While researching this subject I stumbled over a book published in 1999, A Short and Remarkable History of New York City written by Jane Mushabac and Angela Wigan, which shed light on who the first settlers were. ... According to historians it was a popular place for picnics and relaxation. A bridge was erected over one of the outgoing canals called the "kissing bridge" (Peter Brightbill, Historian2). ... Many beautiful, wooden homes were built in the nearby settlements while the land near the pond was used for the purpose of industry. ... Mostly wooden homes were built here and b...

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The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one. 1 In Africa, it is not rare for members of the lower caste to refuse to enter into conjugal relations with those of the higher caste, even though the reverse would seem more normal. ...

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I believe we still have discrimination in public schools, maybe not to extend like were in the old times, but now we called it different: " Multiculturalism-. ... Various political, racial, and familial tensions in this small community are also revealed through the experience of an African American officer (Joe Morton), who has returned home to head a military base, and through the personal struggles of a Mexican-American teacher (Elizabeth Pena), who does battle with an angry school board upset over her multicultural approach to the history of the Alamo. ... Lone Star is most intimately conc...

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As Ray states, 'if there is an underlying biological tendency towards masculine violence, this should manifest similarly in different cultures and places, which it does not' (2011:85). ... Around eight months after the experiment, just under half of the children that participated, were displaying violent acts at home; the same actions that were shown in the video. Experiments such as this do not only show that aggression is learnt (as Bandura found out), but also that the observation of symbols and objects are memorised by young children, and at a later time period these memories ar...

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