instituting minimum wage laws for women workers. However‚ the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional in 1963. Then President John F. Kennedy ’s Commission on the Status of Women recommended that Congress pass a law guaranteeing that women would receive equal pay with men for equal duties performed (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [TUSEEOC]‚ 1997). On June 10‚ 1963‚ the Equal Pay Act was passed by Congress declaring that women and men must receive equal pay for equal work. The
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I recently went to an interfaith convention and met many people from many religions. Among them were Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Daoism‚ Judaism‚ Christianity‚ Islam‚ and Sikhism. I got to learn a little about every religion‚ and I thought you might be interested since you are going to be a religion major. All these religions vary because not all of them have one God. There are some with many gods‚ just like there are some religions that do not have a God. The religion I want to talk about is one that
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Buddhism is a philosophy/religion that was created by Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) over 2500 years ago‚ founded on Hindu beliefs. There are two major divisions: Mahayana and Theravada‚ and many subdivisions. Fundamentally‚ Buddhists believe that one must rise above desires‚ to reach a state of enlightenment. Buddha was idolized‚ and subsequently deified‚ but he never claimed to be anything more than a man (dictionary.com‚ 2005). The goal of this paper is to answer the following questions based on
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2015‚ cheers erupted across America -- big businesses‚ people and even the White House shamelessly coated itself in rainbow colors to show their support of something years in the making: the legalization of same sex marriage. After years of protests‚ riots‚ campaigns‚ parades‚ mainstream activism‚ celebrity‚ political and even big business support‚ same sex marriage was legalized by the US Supreme Court in all fifty states on June 26th‚ 2015. Obergefell v. Hodges‚ the Supreme Court case that made the
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Resurget Cineribus: The Detroit Riots of 1943 and 1967 One can pick many instances in Detroit’s last hundred years and conclude that the two riots of 1943 and 1967 were the presiding factor for this once great city’s fatal turn. Detroit has come to be known as the Motor City due to its insurgence of the automotive industry‚ has been dubbed Detroit Rock City for its groundbreaking revolutionary music throughout the 20th century‚ and has even been hailed as Hockeytown for its euphoric love of the
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The Burma Road Riot took place on the 1st and 2nd June 1942 on Bay Street. It was the first indication that the black majority were awaking from their slumber. The core of this riot was the fact that local workers were being paid less than their Americans counterparts from performing the same work and also because the local government had thwarted the attempts of the American labourers. As noted earlier‚ the riot took place over a period of two days. There were some looting; after this was allowed
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Outline I. Introduction pg. 3 II. Riot Beginnings pg. 3 -4 III. Statistics pg. 4-5 IV. Lives Changed pg. 5-6 V. Reparations pg 6-7 VI. References pg. 8 Introduction The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was a dark time in the history of Oklahoma. It all began with a simple misunderstanding‚ but had catastrophic consequences. Homes and businesses were destroyed‚ many African
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Imagine being at the center of one of the most racially controversial events in Modern American history. More specifically‚ imagine being a victim of police brutality. It seemed like an open-and-shut kind of case. All of the evidence was caught on camera. What plausible vendication would the Defense be able to make against the Prosecution? The Rodney King beating of 1991 was the breaking point for the African Americans and minorities of South Central Los Angeles and all over the country. Because
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Unfortunately‚ it was accompanied by the largest mass migration in human history of around ten million people. An estimated one million civilians died in the accompanying riots‚ particularly in the western region of Punjab which was split into two by the border. During the fateful months of August and September‚ 1947‚ the communal riots flared up on a very large scale in both the Punjabs. It is estimated by some British writers that about two lakhs were killed in the East and West Punjab. Thousands of
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Birmingham Church Bombing 1963 By: ???????? Birmingham was then the most segregated city in America and had the longest history of aggressive racial violence. Birmingham was called “Bombingham” by people in the civil rights movement because there was this long chain of unsolved bombings on black’s homes. Much of violence was perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan. The 16th Street Baptist Church was a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham. From the steps of the church‚ several black marchers
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