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    So an ideal state should be controlled by the society and subordinate to it. The state should base upon self sufficient small villages, enlightened and self regulated individuals. Authority should be decentralized which is essential for individual liberty. Individual should be selfless and must give more emphasis on performing duties than to enjoy rights. This state would not be a western type of constitutional democracy but a spiritual democracy or Swaraj base upon morality and non violence…

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    Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince are two extremely distinctive and contrasting products created during the Renaissance. Both the works produced by More and Machiavelli concern themselves with the fundamental issues of how society maintains itself and continues to work regardless of what occurs. The two contrasting scholars may both focus on society but yet both authors created works with exceedingly distinctive purposes behind the products. More's Utopia can be seen as a…

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    Each individual has a unique set of personality traits that determines how they behave, solve problems and interact with others. Understanding these traits can help each individual have more self-knowledge and by doing so increasing personal success. Learning about our personality type and the type of others, makes us understand why people react differently in different situations; it also least us observe that we are predisposed to certain specific abilities and inclinations. According to Dr.…

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    captures the feel of much of the 60’s as the time was a decade of experimentation, progress and change. It was a time where the highest levels of political activism occurred in America. “The Times They are A-Changin”, was written at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and…

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    (Anthony, 1868). After the Civil War that was an uncompromising differences between the freedom, race, and slave over the power of the government to forbid slavery in the territories that had not yet become states, there are many movements had stated. For example, fighting about the passage of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and nineteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to secure civic protection of the rights, American civil rights movement, African-American civil rights movement,…

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    Without Special Forces such as the economic system, the civil rights movement, the women’s movement and the 1st amendment I wouldn’t be able to do the things I do every day without thought. American History is very important to me well all history is important to me, notwithstanding the things my ancestors managed to make happen to make my everyday life easier. Being able to make my own decisions is very significant to me and I’m sure it is for everyone else as well. Fifty one years ago…

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    Her family couldn’t understand why Moody didn’t just give up her support for the Civil Rights movement. Moody never let anything stand in her way when it came to fighting for respect and equality for the African Americans. With Anne as the main supporter of the Civil Rights movement and with its supporters wanting to the same this mind set kept the movement successful. Besides her mother, the women that she met throughout…

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    fountains, restaurants and more were segregated. There were different places for different races and if you disobeyed the law it was a punishable offence. First and foremost, “Ruby Bridges will be forever remembered as the tiniest foot soldier in the civil rights movement, chosen at just 6 years old, to be the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the Deep South” (Newman 1). Ruby Bridges was one of the very few African American children to be accepted into an all white…

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    Civil rights in Missippi People dream of a day where everyone can look at each other as one. Wheres people dont judge becuase of the color of someones skin but look at personality and who they are as a person. Through history you can see that things have changed from the past and now. Research shows that the rights of African Americans were not equal. The civil rights movement started the passing of federal legislation throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Although, race relations…

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    Throughout the Civil War, two common battles began to take form. These battles did not involve divisions of the North or South; instead they united a people who were wishing for their equality. Particularly, at the end of the eighteenth century, women and people of color were seen as inferior beings. They both were considered to be in need of guidance and were held to submission because of it. It was not until the end of the oppressive Civil War did these people get their chance to have their…

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