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Labor Union History In California
883 wordsThe various labor movements in California have been among the most important in our nation. As a state with a tremendously diversified economy, California's workers are employed in every industry imaginable; from our huge agriculture base, to our docks, to aerospace, to construction, to the entertainment industry-the list is endless. And in each industry, workers struggled to organize themselves into collectives to shape the labor landscape of California. Some of California's labor movements hav...
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Constitutional Democracy Chinese Society
1,718 wordsAfter Deng Xiaoping gained power in 1978, a new political atmosphere was promised for the Chinese people. A promise of a free land with a modern economic state was made by Deng in order to gain public support. During Deng's reign, a series of economic reforms were made. These reforms had major impacts on both the economy and the society of China. Although it has been argued that Deng was leading a totalitarian regime, historians tend to overlook the idea that the Chinese have different ideologie...
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Ideologies Of The Democracy Movement In China
1,686 words... the intellectuals were beginning to doubt the Chinese Communist Party, but no political action was taken to overthrow the Maoist regime because of Chinese cultural respect towards the system of government. However, in 1978, after Mao's death, Deng Xiaoping obtained leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Deng's initial objective was to retain a "socialist democracy" within China. As in other issues in Chinese history, scholars have attempted to define the purpose of Deng's reign. One comm...
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Transnational Social Movements And The Campaign Against Nike
2,410 words"Using the case of the anti-Nike sweatshop labour campaign, discuss the basis, the process and the problems faced by new transnational social movement coalitions. " In an increasingly globalized world Transnational Corporations (TNCs) have acquired unprecedented levels of power and autonomy. Spurred on by neo-liberal economic ideology, deregulation of markets and increasing international flows of capital, TNCs are relocating manufacturing to countries where labour costs are cheapest as a means o...
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African Influence On American Dance
1,174 wordsAfrican dance has contributed many characteristics to dance in America. We see evidence of this in many aspects of dance today. Being such a diverse nation, America has the blessing of combining original dances from different cultures to create an amazing dance repertoire. American dance as we know would be completely different, if it werent for the Africans. African dance began with the different rhythms of the tribes. Its roots in America began with the slave trade. The American slave trade be...
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American Indian Movement United States Government
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Romantic Music The Ideals Of Instrumental
860 wordsAt one point in the study of the Romantic period of music, we come upon the first of several apparently opposing conditions that plague all attempts to grasp the meaning of Romantic as applied to the music of the 19 th century. This opposition involved the relation between music and words. If instrumental music is the perfect Romantic art, why is it acknowledged that the great masters of the symphony, the highest form of instrumental music, were not Romantic composers, but were the Classical com...
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Group Of People Cultural Relativism
1,078 wordsThe True Believer is a manuscript that attempts to grant justification as to why people would be drawn to a mass movement. A mass movement is a form of social, economic, or religious movement where a large group of people attempt to rise up and evoke a change away from the status quo. 'This book deals with some peculiarities common to all mass movements, be they religious movements, social revolutions or nationalist movements. ' The book is divided into four parts. Part one pertains to The Appea...
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Women Rights In Islamic States
2,821 wordsWomen's Rights in Islamic States Within Islam, women play a role almost solely as a homemaker. Women are rarely allowed to leave the house. To contribute to the seclusion of women men will do just about anything in order to keep them from leaving the house including going to the market for them. The ideal Muslim woman is modest, pious, and cares greatly for her family (Ahmed, p. 167). The status of women within Islamic society is almost a perfect mirror image of the seeming destiny of Islam at t...
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Oriented Policing Criminological Theories
2,255 words... response strategies is given greater weight and importance under problem-oriented policing than under community policing. Problem-oriented policing specifically promotes using alternatives to the formal criminal justice system, redefining the nature of the police's relationship to this and other systems; community policing does not explicitly address this relationship. Community policing strongly emphasizes organizing and mobilizing the community, almost to the point that doing so becomes a ...
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Piano Sonatas Classical Era
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Johann Sebastian Bach Baroque Period
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Number Of Jews Ottoman Empire
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Modern Dance Dance Company
459 wordsLimon Dance Company is the nation? s oldest modern-dance company. Jose Limon established Limon in 1946. In the beginning the company only survived by word of mouth but eventually grew to be one of the Nations best and well-known Modern Dance Company? s. The Limon Dance Company survived with many of its original dance? s intact, these dances preserve the legacy of mid-century choreographers and showed the Company? s talent. The three pieces that the Limon Company performed were Champion, The Wing...
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Part Of The Brain Huntington Disease
1,258 wordsHuntingtons Huntingtons Disease Genetic Disorders Huntington's Disease Huntington's Disease is a genetic autosomal disorder which effects the brain. It affects about 1 in 20, 000 individuals. The symptoms of the disease do not start to occur until after or around 40 years of age. With the onset of the disease the patient starts to gradually deteriorate intellectually, this deterioration also causes involuntary movements. Scientists have only recently found the section of the gene which causes Hu...
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Physical And Mental Thousands Of Years
1,036 wordsRecently, the practice of massage therapy has grown remarkably in the United States. It has become more widely accepted as a medical practice by doctors as well as the general public. Massage is defined as: ? the systematic manual or mechanical manipulations of the soft tissues of the body by such movements as rubbing, kneading, pressing, rolling, slapping, and tapping, for therapeutic purposes such as promoting circulation of the blood and lymph, relaxation of muscles, relief from pain, restora...
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Fear Of Losing Percent Of The Vote
1,604 wordsRight Wing Resurgence: Short Term Trend or Long Term Turmoil? In the mist of a disgruntled working class, one Austrian born man rose to power, playing on their fears of immigrants, unemployment and globalization. By mixing social populism, xenophobia, German nationalism with personal charisma, he was able to make his political party one of the strongest in his nation. Many would believe that this would be a description of the infamous dictator Adolph Hitler. Rather, it is a description of Jorg H...
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William James Mental Processes
1,216 wordsWilliam James: The Later Years William James introduced experimental psychology to America. He began giving laboratory demonstrations to students at least as early as Wundt, and he and his students started performing laboratory experiments about the same time as Wundt and his students. Ironically, while James made much of the value of experimentation, he himself found it boring. He usually spent no more than two hours a day in the laboratory. Yet he believed in it and had his students perform a ...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Tourette Syndrome
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Jackson Stonewall Jackson
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