1. The Reveillon Riot was an event that happened 28 April 1789‚ in the district of St. Antoine of Paris where a factory owned by Jean-Baptiste Reveillon who produced luxury wallpapers was attacked. The workers of the factory heard a rumor that the owner was going to pay the highly skilled workers a lower wage than what they were getting paid now. The workers were concerned because with food shortages‚ high unemployment‚ and low wages after the difficult winter in 1789 they had. (worldhistoryproject
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The la riots were one of the biggest events to happen in history which took place in Los Angeles California. People were angry about the Rodney king trial. Rodney king‚ born on April 2 1965 born in Sacramento California was in a high-speed chase on march 3‚ 1991 . When he finally stopped‚ and was pulled over the police men pulled him out of the car and started beating him really badly when he was finally caught by a Los Angeles police. He got a brutal beating while a nearby amateur camera man by
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It’s been 24 years since the Rodney King riots of 1992. The same riot that claimed many cars‚ houses‚ buildings and stores that people hold dear to them that were turned into ash and ruble. All caused by one police beating of Rodney G. King that was caught on camera that sparked racial injustices throughout the African American community that increases their anger and resentment more. However‚ on April 29‚ 1992 when the two cops that were responsible for the beating were placed as not guilty for
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Corrections Term Paper New Mexico Penitentiary Riot Santé Fe‚ New Mexico The New Mexico penitentiary in south Santa Fe‚ New Mexico was no stranger to violence. This penitentiary has seen two riots in its past one July 19‚ 1922 and the other June 15‚ 1953‚ these however were nothing in comparison to the events to come. In the early morning hours of February 2‚ 1980 two prisoners began what would be recorded as one of the most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional
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Europe‚ riots broke out in the streets of Los Angeles targeting young Latinos. They strived for the same freedom enjoyed by whites‚ but were treated as poorly as African Americans of the era. In effect‚ they tried to disassociate themselves from this faction. Young Latino men referred to themselves as pachucos and sported oversize suits known as zoot suits. In the film Zoot Suit Riots‚ Joseph Tovares remarkably portrayed the difficult lives of Mexican Americans in the 1940s. Zoot Suit Riots is a
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The Red Summer refers to the summer and early autumn of 1919‚ which was marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States‚ as a result of race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county. In most instances‚ whites attacked African Americans. Red summer is in summer and early autumn On July 27‚ 1919‚ an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group
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The Stonewall riots By Kaitlin king Robinson 2nd period May 4 2017 The sixties is often seen as a good era full of growing technology‚ but for the lesbians‚ gays‚ Bi‚ and Transgender (LGBT) community it wasn’t always like that. “Just after 3 a.m.‚ a police raid of the Stonewall Inn–a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street–turns violent as patrons and local sympathizers begin rioting against the police.” Even though the police were legally justified in raiding the club
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compare are Riot games and Blizzard. Both are large game companies that are direct competitors that share many similarities between one another. The field I am choosing to compare job requirments for is a job as a concept artist for both companies. Despite being competitors naturally great companies share a lot of policies. In the case of Blizzard and Riot this holds true. Naturally as the job being applied for is art the biggest thing that matters is how good your art is. Both Blizzard and riot games
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The Watts Riot It is August 17 1965 and‚ we just went through the worst week of our lives things are finally starting to calm down. As we are going into town to see what is left‚ and to access the damages‚ we try to understand how this got so out of control. In the course of seven days‚ 34 lives were lost and‚ more than 1‚032 were injured‚ the police had arrested 3‚438 people and‚ there are over $40 million in property damages (Watts Riots 2013). This all started from what should have been a routine
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The Burma Road Riot "The 1942 riot in Nassau was a short-lived spontaneous outburst by a group of disgruntled labourers‚ and occurred against a background of narrow socio-economic and political policies." Quoted from "The 1942 riot in Nassau: A demand for Change?" by Gail Saunders. "The construction project promised a relative bonanza for the local unemployed‚ a chance to sell their labor for something like the rates they knew were normal on the mainland ... Unknown to them‚ however‚ the Bahamas
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