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Slavery's expansion and racial legacy in nineteenth-century America

Any discussion of 19th century American history that omits slavery is incomplete, because slavery was such a significant fact of life during that time period that it impacted all people, whether slave or free, and whether they lived in a slave state or a state that prohibited slavery.

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Leadership response to major global crisis incidents

The last decade has been riddled with crisis on the global as well as domestic scale. Crisis on many fronts have been noticed for instance natural calamities, terrorism issues, scandals, technological issues and financial disarray.

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Chris Gardner's entrepreneurship in The Pursuit of Happyness

The movie The Pursuit of Happyness tells the story of a single father who runs into significant difficulty in his life and then pulls himself out of that difficulty with hard work and innovation to become a success.

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Industrial revolution and religious revival in early America

Federalist Papers, the U.S. Constitution was ratified in the late 1780's by the original 13 states. But this new nation would experience a myriad of other changes by the turn of the century. With a new political system, westward expansionism and manifest destiny would guide the new American spirit.

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Bridging generational differences in the contemporary American workplace

With different orientations and meeting in common grounds, the problem is how to set them together to produce their generational best without sacrificing corporate objectives and hurting anyone's rights or point-of-view.

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Social class divisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986

Taxation has long been a contentious issue among the different classes of American society. The 1960s witnessed the beginning of the end of the old industrial economy.

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The enduring popularity and social satire of John Gay's Beggar's Opera

Why has the Beggar's Opera remained popular with theatergoers for so long? Fair enough question for something that's been around for the past 275 years. A considerable life for any play that depicted the society of when it was originally performed.

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Michael Corleone's moral corruption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather

Coppola's 'The Godfather' was released as a film in 1972, critics were quick to condemn the movie for engaging in a mis-portrayal of organized crime.

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Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday" and the 1920s

Al Capone to the President Harding scandals, including the revolution of manners and morals, Black Tuesday and the Prohibition; Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's" characterizes the events and figures of the wild, turbulent era of the boisterous twenties…

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Winston Churchill's "Never Give In" speech and leadership during World War II

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was one of the most energetic and vital of all British leaders. Born in 1874 to an English father and American mother, he embodied the highest qualities of both peoples.

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