What were some poverty statistics from the 1960s that showed issues that America was facing?​

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50 years ago during the civil rights movement, the Poor People’s Campaign set out to put poverty reduction front and center on the national agenda. Over six weeks in 1968, a community-led multiethnic movement brought national attention to the plight of poor people in the United States. Today, as preparations begin around the country to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this campaign, we can look back and see what progress has been made and where work still needs to be done. This snapshot is the first in a series that will hopefully help readers understand the challenges surrounding poverty that remain today.

The current official U.S. poverty measure has been used since the 1960s, when it was devised as part of the “War on Poverty.” The official poverty line was originally set at approximately three times a basic food budget, adjusted by family size and composition, and it is updated annually by overall inflation. It is not a perfect measure of poverty. The thresholds are too low (largely because food prices rose more slowly than other prices since its inception) and it doesn’t count some key resources poor families rely on (such as in-kind public benefits like Medicaid or food stamps). In later snapshots, we’ll turn to the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), a measure that better reflect both the resources families can access and the true cost of living. Whatever the measure’s shortcomings, it remains the official poverty rate reported by the federal government each year and the one used for determining eligibility for many safety net programs—and families that live below the official poverty line today are clearly facing genuine economic distress.

The figure below shows the official poverty rates of Americans overall as well as by age and race. Overall, about one in eight Americans live below the poverty line, which is about $25,000 for a family of four. According to the official measure, Americans ages 65 and up have seen the largest declines in poverty since 1968—from 25.0 percent to 9.3 percent—thanks primarily to Social Security. Social Security expansions to cover occupations initially excluded by the program, along with improved access to jobs and higher education driven by the civil rights movement, led to large declines in black poverty even before 1968, and this rate fell from 34.7 percent in 1968 to 22.0 percent today. An often-overlooked decline in black poverty also took place during the tight labor market of the 1990s. Between 1994 and 2001, black poverty fell almost 8 full percentage points, as persistent low unemployment disproportionately helped historically disadvantaged groups.

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The right to food, clothing, and shelter are known as
1) first-generation rights
2) legal rights
3) liberty-oriented rights
4)security-oriented rights

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2) because it’s not security orientated and it’s not liberal orientated and it’s definitely not first generation rights so would have to be 2)

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True

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how did metal working contributed to Ghana's prosperity?

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Answer: It produced strong weapon/tools that made the empire strong and powerful.

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It produced strong and mighty tools and weapons that created the empire to be powerful.

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The 14th has 5 parts. Here is what they are.

1. All persons born in the United States or are Naturalized Citizens (born somewhere else, but have fulfilled the requirements of an American Citizen), have the rights of every citizen. All citizens have the right to property, life and law. All citizens will have the protection of the laws where they live.

2. Each state shall have representatives that count 1 person as 1 part of the of the way representatives are chosen. This is a very important part of the legislation. Before this law was put in place, the colored in some states made up 60% of a person. This part of the amendment prohibits that practice. The only exception is if a person has committed a crime, in which case he is not counted at all

3. This has to do with the choices of representatives and senators (those who have been in the civil war on the wrong side) are not elegible to become members of the house or the senate. However this clause can be waved by a vote of 2/3 of the house. I don't think this clause has anything to do with Brown vs. The Board of Education.

4. The right to pensions for those who have served in the army of the losers of the civil war shall have a right to pensions. They must never be questioned about their service to the confederacy. This too has nothing to do with Brown vs. The Board of Education.

5. This clause just says congress can pass laws that enforce the other 4 parts of 14.

Now you can look at Brown vs. The board of Education. The main thing you must keep in mind is Clause one. Are children being deprived of their equal rights because they are poor, black and a minority? You must base your answer on clause one. All citizens have the same rights. You must be very careful and thorough when you talk about the Constitution. America built her power on that document.

This excerpt is from a memoir by Muhammad Hallaj, a political scientist who was a high school student in Palestine when the Arab-Israeli conflict began in 1948.

In 1967, the Israelis completed their conquest of Palestine, seizing the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Qalqilya. They bore down on Qalqilya with a particular vengeance. They tried to destroy the town completely, loading many of the inhabitants onto trucks and dumping them at the Jordan River, telling them to "go to King Hussein." My father was among them. After dynamiting and bulldozing a substantial part of the town, foreign embassies in Tel Aviv found out what Israel was doing in Qalqilya and had their governments intervene. International pressure forced Israel to stop destroying the town.

