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    Paola Tineo Course: ESL 098 Date: March 7‚ 2014. Voting: A Right for All Voting is the best way that people have to express their opinions about their views by choosing who they what to represent them as a future leaders. It is a very important civil right because it’s a legal and human right‚ a privilege and responsibility. This powerful right is available for all the citizens‚ even though some of them choose to not use it. In America‚ the right to vote is available to adults regardless of race

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    Selma Movie Analysis

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    The Marches in Selma Elisabetta Giraudi Dr. Marisha Caswell HIST 2907 March 19th 2015 The Civil Rights Movement‚ 1954-1968‚ was a time of change in the United States of America. It marked the beginning of a long battle against systematic oppression against black Americans — a battle that to this day is still raging in America as seen in the recent events of Ferguson‚ Missouri. The Civil Rights Movement encompassed many demonstrations and nonviolent protests whose goals were to end segregation

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    Selma to Montgomery Notes

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    Selma to Montgomery‚ 1965 * In June 1963‚ Medgar Evers‚ the NAACP Mississippi field secretary‚ was shot and killed in front of his home. * In 1964‚ SNCC workers organized the Mississippi Summer Project to register African Americans to vote in the state‚ wanting to focus national attention on the state’s racism. * SNCC recruited Northern college students‚ teachers‚ artists‚ and clergy to work on the project. They believed the participation of these people would make the country concerned

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    Selma Movie Analysis

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    film we saw in class was the drama history movie Selma. The top 5 characters of the movie are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (David Oyelowo)‚ Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejogo)‚ President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson)‚ Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch) and‚ Andrew Young ( André Holland). The movie is famous as it takes place during the famous 1965 Selma March‚ when black people were taking a stand and letting their voices be heard about the unequal voting rights they have compared to whites. Martin Luther King

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    Racism In The Movie Selma

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    tools that is available to every single person in the world. In the movie Selma‚ there are three essential concepts that prominently reveal themselves in the movie. The culture shock of a new town‚ the power distance between prominent leaders‚ and most of all‚ racism the most prominent. The concepts of racism‚ power distance‚ and culture shock allow a unique development of characters. Plot and Characters The movie Selma is about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. trying to

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    Marxism In The Movie Selma

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    movie Selma directed by (name)‚ tells the story about Martin Luther King Jr and the journey from conflicts of interest to boycotts leading to the violent walk to Montgomery. Risking lives and freedom just for the ability for people of color to vote. Keep in mind that voting for everyone is the constitution but down south their deliberately breaking the law because of the disapproval or someone’s skin color. Going through so much pain just to get the presidents attention to sign the Voting Rights Act

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    Term paper Voting right

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    any of actual weapons to win this war but they still fought and in the collage on the left side the big boy represents these actions of the Hungarian people. The balance of the collage was done for it to have more power on the left side than the right side. As you look at the collage on the left it is how the Hungarian War started by people deciding to rebel‚ this was when people felt strong so it is the biggest image on the collage. The Hungarian people thought that if they rebel they could win

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    Voting vs Not Voting

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    Voting vs. Not Voting Everyday individuals complain about how society is getting worse and blame everybody else for America’s downfall. Most of the things that people complain about are issues that can be easily solved because they can gain control over the situation‚ yet they sit back and do nothing to help. However the issue with this is that people are not obligated to vote‚ therefore they cannot do something they do not want to do. It attacks their rights’ but they also have the right to vote

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    I watched the movie Selma for my movie review. I had never watched the movie before and had wanting to watch it for some time now. The movie was very sad but now after watching it I feel encouraged to fight for my rights and others.  The movie Selma is the heart-breaking truth about how the African Americans fought for their freedom in the 1960’s.  Martin Luther King Jr. was known for being a minister in Atlanta and a rights activist for African American freedoms. The movie is about King trying to

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    John Lewis criticized the voting rights because he reveals that it is useless to African Americans due to the fact that they have minimal education‚ having no higher than a middle school study. For example in paragraph three Lewis says‚ “ It will not help the citizens of Mississippi‚ of Alabama and Georgia‚ who are qualified to vote‚ but lack a sixth-grade education.” In this statement Lewis tells the audience that voting rights are insignificant for African- Americans until they are able to have

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