I really enjoyed the film Iron-Jawed Angels. As a female, who always fights for her rights, I had tremendous respect for the women who put everything on the line in order to get a vote for women. In the film, the main event that started it all for the National Women’s Party was the parade. At the time, there was support from the NAWSA because the NWP had not been completely formed. They marched in order to make the world aware that they wanted a vote for females. This is similar to the images we
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Assassination of JFK Imagine the huge impact the world would have if one important person, that affected society, was killed. Well, in history the 35th U.S president was assassinated November 22, 1963 and the world was tumbling down as everyone was in shock/great grief. This man’s name was John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK was considered a great leader because he had strong goals: He wanted to change America. Yes, it’s true all presidents want to change
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Gertrude Bell was a British political officer and archaeologist best known for setting up advanced Iraq after World War I. Bell worked for the British government in Cairo over World War I. According to the article “Gertrude Bell Biography” (n.d.), "she contributed to the construction of the Iraqi state in 1921, as well as the National Museum of Iraq." The area that she aimed to concentrate on in her life is the interests in the Middle East. Through World War I, Bell worked for the Red Cross in France
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”I look to a day when People will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character”. Martin Luther King Jr inspired the human race to strive for harmony among all people. Martin Luther King Jr has influenced America to change from what it was to a better place. Marches Martin Luther King Jr used Marches to helped bring the people to fight for equality For blacks. During the years Martin Luther King Jr was alive, he had brought non-violent Marches to helped fight for African-Americans
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The 1960’s were the most progressive era of United States history, from the civil rights movement to the new wave of feminism, the 60’s were one of the most influential and memorable era because of this. One of the most famous of these social movements was the anti-war movement brought by the unpopular Vietnam War. One of the most notorious groups were the Chicago Seven called that because of the seven activists sentenced to jail for protesting. The Chicago Seven took a stand against the Vietnam
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In the words of Bernadette Cahill, the Equal Rights Amendment was an attempt “to finish the unfinished business of the Civil War” (Cahill, Bernadette). The main purpose for the ERA was to create equality for women under the law. The last time that anything like this was attempted was in 1870. Women’s Rights leaders of the time launched a campaign to reword the Fifteenth Amendment to include the word “sex.” The amendment in the constitution states, “race, color or previous condition of servitude.”
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Behaviorism Behaviorism is based on the belief that behaviors can be measured, trained, and changed. (1) Behavior is the response to stimuli. It is mainly concerned with observable behavior, not internal events such as thinking and emotion. Humans learn behavior from their individual environments through classical and operant conditioning. Classical Conditioning. Classical Conditioning is “the alteration in responding that occurs when two stimuli are regularly paired in close succession: the response
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On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave his Civil Rights Address in reaction to the necessary deployment of the U.S. National Guard to escort African American students enlisting at the University of Alabama. In this compelling speech, Kennedy requested Americans to perceive racial inequality as an ethical issue towards which all individuals should endeavor. He carefully addressed the problems of discrimination and segregation within America at the time, knowing well that there would be disagreement
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The Vietnam war was a ten year war. It was many little battles wrapped into one big war in Vietnam that is why it is called the Vietnam War. The Vietnam war was very bloody and brutal. It had 1,100,000 casualties, over 600,000 wounded and nearly 6,000 missing. One of the bloodiest, most brutal battles, was the My Lai Massacre. The My Lai Massacre was one part of the Vietnam War that happened in the morning on March 16, 1968. It happened in the small village of My Lai in South Vietnam. It was a very
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On January 17, 1961, Dwight D Eisenhower addressed the nation at the end of his term with a final speech titled, “Military-Industrial Complex Speech’. President Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. Before his term two terms as president from 1953 to 1961, he was in the military during World War II, serving as a supreme commander of the Allied forces in Western Europe. In fact, Eisenhower was a key player in leading forces into Nazi populated Europe that began D-Day. Later on,
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