In the Burntollet disaster, the Royal Ulster Constabulary was supposed to be protecting Catholics but there were reports of them joining in the rioting with the Protestants as well as the B specials. ... The Catholic army besieged Derry but the Portestants declared " no surrender". ... The Parliament made laws that denied Catholics of there basic civil rights. ... I think the Siege of Derry is also an important even for why the British troops were sent in because the Apprentice boy march would never happened, so then the riots may of never happened. ... After looking into why the British troop...

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Even though the United States were neutral, war was coming and no one could stop it. ... The Americans were no longer neutral, they were a part of this war. ... He knew that if they went on with the operation there was no turning back. ... There were many soldiers yelling at each other. ... But considering the situation, there were men that made mistakes because of it. ...

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So poor in fact, that there wasn't any. There was no school bus, so pupils had to walk miles, just to get to school. ... Then white people were taken back considerably, but what did they expect? ... ""It was then when I bumped into Lillian Jean Simms." ... White people, in theory, had no opportunity to be kind to Negro people. ...

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If the league needed an army then they would need to ask a country to lend them troops, if there were casualties (and there always are casualties) the the president of the country who lended them the army would be responsible and would need to take all the blame from the families of the casualties so it might then reflect on their elections or the amount of support he has, so no country would want to lend their army because it is in the interest of the politicians to keep their army safe. ... The league has provided some racial equalities, for example the members of the league were mostly euro...

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There were two black men not doing their job. ... These types of scenarios were appalling. Then we started to see how the judicial system was no different than being out there in the communities with lynch mobs. ... Although some inequality still exists, it is not as bad as it was back then. Somewhere on the America's timetable there was a turning point and I think professor Kreus expressed that quite well with a song from Billy Holiday about lynchings....

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During the novel there are various points showing that racism was very accepted, and common in that era. ... Then there was the incident where Mr. ... If he was really such a threat to the community, then why did they all shrug it off? It was a though they knew he wasn't able to hurt anyone, and there was no point in shooting him, but even if he was shot, it wouldn't have mattered. ... There was fact after fact saying that he couldn't have done the crime, and that her father did it, but everyone knew that there was no chance for Tom Robinson. ...

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His encounters prove that there is no difference in humans based on skin color. ... There were certain states that he went that many whites were friendlier than others. ... There were contrasts when he described what he saw as a white man and then as to what he saw when he was black. ... It encourages me not to be fearful because then I will not be able to see the good points in life. ... This showed that everyone was living in a fear, causing no one to see the sunlight. ...

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Most live in urban, violent and cracked infested areas with no daddy and live in a single parent household with a lot of bothers and sisters, to many for the mom to support. They don't have a chance to grow up in a nice neighborhood where there is no crime, no drugs and have successful black people to look up to. ... But a child that grew up in the ghetto and then put in suburban neighborhood will bring there ghetto heritage to the urban life. ... They don't want to get an education, then go through college, then law school, to finally become a lawyer then start making the money at 3...

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Even though politicians might say that there is no more racism going on, the fact remains that racism will always exist. ... Some white people still think that black people are no good for anything but being slaves. Even though there are still some KKK organizations some white people are just racist against them because of what they were taught by their parents. ... However the governor of Staten Island said that there is no proof that it was an act of racism, while most people said that is was clearly racism. ... Where she moved to were only some Asians and Spanish people. ...

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The African Americans living in America who went there for working and living conditions were not considered to be a very good race in the beginning. ... Also they were killed and hurt by the very racist Ku Klux Klan (KKK). ... He also argued that; "No sane black man really wants integration! ... Blacks have gained equal rights as whites and there is no open racism any more in America. ... CONCLUSION As a result; Black people in the USA are in better position then earlier times, however there are some areas, which are causing problems. ...

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Catholics were treated as second-class citizens and were excluded from everything (Allen). They basically had no rights at all. ... Since then the violence has continued. There have been some peace agreements. ... Some people will not get along no matter how hard they try. ...

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During the 1930's there were great problems between the races, and he was one of the few committed to attaining equality for both blacks and whites. ... Atticus noted how in the court there was no way for a black man to win against a white man when it's the white man who gets to have the decision of what happens. ... If Atticus Finch ever treated anybody unequally than there was a good reason. ... Not many people think that if you lose a battle then you were not successful. ... In this time blacks were strongly impacted from racism. ...

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At first, he thinks he might have slept under his sun lamp for too long, then he frantically tries to wash off the blackness with showers, and milk baths. ... He realized that there is no way that he can hide it nor can he run away from it. ... His children, who loved their father when he was white, were embarrassed of the fact that he was black. People thought that his penis size is bigger, kid in the store thought that he was there to rob him. ... I wish there was a newer version....

