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    life was simpler when women were kept pregnant in the winter and barefoot in the summer. But if you think about it‚ American women have always worked whether in the kitchen‚ on the farm‚ or later in the factory and in the office. However‚ women today feel bombarded with alternatives‚ with choices that must be made. The role of the American working woman has changed drastically since the beginning of the century because of certain factors causing an increase in the number of women in the workforce‚ because

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    In response to the growing threat of the Muslim expansion against the Holy Roman Empire and the rest of Europe‚ Pope Urban II set forth a hazardous request at the Council of Clermont in 1095 for an army of Eastern and Western Christian warriors and nobility to fight a Holy War against the Muslims and other religious heretics. Four crusade missions were led‚ three of which were sent in hopes of recapturing the Holy Lands in Palestine from the Muslims‚ but ultimately failed. The Fourth Crusade was

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    The world changed to a great extent during the period of time from the 1750’s to the 1900’s. These changes were due to the Scientific Revolution‚ Industrial Revolution and the movement of peoples. During this time frame changes occurred not only in the way people viewed the world but also how they travelled‚ their working and living conditions‚ it allowed them to make new discoveries and opened up many new doors. The Scientific Revolution led to fundamental changes to scientific ideas in mathematics

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    late Middle Ages was the creation of the early modern empires such as Russia and Western Europe. Both empires had several things in common‚ such as emerging around the same time and expanding their empire. However‚ there were more key differences than similarities that separated these empires. For example‚ the Russian and Western Europe had different motivations that motivated to expand their empires. Also‚ “Western Europe was distinctive because the conquered territories lay an ocean away from the imperial

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    Feminism in the Early 1900s: Understanding Women Feminism has created many opportunities for women‚ and it has expanded the rights for women in today’s society. However‚ women in the early 1900s were not as treated with respect and did not have as many rights as the women in our time period do. Women were looked at objectively‚ as possessions of men‚ and someone to cook‚ clean‚ and bear the children. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ the portrayal of women shows the said stereotypical woman from

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    Around 1347 in Western Europe‚ an Asia epidemic‚ The Black Death became widely spread through frequent trading with infected cities. In three years’ time‚ one third or about twenty-five millions of Europe’s population was killed by the plague. The Black Death victims were susceptible to contracting the plague due the seven year famine that occurred directly before the outbreak. Shortage of food‚ caused by extreme weathers that prevented crop growth‚ weakened the population’s immunity to deadliest

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    A social history: women in europe One can think of European history and the mind tends to wander back to Greece and the days of Homer‚ Aristotle‚ and the Greek tragedies. But it is Herodotus and Thucydides that really started writing history‚ the history that was bestowed upon them to record without regard to whether it was true or not. The only women that are recorded in these ancient times are those of the gods. Women’s place in ancient society was that of wife and mother. They were property

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    1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800                                         1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt

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    RACISM IN EUROPE I have chosen to talk about racism as it is one of the most explosive topics around and one that people rarely greet with sincerity. Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race‚ ethnicity‚ or nationality are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that ethnic differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Racism’s effects are called "racial discrimination." Racism of various forms is found in every country on Earth

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    The role of the women in our society Elvira López Ochoa INTRODUCTION History tends to present the social advances made by women as a result of progress itself up as the result of a process in which‚ in any case‚ women do not have influenced. However‚ the reconstruction of history shows that women have achieved social gains only where and when it has been women fighting and starring those conquests. They were the struggles of many women‚ allowing us to enjoy rights today in the very near past

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