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    physical or verbal abuse, and destruction of property. These crimes have also been occurring decades ago and continue to happen until now. According to an article published on June 18, 2015 on the NBC NEWS website (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/hate-crime-america-numbers-n81521), Brunker, Alba, and Dedman found that, “race has generally fallen as a percentage of hate crimes (from about 60 percent to the high 40s), while sexual orientation has generally risen in…

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    employees to actually do these tasks from Congress. 1 agent may serve a community of 10,000-20,000 freed slaves and have to attend to them all. Other factors would play into how effective the Bureau was too. Lots of Southern cities like Atlanta and Charleston were left in ruins after the Civil War and a devastating smallpox epidemic spread through the south soon after the Civil War so the Bureau was working extra hard to care for the sick. They attempted to feed as many poor as they could, build…

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    The Jazz Age

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    Some of the most popular dances at this time were: The fox trot, The Charleston, and The cake walk. The fox trot is a formal dance that includes slow walking steps and quick running steps. The Charleston originated in the Broadway show running' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade. The Cake walk was a dance developed from the "Prize Walks" held in the late 19th century…

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    ze Mr.Etzkorn U.S. History 1 10 February 2016 The Impact of Political Cartoons on Public Opinion During Civil War Era Public cartoons are illustrations that contain a commentary that focus on a current event or popular personality. The drawings offer the reader a visual representation of an issue or person that aims to influence the opinion of the reader through satire, humor, or exaggeration. An artist who draws these images is known as an editorial cartoonist. The use of political cartoons…

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    issue for years now and with recent events, it’s time for a change. Guns are a major problem in our society. Lately, there has been school and mass shootings like the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon and the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. The issue with gun control will be that some people think there should be better gun control laws, like myself, and there are people who feel as if theirit shouldn’t be a gun control law because we as citizens of America, have…

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    Jack the Ripper. 2014. “The ‘Dear Boss’ Letter.” In Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, edited by John A. Wagner, 244-245. Santa Barbara: Greenwood: An Imprint of ABC-CLIO. This source is extremely useful because the Jack the Ripper murders are one of the most infamous crimes of the whole era, and this supposedly was the first letter that he sent to the newspapers about his murders. This letter is extremely useful in the paper because it provides an example…

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    In “A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop,” published on Scientific American, May (2014) talks about the consequences of using laptops to write notes. She compares two note taking methods, handwriting and typing on a laptop, and try to persuade readers that using laptops is not much helpful in learning. Since Scientific American is an academic trade news website, potential readers are generally educated people and those who hold teaching position or people are students may have…

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    friends die on a daily basis. This ultimately leads to loss of innocence and inability to recognize from right and wrong. In the United States, some days we wake up to tragic news that is painful to the ears. A few months ago, There was a shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Sadly it happen to be in a church, a man opened fire during a bible study. The suggested killer was a young man, assured that he would kill nine people then flee. We often forget that anyone has their own will and freedom…

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    Flapper’s of the 1920’s Women in Europe and the United States had to occupy industry and social life as men left to fight in the Great War in the late 1910’s. A new kind of woman, with short, bobbed hair, shorter skirts and freer clothes to match her new, independent lifestyle appears. (1920-30, 2) These types of women were to be known as flappers. Flapper’s didn’t truly emerge until 1926. As the idea of gender equality became a reality, it is no wonder that the right to vote was given to…

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    It has been said that the “king of cotton” during the time of slavery, was the state of South Carolina. With its rich soils and warm humid temperatures, South Carolina was the biggest and most successful cotton manufacturer in all of the south. Not only were there millions of slave hands making it possible for this commodity to become so significant, but those same hands made South Carolina very rich. Before cotton became a popular commodity in the south, crops such as indigo, maize or corn, and…

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