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    Why so Expensive?

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    Why So Expensive? College is said to be some of the best years of your life. The parties‚ the freedom‚ and the new experience help you find new friends‚ hopefully a career and yourself‚ but rising college cost are having young adults stressing instead of enjoying the college experience. Every year less and less states are giving their college’s money and more and more students are asking for financial aid or taking out student loans. The more that college tuition continues to rise the more of

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    African Americans and Discrimination Originally from Sub-Sahara Africa‚ thousands of African Americans were kidnapped and brought over to and sold in the United States during the Atlantic Slavery Trade. By 1860‚ before the Civil War‚ 3.5 million African Americans lived as slaves‚ mostly in the Southern United States. More than 500‚000 lived as free persons in 33 states across the United States (2008). Today‚ many African Americans believed to have come from European American or Native

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    African American Struggle

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    The story of African immigration is unique among immigrant groups‚ just as the African experience in America has been exclusively essential to the course of American life. Unlike other immigrants‚ most Africans came to North America against their will‚ caught up in a cruel system of human exploitation. The treatment we endured in the United States was of a harshness hardly ever surpassed in recent history‚ and their role in U.S. society was contested with a rage that nearly tore the nation apart

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    Eric D. Joseph May 9‚ 2006 Afro-Amer. Hist.4223 The African-American Odyssey The Promise of Reconstruction‚ 1865-1868 The emancipation of the African slave who was now disconnected from their traditions and way of life after nearly 300 years‚ is seemingly a great gush from the dam to the ebbs and flows of the struggle. The end of slavery as we know it‚ presented a ball of mixed emotions among the nation; North and SOUTH. Some slaves were grossly ecstatic to be free. For example

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    African American Religion

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    The topic for discussion is the impact religion had between the African Americans and the Europeans that had migrated to Colonial America. This topic being very vast I will be focusing on specifically the Christian group the Puritans and the African American religion of Christianity. The argument that could be made is that even though both groups shared beliefs of the Christianity faith the Puritans lead a contradictory life style. The Puritans believed in being a Godly people extended a gospel message

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    The History of African Americans HIS204: American History Since 1865 Instructor: Steven Harn 04/29/2013 Jewish people had the horrific era ordeal of the Holocaust‚ Native Americans had to deal with the displacement of their people which lead to death‚ starvation and exposure to diseases while in en route to other locations. However one could suggest that African Americans had an extremely rough time‚ and till this day continue to have a rough time fighting for equality in all things. This

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    mainly by the lack of education that the youths are receiving and the lack of jobs that are available. High unemployment amongst youth is directly related to the lack of education‚ training‚ and skills. High school dropouts are four times more likely to be unemployed as those students that have completed four or more years of college. High school graduates earned $242 more a week than high school dropouts in 1994. Minimum wage jobs may be easy to find ‚ but they may not provide enough pay to meet

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    African American Ghettos

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    neighborhood segregation. From 1910 to 1920 there was a large influx of African Americans beginning to move to Northern cities. As more blacks began to fill up Northern

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    noteworthy inventions including a wire precision resistor used in televisions and radios and a control unit for the pacemaker. He died in 1982 of heart failure. Inventor Otis Boykin was born on August 29‚ 1920‚ in Dallas‚ Texas. After graduating from high school‚ he attended Fisk College in Nashville‚ Tennessee‚ graduating in 1941. That same year‚ he took a job as a lab assistant with the Majestic Radio and TV Corporation in Chicago‚ Illinois. He rose in the ranks‚ ultimately serving as a supervisor

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    completely separate from the Bible that they read and worship as well it is called The Book of Mormon. They believe that a man Named Joseph Smith explored all the religions on earth at the time and that he established that none of them were right and so he started the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints. Unlike other Christians the Mormons do not believe in worshiping the cross. The do not have the symbol in the chapels or on their building. The reasoning behind this is that they want to celebrate

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