the comparative study of anti-terrorist legislation is a fruitful line of study. Can we combat a nationalist terrorism whose structures are founded on national historical and ideological roots, in the same way as international terrorism whose strength lies in the capacity of its perpetrators to have access to modern communication methods to convey their ideas and achieve their goals? And if and when several forms of terrorism emerge in the same ...

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