"Later, our fathers were taken captives in the first Big War to help in a war whose cause they never knew. ... We see that the blacks develop hatred towards the whites, and this is one of the most intense events of the novel. ... Conflicts between status accounts for a great deal of events that take place in the novel. " Europeans cannot be friends with black people. ... This event is a turning point in the novel because blacks were turning against blacks; this makes the novel a page-turner instead of boring story. From all that is seen above, it can be concluded that conflict plays an...

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Another event that is the outcome of the Jazz Ag is the Harlem Renaissance. ... These events help to show the slow acceptance and influence of African American culture on white America. ... During the period after world war one several black writers began to publish their work that "differed significantly from either the Chesnutt or the Dunbar traditions "in black literature. ... During the 1920s, an explosion of literary and artistic innovation, remembered forever after as the Harlem Renaissance, made a neighborhood in Manhattan one of the most important cultural centers in America. ... Th...

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The period that occurs after the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction. ... Within the context of the South, beaten in war, where murder, disorganization and military rule is the new order, violence becomes the only answer. Violence was the direct result of the South's racist attitude and it was an important part of the Southern atmosphere. ... "The only important clause in the oath of membership was a promise of absolute secrecy. ... The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal government set up in 1865 to help former slaves and other persons suffering from the effec...

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One injured negro is at the police station and is expected momentarily to die" ("Race War"). ... Whatever the real reason or combination of reasons, the event which set the fighting off may not really have happened," (Blakey 103). The event in the elevator was just an excuse. ... It is doubtful that the complete truth will ever be uncovered, but it is more important that everyone learns from the past, and that the past is not repeated. ... "Race War Rages For Hours After Outbreak At Courthouse; Troops And Armed Men Patrolling Streets." ...

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Julia (by well Julia) When we learn about history (American, world or otherwise), we consume it as life changing events that shape the world we live in today. ... King was assassinated, the U.S. was in the latter part of the Vietnam War, and African Americans were fighting a war of their own for civil rights all history stuff, all stuff that has affected the world today. ... At the same time, I think it was important to see that there is more than one side of life for African Americans. ...

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Before the World War II, many Jews, blacks were excluded from society, but after the WWII they came to the attention of the Americans, especially blacks that joined professional sports. ... On the road toward pluralism and cosmopolitanism occurred many conflicts that resulted with many loss of lives; this event is also known as 'race riots'. ... The switch from wind-driven ships to steam ships represented an important step from economical and immigration point of view; so that, the immigrants number increased from 5 million to 10 million in 30 years, and to 15 million in the next 1...

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Pop's would narrate many historical events that took place in Harlem, which brought us to the turning points of Harlem. ... After World War I the increase of food prices attracted blacks to seek a better living up North. ... Harlem also became an important cultural center. ... This idea grew stronger following World War I since its major claim was democracy for all. ... The musical "Shuffle Along" became an important hit on Broadway. ...

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In the 1930, actual events that were happening in the country included the Great Depression. ... This made sense during that war when we were sending food to other countries. But, when the war ended, the U.S. unexpectedly stopped its policies to help farmers. As a point of interest I saw an article that document what the government paid farmers during and after the war. It's important to keep in mind that during the war the government was paying farmers roughly $2 a bushel for wheat and after they government urged farmers to obtain debt the war ended and the government paid farmers on...

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Within the films Glory and Django Unchained, there are several depictions of how whites viewed blacks during the time of the Civil War. ... For soldiers within the Civil War, shoes were an essential part of their training. ... It is evident that several generals within the Union Army were reluctant to give black soldiers proper attire for battle because they viewed the overall health and well being of white soldiers within the Union army as more important than that of the black soldiers. ... The film Glory depicts an event when the black soldiers find out they don't receive equal pay to t...

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The structure of the film was done in such a way to influence people's thinking towards black consciousness and to make the viewer feel offended with the events happening. ... They were involved in bringing Basque refugee children out of Spain during the Civil War and persecuted Jewish families out of Germany under Hitler's autocracy. ... In South Africa blacks have tribal wars and there is a great deal of black thuggery in the black townships. ... It is also structured to cause you, the viewer, to believe in certain events and make you feel angered by the events happening. ...

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Wilder's way of thinking is very important point within the book. ... "The material thinking is not thought, but actions, facts, events, and the relations of things" (Dewy 562). ... After Hartke joined the army he was sent to fight in the Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War. ... The complete opposite occurred with the Vietnam War. ... Thus, as part of an anti-war agenda, news producers and journalists purposely selected stories that portrayed the war as uncontrollable. ...

