East and West Rabindranath Tagore I It is not always a profound interest in man that carries travellers nowadays to distant lands. More often it is the facility for rapid movement. For lack of time and for the sake of convenience we generalise and crush our human facts into the packages within the steel trunks that hold our travellers’ reports. Our knowledge of our own countrymen and our feelings about them have slowly and unconsciously grown out of innumerable facts which are full of contradictions
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Between 200 C.E. and 900 C.E.‚ China underwent a lot of significant changes and continuities‚ especially in political and economical aspects. A specific change that happened to China’s economic system was the shift from agriculture in the Han Dynasty to trading in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Although there were changes in power and rule‚ China’s political administration continued to hold the same basic ideals‚ and was grounded in Confucian thought. During the late Han Dynasty‚ agriculture was the
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therefore cannot be changed. From 1700 to 1750‚ the differences in wealth and status in the colonies continued to increase. Once the gap started to widen‚ it was very difficult to alter due to the structure of the political system (or lack thereof). The plague of war created a class of widows and orphans‚ who became dependant for their survival on charity. The supply of unclaimed land dwindled and families grew‚ existing landholdings were repeatedly subdivided. By 1750‚ Boston supported a large
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Women today in 2016 couldn’t last two minutes living the life of a woman in the 1900s. 100 years ago‚ females were known as the weaker gender but more virtuous and were not allowed to do anything unless they had a husband. They didn’t have any rights‚ authority‚ or opinion about ANYTHING! It was illegal for women to do a lot of things‚ and here we are 100 years later‚ we can do whatever we want‚ when we want‚ however
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1. “An analysis of the popular culture of the United States from 1865 to 1900 reveals deep class‚ gender‚ and ethnic or racial divisions.” Assess the validity of this statement. I believe that this statement is very accurate given the social conditions of American society around the turn of the 20th century. Following the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ Americans struggled to regain a sense of normality and divisions between different groups of people highlighted the flaws within society
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The history of the world consists of things that interrupt continuity. This is abundantly clear during certain time periods‚ especially when the cultures of Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas collided in the fifteenth century. The interest in economic growth in Europe‚ an abundance of resources in the Americas‚ and the availability of slaves in Africa created a perfect storm that interrupted some continuities from before. Africa was a patriarchal society. As they participated in the slave trade
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Initiating Change from Within Introduction There is an old saying that goes‚ “the only thing permanent in life is change”‚ this holds true for almost everything in life. Even our bodies attest to that fact. We are not the same physiologically‚ mentally and psychologically as we were‚ say‚ ten years ago. Change is inherent in the world that we live in. If change is something that is inherent in nature‚ it seems that resisting change is something that comes with it naturally. All our lives we try
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The tiny south pacific nation of East Timor has had a long and tumultuous history. While it has been touted as the first independent country of the 21st century‚ the government originally declared its independence in November of 1975. East Timor had spent over 300 years under Portuguese rule and the colonial influences did much to shape Timorese culture and society. As a result East Timor developed very differently from its neighbours and had little in common with the former Dutch colony that
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is from this ideology that historians have over the years realized how genocides occur within different countries. From 1975 until roughly 1979‚ the ideology is defined within the genocide that took place within the Portuguese colony of East Timor (p. 279). It was until this time that the country of East Timor had been loosely administered by the Portuguese. Because of this notion that‚ “…for more than four centuries Portugal had been the dominant‚ almost exclusive‚ external influence in East Timor”
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The East African community commonly refers to the three East African states namely Kenya‚ Tanzania and Uganda‚ within the recent past it has been used to refer to Rwanda and Burundi which are pushing forward to join the block and be it’s forth and Fifth member states. Sometimes the term is used to refer to a wider geographical region covering even the wider Ethiopia‚ Djibouti‚ and Eritrea. The region (EA) boast of a huge population of around 100 million people currently‚ like the rest of sub-Saharan
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