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    during his presidency, while gaining popularity during a very progressive era, specifically Civil Right movement. Many Civil Right activists fought to end discrimination and segregation throughout the United State. The 1800’s is the most hellish era for African Americans, as they suffered lynching, being slaves, and brutally beaten by white people. While slavery was abolished in 1865, the hate crime and bigotry continued anyways as it wasn’t enough to stop the hatred. Many African Americans voted JFK

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    significance of of Obama’s presidency has had a breakthrough in African American history. He is viewed as a great symbol and success in the Africa American struggle for freedom. He not only stands for our ancestors but also the African American people as a whole. Obama’s sweep of votes was historic for many because of what it showed about America’s past, centuries of slavery, segregation, and the on-going racial discrimination. Knowing that he was the first African American president, he understood

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    office making American history as the first African-american president elected over John McCain, senator of Arizona. This is groundbreaking because just a few decades earlier a man like him would not dare to run for such position. Just four years before In November of 2004, Barack Obama received 70% of illinois votes, making him 1 of the only 3 african american elected to the U.S senate in history. On February 10th 2007, Barack Obama made the announcement that he was running for presidency (Barack Obama)

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    Society these issues, as well as others. He gives each major topic a chapter, and goes into great detail of how he feels Johnson set out to change the American political and social structure. The

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    group as well as a 19-member cabinet of influential and highly educated men who would help make his presidency one of the best in Haiti’s history. One of the things he did was create a nationwide railway network. He contacted the Americans to build a railway line between Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitian. Under contract which was called the “MacDonald Contract” which he negotiated. He hired several American companies to build a railway line between Port-Au-Prince and Cap-Haitian, though critics told him

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    but not all changes are for the best. There are unfortunately changes that are made and they do not help people. In fact some changes hurt or harm individuals. The political change in African American Ghettos during the years of the 1990s until the year 2000 did more harm than good to the African American Ghettos. Like many things, good things do happen before its downfall. In 1992, there was a huge growth in the amount of black-owned business, which was over five-hundred thousand businesses. There

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    Though, the bigotry and racism against the American Negro had become rooted in many institutions in American society by the time of the Brown ruling. Jim Crow laws isolating public facilities had become established in the South. In adding to public facilities, the Negro felt the agony of discrimination in the area of housing, the armed forces and transportation. These forms of discrimination joined with the idea of the inferiority of the Negro were the key stumbling blocks of the Truman, Eisenhower

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    ability to captivate an audience through his use of ethos, pathos and logos amongst other rhetorical devices. His farewell address is a perfect example of Obama’s mastery of discourse as it is chock full of oratorical devices. Obama’s message to the American people and to the rest of the world is that it is essential that we maintain a sense of what it means to have a democracy and that in order to maintain peace and

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    viewed politics. When Jackson was elected president in 1828, he saw himself as someone who represented the common man. He owned a farm, but not a huge plantation, and he had no formal education or college degree. Jackson was a military man who helped American win the War of 1812. For these reasons many people could relate to him, therefore when Jackson was elected as president, politics became widespread in the middle and lower classes. People of lower classes came to hold more public office positions

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    one of many third world countries, and my family had fled this poverty ridden nation to start anew in the United States. My family, on my mother’s side, began to emigrate here to the U.S. from the Philippines in the 1980s, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. My aunt and uncle immigrated in the year 1980 on for my grandfather’s funeral, while my grandmother was petitioned and came in 1985, but my mother did not come to the U.S. until the year 1992. The Philippine government is extremely corrupt, and

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