–from "Recollections of the Nakba through a
Teenager's Eyes"
In the first sentence, Hallaj states that the Israelites had completed their conquest of Palestine by seizing Gaza and the West Bank. Based on his word choice, how did Palestinians view the Six-Day War?
as only a partial loss
as an occupation
as a complete victory
as an equal battle

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B. As an occupation

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What issue did the Missouri Compromise address? How did Northern and Southern attitudes of slavery differ?

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Answer: As new states were created, the issue of slavery threatened to pull the country apart. In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue.

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Why did the Kansas become known as “Bleeding Kansas”?
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Answer:This period of guerrilla warfare is referred to as Bleeding Kansas because of the blood shed by pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups, lasting until the violence died down in roughly 1859. Most of the violence was relatively unorganized, small scale violence, yet it led to mass feelings of terror within the territory.

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What were the significant events in the history of African Americans and Latinos before the civil rights movement?

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1955 — Montgomery Bus Boycott

1961 — Albany Movement

1963 — Birmingham Campaign

1963 — March on Washington

1965 — Bloody Sunday

1965 — Chicago Freedom Movement

1967 — Vietnam War Opposition

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Give me 1 fact about the Mayans.

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60 cities were built by the Maya

They invented the mathematical concept of zero.

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Rome is in Italy, so the answer is 1

Which option represents a way that multiple perspectives are reflected in political participation? a. Public meetings b. Press conference c. Legislative sessions d. State of the Union address

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Option a. is correct.

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In Public meetings, various people can openly express their opinions on different issues of public policy.

Public meetings involve sharing of information and discussion among the audience.

Therefore,

Public meetings represent a way that multiple perspectives are reflected in political participation.

Option a. is correct.

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A

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Which of the following shows that the Whitmans did not understand the Native Americans?
O The Whitmans built and maintained a house among them in which they held religious services.
The Whitmans selected a location among the Cayuse tribe rather than the Nez Perce, who had asked them to come.
O The Whitmans insisted that people arriving from the East settle away from Native Americans.
The Whitmans encouraged the Cayuse to teach them what they had learned from other Christian teachers.

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The 2nd one

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The Whitmans selected a location among thr cayuse tribe ratehr than the nez perce, who had asked them to come

The following statement shows that the Whitmans did not understand the Native Americans: "The Whitmans insisted that people arriving from the East settle away from Native Americans." The correct option is C.

What Native Americans lived in the mission?

The native converts were referred to as "neophytes." They were expected to do labor after being baptized. Traditionally, women cooked while men toiled in the fields. Church attendance and Spanish study were both done. In the missionary community, farming was a particularly crucial occupation.

This statement suggests that the Whitmans believed that Native Americans were a threat to the new settlers and that they should be kept separate. This attitude reflects a lack of understanding and respect for Native American culture and values.

Thus, the ideal selection is option C.

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Which characteristics of Muhammad Bin Qasim provided the foothold for the spread of Islam in the subcontinent

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The characteristic of Muhammad Bin Qasim that provided the basis for the spread of Islam in the Indian subconscious was the permission of religious freedom.

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Muhammad bin Qasim was an Islamic leader who, by invading the Indian subcontinent, did not impose the forced conversion of citizens to Islam. On the contrary, Muhammad bin Qasim presented himself very peacefully and even commanding a large army, he allowed religious freedom to be maintained, and those who chose to convert to Islam by their own free will would be welcome, but those who did not desiring conversion, could practice their religions without fear of reprisals.

Marconi, Bell and Morse both worked in what industry

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railroads, consolidated financial and commodity markets, and reduced information costs within and between firms.

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What was the main effect of the Louisiana Purchase?

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Answer: the trading line .

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In what two ways does God have the “rights of a creator?” (You may use the example of a potter to explain your answer.)

a. b.

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He is the owner and creator which provides rights of the creator.

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God have the “rights of a creator'' because He is the creator and owner of everything. An owner has the authority to use the thing according to its will. The creator has the rights to destroy or modifies its creation and no one is able to question Him. There is no rights of a creation over itself when we talk about the rights of creator. The rights of creator is more important than the rights creation because the creator is the owner of that creation.

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a. A potter has the rights and freedom of a creator to form the clay in whatever way he wants.

b. Once the pottery is formed, the potter also has the right and freedom to do with it as he pleases.

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Who was charged with holding the Confederates from gaining control of the hills around Gettysburg ?

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Major General George Pickett was charged with holding the Confederates from gaining control of the hills around Gettysburg

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Major General George Pickett  has done a historical job which probed to be a turning point in the American Civil War. After he took the infantry charge on July 3, 1863, he led to the climax of the civil war where he did not allowed the Confederate Army to win. The confederate army lost along with huge losses..

