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Links about Fascism and political specturm
This site has a nice summary of fascism: http://departments.kings.edu/history/20c/fascism.html Here is a fun site about the political spectrum: http://www.politicalcompass.org/ (Thanks Alex!)
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Summer Pell Grants cut this year
As we discussed in class, one of the ways that the budget was cut by $40 billion in the first years of the Reagan administration was through cutting Pell Grants. These are GRANTS of money to needy...
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Preparation for chapter 17
Your text spent three chapters interrupting the flow of the narrative. Notice that it is now picking up the story where it left off in chapters 13 and 14 after our sidetrips into economics, culture,...
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George Wallace and Robert Kennedy Campaign Ads from 1968
Wallace had been the governor of Alabama who had “stood in the schoolhouse door” to try to prevent the enrollment of African Americans at the University of Alabama (remember Forrest Gump?). He famously...
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Links about the Mayflower Compact
Go here to see the text, from the Avalon Project at Yale University: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp For more information about the Pilgrims: http://www.pilgrimhall.org/
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Excerpts from Paine’s Common Sense
From the Gilder Lehrman site: “I know not,” John Adams wrote in 1806, “whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Thomas Paine.”...
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The Electoral College makes it official
The Electoral College met on December 17 and officially cast their ballots for president: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/17/3146095/electoral-college-set-to-affirm.html
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The Daisy commercial of 1964
The little girl, so sweet and innocent she can’t even count. Segue into a nuclear countdown and certain annihilation! What is the implication? Staying home OR voting for Goldwater is a vote for...
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Quotes by Enlightenment Thinkers
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” – Second Treatise on Government, John Locke “Though the earth and all inferior creatures be...
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