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    denied from the political sphere in any way. And despite the revolutionary nature of the United States, this carried over from colonial traditions.…

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    ideal lifestyle was changed, people began to explore personal and get involved with political ideas.(A Culture history of the united states) This started with young college…

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    employment after a long establishment of the civil rights movement over a decade. The group of the resident seems to lack education, making them have a rough relationship with other communities. The experience with the people from these region shows how they are stubborn to deal with them. Thurnell Alston is one of the characters identified by the book whereby it introduces courageous character trait. The identified character has shown the effort to gain equal right whereby the people in this…

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    England and divides it under three types of rights: civil, political, and social. He states they all began as one. However, with time they separated, in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century, respectively. Each of these types of rights emerged because the public demanded them, and each went its own way, without regard for the other rights. They were completely separate. It wasn’t until recently, in this century, that the three types of rights managed to meet again and walk side by…

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    reflects the ways in which workers came together in order to achieve a common goal. In her book, Cohen focuses on the Chicago industrial working class and “how it was possible and what it meant for industrial workers to become effective as national political participants in the mid 1930s after having sustained defeats in 1919 and having refrained from unionism and national politics during the 1920s.” Employers would try to divide these movements, and it depended on the unionists themselves on…

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    February 2018 1 Civil Rights vs Civil Liberty 2 Civil rights are a set of rights that are designed to protect american citizens from unfair treatment. Unfair treatment or discrimination can reach its hands into nearly every aspect of life such as education, employment, housing, public accommodations and more. As an american citizen, you have the right to remain silent, the right to a fair court trial, the right to vote and you also have the right to privacy. You are protected under these rights…

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    The Jim Crow System

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    country and making decisions that gave them the upper hand in America. Most African Americans were targeted for being unable to vote and have the same rights as the whites when they spoke up about inequality they faced the whites did not clearly see the injustice they were putting on those of different race, religion, and gender. The civil rights state that they prohibit the discrimination under the law on the basis of race, gender, disability status, or other demographic characteristics. This…

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    call profiling, by judging someone and their abilities or their characteristics without getting to know them. Profiling is a problem, it violates the civil rights of all citizens to have political and social freedom along with equality, but some people in America are ignoring this right, that many have fought for in the Civil War of 1865 ( “Civil Rights” ). The one that believes profiling isn’t an issue of the present time or that people get what they deserve do not see a reason for it to be…

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    no value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you 're using force. And force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived” –Jean Rasczak, Starship Trooper. According to Robert Heinlein, social responsibilities requires making individual sacrifices. He created a world where basic human rights comes with high price of willingness to sacrifice yourself. In Starship Trooper full citizen rights are given to those who have demonstrated…

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    March: Book One And March

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    March: Book One and March: Book Two were mainly about the Civil Rights Movement happening in the south. I would have to say the most meaningful part of the books to me was all the sit-ins that they did and how they did all of them using nonviolence. It would have taken a lot to be one of the black people and not fight back against the whites. How they could all go by showing nonviolence really stunned me. If I was one of them I am sure I would have fought back because I would not just sit…

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