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    So I believe gangs have a history in the United States. The United States have became a melting pot in the nineteenth century. There has been multiple attacks of gangs association around the world especially where most crime has happen. In Chicago shootings this year were 4‚999 gang-related members‚ the police say.. Gang members do not know the reason of being in a gang. It’s manly to be brothers or sisters as one. Some kids growing up don’t have actual brothers or sisters

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    A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present Chapter 18 “The Impossible Victory: Vietnam” For this assignment I chose to to find bias in Chapter 18 from Howard Zinn’s book‚ A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. The chapter is entitled “The Impossible Victory: Vietnam”. In this chapter of his book‚ Zinn covers the Vietnam war and the resistance to it. As the chapter title states‚ Zinn argues that the U.S was fighting a war that they could not win as the Vietnamese

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    History and Influences of Mexican Americans and the United States John Smith University of Wisconsin Looking around the United States‚ it is not hard to see the influence that Spanish-speaking nations‚ namely Mexico‚ have had on us. Every day we see signs in Spanish. We hear it as we walk through the streets of Madison and Milwaukee. We feel the impact it has on us in our public school system. We also see the controversy it causes on the news. What I will be attempting to explore in this

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    Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States: The Oppressed Dr. Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States might be better titled A Proletarian’s History of the United States. In the first three chapters Zinn looks at not only the history of the conquerors‚ rulers‚ and leaders; but also the history of the enslaved‚ the oppressed‚ and the led. Like any American History book covering the time period of 1492 until the early 1760’s‚ A People’s History tells the story of the "discovery"

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    History 11 Take Home Final Please be prepared to transfer your answers to a scantron when you arrive at the final. Bring #2 pencils. 1. As evidenced by the formation of the Lowell Female Reform Association in 1844‚ female workers in New England textile mills had changed their methods of resistance to deteriorating working conditions. What new method were they using? a. They organized a nationwide product boycott. b. They called for the passage of state legislation to shorten the workday. c

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    History and Experience of the Sikh Diaspora in the United States Sikh migrants began arriving in the United States more than one hundred years ago‚ and now have reached numbers close to half a million. Like most other immigrant communities in the United States‚ Sikhs have faced problems that are both specific to their community and that are also shared by other ethnic communities making their way in a new land. Despite their recent numbers and century long history in the United States‚ many

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    Summary: The paper presents a comparative study of the history of United States in the 1920s with that of 1930s across three historical landscapes -economic‚ political and socio-cultural. THE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES - THE 1920s COMPARED TO THE 1930s The first half of the twentieth centuries saw America emerging as a World super power‚ and as one of the mature democracies among the British colonies. However‚ the transition was not smooth and the Nation has had its ups and downs moving from agrarian

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    document did a better job of fulfilling the ideals of the American Revolution: the Articles of Confederation or the United States Constitution? The United States Constitution better represented and fulfilled the ideals of the American Revolution then the Articles of Confederation. Democracy and rights were all earned in the Revolutionary war and were enforced by the United States Constitution. Freedom is given to all free citizens in the country through the Bill of Rights. Government is divided

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    Study Questions for Mann‚ 1491 1. Until quite recently‚ most American history textbooks taught that before Europeans invaded the Americas Indians were savages who lived in isolated groups and had so little impact on their environment that it remained a pristine wilderness. We now know from scientific discoveries that this account was wrong. What is the effect of learning that most of what we have assumed about the past is "wrong in almost every aspect‚" as Mann puts it on page 4? - What

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    THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S ROLES 1 The History of Women’s Roles in the United States Military ITT Technical Institute THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S ROLES 2 Abstract Women’s contributions in the United States military began with tasks‚ such as providing medical aid to soldiers during the Revolutionary War to serving right beside their male counterparts in Afghanistan 238 years later. The woman’s role over this period of time

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