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What they saw and how they saw it: the media and the Haymarket’s bomb blast
On May 3, 1886 laborers working in Chicago’s Haymarket Square were killed by local police officers. Tensions between the two groups had been brewing since before the Civil War based on the length of the basic workday. Laborers were aware they were being treated unfairly, and were ready to fight for what they believed to be right. After these killings, however, over time the group has only been remembered as a group of rabble-rousers willing to stir up trouble in an effort to upset law enforcement....
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The Effect of Stroke and Malaria in Ghana
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This paper is based on top two prominent diseases that affect my race. I am a proud Ghanaian from the Akan ethnic group. Ghana is a sub-Saharan West African country along the Gulf of Guinea, i.e. northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Ghana is sandwiched by three francophone states namely, Burkina Faso in the North, la Côte d’Ivoire in the West, and Togo towards the East. The Ghanaian population is estimated to be about 28 million citizens as of 2016[i]. Although health care is significantly...
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What made Malinche a traitor to the Mexicans?
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What made Malinche a traitor to the Mexicans? Two possible reasons can be given. First, being instrumental of the Spanish conquest of Mexico which branded her role more political than just a mistress to Cortes. Second the fact that she was married to Hernan Cortes giving her a new identity and alienation from his native people. The former is of more importance to be discussed in the paper.
Townsend work on Malinche is an attempt to sympathize with the plight of a woman whose world... -
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The Treaty of Shackamaxon
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William Penn, famously known as the founder of Pennsylvania province, was an English real estate owner and one of the early Quakers who landed up in Pennsylvania in October 1682 (Newman, 2012). Upon his arrival, Penn met with the Native American Tribal Groups of Lenni Lenape in Shackamaxon, a riverside town presently known as Fishtown and made an oral treaty under a huge elm tree. Through this treaty Penn made with the Native American tribal leader Tamanend, the Quakers promised perpetual help...
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