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    essential items being sold at the markets. This allowed the market men to charge any price they wanted. The Provost Marshal continued to raise the tariff and the market men double the prices on their merchandise. Soon it became no longer needful to send a servant at the crack of dawn to the market because only the wealthy could afford any supplies. John Beauchamp Jones was a well-known author, editor, and publisher. Wild western Scenes, is one of his many famous novels. He published A Rebel…

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    Causes Of Antisemitism

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    The causes and consequences of the riot were lawlessness and antisemitism. Antisemitism was communicated through anti-Semitic slogans, and people explicitly proclaiming themselves the proud reincarnations of Hitler (signs with messages like “Hitler didn’t do his job”).The lawlessness occurred when the error made by the police caused the police to be accused of giving preferential treatment to the Jews. Yet according to a different source from Commentary magazine, written by Philip Gourevitch…

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    Known essayist and writer, Navneet Alang, in their journalistic essay, “Big Brother, C’est Moi: Vancouver’s Post-Riot Web Vigilantes Can Be Tamed”, describes the aftermath of the riots that took place shortly after the defeat of the hometown Canucks in the Stanley Cup finals; on June 15th 2011. The riots brought great controversy, due to various pictures and videos of the perpetrators, surfacing online from bystanders. Those images of violence and vandalism, were taken by citizens, where they…

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    It was 1997(2005) in Ethiopia, and I was about 9 or 10 at time, still naive to the world at large. It began as a typical school day, but then as my classmates and I were on our lunch break, we started to hear a man shout “Taxi, taxi, taxi!” just outside of our school. It seemed peculiar to us as to why that strange man was shouting. To the students and faculty in my school building, this man seemed deranged. One of my friends joked “we should probably go back to class before we end up like this…

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    The Los Angeles Times described another possible reason for why these Zoot Suit riots occurred, that “Strife… arose as a result of beatings of individuals sailors by juvenile street bands and in two cases, assaults on women relatives of servicemen” (TTP Ch.8, Page 214). In other words these Mexican Americans rioted because they felt…

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    “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.” (Wilcox) This is a quote from Ella Wheeler Wilcox that actually makes a lot of sense, but how should we go about this? There are two types of ways to protest. You can protest peacefully, maybe holding up a sign and handing out flyers. Or you could violently protest. This can involve vandalism, assault, and just doing morally and legally wrong things in general. When you make the decision that you are going to protest something…

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    18-year-old named Michael Brown. This decision by a grand jury has sparked riots, protests, and general anger across the nation. Those people who agree with the rioters and/or protestors say things, such as, “Racism is still here and if you don’t think that’s true, open your eyes!” Others are quick to point out, “THE LOOTERS AND THE PROTESTORS ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! STOP SPREADING LIES,” (sic). Some people disagree with the violent riots and looting, saying, “Out of control,” “So sad. All…

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    death. He survives but somebody happens to catch this brutal beating on video and the police officers are charged on March 9th 1991, then 2 of the officers are completely acquitted in 1992 which is massively accepted to have started the Los Angeles Riots. So now that being 24 years ago, it’s still a thing that parents are scared of happening to their son or daughter, even though we’ve progressed so much with technology with body cams and knowing your freedoms (being able to record a cop while…

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    In “Sonny’s Blues,” Harlem is clearly illustrated as a dank and unclean city that boasted little hope or incentive for ambition for those that resided there. The lack of opportunity led to high levels of poverty, and in turn influenced many in the area to resort to crime, alcoholism, and drugs for comfort. Throughout the 1920s, Harlem was a place of progression, art, and activism. Dubbed the “Harlem Renaissance,” this era in American history was significant for the black community as a whole.…

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    violence does arise. There are demonstrations that create high social tension law enforcement is necessary to keep control. A good example of this is the DAPL demonstration, Indigenous people peacefully demonstrating and the authorities dressed in riot gear due to the reactions from both sides. Peaceful demonstrations can turn violent when forceful tactics are used to move people out-of-the-way consequently ending with injuries on both sides of the…

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