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    Title Racism is a problem that has plagued this world throughout history. Racism can be caused by many different factors, but one reason racism exists is fear. Political and cultural fears contribute to racism and to the exclusion of people with different physical characteristics. Fear is a powerful weapon and when used by influential individuals even the most level-headed individuals may participate in racist activities. The work of The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, by Sax Rohmer, paints a…

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    Hello and good afternoon to everyone here. My name Madame C.J. Walker and I was born named Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana. My parents are Owen and Minerva Breedlove. I am the fifth of my brothers and sisters. I was the first person in my family to be free-born meaning not born a slave. During the 1890s, I started to develop a scalp disorder that caused me to lose most of my hair. I realized that I wanted to experiment with homemade and store-bought treatments to help my…

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    legislation and labor rights. Once he was elected he established several major reforms through congress. In 1913 Wilson enacted a law that lowered the tariffs by 25%. To make up for this revenue, he introduced the nation’s first income tax. Then he introduced Graduated Income Tax that taxed higher rate on the Wealthy people and less on the well-off taxpayers. He also enacted The Federal Reserve Act (1913) which reformed the banking industry by establishing 12 regional federal Reserve Banks to…

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    Matisse and Rousseau, and immersed himself into the life of Parisian-based Polish-Jewish boheme. The following years, Stückgold lived in Hungary and Germany, where he participated in group shows at the Galerie Neue Kunst in Munich (1913, 1917) and Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin (1913). The artist was exhibited in a variety of venues, with his first and posthumous retrospective at the Galerie Bernheim in Paris (1933) and later expositions in Bonn, Munich, and Wiesbaden (1958-9). In recent years, the…

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    combination of three different United States’ programs. The first program was the U.S. Lighthouse Service. The second was the U.S. Revenue Marine (Cutter) Service. The third and final program was the U.S. Lifesaving Service. All three were combined in 1913 creating the USCG we know today. I will now discuss each of the three U.S. programs that helped create the USCG. The earliest beginnings of the USCG happened in 1789 when the Department of Treasury took control of all the nation’s lighthouses…

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    potentially trained to perform any task regarding any genetic background, personality traits, and their internal thoughts and that it only requires the right conditioning. The founding of the Behaviorism Perspective had to do with John Watson and it began in 1913 when he wrote an article entitled “Psychology as the behaviorist views it”, and it set out multiple assumptions regarding on behavioral analysis, his article is viewed as the “behaviorist manifesto. In the article states the principles…

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    September 1851, Tubman made her third trip. She tried to get her husband to come back up North with her, but he decline and told her that he had remarried and did not want to leave. Tubman went to Garret’s house to found there were more passengers to rescue than anticipated. That did not stop her though. Once they reach the safe house of Fredrick Douglas, they remain there until he collect enough money to take them to Canada. After receiving the money, she and her eleven passengers started the…

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    nobody would have thought that almost all of the future vehicles would be powered by a diesel engine. But one man, under the name of Rudolf Diesel, was determined to change the future of mechanics forever. Paragraph 1: Although he died in September of 1913, Diesel made a legacy for himself by being the first human to build and operate a working diesel engine, which would go on to power big trucks and diesel locomotives. On the crisp spring day of March 18, 1858, Rudolf was born in eastern…

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    The domestic market was small and the level of technology was low. As of 1913, the share of the industrial sector in the economy was only 12%. Only sixty establishments employed more than a hundred workers. Total employment in manufacturing was 35,000; a mere 0.2% of the population. Most of this employment was concentrated in…

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    her novel was assembled in 1913 by Universal Pictures. When filming Shelley did not provide enough detail for the directors so they improvised. Victor was happy when the creature came to life , in the novel he ran away in fear. Also in the film, there were a few friends of Victors in the lab, but in Shelley’s novel he was alone his laboratory. Finally, the film showed the creature as fully covered when it was created and the novel he was uncovered completely. (Wale,1913).…

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