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This is especially evident now with this imposing war in Iraqi were Neo Conservative are advocating for global "Americanism" which namely reads: Our white way is better than savages of the earth-they the savages need to be more like us and we the white man should teach them to be like us. ... There is no denying that whites are the dominant group in America, it is there ideals, principals, needs that are much more fostered by the American social institution; while the needs and ideals of the sub-groups are ignored or treated as non important. ... Or, is it they don't want to be reminded o...

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Unfortunately, the most important decision-maker in the story, Captain Amasa Delano, falls into this category. ... Due to the fact this story was written ten years before the Civil War, Melville makes bold statements in "Benito Cereno." ... In one instance Don Benito explains the turn of events that lead them to the present. ...

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For centuries, African Americans have faced discrimination; a blatant imbalance of equality drastic enough to catapult our country into the Civil War. ... This is important because the African Americans wanted the restaurant owners to see that even though they are of a different race, they are still valuable, paying customers. ... This was when African Americans refused to take the public bus hoping to hurt the city financially, to prove that they were just as important to local transportation as whites. ... This is important because their force together resulted in no more bus segregation. .....

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Before the Civil War, slave narratives such as these were the first to use such dramatic personal experiences of African- Americans in a text. ... Jacobs" work found its place in history as a "slave narrative" protesting the abuses perpetrated against captive men and women, but it reaches far beyond the boundaries of this genre and stands as an important feminist document. ... One important event occurred between Douglass and a particularly strict slave driver, named Mr. ... According to DuBois, an American Negro has " two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in...

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The first being as to how this event quickly turned from cop versus man to white cop versus black man. ... This shows that most of the information we receive on social events comes from articles and reports of the media. ... The manipulation of words that the media is capable of creating alters greatly the publics take on an event. ... When the peoples informant is manipulating descriptions of events so that the perception of those events are conditioned, a problem like racism seems even more challenging to exterminate. ... (freedomoutpost.com) With numbers like that the existence of racism ...

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Because of this important social movement, African Americans and other minorities were more involved in everyday life by being allowed to work higher-paying jobs, attend mixed schools and have the same rights as everyone else in America. ... One of the most important events that also started desegregation was the Montgomery bus boycott. ... Because of the baby boom after World War II, the culture in the 1960's was very focused upon America's youth. ...

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Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. ... The Harlem Renaissance made an important impact on American life through impressive contributions by many artists. ... A black middle class had developed following the American Civil War (1861-1865), increasing education and employment opportunities with a new sense of racial pride (Collier, 1985). ... World War I rallied many Black Americans with patriotic appeals to democ...

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The Renaissance took place between the end of World War 1 and the Great Depression. ... For thousands of blacks around the world, the Harlem Renaissance was proof that the white race did not hold a monopoly on literature and culture.Many events during the Harlem Renaissance influenced and affected the lives of many today. The best accomplishment of the Harlem Renaissance was not the literature produced during its time but rather the fact that it gave African Americans something to be proud of, to learn from, and most importantly to build upon. ...

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The event that causes this hatred of Othello and also his hatred of Cassio, occurs when it was time for Othello to choose his Lieutenant, it was Cassio who was chosen instead of Iago, even though Iago's war experience was much greater than that of Cassio's. ... Brabantio has the right to talk to Othello in such a manner because he is an important man, being a Senator of Venice and is also higher in rank than Othello. ...

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Pieter's aunt Sophie as narrator provides a retrospective account of these events. ... She is motivated both by her guilt for failing to prevent Pieter's tragedy and by the wish to show mercy, in contrast to the racially divisive laws that separate Pieter and the country The novel is set in the time following World War II, and Pieter and the other South African soldiers who volunteered to go abroad and fight with the British have returned home and resumed their lives. ... The most important example of resistance in the novel is the "great strike and procession in Johannesburg" that ...

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In the 1800's everyone's feelings about slavery, good or bad, culminated in one big war, the American Civil War. ... Some blacks even fought in the Civil War. ... Once the North had defeated the South in the war, the slaves were freed from bondage, however, that did not mean that they would be free from the terrible prejudice that still permeated the country. ... This treatment prevailed for many years after the Civil War. ... This was an important moment in black history because it marked the first time a black person had been admitted into an all white college. ...

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Ideas of Caucasian supremacy can be found throughout doctrines and scripture that exist in important Church documents. ... The life of the biblical figure, Cain, is a very important aspect of the literary work. ... As the Civil war began, the Mormon-dominated territory of Utah decided not to participate in either seceding from the Union or joining the Union army. ... Grant saw the Civil War as a blessing in disguise; they believed that the war would trigger a Mormon prophesied apocalyptic event that would cleanse society and eventually lead to ultimate Mormon control. The war over slavery d...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on ...

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Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance....

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