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    To what extent did feudalism affect the societies in the Middle Ages? Plan of Investigation The investigation assesses the significance of the feudal system in the middle ages. In order to evaluate the feudal system’s significance‚ the investigation evaluates each role of the social classes in a Middle Ages society. This includes the kings‚ nobles and lords‚ knights‚ and peasants and serfs. Articles and secondary sources are mostly used to evaluate the feudal system’s significance. Two of the

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    New Era and the World Wars. America had wanted to expand outward and was imperializing surrounding countries for economic and political domination. There were three major terms of U.S. foreign relations. The first is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823‚ which expanded hemispheric relations and created an agreement of not invading European countries as long as they don’t invade

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    America was going through the Progressive Era. During the Progressive Era people sought out change in the way workers were treated on the job and as a citizen. There were many reforms trying to improve life for people in the time period. Ending the sales of alcohol was one of the reforms attempting to improve lives of immigrants and poor people. Passing laws controlling child labor and the amount of hours women and children can work has a larger effect on our society today than prohibition.

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    To What Extent is Negative Heritage a Benefit to Society? Contents 1. Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 2. Background------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 3. Arguments--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 3.1 Drawbacks------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 3.2 Brief evaluation of drawbacks-------

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    boycotts. Seven battles occurred in relation to the Revolution spanning from (1775-1781). The colonists finally realized they deserved independence which caused the revolution to officially start in 1776. Were the American Colonists reasonably able to declare war upon England? The american Colonists were justified in waging war against England because of the

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    To what extent is the play a microcosm of the Elizabethan Era? In Elizabethan England‚ many of the general public were anti – Semitic and driven by extreme dislike of other religions other than Christianity. This anti – Semitic sensitivity has lasted since the early ages‚ dating back to 1300 B.C. when the Jews were expelled from Egypt at the end of the nineteenth Dynasty.. Jews were accused of exploiting Christians and they were actually banned from England in 1290‚ and were not allowed back

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    with the statement‚ “The Progressive Era was generally ineffective because the movement tended to encompass too many social problems of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” The Progressive Era attempted to fix many problems of society and they did. The Progressive Era fixed many of the major issues in society. Although some were left without a solution the Progressives established many more positive things than they did negative. A main issue of the Progressive Era was the working conditions

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    Krista Glover “What is radical about radical behaviourism? ” Early psychology took an introspective approach into investigating how the ‘mind’ worked. Conscious experience was regarded as a purely mental process that was not a publically observable behaviour. Psychologists of the time used introspective research methods to analyse and report the conscious experiences of themselves and their assistants. This popular approach to psychological research led to much controversy over the ‘scientific’

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    control were debatably unethical – and social initiatives were taken to improve‚ among other things‚ illiteracy‚ women’s rights and crime. Despite the albeit tough methods used by Mao‚ the PRC did a remarkable job of transforming China in the given circumstances‚ and therefore changed it for the better in the years 1949-57. As can be expected with any major political takeover‚ the establishment of the People’s Republic of China brought about a variety of political changes‚ many of which were very

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    To what extent did US intervention in 1941 change the nature of the conflict in the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945? Although US intervention contributed greatly to China’s eventual victory in the Sino-Japanese war‚ the situation in China and the nature of the conflict was not massively affected by the contribution‚ and in reality the intervention had little impact on the internal affairs and overall success of the second United Front. Both before and after US involvement tensions were never relieved

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