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    1. Do you think that today we are moving forward or backward in terms of civil rights? The fight for the civil rights, is very important part of the United States History. Although, the Declaration of Independence states “All men are created equal”, Native Americans, African Americans, Women, Spanish, Asian, Europeans, etc., had to struggle to gain their civil rights. The fight has been tireless and it’s undeniable that amazing results have been obtained. When the president Obama was elected, I

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    Civil Rights Reflection

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    lot of things that I never knew before. I learnt about the U.S. Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, the Politics of Public Opinion, and Voting and Elections. Not only that, I opportune to watched a video on Civil Rights; it was very informing. In addition, I have started applying all that I learnt from these chapters into the real world of my day to day activities. As a matter of fact, I was teaching some of my co-workers about their Civil Rights, and liberties based on the knowledge I have gained from

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, an inspiring and controversial novel by Mark Twain, took place decades before the Civil War, a critical time period in America, when slavery was legal and many political issues aroused. During the pre-Civil War era, America underwent a political transition from being undeveloped and agricultural into an industrialized stable nation. Even immediately after the Civil War, when Twain 's novel was published, society 's social, political, and economic aspects of the North and

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    Sam Cooke Meaning

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    to listen to songs about slavery or the civil rights movement without imaging the hardships and the unfairness that African American had to go through. Sam Cooke did that, writing a song that grads your attention and later after Cooke’s death would come more popular. He had a vision for the African Americans, and was not afraid to sing about what he felt was right. Sam Cooke’s song “A Change is Gonna to Come” was a song of protest. For the African Americans that were fighting for their rights. He

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    org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america. Accessed 4 Sept. 2017. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and one of the first women to publish poetry in the colonies. Slave traders took her from West Africa and enslaved her in Boston where her slaveholders educated her, allowing her to develop the ability to write and read. In the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” she discusses the role that religion has in America. In the first half of her poem, Wheatley talks specifically about her discovery

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    Influences of the American Civil War on Brazil Every war brings some aftermath like many casualties, destruction of the infrastructure, and considerable reduction of the population, specifically males. It is also common that the civilian population stand against the opponent that is trying to seize its country. The American Civil War produced these results within the American country. When the war ended, the rich Southerners started to deal with circumstances that they were not ready. A common

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    Despite being freed after the Civil War, African-Americans were still denied many civil rights. Segregation laws first appeared in the 1830s, when Massachusetts railroad companies separated black and white passengers. In the South, black Americans saw many of their freedoms disappear in the 1870s with statutes called Jim Crow laws. In essence, these laws were a system of legal segregation. African-Americans and white citizens used separate facilities “ranging from drinking fountains to public schools”

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    My essay explains how Mississippi has become what it is today. Mississippi located in Southern United States has been known for its music, religion and cotton. It also known for the great Mississippi River. Mississippi is the most religious state of our time today. Cotton production is one of the reasons why Mississippi became large in growth and population. Mississippi is the birthplace of America’s music. Mississippi also has a hall of fame where they celebrate all the nationally and internationally

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    states during the American Civil War (). However, differences between the North and the South were readily apparent well before the American Revolution. In 1861, the Civil War erupted between the two sides, and much of the conflict led to some sectional differences. These differences emerge in their ideology in religion and politics through history, and would also have a more practical impact on the

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    significantly affected many lives as most Americans were farmers and owned slaves. John Brown, one of the famous abolitionists, deeply believed the idea of equality in terms of religion. While practicing his believes and ideas to support emancipation of slavery, he had to take some violent actions like a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. As a result, some people have considered him as a terrorist and the instigator of the Civil War whereas some others think him as an American hero, freedom fighter, and martyr

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