She decided to sale baked goods to raise money for her school. For example, she sold sweet potato pies to raise money for the school that she wanted to establish. ... Mary quickly raised enough money for her school. ... That showed that Bethune had a big heart and she was not teaching for the love of money but for her love of being an educator. ... Bethune knew that her school was starting to grow with the population of students increasing, so a larger facility was right on time for her. ...

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One factor that has affected many entering college in the last 30 years is the idea of affirmative action, where a race or a particular group of people receive preferential treatment over others. Many ethnic minorities, such as blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, wouldn't have been in college ...

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On the way to the store neighborhood children beat him and take his money. When he comes back home his mother merely gives him more money and sends him back out into the street and the children beat him up again. ... He goes out, fights back against the children, and gets to the store with his money. ... From reading this novel, it had increased my knowledge further, from what I knew before. ...

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Although the initial price for slaves was relatively high and the owner had to feed, house, dress and care for the slaves, the owners soon made money on them due to no wages having to be paid and the production rate of their crops increasing due to long working hours. ... The slave owners could work women slaves just as hard as male slaves giving them even the hardest tasks increasing productivity and therefore profit. ...

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This new act no longer allowed slaves to grow their own food, assemble, earn their own money, or learn to read or write. ... The oppression of the slaves continues to increase. ... The immensity and ingenuity of the plot terrified southern slaveholders who now felt it necessary to increase the oppression of slaves. ... The southerners blamed the abolitionist for the increase in the revolts of slaves. ...

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This order required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to increase the number of minorities that they employed. ... The debate by most individuals is that I lost my job or pay increase because of affirmative action. ... The primary purpose of a business is to make money...

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As years passed, the critiquing of Hurston's work increased, yet not in the way that people may have expected. ... With no money or connections, she was forced to accept public assistance and moved into the St. ... Her neighbors were able to raise enough money to cover the cost of her funeral, but not enough for a headstone. ...

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Malcolm Little's father preached that black Americans deserved the same rights as white Americans, but as a result of the times blacks made less money and were persecuted by the KKK. ... Little became widowed, struggled to make money, and was deemed unfit to care for her children and was sent to a mental facility. ... Between the years 1952 and 1960 memberships within the Nation of Islam increased from 400 to 40,000 members (Haley, Autobiography of Malcolm X5). ...

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In the history of the United States nothing has brought more shame to the face of America than the cold, calculated method of keeping black people in captivity. People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ...

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I. Introduction As a native New Yorker, I can remember growing up in Harlem on 112th street and St. Nicholas Ave. On this block everyone was treated like a family. My siblings and I would go out and play in the street, because we didn't have the luxury of a backyard. We would sit on the stoop...

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With much controversy among the faithful, he was the first to advertise the religious concerts, and charge money to see them. ... Now that we have modern beats in gospel music the sales have increased. ...

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Some of the kids desire to make more money and yearn to have some form of financial stability, so they join the drug trade by working for some drug dealing organization. ... (Slate Article) Heroin overdoses have only increased in the past few years. ...

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Malcolm's resentment was increased as he suffered through these hardships, and he was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. ... Why should we pay the most money for the worst kind of food and the most money for the worst kind of place to live in? ...

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It almost impossible for two southern white men to murder an African American teenager like Emmett Till was in 1955 in Money, Mississippi. Employment and educational opportunities for African Americans have been increasing throughout the past several decades. ...

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(Out of Many, 557) Progressives helped bring about state modification that required safety precautions in factories and allowed workers to collect money for injuries suffered on the job. Some states also set minimum wages, which allowed the incomes of the working class to increase. ...

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The visible cross burnings, terrorist activities, beatings, Murders, and vigilante lynching increased by the hundreds. ... They raised money and got schools built for the black society to continue their educations. ...

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The rate of the industrial revolution taking place was so great in the New South that it increased the number of labor fivefold and consumption of cotton eightfold. ... As a result, many blacks and whites owed large amounts of money. ...

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SCLC increased the size of the demonstrations in an effort to create so much dissent and disorder that local white officials would be forced to end segregation to restore normal business relations. ... Eventually the protesters' energy, and the money to bail out protesters, ran out. ...

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One must imagine that the author was one of the unlucky carpetbaggers who did not in fact make money in the South. ... He assumed that business would increase now that the war was over but strangely found himself void of business. ...

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