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- 551: Social Deviance
- ... that smaller, less powerful groups could group together and instantaneously challenge the control of the more powerful groups. A case in point, “abolitionists not only introduced ideas that challenged the norms surrounding the system of slavery but joined together to directly challenge the status quo and eventually to end slavery together.” While the previous two sociologists looked at the use of socail structure, Max Weber wanted to know why social control was even allowed to subsist. Weber excepted the theories of both Durkheim and Marx ...
- 552: Two Views On The Confederate Flag’s Controversial Issue
- ... which the founders of the union based the American Constitution. Most Southerners, who fought for the Confederacy, were fighting for the principals of states rights. They had little interest in preserving the "peculiar institution" of slavery. Individual hate groups and mis-use of the flag began after the war and during reconstruction. As a result, the true heritage and history of the Southern cause (i.e., state's rights) was lost ... adopted by hate groups A. Symbol of bondage, hatred and bigotry to many B. Certain people rightfully want the flat taken down V. Confederate Flag a symbol of honor A. Civil War was not about slavery B. The Confederate Flag does not belong on bumper stickers or plates C. The Confederate Flag deserves to be preserved
- 553: Civil Disobedience
- ... pay his taxes and I support this episode of civil disobedience as justified. Thoreau did not pay his taxes because he objected the use of the revenue to finance the Mexican War and enforcement of slavery laws. He did not request for his money to be used for the enforcement of slavery laws, therefore felt he had the right to protest and act out civil disobedience. Paul Harris defines civil disobedience as "an illegal, public, nonviolent, conscientiously motivated act of protest, done by someone who accepts the ...
- 554: Racial Discrimination and its Effect on Our Society
- ... is listen; they are just as equal as you are. If you do it, pretty soon they’ll quit. Racism’s history goes way back. The Constitution of the United States recognized the legality of slavery, the ultimate form of discrimination. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the constitutional amendments that followed the American Civil War (1861-1865) changed the legal status of African Americans, but a series of decisions by ... on language, religion, or manners. Causes of racism may be very complex and cannot be reduced to one reason. History plays a big role in the way some people feel today. Racism has commonly accompanied slavery, colonization, and other forms of exploitation and inequality. Proving the equality of all races was a long and difficult process. I believe that not everyone today agrees with the statement suggesting that everyone deserves to ...
- 555: Civil War 9
- ... his first vote. The right to vote was given to blacks in the Fifteenth Amendment. Thomas Nast depicts that the newly emancipated black people are no threat to the whites because they’ve only escaped slavery to come into poverty. In a way, Nast seems to support slavery, he implies that being destitute is worse than being a slave. With all of these events taken into consideration, the Emancipation Proclomation, the new amendments, Reconstructin, and so on and so forth, we may conclude ...
- 556: The Ku Klux Klan
- ... Union had been established, it faced two critical issues: whether the United States of America should be a federation or a confederation; and whether the institution of indentured labour - in effect a lighter form of slavery - should be allowed to continue or not. Together these two issues led to the American Civil War, which can be counted as one of the great turning points in American history: it set the new nation against itself, the South, supporting confederalism and indentured labour; against the North, who favoured federalism and the abolition of slavery. Great White armies fought each other and finally decimated the south, all in argument over the future of the Black race. The original Klan, which is not to be confused with the groups calling themselves ...
- 557: Civil War-54th Massachusettes
- ... the enlisted men were Frederick Douglass' sons Charles and Lewis. Reaction from the South to black recruitment was swift. The Confederate Congress issued a proclamation that African Americans captured in uniform would be sold into slavery, and white officers of such troops would be executed. Though not carried out, the threat was a grave challenge to every recruit and officer of the Massachusetts 54th. Among those calling for the authorization of black soldiers in the Civil War was Frederick Douglass, who felt that military service would signal African Americans' freedom from slavery and citizenship status. Douglass said, "Let the slaves and free colored people be called into service, and formed into a liberating army, to march into the South and raise the banner of emancipation among the ...
- 558: Prejudice
- ... been a prejudice against the black race ever since. Some Whites figure they are superior to all other races, especially blacks since they once were property to the white man. Most American people realize that slavery was a very terrible thing that happened in America's past. Yet there are still some racist people who believe that the blacks should still be property or are less of a human. What are they thinking? Can they not realize that they are humans just like you and I? Since slavery, there have been all kinds of attempts to curve prejudice and abolish it; but as long as people are still here, it's impossible. One way that America tried to stop prejudice was an act ...
- 559: The World's Longest War
- ... land from Arabia to the Mediterranean by 635, it conquered and converted Iran from Zoroastrianism by 641, and it gradually conquered the Christian Byzantine Empire until it captured and sacked Constantinople itself in 1453. Christian slavery became an institution until the 19th century. Egyptian Mamelukes and Turkish Janissaries were slave armies of Christian children drafted and raised as Moslems. The black slave trade in the interior of Africa was always an Arab monopoly; black slavery in Arabia ended only after World War II. (American blacks have the dilemma of turning to Islam for salvation and knowing that Islam enslaved their ancestors for transportation to the Americas. Cognitive dissonance.) In the ...
- 560: Caribbean
- Many people will think of Caribbean Islands as a nice place for a getaway vacation. But historical background of Caribbean is somewhat different. Caribbean has a long history of colonization and slavery for many generations. As new colonization was established, new cultures and languages were introduced. People tends to only focus on the bright side of the Columbus¡¯s great discover of the new land and colonization ... were brought from all different parts of Africa as a human cargo. Among the slaves, they had many cultural differences as well as languages themselves because they were brought from different regions of Africa. When slavery was abandoned throughout the Caribbean in mid-nineteenth century, the economic and political structure that controlled the island remained. The exslaves were forced to work below the minimum wages. Large number of Caribbean emigrated hoping ...
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