California would enter as a free state; New Mexico would be given separate territorial status; Texas would be paid $10.000.000 for ceding its claim to New Mexico, thereby allowing it to pay its debts; and Utah would be given territorial status. (175) But President Clay died in July 9, 1850 and Vice-president Millard Fillmore took measures that delayed the War but also created some differences between northern and southern countries. ... Delany, a black man who joined the army and achieved a high social status: "Este cargo, su rango militar y el prestigio que trajo consigo del Norte, le p...

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The only way a Sierra Leonean woman can possibly gain status through marriage is as their role as a mother. The more children a women births, the more her social status increases. This is the only way a women can step up her social status. ... Contradictions in the Constitution have significantly contributed to the low social status of women. ...

• Word Count: 2075
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• Grade Level: High School

The code also carries a strong sense of social group separation. Almost each set of laws differs for what social group or sex the Burgundian is. ... The social group discrimination is not limited to men either. ... Not only is there a difference in social group, there is a difference in sex. ... Social order is an obvious intent of the code, and its strict laws would suffice in providing this order. ...

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Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ... Frederick Douglass broke the barriers placed around the black man's social status and weakened their inferior stereotype. ...

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From spring 1775 until the fall of 1776 the rights and status of the black slave in America were closely questioned. ... Lord Dunmore was aware in 1775 that the offer of freedom to the black slaves could challenge and successfully disrupt the economic and social infrastructure of the colonies. ... The status of the black slave - and their means of employment - was not improved even after their enlistment in the British army. ...

• Word Count: 1913
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Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... They are still slaves to a white-bred social system that silences them. ... The narrator criticizes that Jody achieves his god-like status just because no one else has the nerve to take matters into their own hands. ... Turner strive for the status of the white people, but also for the "unattainable" ph...

• Word Count: 1653
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• Grade Level: High School

Slaves then joined the rest of society as their social ranking was raised by this freedom, and they would not be at all limited or hindered because of their previous status. ... "This division was one of vital status as it was considered punishment or degradation for a house slave to be sent to the fields" (Barrow p 77). ...

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The Enlightenment ideas of liberty and equality inspired the oppressed classes from the social structure of these colonies to rebel against their oppressors. ... This social class along with the Mestizos (descendent from a Spaniard and an Indigenous) had built up anger from being ignored by the "original" Spaniards or "Peninsulares". ... Whereas the Mexican Revolution was not conducted by only one social class, but by the leading Creoles and the Mestizos that followed them. ... Every single person that is part of this world's society, has to work on being better with o...

• Word Count: 1312
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The reasons why this event is occurring could be because of differences between economic and political status of both countries. ... Stephens who was the vice president of Confederate States of American said that slavery and African Americans status were the main cause of civil war in U.S. from 1861 to 1865.[ CITATION Cle61 l 1033 ] In the past, slave were mostly used in plantation such as tobacco, indigo, rice and forest products because they were no such technological advancement in those times. ... Slavery played a major role throughout history in terms of political, economic and social asp...

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Slavery is the state one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household whereas citizenship is the state of the status of a citizen with its attendant duties, rights, and privileges. ... Such an alliance presupposed the fight for social, economic and political equality of the ex-slaves. ... Congress were determined that African Americans be accorded all of the rights of citizenship-. 6 During Reconstruction period, the situation was still precarious and poor whites kept enjoying an additional status by keeping African Americans down. ... Such an alliance presupposed the f...

• Word Count: 2175
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Flint and his family appear to have it all, from wealth to high social standing, their family is far from perfect. ... The fact that Jacob's often exhibited an overriding concern for the well-being of her family and friends over her own status is yet another heroic trait within Harriet Jacobs though she often judged herself harshly for her impact on those around her. ... Flint using the image of Church to improve his social appearance. ...

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Social behaviors and stereotyping were the main obstacles in objective description of black Africans. ... The reason for this is stereotypical thinking of Europeans that Africans' "black skin was almost uniformly condemned "6 and equated with their inferior legal status, meaning that they were destined to be slaves7. Stereotyping resulted in change of social behavior of Europeans, as people with black skin provided a cultural context for prejudice " "sneezing when a black African appeared was in Spain a primitive practice for warding off the devil "8. ...

