1. The progressive era: in the United States was a period of reform which lasted from the 1880s to the 1920s.The goals of Farmers Alliances were to regulate railroads‚ reform taxes‚ and back money with silver rather than gold. The Populist Party officially began in 1892. The party platform called for many items including: Free coinage of silver‚ Abolition of national banks‚ Graduated income tax Increase in paper money‚ Government ownership of transportation‚ Direct election of Senators‚ Civil service
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Allison Hwang Swanson 10:30 11/16/2012 Reconstruction’s Failure Although the Civil War finally managed to come to a close‚ the end of the war wasn’t exactly met with celebration. Instead‚ the Civil War brought up many new problems that were left unresolved. In order to solve these problems‚ the congress took responsibility and worked its way to "reconstruct" our nation. The main purpose of the "Congressional Reconstruction" was to ’establish and protect the citizenship rights of the freedmen’
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repeated attempts to rectify the problematic post-independence public pay system‚ the efforts of these reform-oriented interim entities could not completely bear the desired fruits. Since the GUSS did not fully deliver the goods‚ the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Government requested the then Minister for Public Sector Reforms‚ Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom‚ to fashion out a pay policy that will correct the existing relative disparities among public service employees. The result of Dr Nduom’s labour
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Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party. He left federal politics to become the Saskatchewan CCF’s leader and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. After setting up Saskatchewan’s Medicare program‚ he stepped down as premier and ran to lead the newly formed federal New Democratic Party‚ the National CCF’s successor party. Douglas was elected as its first federal leader in 1961. He resigned as leader the next year‚
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The new Digital era Welcome to the new life‚ as we know it. The days of eating dinner as a family‚ talking about how our day went is long gone. Now families eat on the go and speak to each other by cell phone or text messaging. Are we losing the face to face conversations‚ will we end up like the Disney movie Wall-E and hide behind a computer screen with avatars to represent what we want to look like. Even though‚ a lot has changed with technology we need to come back to reality and realize that
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The sixties was a time in American society where the youth from the post-war baby boom era became teenagers and the young adults. The movement from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in the revolutionary ways of thinking and change in the cultural of the American way of life. With an extreme admiration of no longer being an image of their predeceasing generation‚ young Americans wanted and demanded change. These changes affected education‚ values‚ laws‚ entertainment‚ and
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Fashion in the relevance to the Edwardian Era 1890-1919 the last maturity of elegance. The time period of the Edwardian Era in England was a period of sexual politics‚ mindless triviality‚ tensions between social security and individual freedom and wavering belief in God and religion. The Edwardian age is sometimes called the "golden age" where extravagant parties and high fashion are all everyone cares about. First impressions and formalities are so important‚ they matter more than freedom of speech
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The rise of multiple party make the major parties seek for support from minor party. It It gave them a new influence over the election which could lead to the establishment of a hung parliament A. A balance of power leading to the possibility of a hung parliament Many newspapers or even politician claimed that the election would lead to balance of power due to the minor parties. As Nick Clegg said in BBC News “no party will win an outright election victory and warned voters they face a choice between
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Farewell Party It is normally said that the prime time in the life of anyone is the time that he spends in school. This is‚ undoubtedly‚ golden age‚ which he recollects sentimentally for the rest of his life. And this golden era came to an end on 2nd February 2012‚ which happened to be my last day at school. It was the time to leave my school forever‚ where I had spent past ten years of my life. The farewell took place in a huge hall‚ jazzed up with strips of multi-colored paper‚ balloons and
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace‚ prosperity‚ refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain. Some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns to the passage of the Reform Act 1832. The era was preceded by the Georgian period and followed by the Edwardian period. The latter half of the Victorian age roughly
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