Papers 16291-16300 of total 54444 found.
…, as demonstrated through things like slavery, segregation, and the Jim Crow laws. Despite patriotic effort in the United States during the war, the negative attitude towards African-Americans still existed. A. Philip Randolph, leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
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…an individual will need crude oil or gasoline for, the time has come to learn to be more conservative. When faced with the increasing demands of gasoline individuals need to utilize car-pooling, taking the bus, or riding a bike. This will allow for a solution…
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…. cars, refrigerators, radios, cookers, telephones etc. Ordinary people were encouraged through advertising to buy these goods and many could now afford what had been luxuries before the war. One reason was that they earned slightly higher wages because…
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…of increased obesity in the modern world. Advanced technological solutions i.e. cars, electronic appliances and medication have made it increasingly easier for people to avoid exercise. This lack of exercise is also due to changes in the work force as a lot…
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…, where she notified me of what was going to happen. She then walked my mother and me out to the car and sent us on our way. The entire drive to the hospital, neither my mother or I spoke a word to each other. When we eventually arrived at the hospital, we…
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…that there is "a rise in serious offenses like manslaughter, rape, robberies, murders, assaults and more reports of car thefts during the past year." (News 12) Over the past ten years, houses and apartments in Yonkers has increased in price. At this time people are beginning…
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…was only one-eighths black and seven-eighths white, but under Louisiana law, he was considered black and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car. Plessy went to court and argued, that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments…
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…' symbols as well. The connotations associated with entering the car in "A Few Words for January" are derived from Saskatchewan's extremely harsh weather conditions; it symbolises the dread that we feel when we are forced to leave our warm houses and enter…
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…sees McNamara articulate his undertakings as the President of the Ford Motor Company. Take for example the experiment where skulls, wrapped in cloth are being dropped and how that leads to the introduction of seat belts in Ford cars. Apart from…
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…an illegal U-turn. The troopers were tall, arrogant, and unsympathetic. They surrounded the car full of black kids and white mother, shone flashlights everywhere, and made David, then a doctoral student at Columbia University, stand outside in the cold without his…
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