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    Diversity and Culture of Native and African American Communities Sarah Kneifl University of South Dakota Abstract: This paper discusses the minority groups of the Native Americans and the African Americans. It explores the history of both groups, how they are similar and what makes them different. Based on the research, they both suffered at the hands of the whites. Even though both described it differently, the Native and African Americans wanted “citizenship.”…

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    The Superiority Complex causes one to see others are inferior due to their lack of self-esteem. According to the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, where there is a superiority complex, there is usually an inferiority complex. Because of this inner feeling of inferiority, the individual projects an attitude of superiority/arrogance so that it can cover up their…

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    Shays Rebellion

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    The American Revolution certainly is a breathtaking era in God’s unfolding story. Friction between England and its colonies emerged most notably after the Seven Years' War. Before the war, the British government had undertaken minimal contact with or interference in the internal affairs of their settlements, aside from passing the Navigation acts that dictated the shipment of goods(Marston, 2003). However, the price of war racked up a hefty debt that made the country see an error in their…

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    The First World War had favored the United States in a spectacular way. American investors flocked to a rising New York Stock Exchange market that was based on credit and financial speculation. Many companies launched new innovative, cutting-edge products, like radios and washing machines and witnessed the large scale use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, and electricity, which accelerated consumer demand and aspirations, and marked significant changes in lifestyle and popular…

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    The Role of Women in the 1930’s As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The women know that life must go on and that the needs of life must be met and it is their courage and determination which, time and again, have pulled us through worse crises than the present one” (BBC). The 1930’s had major effects on the women of the time. Suddenly women were employed, minorities had it harder than ever before, and the gap between rural and urban life widened. For perhaps the first time in the 1930’s women were…

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    tough economic times and the struggles faced by blue-collar families. This semester I had the pleasure of reading a story that stuck in my mind as one of the better ones. In “Shout”, Dagoberto Gilb pulls from stories of his childhood, his Mexican/American upbringing and the economic effects of the “Regan Recession” to portray a blue-collar worker and his families struggles to do what is necessary to make ends meet during the 1980’s, a time of economic recession. The feeling and emotions…

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    before the United States joined the fight in April of 1917. It is no question that the few years of United States involvement were greatly impactful on American society. Additionally, the three years before American involvement were impactful on American society. The First World War, or the Great War, had a large effect on the American people and American society, specifically in fashion. Women’s fashion dramatically, and permanently transformed during and around the years of World War I. As the…

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    Lusitania Narrative

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    PBS, n.d. Web. 22 Dec. 2015. Roosevelt, Theodore. "Theodore Roosevelt on the Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915." Theodore Roosevelt on the Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, n.d. Web. 22 Dec. 2015. "The Sinking of the Lusitania - a Summary - History in an Hour." History in an Hour. History In an Hour, 06 May 2014. Web. 22 Dec.…

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    Annika Ziegler Mr. Snelgrove Senior English 4th Period 08 September, 2016 WWI’s Effects on the Twentieth Century World War I was said to be the war that would end all wars. Ironically, however, its outcome and the Treaty of Versailles brought more unrest and violence than the allied countries had expected. The war resulted in the deaths of seventeen million people, eleven million of them were military personnel (Macmillan). One in four men from Europe lost his life in battle (Karpilovsky). It…

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