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It is almost a assured fact that the English colonies in North America were created for the sole benefit of their mother country and that if there were no benefits of natural resources and expansion of an Empire or competition with rival nations then England would have withdraw their forces and interests. ... These laws were enacted so that the colonies would have no profit from trade while securing England's control. ... As it is now clearly seen, Mercantilism can profit only one party while damaging the others economic structure, and Great Britain in the 1700's was no exception. ...

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There are around 3000 people on death row across the country right now and if these politicians get their way, then 3000 killers lives will be spared. ... All human life does have the right to be respected but there is a point when that right can be lost, if someone takes the life of another human being, then they have given up that right. ... If no evidence is found by then to prove their true innocence, chances are no evidence will ever be found. ... Department of Justice studied all the available criminal records of those that were on death row they found out some pretty interestin...

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His encounters prove that there is no difference in humans based on skin color. ... There were certain states that he went that many whites were friendlier than others. ... There were contrasts when he described what he saw as a white man opposed to what he saw when he was black. ... It encourages me not to be fearful because then I will not be able to see the good points in life. ... This showed that everyone was living in a fear, causing no one to see the sunlight. ...

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"No one nation, no one language, would have achieved what it has, if the same art had not been cultivated in neighboring countries and in different languages.... No one country would have made the advancements in medicine that it has, if it were not for the other countries and their advancements. In science, there are always new advancements being made. ... Then, from the advancements made by Bakken, Rune Elmqvist and Ake Senning, from Sweden, were able to design the first implantable pacemaker. ... There was also the invention of the X-ray machine, created by Wilhelm Konard Roentgen o...

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Even if you failed, Atticus believes you were successful. ... Atticus noted how in the court there was no way for a black man to win against a white man when it's the white man who gets to have the decision of what happens. ... If Atticus Finch ever treated anybody unequally than there was a good reason. ... Not many people think that if you lose a battle then you were not successful. ... In this time blacks were strongly impacted from racism. ...

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The British were on a mission to destroy colonial military stores, but the colonists heard about what the British were going to do, and weren't too happy about it. When the two armies met, someone from the colonial or British side fired a gunshot, and then everyone went into panic mode. There are sworn testimonies saying the colonists fired first, and then there are testimonies saying the British fired first. ... British soldiers overreacted when they saw the colonists blocking their path; they had no business shooting into a crowd that had done nothing wrong. ... Historians cannot even...

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If they could tax the people in Britain, then it just made sense to tax the colonies as well. ... But with Parliament being the highest governmental authority in Britain, who was there to stop them? There didn't seem to be anyone. ... If freedom was what they wanted, then they knew they had to achieve freedom and separation from Parliament. ... Maybe it was not the actual taxes, etc. being placed over them that they were most concerned about, but the fact that they had no say in them. ...

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First we saw intolerance towards women and how they were expected to act, then with the Japanese-Canadians, as well as intolerance toward aboriginals. ... In the eyes of the law, as well as many other people, women were not smart enough to understand politics, so there was no need to allow them vote to. ... During world war two, there was a major intolerance towards Japanese-Canadians. ... People who were of the aboriginal decent were also in tolerated. ... They were taught English and they were not permitted to speak their native language. ...

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The British knew there were riches to be had in the new world. ... In order to ensure that no one else was going t get rich, they put numerous rules and regulations on how things were to be handled. ... They set rules such as the Manufacturing Acts which meant all raw materials had to be shipped to England, and then back to the colonies as finished goods. ... The Townsend Duties Act and The Tea Act were more ways to get more money out of the colonists by taxing tea, paper, paint, lead, and glass. ...

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That was the question June Jordan's students were faced with. ... A group of rules were established, titled "Guidelines for Black English", one of which states: "Clarity: If the sentence is not clear then it is not Black English. ... There are standards for the way you dress, act, drive... there are standards for everything. ... Just as there are guidelines for Black English, there are guidelines that our system is rum by. ... There is no need to so clearly separate blacks from whites. ...

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These industries made war supplies such as artillery and weapons which were then sold to the two fighting nations. ... They all probably did this because America was France's major source of supply so if they couldn't get there goods or weapons they could not fight. They also probably searched ships at seas maybe just to make sure that there was no French-bound cargo aboard. ... On the other hand, the United States industries benefited but there were some set downs, such as the Orders in Council which prevented the American industries from getting their goods to the nations and hav...

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These obstacles wouldn't be there if he wasn't black. ... This was possible back then because people often stereotyped black males as being aggressive. ... Black individuals would have no rights. They were often stereotyped as "aggressive." There was no freedom of expression anywhere else besides their own community, and sometimes that would be stopped as well. ...

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