This was because since women were prevented form gaining a good education they could not obtain a high-income job since this usually required academic success. ... Education meant a higher standing in society, better access to jobs and an ability to gain entry into the world of politics. ... Girls were educated in a variety of informal ways from factory schools for factory workers to home teaching from parents to fee-paying schools run by older women. ...

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The debate by most individuals is that I lost my job or pay increa! ... For the employee hired is not right for the job then how is this equal treatment when the worst person is chosen for the job is not the best, but only because of a right is hired. ... Jobs require strength and brains, not just brains. ... A white man also wants the job. ... There are people that see a race to be lesser than themselves and in turn make them pay in a way for being different. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But how much of this is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. Appearance has held such precedence for Americans. Now, with the threat of terrorists, many use racial stereotypes to determine who is accountable for our unsafe environment. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Directors did not pay much attention because the town for them was making them profits. ... New York hated the acts because it inhibited trade and raised prices on sugar, which made people less willing to pay for it. ... Great Britain's sizable debts had to be paid for and the plan was that the colonists would help pay it off. ...

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African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality education, to escape from oppression, the right to self pride and an end to stereotyping. ... In the result of this act many blacks were arrested, beaten, jailed, deprived of their jobs, intimidated, and some even killed. ... In Montgomery during 1955 there were no black drivers at all and when blacks would enter a bus they were forced to pay their fee get off and then reboard on the back of the bus. ...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on ...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

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• Grade Level: High School

Will Herrin was lynched for killing his white land lord over not receiving pay. ... Standing up for himself and showing signs of ignorance by not listening to his Landlord would make Pud lose his job as well as fighting back to the white man he worked for. ... When he was released back to the outside world he maintained two jobs working in an aerospace company as a computer programmer, as well as teaching at the University of Wisconsin for computer science. ...

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He began to pay more attention to the way the people in Michigan spoke to him and about him. ... After the shoe shine job outgrew Malcom, he went to work for the railroad during World War II, this job landed him in Harlem and into a life of crime that was the bases for his life prior to prison. ... At first Malcom worked a steady job in a restaurant, everyone liked him and he was soon given the nickname "Detroit Red." ... His friend Shorty was in need of money and a job as well and Malcom began the crime spree that put him in prison. ... Things were going relatively well until Malcom broke...

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• Grade Level: High School

Being from Canada and coming down to the South, I honestly didn't know what to expect. You hear stories about how bad racism is and the rich history the South has. As soon as I got down here I could already tell that it was going to be a lot different. Racism is everywhere I go down here and I can't...

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Nevertheless, in the past black women were expected to keep on going regardless, get over it because she could not afford to loose a days pay or an hour of non-productiveness. ... Black women have full time jobs receiving minimum wages and small encouragements from their family. ...

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Most white protagonists, however, are working in white-collar jobs. Out of these economic problems that play a big part in the novel, Carl Lee can only pay Jake $900 to take his case, and is unable to get a new mortgage on his land in order to pay for the remainder of the agreed fee. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By paying the factory workers as little as possible and producing as much product as possible the business workers were never worried about where they stood in society because everyone besides them were unable to break past the walls between the classes Owners of major corporations would disagree with Eugene Debs" opinion that the capitalist system is "incapable" of meeting the needs of the people in society for many reasons. Owners of big businesses, such as Carnegie, thought that the increasing size and power was benefiting the entire society and economy because owners saw it as opportunit...

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Despite jeopardized jobs, intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan, police harassment, and bombings, the success of the boycott was apparent when King and several others boarded a public bus in front of King's home on December 21, 1956. ... King decided to serve his 14 day jail sentence for refusing to obey and officer rather than pay the $14 fine. ...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better d...

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• Grade Level: High School

You will recall that the whole affair was revealed as a hoax and that Sharpton was ordered to pay a judgment in a defamation suit brought by the attorney. ... Al Sharpton is dished millions of dollars a year to be a political figure whose full time job is to voice word on black inequality, and his actions show that he will tell his followers things that would stir up anger and ultimately increase the racial divide because he holds a position that allows him to do so. ...

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In 2004, 72 percent of African American male high school dropouts and half of black males with a high school diploma were without jobs (Thompson, 2012). ... For example, taxpayers must pay for the offenders to be incarcerated tried and incarcerated (Editorial, 2006). ...

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Granville paid for his medical treatment and found him a job as a messenger boy. ... He claimed that slavery was not cost effective and that it would be cheaper to pay black people a low wage and not to provide them with food and housing. ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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