Question Bank in Social Science (History) Class-IX (Term-II) 7 HISTORY AND SPORT : THE STORY OF CRICKET CONCEPTS Cricket grew out of the many stick and ball games played in England. By the 17th century it evolved enough to be recognisable as a distinct game. It became so popular that its fans did not mind to be fined for playing it on Sunday instead of going to church. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CRICKET AS A GAME IN INDIA Cricket was given its unique nature by the history of England
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know that God has a plan for them and they should trust in Him with all of their needs. Unfortunately‚ some of those who don’t know God have resorted to taking their own lives because they felt like there was no one listening to them. In the Great Depression‚ so many people felt like no one was listening to them or hearing them and felt like they needed to die. In World War I and World War II‚ families started to become depressed when their family
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Almost seventy years after the worst economic crisis struck the world in the 1930s‚ history repeats itself again. The Great Depression that occurred in 1929 and today’s great recession have many similarities. Both had disastrous effects on the global economy. Like today‚ many years of economic deregulation paved the way for these turmoils and social troubles. Banks were giving away cheap credits without running any background information on their customers. People took advantage of this and started
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Minimum wage was introduced during the time of the Great Depression by President Roosevelt. Citizens in states which have a higher minimum wage say that states with a lower minimum wage cannot live off of such a small wage‚ and that a higher minimum wage will create higher economy growth and more jobs and minimum wage is causing a significant gap between upper classes and lower classes. Businesses say that it will be difficult to pay their workers more and that they would have to layoff workers and
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Both the great depression of 1929 and the great recession of 2009 presented hard times for the economy. The great depression had many people lose their jobs‚ homes‚ and money for a decade until the economy stabilized after 1939. The great recession in 2009 originally started in 2007 with the mortgage crisis‚ and it lasted for three years which left the economy broken with the loss of many jobs and homes. The great depression happened because of the stock market crash while the great recession happened
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on a daily basis during the Depression? (Minimum 50 lines) During the Great Depression‚ life was not soft. It was survival of the fittest‚ and only the strongest and hardest-working Americans lived to tell the tale. For people born and raised during the Great Depression‚ it was not about poverty‚ family struggles‚ corrupted politics‚ and starvation. It was simply life. It was all they knew. My Great Aunt Marge was born in 1928‚ just before the Great Depression really set in. All she remembers
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Sevet Pamuk proved his passion for digging deeper into history through the use of writing the article “The Ottoman Empire in the ‘Great Depression’ of 1873-1896‚” published in the Journal of Economic History‚ in March of 1984. Pamuk points out that the view of the economy and changes in domestic production levels of the Ottoman Empire during the years 1873-1896 are misrepresented due to the lack of consideration of sufficient evidence of the impact that trade‚ external forces and the internal forces
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The Great Depression affected men and women in many different ways. Women during this time were undermined constantly by the workforce. Along with being refused jobs because of their gender; they were being paid less for the same work. Women during this decade were ridiculed for trying to support their families. The number of married women working doubled in size during the Depression‚ though many believed that women who were working‚ especially those with a working husband‚ were stealing jobs
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learning of a second language. Nuttall (1996‚ p.128) states‚ "The best way to improve your knowledge of a foreign language is to go and live among its speakers. The next best way is to read extensively in it." Day and Bamford (1998‚ p.34) present a summary of the results of research into twelve extensive reading programmes. These represent both ESL and EFL situations‚ are from a range of countries and are across all levels from primary to university‚ adolescent to adult. They are overwhelmingly positive
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The Great Recession has impacted on households‚ businesses and government departments with unequal force. Some sectors have been severely adversely affected while others have escaped relatively lightly. What are the main economic problems arising from these differing experiences? Explain carefully your arguments. The Great recession‚ which started in Britain in the second quarter of 2008‚ has affected national and sub-national economies in different measures‚ causing a great unevenness in the
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