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    that is happen to African American. Mrs. Morial generation went through the Civil Rights Movement, which was about trying to dismantle the Jim Crow laws created to keep people of color enslaved by placing barriers and depriving them of being free to live as equals that are not segregated from the mainstream. In addition, causing them to have to be socially isolated in concentrated areas; Therefore, the Civil Right Movement was in support of trying to integrate blacks and whites and unity as one rather

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    Thomas Paine was a very influential, and controversial, historical figure during revolutionary times. In this passage from Rights of Man, Paine is describing how people from different races and cultures are moving to America and, surprisingly, everyone is getting along. Paine describes that everyone is on an even plane with no social classes. Everyone is treated equally and there are no extreme taxes. Some of paine's views on America in the 1700s still apply today, and some not as much. In Paine's

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    Questions My questions Did Elizabeth felt jealous of Dido since she got engage before her? Why do you think John Davinier is the right man for Dido? Why Dido’s family never led her have dinner with them when they have visit? Are they ashamed of her? Comment on the significance of the paintings in the film. I believed that the significance of the paintings in the movie is to show African Americans as inferior than white people since in the majority of the paintings white people were at the top

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    “One nation under God, indivisible” – ironic, considering America’s fractured populace. In his book Rights of Man (1791), pamphleteer Thomas Paine presents his interpretation of America’s future. To Paine, basing America’s government on man’s rights creates a perfect society. While modern America is still diverse, his utopian predication no longer applies. Specifically, violent racial demonstrations and wealth inequalities prompt civilian and government action for solutions. Despite Paine’s hopes

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    rebellion. The revolution lasted until the slaves and gens de couleurs were able to obtain their human rights and their freedom. The Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave revolt in history that lead to the first independent black ruled republic. The French Revolution was when the Third Estate decided to rebel against the First and Second Estate so they could all have the same rights as everyone else. There was a period during the French Revolution

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    “…people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages… brought into cordial unison.” In Rights of Man, Thomas Paine characterizes America in the late eighteenth century. However, Paine’s characterization of America in 1791 is mostly different than what it is in today’s society. However, some of his claims are still true today. Paine states that there aren’t really any major differences among the social classes. “There, the poor are

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    The book Rights of Man, written by Thomas Paine, he explains how every human had their natural rights, and how a country could find peace if they composed a government based on the rights. In the particular section we must write about, he focuses on describing America, and how perfect it is. He says everyone is in agreement, there’s no riots, and etc., but does all this hold true today about America? It doesn’t. America today is nothing how Paine described it back in 1791, the wealthy are treated

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    In Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man, he explicitly states his support for the rising American government by giving utopian properties to the country. Paine was a renowned writer who supported the estrangement of the colonies to England. Moreover, Paine’s book Common Sense expedited revolutionaries to forgo separation from England and write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. In the excerpt, his perception of the United States as an ideal democratic society could not be further from

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    people, must look at the struggles our country had to overcome to understand how to unite it once again. With our wide range of backgrounds, it seems as though it is hard to become a unified country. But according to Thomas Paine, the author of Rights to Man, despite all the differences, the United States of America is unified in regards to every problem. However, Paine’s claim of a unified country with no issues to fight over is simply untrue, especially in the 21st century where anger and hatred

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    August 26, 1789, Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizen was issued. It guaranteed the due process in judicial matters and the establishment sovereignty among the French people. The themes found in the declaration were that every person was a French man. The French people embraced the declaration, as the king and many of the nobles didn’t. It ended the ancient regime and that there be equality for the bourgeoisie. The French constitutions that are being produced will be overturned and

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