After U.S.-led invasions in the early 2000s, Afghanistan and Iraq changed from dictatorships to democracies. Is it right to spread democracy by force? Pair up with a friend and choose opposite sides to the debate. Write your arguments in the spaces below.
Pro Con

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Although the United States intervened in Iraq after it began its intervention in Afghanistan, it is withdrawing from Iraq first. Therefore, what the United States has and has not accomplished in Iraq will be discussed first.

It must be said to begin with that the United States did achieve some important successes in Iraq. It destroyed the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein — something that the Iraqi population had not only been unable to do on its own, but may not have been able to do later either. If Saddam had managed to transfer power to his sons (who were reportedly just as, or even more, vicious than their father), the regime may have survived for years or even decades.

In addition, the U.S.-led intervention helped the Kurds in northern Iraq. They had suffered terribly under Saddam Hussein but were able to solidify the tenuous autonomy they had achieved (also with U.S. help) after the 1990-91 Kuwait conflict and even build some prosperity in their zone.

Although Iraq’s Arab Sunni tribes were initially hostile to the U.S.-led intervention and fought an insurgent war against it, American forces were eventually able to make peace and work with most of them.

Most important, the United States organized and protected the holding of relatively free and fair elections at both the national and local levels. This allowed Iraq’s Arab Shia majority, which had also suffered dreadfully under Saddam Hussein, to play a leading role in Iraqi politics for the first time.

In addition to these successes, however, the United States has had some noteworthy failures in Iraq. First, the failure to halt the massive violence, looting and infrastructure breakdown that took place throughout the country immediately after the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime. This was caused by the Bush administration’s failure to anticipate and plan for the aftermath of Saddam’s downfall as well as to deploy enough troops to maintain order. As a result, the initial gratitude displayed by much of the Iraqi population toward the United States for delivering it from Saddam quickly disappeared.

Further, despite a massive troop presence, the United States was unable to prevent or stop the large-scale ethnic-cleansing campaigns that violent Arab Sunni and Arab Shia groups conducted against each other’s communities. These campaigns were so successful that some observers attributed the decline in violence in Iraq in 2008-09 not to the American troop surge ordered by President Bush, but to the ethnic-cleansing campaigns having largely completed the violent work of segregating the Sunni and the Shia communities from each other.

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Define the "Vietnam War" and its significance?

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The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United State

How did Japan develop into a powerful nation

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Japan had built a modern army and navy that had won two brief wars. It had beaten China in 1894-1895 and Russia in 1904-1905. ... Japan's next step was to try to become a world power and dominate the Pacific. This ambition would lead inevitably to the attack on Pearl Harbor and war with the United States.

23. Which Newton's Law would explain why your body lunges forward after the car has come to an abrupt stop?
A. Newton's First Law
B. Newton's Second Law
C. Newton's Third Law
D. Newton's Law of Momentum
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I believe the answer is C.

Explanation: Newton’s Third Law -> for every reaction, there is always an equal but opposite reaction

Why do you think Qin Shi Huang had so many Terracotta Soldiers built?

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Reason 1: The Terracotta Army was built to protect Qin Shi Huang and his tomb. Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the owner of the Terracotta Army, killed many people who opposed him when he was launching wars to the other states. One day, he dreamed that those who had been executed by him came to revenge.

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I feel like slavery was one the worst things that a human can do to another human because when someone is enslaved they lose all of their privileges and become a simple object.

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When Egypt and Nubia were at peace, what did the two cultures share?


A) the Egyptian language

B) the Meroitic language

C) friendship with the Hyksos

D) friendship with the Persians

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The correct answer is letter D

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The differences between homohabilis and Australopithecus are: homohabilis possesses a greater cranial capacity (610 to about 800cc), it has reduced prognathism is a flatter face and a shorter tooth row. The giant increase in brain size made by habilis would have given the species the advantage of stone tool-making.

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Why were the events at Appomattox Court House so important?

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The site is historically significant for its association with the final battle of the Civil War and Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. ... The Appomattox County Court House after the surrender in 1865

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Why was Constantinople renamed Istanbul

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Since modern day Turkey had gone from a multiethnic, cosmopolitan Empire, to a nation state of Turks this was seen as necessary to complete this process. As such Constantinople was changed to Istanbul, and Ataturks government would pressure other countries to start calling the city Istanbul

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What in the Treaty of Versailles specifically granted the League of Nations the power to declare war? The great end war

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Countries that belonged to the League would work together to stop potential wars in the future. Ultimately, the Treaty of Versailles (1919) required Germany to accept responsibility for World War I and imposed reparations. It also called for the establishment of the League of Nations, as Wilson had envisioned.

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