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- 71: Player Piano
- ... Ordinary people were degraded into a role of passive consumers. They do not have to work anymore; the only really working jobs are either supervisors in industry or agriculture, or reconstruction and restoration groups, or soldiers. But supervisors do not have any work; reconstruction and restoration workers are too numerous to work really; and soldiers are bullied cruelly. The majority of population is bored since they have everything they need, all their homework is ...
- 72: Campaign
- Ida B. Wells' Campaign The anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells took place in the post-Reconstruction era. By the end of the Civil War, slavery was abolished but there was a problem. No one knew what to do with all the ex-slaves. They didn’t ... were free and had legal rights, the government was putting restrictions on them as if they were slaves again but without actually referring to them as slaves. During the post-Reconstruction era, lynching was thought to be a rational punishment since the law was out of order there was no other alternative. Most whites believed that blacks were brutes and that ...
- 73: Battle Royal
- ... is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome'em with yeses, undermine'em with grins, agree'em to death and destruction, let'em swoller ... is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome'em with yeses, undermine'em with grins, agree'em to death and destruction, let'em swoller ...
- 74: The History Of Affirmative Action
- ... There are a few possible alternatives to affirmative action, some of them are very simple and some are a little more complex. The alternatives discussed in this paper will include: reconstruction of civil society in minority communities, increasing minority and female applicant flow, and most important promote broad policies for economic opportunity and security that benefit low- and middle-income Americans ... funded, measures for minority groups or the poor alone. These efforts can also be designed to coincide with intermediate institutions and thereby to contribute to the overall process of civil reconstruction and renewal.
- 75: Until All The Men Are Back
- ... they still hold? On February 1, 1973, President Richard Nixon sent a secret latter to Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong promising four and one-half billion dollars in postwar reconstruction aid. After Vietnam released the verifiable 591 POWs in a much-publicized ceremony, the money was not rendered. According to a U.S. Senate Report, the belief is that the ... more prisoners in Southeast Asia. They are all dead. Are we as Americans to take this theory and accept it on the merits of a government whose non-release of reconstruction aid amounted to an international lie? I think not. I remember passing by an exhibit at the State Fair in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1972. In this simple exhibit was a ...
- 76: The Revival Of Jazz In South Africa
- ... in South Africa. After many years of cultural oppression due to Apartheid, jazz is slowly but surely finding its way back to popularity in South Africa. However, the road to reconstruction is apparently not a smooth one, as many jazz musicians and the entire jazz community are still running into problems in South Africa. Despite this, the progress that has already ... harsh place for an industry still recovering from the damage inflicted by apartheid.(GOFFIN-188) The story of South African jazz is the story of the nation. The road to reconstruction is a rocky one. South Africa is one of the few countries outside the USA where jazz has been a genuinely popular music. Its roots are in the marabi styles ...
- 77: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... acting, at which his acting company excelled. The culmination of Griffith's work was The Birth of a Nation (1915), a mammoth, 3-hour epic of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Its historical detail, suspense, and passionate conviction were to outdate the 10-minute film altogether.^The decade between 1908 and 1918 was one of the most important in the history ... 1913 to join Reliance-Majestic as head of production, and in 1914, he began his most famous film, based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon. This Civil War Reconstruction epic, known as The Birth of a Nation (1915), became a landmark in American filmmaking, both for its artistic merits and for its unprecedented use of such innovative techniques as ...
- 78: Southern Voting Behavior Since
- ... black Southern voters at the time of the 1960's were just again able to participate with their rights to vote. This was because shortly after the Civil War and reconstruction the Southern whites reduced and eventually removed the short lived black political power. They added laws that made it mandatory to take tests for voter eligibility, as well as discouraging ... their constitutional right to vote (Wayne p.70). Many blacks did in fact support the Republican party for quite a long time because they were known as the party of reconstruction and freeing of the slaves. Black voting turned towards the Democrats in the 1930's and 40's on the advice of "One N.A.A.C.P. leader... Turn ...
- 79: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... acting, at which his acting company excelled. The culmination of Griffith's work was The Birth of a Nation (1915), a mammoth, 3-hour epic of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Its historical detail, suspense, and passionate conviction were to outdate the 10-minute film altogether.^The decade between 1908 and 1918 was one of the most important in the history ... 1913 to join Reliance-Majestic as head of production, and in 1914, he began his most famous film, based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon. This Civil War Reconstruction epic, known as The Birth of a Nation (1915), became a landmark in American filmmaking, both for its artistic merits and for its unprecedented use of such innovative techniques as ...
- 80: Saint Joseph Cathedral
- ... of adobe, was very small and unable to stand up to earthquakes. In 1818 an earthquake cracked the walls and in 1822 an earthquake partially damaged the roof. In 1835 reconstruction of a second adobe building began only to be all but destroyed by an earthquake in 1868. According to San Jose and Its Cathedral by Marjorie Pierce, an architect by ... only a few hundred, compared to the 12,000 plus people in the late 1800’s. It was produced simply for the purpose of a place for worship. The fourth reconstruction of St. Joseph’s was very widely accepted by the community. Churches have always been central icons that brings communities together. Over 2,000 people overflowed St. Joseph’s at ...
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