In many factories and mines employees worked long hours for low wages while operating unsafe machinery. ... The opponents to child labor argued that long work hours deprived children of the opportunity of an education, which would prepare them for a better life. ... The illnesses ranged from high work-related accidents due to hard work and long hours to tuberculosis caused by working in the mines. ... From the vigorous battle, Illinois banned children under the age of fourteen from working and also limited the workdays to eight hours. ...

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From this, it is obvious that the same women who had to face the abrasiveness from police, and who had to work the 12-16 hour days just as men, are the same women whose presence reshaped and redefined the Party's "soul-. ...

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Brown provides readers with narratives of daily life on the plantations, at slave auctions and during the dark hours of individual pain but what makes his narratives so unique is his constant reference to all these situations in the paradoxical realm of democracy and religion. ...

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The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But how much of this is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. Appearance has held such precedence for Americans. Now, with the threat of terrorists, many use racial stereotypes to determine who is accountable for our unsafe environment. ...

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"This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again" (Baldwin, 170). When conducting research in American history, people will realize the amount substantial evidence demonstrating the mistreatment of black people in the United States. "Black people have been experiencing oppression fro...

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In the United States, American Slavery consisted of African Americans who were brought into America for property and violently forced to work in large or small plantations. In her novel "Kindred", Octavia E Butler, writes about a modern black woman who's snatched unexpectedly from her home in 1979 P...

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"The media's the most powerful entity on earth because they control the minds of the masses."" Malcolm X. Television has become a viable affiliate in majority households in the United States. According to statisticsbrain.com the average American spends 35 hours a week watching TV", then spending i...

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In the year 1940, 75 years after slavery was abolished, African Americans were still experiencing hateful and demoralizing discrimination. In Maya Angelou's "Graduation," she describes her roller coaster of emotions on her 8th grade graduation day. Angelou was an acclaimed poet, author, dancer, actr...

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Such as Kracha and his friends in Out of this Furnace, the workers were being worked to death and they were forced to work an enormous amount of hours both day and night, which did not allow them to be with their families at any time. ... They worked for legislation to protect immigrants from exploitation, limit the working hours of women, mandate schooling for children, recognize labor unions, and provide for industrial safety. ...

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Benjamin Banneker was an African American that invented many products and practices that we still employ today. He walked and worked among our Founding Fathers, and paved the way for many African Americans that have contributed to the adaptation of the political, social, and economic structures wit...

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Consequently, she was often sold to a number of inhumane slave masters and suffered from terrible treatment and harsh labor; one which included working on salt pans for long hours.5 She eventually travelled to Britain with her slave masters where she gain her freedom and gradually learned how to read and write. ...

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Introduction In this paper, I will refer to several different ethnic groups. Hispanic or Latino may be used interchangeably with each other, as may Black or African American be used interchangeably. I may use the term "minorities" when referring to both or either group. In so many families, even in 2013, there are students graduating from high school this year and heading to college as the first member in their family to continue their education and strive for a degree. Unfortunately, many of these students will not reach that goal, especially if they are Hispanic or African Americ...

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Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more ac...

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Martin Luther King and George Wallace had extremely opposing views of the civil rights movement and the deterioration of segregation. Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the positivist view that had drawn direction for the aims of law from social phenomenon rather than a moral compass. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of ...

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Introduction As quoted by Emile Durkheim, a society without crime is impossible.1 Even if the standard of determining criminal acts is set high, less severe acts will still be considered as crime. As there is no chance of eliminating crime out of society, punishment is an essential tool to create a fair society for it having 4 main goals: deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation and incapacitation. Setting a fixed standard and guideline of punishment aims to convince potential criminals that the crime is not worth the time (general deterrence), to equally and fairly distribute punishment among ...

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