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    Guitar’s cruel past involving racism initiates his rebellious behavior that sticks with him for his entire life due to his inability to remove his personal stereotypes towards whites. As a very young child, Guitar faces racism first hand which leads to his hatred of whites. "Listen. Go around to the back of the hospital to the guard's office. It will say 'Emergency Admissions' on the door. A-D-M-I-S-I-O-N-S. But the guard will be there. Tell him to get over here on the double. Move now. Move!"…

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    Japanese Internment Camps Imagine yourself having a hard time finding a job and people chasing you out of your house and even the city that you lived in for years just because of your ethnicity. There were many people that have gone through an inequality such as losing their house and having a hard time finding a job because of their religion or ethnicity. In fact, there was a big inequality with people who hadn’t done anything to deserve being discriminated here in the U.S. during World War 2…

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    were getting paid from little jobs that they could find along the way. With the little jobs that the working class could find, they were being paid little to nothing at all which would only be a few cents for an hour of work. Sawmill workers took a massive pay cut as sawmill workers were now only being paid “five cents an hour and general contract workers seven and a half cents an hour” (Baughman, “The Crash and the Great Depression”). Farmers had even more of a struggle for money after the…

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    The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their…

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    -Flat land hugged the coastal areas, while further inland the land became mountainous. -Farming was difficult due to rocky soil. -Colonists from this region soon took advantage of waterpower to run their sawmills and grain mills. -Plentiful forests throughout this region allowed for readily accessible timber to supply the growing shipbuilding industry in these colonies. -Land and climate were perfect for crop production. -Crops such as wheat, oats, rye, and barley grown in this region led to…

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    Mercier Wood Flooring Carlisle gives the most varied collection of wood flooring styles, colors, and textures to help you achieve any look for your new floor. Reputable stores will only deal with manufacturers who use wood from certified sources. Along with stylish designs, laminate floors offer high durability and versatility, which means you can install laminate anywhere in your home. If you can afford the $4 plus per square foot installation costs, then you should probably go with tile…

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    Out of their construction boom, their most destructive artillery, and the innovation of water, I feel like the Roman Empire would have crashed a lot sooner than it did without everything they happened to do with the water. Most of what they have in the city has involved a large amount of water, like the bath houses, or the sewer systems. They wouldn’t have been able to make a good amount of what they did if it wasn’t for needing so much water, or just the way they used the water in general.…

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    “Hodges v. United States” case happened. The reason why this Amendment is important is because it could also help prevent people from being treated like slaves involuntarily. In the case, three white men were convicted for conspiring against Black sawmill workers by using a statute to deprive American Citizens from their Constitutional Liberties. The 14th Amendment states “All persons born or naturalized in United States and subject to the jurisdiction…

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    California.All this happened because one person stole his cattle and he became Impoverished and had to start a partnership with John Sutter. The first gold discovery that James Marshall found was in a river while he was supervising the construction of a sawmill. He and his partner could not keep a secret to themselves as it quickly spread across the nation making immigration a lot more common.Among these immigrants was Levi Strauss a famous inventor of the…

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    addition, with the banning of slavery and the desperate need of free labor in the south, laws were passed where crimes that were more likely to be committed by African Americans would be punished harshly. Punishments usually consisted of forced labor in sawmills, mines, cotton fields and so on. In other words, slavery. Once again, we can clearly see the creative ways of the state government to continue to do what they want with African…

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