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    GALLARDO‚ Raniel M. August 7‚ 2013 4POl3 POL 282 Land Power vs. Sea Power in the Context of Preservation of Balance of Power Based on realist perspective‚ geography proves to be a very essential tool in understanding‚ analyzing‚ and explaining phenomena in international politics. It is considered one of the factors that shape the behaviour of states when it comes to dealing with different global issues‚ most especially if these will affect their respective interests. Securing

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    I interviewed my father‚ Michael Mohr. He is currently Cenex’s Lubricant Terminal Manager‚ at the Heartland Cooperative Location and also former owner of Central Wisconsin Truck Repair. At the business he currently works for‚ Heartland Cooperative‚ it is organized into a Co-op and this changes the way work is done because a board of directors must be apart of decisions and all records are audited annually because it is a public business. His job is to source and distribute petroleum products along

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    Ernst Luly ART 1012 FMWA Agitprop! Assignment LABEL TEXT: Julius Block (American‚ born Germany‚ 1888-1966) The Lynching‚ 1932 Oil on Canvas Whitney Museum of American Art‚ New York According to the Brooklyn Museum’s website‚ Agitprop! is a combination of the terms agitate and propaganda. Based on my own observations‚ I was able to deduce the overall theme of Agitprop! as art that was used as a means of protest against various social and cultural issues. A wide range of issues is addressed

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    “Strange Fruit Analysis” In response to the terrible act of lynchings‚ a poem was written in protest to the terrible acts. The poem “Strange Fruit”‚published in 1939‚ and written by Abel Meeropol and popularized by Billie Holiday is a poem that was written in protest to lynchings. Abel Meeropol was a teacher‚ poet‚ and social activist who was haunted by pictures of lynchings‚ which is when a mob takes black men who have been accused of wrongdoing‚ and usually hang them. The pictures haunted him

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    intelligences: Teams‚ themes‚ and threads. Palatine‚ IL: Skylight. Freeman‚ E. & Person‚ D. (1998). Connecting informational children’s books with content area learning. Needham Heights‚ MA: Allyn & Bacon. The Primary Program: Growing and Learning in the Heartland Integrated Curriculum 585 Gamburg‚ R.‚ Kwak‚ W. Hutchings‚ M.‚ Altheim‚ J.‚ & Edwards‚ G. (1998). Learning and loving it‚ Theme studies in the classroom. Portsmouth‚ NH: Heinemann. Hughes‚ S. (1994). The webbing way: Integrating the curriculum through

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    One method that was utilized in particular by whites and hate groups were lynching. Many of these lynchings took place within the deep south including: Alabama‚ Georgia‚ North Carolina‚ Kentucky‚ Louisiana and many other places. However‚ many of these lynchings were public and often celebrated by those who did not support the African American cause. As well as‚ many of those involved in these public lynchings went unpunished by the local law enforcement. One infamous case in particular that

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    Ida B. Wells was a woman dedicated to a cause‚ a cause to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from being murdered by lynching. Lynching is defined as to take the law into its own hands and kill someone in punishment for a crime or a presumed crime. Ida B. Wells’ back round made her a logical spokesperson against lynching. She drew on many experiences throughout her life to aid in her crusade. Her position as a black woman‚ however‚ affected her credibility both in and out of America

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    is viewed differently through the lens of different characters. For example‚ the vengeance that Josh Green seeks upon Captain McBane‚ which is murdering him because of a past incident‚ and the vengeance that the whites of Wellington seek through lynching are not necessarily described as thoughts of vengeance. The novel does not necessarily state that there is a similar idea behind the concept vengeance between both situations. But‚ if we overlook these situations‚ one can argue that Chesnutt is trying

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    “Strange Fruit”- An overview of lynching in America By: Tameka Bradley Hobbs Throughout time‚ slavery made a near-permanent mark on America. With that mark came the marks of brutal beatings and even to the extreme of impressions of nooses left around lynching victims necks. The practice of lynching began in South Carolina in the late 1760s as the country’s first notable move toward vigilantism. By the 1800’s lynching became known as the “lynch law”. Lynching was actually legal and something

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    often in the city capital. The lynchings where common‚ in 1882‚ when the data was first recorded‚ to 1968 when lynching became very rare‚ there were 4‚730 public lynchings‚ that’s a rate of 55 a year. The lynchings weren’t the worst punishment that was dealt to the violators of the Jim Crow laws‚ some were burned at the steak or some were even castrated. Lynchings were most common in the smaller cities where the blacks were economic competitors to white males. Lynchings were often looked at a meeting

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