Throughout the Revolutionary War American Colonist was fighting for many different causes, probably the most obvious was freedom form Great Britain. ... During the move Patriot people gathered to vote on weather to go to war or not. ... Prince Hall also voices his opinion about the war but he was fighting for freedom in a different way. ... In the Patriot an owner gives a slave to the army so the owner doesn't feel guiltily about not joining the war. ...

• Word Count: 484
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• Grade Level: High School

The Revolution changed the social rank of race and gender in America. African Americans, Native Americans, and women during the American Revolution experience a small amount of equality. There was an erosion of class differentiation because of the new ideals that the Revolution supported. Egalita...

• Word Count: 290
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Declaration fought for the freedom of the white American; the rights of the black man were not included in this new revolutionary legislation. ... "In fact there was a notable gap between antislavery rhetoric and the realities of revolutionary politics. The slavery issue could not be allowed to divide revolutionary alliances or to take precedence over such critical questions as military defense and political reconstruction." ... By 1775 the necessities of war had pulled both free and slave Negroes towards the British army, many of them clutching promises of freedom as their eventual rewar...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass, through the entirety of the story, uses references to American Revolutionaries to show the correlation between the plight of African Americans and those issues that the American Revolutionary War was fought for. ... Douglass was not at all blunt in the meanings of all of these revolutionary references. ... They risked their lives, not unlike the American Revolutionaries who fought for their independence less then 100 years before. ...

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Violence was understood as a floating signifier: the fact that violence could be destructive and oppressive or productive and revolutionary signaled that its meaning lay in its context. ... I think this was a crucial point of the conflict, and had to be understood as a declaration of war by the political establishment. ... Here again we find the method of inversion, as "incarcerated people were central to the revolutionary aims of the Black Arts movement both in the works they wrote and in the symbol they provided of imprisonment in a radically oppressive society" (Borstelmann 2011: 101). ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Black Panthers believe and believe profoundly, that black dignity and black liberation are not possible in the United States without profound changes to the system, changes which run so deep that only so strong a word as "revolutionary" will do to describe it." ... Through its ideologies the Black Panther Party developed a ten point plan that was to be the platform and program that articulated the wants and needs of the black masses in America that were still alienated from society and oppressed despite the abolition of slavery at the end of the Civil War. ... • We want an immediate en...

• Word Count: 2373
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• Grade Level: High School

AgFund Response I read the AgFunds story the week after you mentioned it in class and then reread parts of it today. The whole subject is an uncomfortable one without a doubt. The delay in response is due primarily to two reasons. First of all, I didn't want to insult your intelligence with a ...

• Word Count: 655
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

World War II led to increased industrialization in South Africa. This was because importation of European goods was very difficult during the war, and to compensate South Africa began to produce its own consumer goods. This period of increased industrialization created new job opportunities for black Africans, and after the war led to an influx of black Africans in urban centers seeking wage employment. ... For the most part Scott discusses his theory with regard to progressive revolutionary states that employed Authoritarian High Modernism for the benefit of the whole of the citizens. .....

• Word Count: 2509
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There was no civil war or Boer war. These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The English employed many natives to fight in the war. ... The change of hands between the to leaders was slow but revolutionary for the region none the less. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It appears that one of the reasons for the rapid growth of the Negroes" interest in Christianity stemmed from this revolutionary idea of individual privilege in determining destiny. ... It is not hard to establish the fact that Methodist Church was one of the great factors in the incidents and movements leading up to the Civil War and the eventual emancipation of the Negro. ...

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Marcus Garvey was a man who seemed to have found dissatisfaction and frustration among millions of Negroes pushed northward during the World War 1. ... He was trying to work for a disciplined revolutionary movement. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This strategy was best demonstrated in the Algerian-French conflict through revolutionary decolonization as Fanon and Césaire express through Marxist theories. ... Césaire, like Fanon, was supportive of the war for Algerian independence. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

• Word Count: 4261
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• Grade Level: High School

On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ...

• Word Count: 2041
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As an African American composing (and endeavoring to distribute) poetry in the United States just 60 or somewhere in the vicinity years after the end of the Civil War, a period when indications of prejudice-including explicit segregation, brutality, and even lynchings-were still widespread, Langston Hughes inescapably investigated such points as oppression and liberation in his work (Evans 2010). ... Langston Hughes was a man ahead of his time with views that saw beyond color barriers, and while his writings did appeal to interracial groups who were into "serious" modern literature h...

• Word Count: 1762
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some altogether different like Martin Luther King Jr. are born to be revolutionary leaders. ... Also we shall look at his famous "I Have A Dream" speech held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. which along with Winston Churchill's "We Shall Never Surrender" speech during World War II, would become one of the most prominent speeches of the 20th century. ...

• Word Count: 3793
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Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. ... He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ...

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Revolutionary incidents like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the march on Washington were just a few of the major catalysts in what is known today as the greatest civil rights movement of all time. ... He refers to this as a "world-wide powder keg" that will explode into a major race war (Malcolm X 232). ...

• Word Count: 1892
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Just as it had been done by France's revolutionaries in the French Revolution. Just as it had been done against Germany during World War I by America, England, and France all together, allowing these countries to have the peace they had already individually gained. ...

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So basically the Black Panthers is a revolutionary organization that gains its support from rootless young blacks that are trapped in large urban slums.2 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) came into being on February 12, 1909. ...

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In 1672, when Holland and England went to war, the Dutch soldiers retook New Amsterdam and renamed it Fort Orange. When the war was over, it was signed back over to the English because the Dutch did not want the land. ...

• Word Count: 4369
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• Grade Level: High School