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    Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educators of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was a dominant figure in black affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1858. As a slave Booker did not have a last name and chose "Washington," his stepfather's name. After the Civil War Booker, his brother, and his mother moved to Malden, West Virginia were they went

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    Jim Crow Newspapers

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    commercial studies at Morris Brown University. Pierce is one of the town’s “best Colored boys” and is a shining example of the importance placed upon the freedom of movement as well as the right to an education. Booker T. Washington created the Tuskegee Institute in order to train both men in women in technical studies. Washington believed that African Americans should stay put down south, not fight the Jim Crow laws, and become economic mavens in cash-based economies such as agriculture, masonry

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    Communication skills is a topic highlighted throughout the book and is a topic mentioned in classes but not something individuals spend a lot of time learning. Communication is an essential part of healthcare, since having a patient understand what they have and what is being done is just as important, if not more important, then actually giving the patient their needed treatment. In Death and Dying specifically, the concept of closed awareness in the context of communication. Closed awareness means

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    Biomedical and behavioral research done before a system of medical ethics was created prove the dangers to human participants if the laws in place are not followed. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment left the men in the study untreated and many of the subjects died even when proper treatment had been discovered. The Nazi Experiments led to the torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners in concentration camps throughout a

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    World War II changed the lives of many Americans overnight. Men, women, children, everyone was impacted by it in one way or another. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese, the United States made the decision to enter World War II and fight back. World War II gave those who were discriminated against better opportunities. World War II impacted many Americans especially Latinos, African Americans, and women. Even though they were all discriminated against equally before World War

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    In 1971, a physician named Thomas Percival wrote new professional codes, most of which are now the basis of modern codes. He had written these codes in an attempt to settle a dispute between three groups of medical specialists, that took place in Manchester England. The dispute was between physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, the codes written contained information pertaining to the duties of physician to one another, to patients, and to society, along with the patient 's’ duties to physicians

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    frontline but more supporting roles. A very well known unit of black soldiers in ww1 are the harlem hellfighters they were given some of the most dangerous assignments because of the color of their skin. Black soldiers were also under equipped like the tuskegee airmen in ww2 they had older planes but still proved themselves skillful and were allowed to use the new P-51 mustangs. They were only given tasks of little value

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    1636- Harvard was the first institute of higher education. It was built in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1640- Harvard appointed Henry Dunster was appointed the president of Harvard and was teaching all of the classes. 1690- John Locke wrote an essay about human understanding. It touched on his belief that the human mind is “tabula rasa” This view affected people’s thoughts on American Education. 1710- Christopher Dock was a Menonite from Germany. Upon arriving in the United States, he opened a school

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    People say that the reason we study history is to learn from our mistakes. The Holocaust was a very big mistake. The genocide that happened in and around Germany killed over eleven million innnocent humans, and was one of the worst of its kind. It is also imfamous for how well it was concealed from the the those outside of Europe. Tens of thousands of people were being killed daily, and the world was oblivious. The Holocaust happened because of one main political party, the Nazis, and their ruthless

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    Historical information: Invisible Man was published in 1952 by Ralph Ellison. Ellison laments the feeling of despondency and “invisibility” that many African Americans experience in the United States. Ellison uses W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey as sources for the novel. W.E.B. Dubois wrote The Souls of Black Folk, where Dubois expresses his theory of the double-consciousness possessed by blacks. Booker T. Washington wrote Up from Slavery, which talks about his rise from slavery

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