Robert Leonard’s essay “Why Rural America Voted For Trump,” provides insight from a person who has liberal views about the rural-urban divide in the United States considering Donald Trump’s presidency. Many Americans have split views on what Trump will and will not do in office considering the social and economic issues. The concerns of unemployment, immigration, and the well-being of future citizens was discussed. Also, the Democrat versus Republican gap was examined and each sides views were expressed
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In the early 1900s freedom for many minority in the U.S. wasn’t freedom at all. Freedom is something that every living thing has wanted since the moment they were brought into this world. Since the beginning of time we have fought, killed, and taken just for freedom. Freedom is so important because its what makes a person how they are and the ability to express their thoughts and ideas. Freedom is also allows you to have no limit to success and ideas. With the more freedom that you have, the better
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Firstly, Martin Luther King Jr. was an extremely large contributor in gaining civil right of African Americans during the civil rights movements, whose passion for non-violent protesting set an affecting tone in the civil rights movements. Martin Luther King had a large contribution to the reduced amount of injustice and discrimination against African Americans which is present today. As a highly influential social activist in the movements, King created mass publicity highlighting the atrocities
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Texas, but Texas wants you anyway.” There does not seem to be another state in the US that has as much pride as Texas. An abundance of things make Texas unique, including its rich history, iconic cities, and Whataburger, but something a little more obscure comes to my mind when I reflect on what makes Texas great. 42 is a strategy game played with a standard set of dominoes, similar to the card game “Spades,” and is often referred to as “the national game of Texas.” 42 invented by two teenage boys
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Why did Texans fight in the bloodiest war in America? Well, between the years of 1861 and 1865 Texans went to war for their state. The Texans battled to never look back on the past and to fight for nothing but slavery, states’ rights, and sectionalism. Texans went into combat to cover their states’ rights. “The crisis upon us involves not only the right of self-government but the maintenance of a great principle in the law of nations…”(Doc C).The right of the secession was a state right and was
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The effectiveness of political compromise in reducing sectional tensions was very poor, as demonstrated by the Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas Nebraska act. These compromises created very little help in trying to repair the tensions. One of the first compromises to try to loosen the tensions was the Missouri Compromise. It all started when Missouri was pushing to become a state. At this time the controversy between having slave vs free states was major. There were 11
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Jumoke Adeyele Rebecca Richard-Kortum is a professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. She was born in 1964, and she grew up in Nebraska. She went to the University of Nebraska. She also went to University of Texas to continue her education. She later moved to Rice in Houston. Rebecca has six kids, three boys and three girls. She is a director at Rice 360° institute for Global Health, and the founder of Beyond Traditional Borders. She
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As the Americas started to grown there is evidence of different cultures and developments depending which part of the colonies you look at. Throughout the colonies there was a number of people who had farmed and saw agriculture as something that they could make a living in, using slaves a free labor. Slaves were however seen more in the south in the early 1800’s then in the northern towns. In the south cotton was a fast-growing business that needed many workers at hard at all times. Many of the slaves
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Black nor White, slave or slave owner, it doesn’t matter, both races deserve the same quality of medical care, because they’re living human beings who deserve respect and equal rights. Down in the South, in the eighteenth century, doctors were scarce, which forced slaves and slave owners to rely on their own medical practices and some used manuals written by medical professional to concoct medicines. With the limited accessibility to physicians, the slaves became essential in providing medical treatments
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Hank Williams was born September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive, Alabama. Considered one of the most popular American country music singer/songwriters with songs like "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." He died of a heart attack at the age of 29 in 1953 in the backseat of his Cadillac. Widely considered country music's first superstar, Hiriam "Hank" Williams was born September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive, Alabama. Cut from rural stock
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