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    Music can have severe implications on life, especially during times of war, and the Civil War era is no exception. Anterior to Fort Sumter in South Carolina, enslaved African Americans were singing songs in the fields about freedom and living without the bonds of slavery. Abolitionists and slavery supporters alike produced and sang songs to bring indecisive members of the public to their side. Indeed, there were many quabbles over slavery, and ever since the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787,…

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    Heart Disease. I have not used technology to promote a cause. Technology does provide an advantage to collective action and social movement because as technology has grown people are now able to text and make a group chat so that everyone is involved. Some examples of past social movements that might have benefited from the technology today one being the Civil Rights Movement everyone would have been able to reach more people and they all would have been able to come together to bring more…

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    new beginning for the approach towards pest control. In the first place, Rachel Carson was the founder of the environmental movement. The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conversation and green politics is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement in addressing environmental issues. The environmental movement started between the 1960’s and the 1970’s shortly after her book was published in 1962. The response to her book leads…

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    The Civil rights movement was a great time period of fighting for rights for black men and women. This movement occured between the years 1954 and 1968 and had made monumental changes to our society. This movement made segregation illegal and gave African Americans the equal right to vote. The movement had many leaders with different ideas and backgrounds.There were two main leader,Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had different beliefs and methods but…

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    country, and was the cause of many great figures to rise up in our history and many great speeches to be written by those figures. The Civil Rights Movement had a great impact on our nation, and it is important today to understand and learn about that time through close reading projects like the speech given by a president during the Civil Rights Movement about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One is able to discern who the speaker is, what the speaker’s style is, and whom the speaker is addressing…

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    rights movement. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, had quickly become one of the Civil rights movement’s most important…

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    Which Movement Was More Effective? The Civil Rights Movement was more effective. Based on history the Civil Rights Movement was a time during the 1950’s and 60’s to rid the world of segregation and gain equal rights for African Americans. If you look back to the events and dynamic and powerful figures it produced, you could see this as one of the most important times in the U.S. history. If you are to fully understand and comprehend the Civil Rights Movement, you have to go back to the very…

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    The civil rights movement was an American movement from the mid 1950’s to the mid 1960’s aimed at eliminating racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States. After the Civil War, slavery ended and slaves were given civil rights through the 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution. However, these civil rights were weakly enforced and African Americans were treated poorly and segregated from whites in all sectors of the public. Through years of nonviolent…

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    The song that played in class on Thursday March 1st was sung buy Johnny Cash. Release in the same year as the stock market crash in 1987, the song 16 Tons is about the struggling constraints in a coal miners’ life. Focused on highlighting the reality of poverty, Cash states that “a mind that a-weak and a back that’s strong”. This is an example of the lack of education that may be a constraint that keeps one in poverty. Thinking on economic terms, poverty is a sever constraint on ones’ ability to…

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    the formation of the SNCC which was created out of the student sit-ins of 1960. Their focus began with the lunch counter discrimination however in 1963 they joined other groups to push jobs, income issues and voter registration for negroes. This movement was due to the large amounts of protesters; The majority of sit-ins were spread through the south this was evident as student sit-ins were organised all around North Carolina and the south. By April 50,000 fellow protesters joined the “sit-ins”…

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