This paper focuses on the oppression of American Indians in the U.S. during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. ... The arrival of Europeans to the Americas in the seventeenth century marked a major change in the natives' society and culture. ... This idea of, "otherness," led to centuries of oppression and discrimination against native people. ... The European colonization of the Americas in the seventeenth century led to social, political, and economic domination over tribal people based on "otherness", and the systematic genocide of American India...

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In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korhonen 335). Therefore in England in sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries identity of ideal beautiful woman was considered by the dress, gesture and comportment that she was presenting and wearing. ... To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from the eighteenth century. ... With all beauty industries raising ...

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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 prevalent social tension amongst classes of the time that would have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. ... The highest ideology of nineteenth century liberalism was that economically, maximum freedom would only come as the result of the limited power of government. ...

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Among other important amendments are the Thirteenth (1865), which abolished slavery; the Fourteenth (1868), which granted citizenship rights to former slaves and guaranteed to every citizen due process and equal protection of the laws; the Fifteenth (1870), which granted voting rights to former male slaves; the Seventeenth (1913), which provided for the direct election of U.S. senators; the Nineteenth (1920), which established woman suffrage; the Twenty-Second (1951), which limited a president to a maximum of two elected terms in office; and the Twenty-Sixth (1971), which extended voting right...

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"For half a century the one political certainty in Mexico was that any government regardless of party or announced purpose, would be overthrown."" ... In the early seventeenth century a vast group of puritans founded what is now New England in North America. ...

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During the seventeenth century, the English navy had a huge demand for hemp rope, since it was stronger than the rope of other materials, and ordered the colonists of Virginia and Maryland to grow it in order to fulfill this demand. ... By the second century A.D., the plant was being used for anesthetics during surgical operations involving stomach and intestines, for which acupuncture was ineffective. ...

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Independence Day is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of the signing the US consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England's King George III. There was growing unrest in the colonies concerning the taxes that had to be paid to England. This was commonly referred to as "Taxation without Representation" as the colonists did not have any representation in the English Parliament and had no say in what went on. As the unr...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

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