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    NURSING HISTORY IN NIGERIA Labels: NURSING According to Nursing and Midwifery Council  of Nigeria (2005) ‚ the detailed history of a profession that combines scientific principle ‚ technical skills  and personal  comparison can’t be precisely relayed but records hold that nursing came to limelight in  1854  when  the mother of professional nursing ‚ Florence Nightingale started the battlefield with other  38  nurses and cared for the sick and injured men  during the Crimean war in England. Here

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    War. One of the major reasons for the outbreak of the war was sectionalism. Once the United States was split‚ many of the country’s fundamental issues were disputed‚ with slavery being at the top of the list. Some of the other major issues in dispute were representation‚ tariffs‚ and states’ rights. Sectionalism is defined as‚ the sharp socio-economic differences that divided the Northern and the Southern states in the U.S. The most important difference between the north and south was the issue

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    The Reconstruction Period and Women After the Civil War‚ the United States was broken and in despair‚ the next major step in history was to create a plan to rebuild the South‚ restore southern states to the Union‚ and most importantly free the Slaves‚ which we know as the Reconstruction Period. During the Reconstruction Period African American women writers such as Anna Julia Cooper and Victoria Earle Matthews‚ to name a few fought to show that Christian Affiliation played a big part in obtaining

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    Study Questions Zinn Chapter 1 1. According to Zinn‚ his main purpose for composing A People’s’ History of the United States was to tell the history from the viewpoint of the weak‚ the ones conquered‚ instead of the classic viewpoint from which history is told of the victors‚ those who conquered‚ the ruling class‚ etc. The reason for Zinn’s dispute of Kissinger’s statement comes directly from Zinn’s own ideological view on how history should be told. Kissinger states 2. 3. 4. 5.

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    Economics 111A Economic History Midterm Exam 2 In general‚ the highest grades will be given to clear and precise answers. Use your time wisely‚ and good luck. You will be given one hour and twenty minutes to complete the exam. 1. Land acquisition in the U.S. was incredibly important for the extensive economic growth of the country in the 19th century. a. Why did the US want the territory gained from the Louisiana Purchase? What was the controversy regarding the purchase?

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    ethnic divergence and developments serve to define each ethnicity unique cultural identity. According to textbook The Health Anthology of American Literature it exemplifies the term ethnocentrism that predominated during the Early Colonial period. During the time period of 1700’s one of the most prominent examples of ethnocentrism is when the Europeans first came to America and had their first initial encounters with the Native

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    overthrow the colonial governments. When the war ended and the British were victorious‚ they declared the Proclamation of 1763 which stated that the land west of the Appalachians was to be "reserved" for the Native American population. The colonists were confused and outraged and the now ambitious social elite’s were raring to direct that anger against the English since the French were no longer a threat. However‚ the social elite was a minuscule percentage of the colonial population. As

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    [pic]Poverty in the United States From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search |[pic] |Parts of this article (those related to the 2010 poverty definition reform) are outdated. Please update this article to | | |reflect recent events or newly available information. Please see the talk page for more information. (November 2010) | [pic] [pic] Impoverished area near 125th Street in Harlem‚ New York‚ which was subsequently demolished for new commercial

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    to the United States because they heard it was so much better in the United States unlike Europe when it was all infested in diseases. That’s like what the muslims and the mexicans are doing because where they are right now is not the greatest place so they hear about the United States and they want to come here because they hear how it is the land of the free and how so much more freedoms they have here unlike they have in their homelands. If something we learn from this is that history is bound

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    The first decade after the Civil War‚ also known as “the era of Reconstruction”‚ was a time of massive change in the USA. It was the time of the “Old West”‚ as we are used to seeing it in the movies – cowboys‚ buffalo hunters‚ and the construction of railroads; the symbol of prosperity in America. The North and the West grew richer and attracted millions of immigrants from Europe‚ who were looking for higher wages. Despite the fact that highly skilled workers were paid more than they would receive

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