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    her writing was obnoxious and not good, and ended up losing it. This infuriated Solanas and she shot him, but didn't kill him. She then started gathering people to join her radical group to go hunt and eliminate men. She would read parts of the Scum Manifesto which she wrote. She would read parts of her piece to the people in the group which motivated them to follow her and do as she said. They committed many crimes some being killing innocent people that were males for no reason. She wanted to scare

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    propagandist Valerie Solonas in her infamously misandrist work, “The SCUM Manifesto”. It was through a uniquely aggressive presentation of factual claims and personal sentiments that Solanas was able to undermine American society’s traditional perceptions and understanding of the female gender role in the mid 20th century. Among Solanas’ wildly expressed ambitions for the future within the manifesto was that of the possible formation of SCUM, acronymic for the Society for Cutting Up Men, an organization

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    In the political manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, it was written by college students, who created there ideals for a Democratic Society and expressed their views in the America they lived in. The Huron Statement mainly addresses the main and lessor problems that America was facing during this time. When the Port Huron Statement was written, people were getting over the Cold War, still fearing it after how it left many Americans. As well the racism happening in the South. The Students for a Democratic

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    founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) published their basic ideologies of in their “Sharon Statement.” Two years later on the June of 1962, members of the Students for a Democratic Society at their retreat published their political manifesto in a paper known as the Port Huron Statement. Despite their differing political views, both political youth groups centered their criticism on the same target: the American government. An analysis of both documents revealed that both believed that

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    The ending of World War II was a significant turning point in American society. America went through a conversion process in which we realized just how illogical it was for us to fight a war across the water for people whose rights were being violated and then come back home to the hypocrisy that was our own treatment towards races such as African Americans. The Port Huron Statement was a response to the events that generations at the time saw unfolding before their eyes. The paradoxes that they

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    Description: The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was formed in 1959 after they decided to branch off of the Student League for Industrial Democracy, which was the youth branch of the Socialist League for Industrial Democracy. The SDS was a radical group made up of teens and young adults that sought to overthrow America’s democratic society and remake it in a Marxist image. Many of the SDS’ key members where known as “red diaper babies” as their parents were often members of the Communist

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    An Effective Model of Process and Best Practices 1. Introduction This a report of my experiences and findings during an eight month industrial internship placement (Jan 2014 to August 2014) at SeisWare International Inc: an “industry leader in the development, sales and support of seismic interpretation software” [1]. In particular, it is a company that focuses on exploration and production in the oil and gas industry through the support and development of its software package. Contained within

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    Looking back at these two works written in the mid to late 19th century, it has become clear the benefits and detrimental aspects of the opinions of the writers. The statements and arguments made by each author will be considered in the general impact each philosopher had on the 21st century. In 1848 when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the first edition of the book that would define their worldview, they saw an issue with the fragmentation of the communist beliefs and were commissioned to

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    freedom in unique ways, but their messages are fundamentally the same and continue the ideas that we encountered in the esoteric texts as well as in The Matrix: . First, we have Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy and The Communist Manifesto, where we encounter the proletariat, or the working-class people regarded collectively. In these two texts, the latter of which was co-authored by Frederick Engels, we learn that the proletariat is enslaved just like the people in the matrix. And

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    Water Jump. I remember back 20 years ago when the ISO 900x standards were pushed heavily in Eastern Europe 's manufacturing economy, it was like reminiscent of a bank robbery during daylight. Consulting certification companies were making tons of money and in return were giving their clients a right to put label called ISO 900x. Around that time I was working as a mechanical designer in a leading manufacturing factory and one day I witnessed an extremely interesting conversation between part time

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