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Rise up The acts of civil disobedience has helped changed the law regarding “minorities”. The practice of civil disobedience has helped improve laws to make them fair to all, this is due to it being started by “the people” who feel that the current laws in place, put in by the government or those in power are wrong, misconstructed as well as out of line, and must be changed. John Locke believed that the law was a reflection of the people, and that the government must insure life,liberty and…

The Radical Republican takeover of Reconstruction in 1867 produced a mixed bag of results for the people of the South. On one hand, rights and opportunities for African Americans reached a pinnacle, and many former slaves held bright hopes for the future. The South's economy seemed to be improving, too. On the other hand, many Southerners strongly resented the changes thrust upon them by the federal government, and some of them protested with violence. Others fought to regain political control…

The five elements relating to the establishment of a false claim under the False Claims Act are the government must determine that the claim was submitted falsely and that it was submitted with knowledge. The government must establish the claim was false and submitted knowingly, establish submitted claim to the person with actual knowledge, in considered ignorance, or with reckless disregard for the claim’s falsity, or truth. One of the other elements is that the element must be proven beyond a…

work; where he declared capitalism to be class-based, socialism would be classless. According to the hypothesis of Marx in Das Capital, the capitalism will evolve in socialism when we will achieve an unlimited growth of the productive power. Marx (1867/1887) forecast both the immediate course of the development of capitalism…

Born March 3, 1845, Georg Ferdinard Ludwig Philipp Cantor, begin his life in the northwestern corner named Russia within the well-populated merchant colony of Saint Petersburg. The oldest of six children, Cantor was a great violinist. Taking after his grandfather, Franz Bohm (1788-1846) who played in a Russian imperial orchestra. Opposite from his grandfather was Cantor’s father a member among the Saint Petersburg stock exchange, and he was an ace at that, for that the money Cantor’s father…

Reconstruction began in 1867 following the Civil war. Reconstruction Act established temporary military governments in ten confederate states and required the states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and permit freedmen to vote. The Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the states from denying citizens their rights. African Americans, Native American’s and immigrants didn’t have the privilege to enjoy the same freedoms as the whites. 1893, Fredrick Turner gave a speech about the western frontier.…

When modernization is often discussed in classes, it is usually depicted as a rapid welcomed event of progress for the society involved. However, in “A Daughter of Han” by Ida Pruitt, Ning Lao T’ai-t’ai’s autobiographical account illustrates China’s gradual modernization against its reluctant conservative society. Modernity is defined by the presence of themes such as: industrialization, the increase of global integration, the expansion of political participation, the expansion of mass society,…

Reconstruction was a time where there aren't any equal rights, protection that ensures safety, a time of violence, the Ku-Klux-Klan, corrupt government and one of the toughest times of history. A few years after the Civil War, blacks were free and the States were divided. The North were radical Republicans who wanted to continue with Reconstruction and South who were the Democrats, but wanted to end Reconstruction. The South was ready to rebuild itself after the war and the Northern Federal…

History of Rosholt Wisconsin Nicholas P. Dobbe High School Abstract This paper will educate you a little about the History of the small village of Rosholt Wisconsin. It will follow the experiences of a few men that contributed into making Rosholt a village. It will talk about why they came, what they did to start a community and how they made the community grow bigger. Gottlieb Stanbly, the first of the few to arrive and, without really knowing, positioned where Rosholt would be, Jens…

Thucydides, an Athenian historian and philosopher, is known for his contributions to the topic of political realism. One of his most notable works on this subject tells the history of the Peloponnesian War. Halfway through this war, Athens decided that they wanted to take over the last island that was not theirs. The conflict that arose between the Athenians and the people of the island Melos gave life to the quote “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” I agree with…