As a result of his revolution and fight for equal right treatment, the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964[CITATION Placeholder1 l 1033 ].Even though this was a step towards attaining racial equality in the United States, the law still failed to solve inequality problems and treat all Americans the same. ... During the industrial revolution, the high class was able to dominate the lower class individuals through a number of ways. The industrial revolution began in Britain and went further into Germany passing through France and Belgium. The revolution changed the way in which the goods got pr...

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But Rousseau's mature thought also recognized the potential benefits and advantages of society's chains as long as they were in place as protection for the general good as the people declared it. ... The American Revolution today can be summarized as the uprising of American patriots against the British rule's unfair taxation to the colonies. ... The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Was...

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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. ... Women took advantage of this cultural shift: they pressured President Kennedy to establish the President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) in 1961. ... During debate over the law, women took advantage of a segregationist Congressman's likely hostile amendment to include "sex" in Title VII, which would ban employment discrimina...

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These include Norway, United Kingdom, Australia, United States of America, France, Germany etc. ... He develops a theoretical framework to show that while some countries benefit from the world economic system, the others are taken advantage of. ... The fact that the periphery countries are desperate for profit, even if it is just a minor part, and are in no position to be making demands also helps in the core countries taking advantage of them. ... Also, they invested in the education of their country which led to scientific discoveries and resulted in the industrial revolution as they used t...

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Although Merton was not born with a silver spoon, he took advantage of the cultural riches surrounding his home. ... One of his earliest essays, Social Structure and Anomie (1938) was written and published during The Great Depression. ... During the Great Depression, business was poor and many people were out of work. ... It was during this era of desperation and imbalance of power that Merton pieced together his theory of anomie. ... Some seek to do this through political revolution, or promoting unconventional religious groups. ...

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