Current Events May 2015

Robots threaten these 8 jobs http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/13/news/economy/robots-threaten-jobs-unemployment/index.html This article is about the 8 jobs that are threatened to be taken over by robots. Robots threaten the jobs of Cashiers and Toll booth operators. Robots threaten the jobs of marketers and advertisers.  Robots...

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Leading to Civil War

1. Missouri Compromise (1820) (map) This event led to the Civil War by igniting the fuse for the division of the states, into north and south.                                2. Wilmont Proviso (1846) (map) This event led to the Civil...

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass The following quotes are by Frederick Douglass. "Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty?" Here Douglass is talking about how it can not be argued that a man does not have liberty. "Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it;...

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Pope Francis uses 'genocide' to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks

Pope Francis Pope Francis uses 'genocide' to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks Pope Francis call mass killing of Armenians a genocide, thus angering Turks.Turkey called for  the ambassador from the Vatican for a meeting. Gursoy says that the Pope's use of the word...

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Abolitionist and Women's Movements

Women's and Black rights. Both Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott share similarities in their views. For example, all three of these people, or both of these movements illustrate the desire for rights to be given. In Frederick's case he wants for Black people to be free and be able to do anything...

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Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism The transcendentalism movement in the 1800s was religious and philosophical movement epoch that shaped how Americans thought. Transcendentalism revolves around the major principle that a person’s knowledge comes through intuition and creative development not through logic or the institutionalized education....

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Trail of Tears

                                    Trail of Tears          The Trail of Tears was a result of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, in 1838 and 1839. The Cherokee a Native American tribe indigenous...

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