It must have been something to see America go from living large to nothing, and then make a complete turn around and thrive. ... There were wild parties every night, speakeasies, and flappers. ... No one thought about prohibition, probably because there was actually more alcohol and speakeasies (bars) during prohibition then there were before it. ... There weren't any televisions, most people didn't have cars, and there were nearly no other modern technologies for people to waste their time on. ... The economy was doing better and people were making money. ...

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It must have been something to see America go from living large to nothing, and then make a complete turn around and thrive. ... There were wild parties every night, speakeasies, and flappers. ... No one thought about prohibition, probably because there was actually more alcohol and speakeasies (bars) during prohibition then there were before it. ... There weren't any televisions, most people didn't have cars, and there were nearly no other modern technologies for people to waste their time on. ... The economy was doing better and people were making money. ...

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Now today there are fast food restaurants on just about every corner. ... There is not a salad or a piece of fruit in sight. ... Fifty years ago, people did not buy a lot of bagged potato chips , and if a school age child had a bag of potato chips, then they were considered lucky. ... Then to give children more diversity in their sandwiches, peanut butter sandwich slices were created, and after that came marshmallow fluff and chocolate mixed in a jar. ... To recap, the taken away of recess, technology that requires little to no manual labor, fast food franchises, all these have slowly but sure...

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There was nothing to keep the views interested unless they were in tune to the political situation of the country, which most people are not. ... I was caught off guard by seeing it at all since cigarette commercials are no longer allowed on television. ... Teenagers today are portrayed just as they were years ago. ... Also there were issues of how teens danced that upset parents just like it upsets some parents today. ... It is clearly ok for them to sleep in the same bed with no need for a nightstand in between them. ...

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There was nothing to keep the views interested unless they were in tune to the political situation of the country, which most people are not. ... I was caught off guard by seeing it at all since cigarette commercials are no longer allowed on television. ... Teenagers today are portrayed just as they were years ago. ... Also there were issues of how teens danced that upset parents just like it upsets some parents today. ... It is clearly ok for them to sleep in the same bed with no need for a nightstand in between them. ...

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Serfs were present there too. Back then most castles were made out of wood. ... Then there were many curusades. ... No one won after they stopped fighting. ... There were problems trading with the East. ...

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Dirt roads were no longer dusty and dirty, for that matter they weren't even dirt they were pavement and or stone. ... We no longer dreamed of what a lighted house would be like but what the moon was like. ... Then less the a quarter century later we would proclaim the same reasons for entering what was World War II. ... Many protests and marches took place, many where put in jail and even then they refused to eat to protest for they"re right to vote. ... But through the hardships of the great depression and the struggle of new aspiring black artist to make an impact with there work ...

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INDRODUCTION Whether there is an American novel literature or not, is no longer in doubt. Even before 1776, a great number of people were writing in the American colonies, and sometimes specifically about America, out of close knowledge and involvement. After the war of independence , they were Americans in a more precise sense: citizens of a nation whose new sovereignty was internationally recognized. ... The colonists were Europeans, together with Africans or involuntary' immigrants, brought by slave trade. ... No sovereign , no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no c...

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They were giving false reasons on why our troops were there when know body knew why they were there especially the soldiers. ... The first showing that no one knew why the war was going on not even the soldiers. ... If you were rich then you could buy your way out. If you were in collage then the government would wave your duty because you were smart. ... The Civil rights movement made it so that blacks have the same freedoms as whites and are not discriminated against as much and when they are they get there punishment unlike back then when you got support for such things. ...

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Married women had no resources for leisure. ... The women received no spending money. ... The apartments were very small and the there was no privacy, so the streets were filled with working class people. ... Now that the hours were shorter the working-class girls had more free time then ever for leisure. ... Some would help and then go out, but most ignored their duties at home. ...

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The colonists saw America as the land of opportunity, many of them had probably been told stories about how a man came with no money, and built an empire with farming. ... The areas were also split up by different groups, and religions, so if you weren't a Puritan you couldn't live in that area, or if you weren't Dutch you couldn't live there. ... Then he had to find some way to make money, and then some one to sell it to. ... They have no reason to stay in England, because they will not get anything from there father once he dies so they go to America to find there fortune...

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No Southern State gave slaves the legal right to marry, own property, testify in court, or earn their freedom. ... Then the slave, upon returning, would be executed or severely whipped. ... Certainly she recognized that there were varying degrees of damage done, but she was not writing so much to teach people the overwhelming horrors of slavery but to reveal the small human tragedies. Stowe believed that if she could draw intimate portraits of individuals, then the people who were guilty of perpetuating slavery (those who allowed its continued existence even if they did not own slaves t...

