Starting with the Hudson River School founded by Thomas Cole, the nation obtained a visual representation of Manifest Destiny. ... Cole was famous for the spiritual or moral symbols he was used to put in his work. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation into an Edenic garden - The wild and dark area with the natives on the left contrasts with the right side of the painting, a light and open area occupied by the white Americans, which represents the "paradise regained - in which civilization...

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The powers establishing hegemony over the society use an important part of the people known as intellectuals to impose their world-view. Each of these "enlightened people" happen to become supporters who defend the world-view legitimizing the hegemony order. ... From the very beginning of the Red Scare, the Wobblies were the subject of attack by the government, because they were a symbol of radicalism. ... These people held strong anti-government/anti-capitalist views, often advocating the immediate overthrow of capitalism. ... Even the two parties who made up this minute percentage of voters ...

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Along with advances in science and technology, philosophers began to see the world as governed by natural laws such as gravity and motion. ... Once realized, this brand of political association would be one which "will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before". ... Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prev...

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However, her assumption was not correct, as she explained to Primo, "so my first judge, she didn't consider me with respect because of the way I was dressed" (Bourgois, 257). The Game Room, founded by Felix, owned by Ray, was a video game arcade established as a crackhouse. ... He was able to sell drugs with excellent profits through his challenging workers. ... Moreover, "it is when an individual can use power and ability to use symbols, props, and implements of cultural form" (Lecture, 4/5/2003). ... After working in different locations with his new coworkers without being assi...

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Their efforts in helping to forge and create the nation were badgered and bombarded with onslaughts of bigotry and senseless violence. ... The political deception and allowance of bigot laws kept the Asian people oppressed and gave no room for further social advancement. ... The Chinese with their yellow skin, almond shaped eyes, and dark hair would target them for racial segregation and prejudice from white dominance. ... Competition for labor with white workers would eventually lead up to the 1871 Chinese Massacre. ... From the first moment Asian immigrants stepped onto the land they we...

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