• Word Count: 1345
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In response to these changes, the states organized efforts to limit the political, social, and economic status of the freed slaves. ... Happening in the beginning of the story well before the riot, the meeting symbolizes the strictness of past social policies regarding race. ...

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Few slaves rose from their original status to the ranks of the slave elite or even the free-black. Slaves gained status among themselves by the work they did for other slaves rather than that which they did for their owners. ...

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African-Americans, though legal slavery has been abolished for over 100 years, still have not completely achieved the respect and status of the dominant group in the United States. ... Authors suggest that "reparations should take the form of capital transfers and African status in the International Monetary Fund" (Mazrui, 22). ... Surface solutions, while some may claim they are "a good beginning" or perhaps just a token of our apologetic state, will only further social damage and entrench abusive African regimes. ...

• Word Count: 1457
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George Washington's belief was to lead Virginia into an expedition to challenge French claims at the Allegheny River Valley. This was accomplished in 1753. In 1754, Washington led Virginian forces against French at Fort Duquesne in the upper Ohio River Valley. Washington also builds Fort Necessity a...

• Word Count: 1934
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This narrative is a real life demonstration that the social structures placed on nineteenth-century women to maintain piety, purity, and submissiveness were only applicable in certain ideal settings for white women and an impossible code for slave women to follow. ... She suggests that women be judged by different standards than those applied to other women, and in doing so develops a moral code that addresses the specific social and historic position of captive, black women. ... Due to slavery and other prejudices that existed during Douglass" era, there was no resolution to his complex socia...

• Word Count: 1740
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In the south, Reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and a new social structure between whites and newly freed African Americans. ... African Americans desperately wanted to move up in social standing and become educated. ... The black man was viewed as being part of a system where they were thrown into the bottom of the social classes with no legal status." ...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

Storytelling, music, and dance have all played a central role in African culture, because they help preserve history and religious and social customs. ... In the foreword, Hirsch best sums the tradition up when he states "the dynamics of cultural and social history, the relationship between individual and the community, tradition and change, social structure and social conflict are captured in the relationship between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the stories the slaves tell" (Botkin, xii). ... Many also contain social commentary. ... Still, despite their tenuous status, familie...

• Word Count: 2002
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Whereas, India had social issues such as famine and Latin America did not have the land capacity for the colonial powers to invest. ... Within Europe, the industrial revolution had created social distress and unease on the population. ... Colonial Rule in Africa It is important to know for clarification that racism within the colonial context was a form of biological determinism.3 This means that the colonial state could determine the status and capacities of different human populations based on their genetic makeup. ... The British Missions was primarily segregated in all forms of living when...

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To me it means basically an ideal state that has achieved perfection in social, political, and moral aspects. Yet others may view utopia the word as an impractical or idealistic means for political and social reform. ... In is fundamental structure it is a great social instrument for the subjugation of pride" (Hexter 80) The deconstruction of the individual within the Utopian society makes Utopia not a utopia. ...

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People were divided based on class, status, religion and language. ... Depending on what race you are, your social, political, and economic ways of life can be effected. ... Language is socially inherited it does not exist apart from culture however it could spread far from where it started. ...

• Word Count: 2288
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Within some African societies females were highly prized, as they were the means by which status, kinship and family could be acquired. ... Female slaves could be significant links in kinship networks, with their importance in the social system enhanced. ... "An African-American female slave would be effectively head of household even where there was a known and partially responsible father any master or mistress-supplied child welfare assistance went through the mother, and therefore strengthened the role, power, and economic position of the mother (internet)" The bonds developed by man...

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By 1662 mulatto children, and all children, of slave mothers were to follow the status of their mother (Moore, 9) By the 18th century the south increasingly needed slaves to carry on their way of life. ... The social stucture of the southern states was, undoubted, one-sided; the elite society consisted of planters, and learned professions, the middle class were small planters, merchants and lesser professionals, the lower class was dived first into yeomen and artisans and then laborers and servants, and the "peasants" were the slaves (Moore, 129) Despite the profitability of small-scale s...

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Besides religion and one's family, gender is also constructed by society and those who are in power, which in this social order was men. ... (Kerber and De Hart 44) Depending on where she lived, her economic status and age; a woman's daily tasks and duties would have differed, just as they do today. ...

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