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    In the nineteenth century European and American women lived in an age personalize by gender inequality. At the beginning of the century‚ women were not involved in socialpolitical‚ or governmental rights they could not sue or be sued‚ could not vote‚ could not give evidence as a witness in the court‚ had extremely limited control over personal property after marriage‚ were not granted legal custody of their children in cases of divorce‚ and were interdicts from institutions of higher education

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    1. Computer output which is displayed on the screen of a terminal without a permanent copy is called— (A) Soft copy (B) Hard copy (C) Hardware (D) None of these Ans : (A) 2. A storage device or medium where the access time is dependent upon the location of the data is called—  (A) Serial access (B) Parallel access (C) Null access (D) None of these Ans : (A) 3. The set of computer programs‚ procedures‚ and associated documentation related to the effective operation of a computer system

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    EFFECTS OF URBAN CRIME ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Technical Paper by: Ms. Adit Padhi (aditipadhi@gmail.com) “Greater concern about terrorism places new opportunities before the design community. If protection is considered from the outset‚ design can make buildings and people safer.”1 Introduction Violent crime was the issue of the nineties‚ while terrorism has become the talk at the onset of 21st century. Understanding crime prevention design is therefore an invaluable tool in organization and

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    security began. The earliest recorded examples of private security were in the thirteenth century where they wealthy individuals would hire private security personnel to protect their land and families. This type of security spread all over the world and when the industrial revolution began to have international relevance‚ so did the crimes and crime prevention methods as well. Early in the nineteenth century in England‚ a bill was passed which enforced law enforcement to enhance their private security

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    In the nineteenth century Americans had visions of how life was going to be good‚ by having a small farm with workers that was self-directed which would make them small producers. During this time there were specific strains that were emerging the movement of the working class. This would help transform the artisan republican ideology in to the “wage slavery.” In between the years 1870 to 1920 “focuses on the reform unionist‚ populist‚ socialist‚ and syndicalist movements in the US labor history

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    Since the latter part of the nineteenth century‚ contemporary UK society has been steadily changing. Where once we tended to define ourselves by our employment and the status in society that position may have given us‚ we now define ourselves much more by the goods we buy and choose to surround ourselves with (Hinchcliffe 2009).What we wear‚ the house we live in‚ the food we choose to buy and the experiences we create for ourselves all are thought to say more about us personally and as a society

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    Physical activity In the early part of the nineteenth century‚ it was believed that physical activity was dangerous and inappropriate for girls. Girls were taught to reserve their delicate health for the express purpose of birthing healthy children. Furthermore‚ the physiological difference between the sexes helped to reinforce the societal inequality. An anonymous female writer was able to contend that women were not intended to fill male roles‚ because "women are‚ as a rule‚ physically smaller

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    in wagon’s or by horseback which would take hours or even months to get anywhere. This is how life was for American’s in the begin of the Nineteenth Century‚ but by the end of the Nineteenth Century things had changed drastically. The Civil War had finally come to an end‚ and a new era was arriving with promise of a bright future for our nation‚ and it all started with the building of the Rail Road’s. It’s a misconception

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    Hong Kong’s Economic and Political Environment Hong Kong’s retrocession in the summer of 1997 was an event long prepared for‚ and built up to‚ in the minds of the territory’s citizens and residents. A significant number of the educated applied for overseas passports and left for more politically and economically stable environments in which to live and work; the "Brain Drain" was a significant problem for Hong Kong from 1984. Return to Chinese rule brought a promise from China that Hong Kong

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    Armenians. Armenia also became the first nation to name Christianity as its state religion‚ and experienced an era of peace and prosperity. But the Armenian lifestyle changed when the Turkish attacked Armenia in the eleventh century and began the Turkish rule. By the sixteenth century‚ Armenia had become one of the many nations absorbed into the growing Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans established a large empire that spanned from Eastern Europe to Western Asia and North Africa‚ but to govern this vast nation

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