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African Americans were facing very harsh discrimination against them by white Americans. African Americans faced many hardships and were mistreated very poorly. ... Society has been changing for the better because there was a time when one could not get a job just because of the color of their skin, of whether or not they were male or female. ... This method is not too logical because there is no way to affectively enforce this. ... There is no basic way to stop discrimination because people are going to act the way they want. ...

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There where problems in the society; women, African-Americans, and families faced through a lot of difficulties getting where there striving to be at, which became apart of history. ... So, the had no choice but to struggle. ... The little children in the families, they had no choice but to work, then be educated for their family to survive. ... Blacks were being treated unequal. ... They were being cheated by the whites because; if they could not read or write, then they could not vote. ...

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He knew there was virtually no chance that white Southerners would return to the Union just because he had threatened to free their slaves. ... If ignorance was the bases on which they used to disenfranchised African-Americans, then the laws were based upon discrimination against color. ... "Although the freedmen were no longer considered the property of the individual master, they were considered the slaves of society. ... They were merely imitators and had "no pride in their race and no aspiration or ideals in common with Whites." ... There were various plans for Reconstruction, but they ...

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Unlike liberal America, Sparta and Athens were conservative societies. In Sparta, babies were left to die or were killed if they were found to be too weak. ... They first started out with a Tribal government, then a monarchy, an aristocracy, it was ruled by Tyrants, and then finally a popular/direct democracy. ... There are three types of social groups in each society. ... Sparta also had three social groups: the equals that controlled the city-states, the half citizens who had no political power, and the helots who became the slaves of the Spartan city states. ...

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Very often we are asking question is there any employee loyalty or is it already dead? ... They were coming to work just for one reason to put required time. ... When managers were using word "employee- they thought in term of "temporary help."" ... There is very little interference with the management. ... There is wisdom in employee ownership but it is insufficient substitute for loyalty. ...

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A man who is of two different racial groups can be offended when there is no other choice but to check off the "Other" box because being viewed as an "other" can lower one's sense of worth. ... Some may get the impression that if race were not to be important, then why would it be on many important forms? ... Everybody will merely be a "ghost" since there is no way to identify him or her. Crime will probably be on the rise since criminals know it will be more difficult to catch them if there is no description of them. Lost or missing children will be harder to find since there were no...

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If the "unexamined life" is lived, then there would be no advancements. ... Just think about it, if it were not for Columbus, where would you be today? There would probably be no America, and maybe even no freedom for us. ... Then someone, decided that he wanted to examine the "unexamined life." ... There would be no use for astronauts or space craft. ...

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However, the situation in America is that there is no "age-old American culture." There are no American-styled rugs or American-style leather dress shoes. ... Odd enough this makes me no less of an American. ... I could go to China, live there, pursue a career there, and develop a group of friends there. ... Then, as our troops were out searching for the terrorists, we kept up our flags and added signs that said "Support Our Troops." ...

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Then they were forced to work in the harsh conditions of plantations. ... The Africans were chained together by their hands and feet with almost no room to move. ... The Africans were then treated more poorly than when they were indentured servants. ... Back in that time there were no public schools that allowed black children in. ... If there were any teaches that were caught educating black children they were kicked out of town. ...

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I did not really realize that there were any other anti-smoking ads before the "truth" ads. It turns out that there have been anti-smoking ads since 1998. ... The ads that did not have a hard impact were "think, don't smoke" ads, and they featured such things as young athletes saying no to cigarettes and then going on to win or do good in something. ... They say that there needs to be better control of the tobacco. ... If you want the ad to be effective then you should put some sort of hard-hitting fact in it, and if all else fails then you should make sure that it catches the watcher&#...

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It contains no qualifiers, no "buts," or "exceptions." ... So, is there a need to change the constitution? ... If guns are banned then we would not have this problem. ... Fifteen students and faculty were killed, and twenty-five were left either with injuries. ... If guns were banned, the suicide rate would go down also. ...

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There are several immigrants whose lives portrayed both personal and political freedom. ... The promise of an education was a safer promise then the assurance of bread or shelter. ... It was given to them without restrictions, no matter how they were dressed, with no examinations, rulings, exclusions; no machinations, no fees, no questions asked. ... They were then put back on the fishing boat and sent away with nothing; not even a map or compass. ... It comforts her to think there is a sea change in America. ...

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Then cities started to grow, and in the mid 1970s One million SROs were replaced with parking lots, buildings and apartments. ... That means there were a great many homeless people that would normally be arrested under these conditions, still roaming the streets. ... ilter in to the homeless scene, and then in a huge recession in the 1980s 11,000,000 people were laid off (9.7% of all jobs). ... A lone person is that who has no connection to anybody and never travels, but stays in the same general area. ... There is no way that works better than the other. ...

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