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Papers on History
Black Power
Number of words: 516 | Number of pages: 2.... South to take up arms in self defense against racist violence and use them!" When night
riders of the KKK and police cars approached his house where the meeting was held, Williams and others fired their guns until their oppressors left. Williams went on later to write (concerning the incident),"I accept this responsibility and am proud of it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves that where the law is unable, or unwilling to enforce order, the citizens can, and must, act in self-defense against lawless violence. I believe this right holds for black Americans as well as .....
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Dazed And Confused
Number of words: 862 | Number of pages: 4.... of historical accuracy.
It is directed by Richard Linklater and stars a cast of complete unknowns. This 1993 sleeper leads us through a day in the life of a loosely-aligned group of seniors and freshmen at a high school in suburban Texas. What happens?
It's 1976, school's out for the summer, and kids in pickup trucks and convertibles are cruising the neon-lit streets, swigging beer, philosophizing, looking for a place to party. They pull up at a roadhouse, pig out on shakes and fries, flirt, fight, smash up a few random objects, and mull over the meaninglessness of their existence: "If I ever say these were the best years of my l .....
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The Boston Massacre
Number of words: 326 | Number of pages: 2.... turn something small into something big. The
British soldiers were accused of Murder and manslaughter. To represent them
was John Adams, a relative of Samuel Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get
over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and
misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been one cause
of a later war.
The Boston Massacre increased the hatred between the Americans and
the British. The radical people tried to use this minor event as propaganda.
Paul Revere and Samuel Adams were happy the few colonists died because they
used it as propaganda so the colonist would get mad at t .....
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Native American Genocide
Number of words: 1265 | Number of pages: 5.... but not all people realize that the Native Americans went through their own “genocide” except theirs wasn’t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day.
That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s Lord Jeffrey Amherst, for whom the college and the Massachusetts town are named, had sent disease-be .....
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If Martin Luther King Were Ali
Number of words: 543 | Number of pages: 2.... be the voice of the voiceless, as he was more than 30 years ago.
I think that Martin Luther King would make a tremendous amount of change in cases of mistreated Americans. Incidents such as the Rodney King beating, and Reginald Denny. Along with the cases of Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo. They were all classified as racial crimes, and all created a large amount of racial tension. Dr King was very good at defusing tension like that. He never preached radical opinions about violence or the such, just about all races getting along. Especially during the Rodney King riots in California, Martin Luther King could have made a .....
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World War I And Bringing People Together
Number of words: 1221 | Number of pages: 5.... we were at war. Opponents of the war were equally criticized and were called traitors. War in reality showed that America was really a divided nation, still young, and making mistakes.
World War I showed the separation of the rich, and the lower class. The rich just got richer, while the poor went and fought the battles. "The master class has always declared the war; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has nothing to gain and all to lose-especially their lives..." (Eugene V. Debs, Page 169) This is a perfect example of how some Americans felt .....
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Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
Number of words: 1183 | Number of pages: 5.... setting for the early days of the arriving
Europeans to the North American continent. Countries such as England,
Portugal, France and Spain entered the continent and set up colonies which
were widely spread out over the land. The natives of the area had formerly
agreed upon their occupation of the space, and so welcomed the newly
arrived settlers. An agreement was made in the two-row wampum treaty which
was signed between the natives and the settlers from Europe in 1664. The
agreement would allow Europeans to stay among the native people and use a
certain amount of their land, while in their own areas they would continue
to e .....
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The Aztec Nation
Number of words: 5742 | Number of pages: 21.... and most advanced Indian nations to ever exist on earth. Just about every part of the Aztec life was advance to such a state that at that time of the world the people were living better than many European nations. is unique in its history, economy, environment, and way of life then any other nation at that time.
Perhaps three to four thousand years ago, small bands of hunting-gathering peoples made their way across the land bridge that was the frozen Bering Strait, migrated southward through what is now Alaska, Canada, the United States, Central America, South America, and Mexico, settling along the way. One such hunting- gathe .....
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Beauty And The Beast
Number of words: 670 | Number of pages: 3.... no intention of ever coming to earth or meeting Elliot. Both characters are very unique in the society in which they were thrust, and neither one has anyone like him to go to or latch onto for understanding and support.
Both the Beast and E.T. found one person on earth who accepts them for who they are. Although the Beast captures Belle, she learns to love him and understand his situation; she becomes his one true friend in a society which hates him for who what they think he is. Elliot discovered E.T. in his closet, and due to the fact he had no other real friends, naturally accepted the alien. From their initial meeting, E.T. .....
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Processed Art
Number of words: 1400 | Number of pages: 6.... ugly, ambiguous in meaning, poorly executed or less directly associated with Nazi militarism, the negative effects on the world of his sculpture would have been considerably lessened. In a certain sense, Breker uses his numerous "naked men with swords" to unite the notions of health, strength, competition, collective action and willingness to sacrifice the self for the common good seen in many other Nazi works with explicit glorification of militarism. The pair of statures The Party and The Army stood outside the entrance of Hitler's Reich Chancellery. Like Breker's other sculptures, they are both strongly and clearly expressi .....
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