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    101 16 October 2012 How Have Cell Phones Changed Society What would you do without your cellphone? Most people wouldn’t know what to do. Cell phones are a part of almost everybody’s life‚ but it never used to always be like that. If people wanted to get in touch with you back then‚ they left messages with your office or on your machine (SHC). Cell phones have changed the society we live in today. When investigating how cell phones have changed society‚ one must consider how it changes people‚ businesses

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    the 1800s. In Hot Topics Carla Mooney says‚ "In the United States school reforms Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe introduced standardized testing in Boston public schools in the mid - 1800s. The men designed the new tests to provide a standard to judge and compare the performance of each school and to gather objective information about the equality of teachers" ( Mooney 11-12).In the mid - 1800s Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe brought standardized testing to Boston. The tests were created

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    good shined through. The Common People’s Rights (or just white men) took a step forward. Also events‚ some good‚ some bad‚ such as the Westward Expansion or Texas Independence took place. Through the early 1800s‚ writers like Longsfellow‚ art like the Hudson River School‚ and lyricists like Samuel Smith presented not only their perspective on the issues going on at the time‚ but also demonstrate it through art that people could enjoy for years to come. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Paul Revere’s

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    The image of the flapper in addition to women stepping out of the household have then a new sense of independence. For women‚ having a job was now a form of self expression. You were making a statement. This radical new idea is explained best by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Women and Economics when she says‚ “The spirit of personal independence in the women of today is sure proof that a change has come...the radical change in the economic position of women is advancing upon us...the growing individualization

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    Ethan Scott-6th Ms. Istre FRQ Although many seemingly happy events such as the “Era of Good Feelings” and the granting of universal white manhood suffrage occurred during the early 1800s‚ the statement that nationalism and not the fear of sectionalism caused westward expansion is an invalid statement. Westward expansion was truly an effect of a growing sectionalism in the country originating from events such as the Tariff of 1828 ‚ the National Bank‚ and the Missouri Compromise. Preceding

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    During the 1800s‚ America had multiple relationships with other countries during that century. For instance‚ they had many problems with Spain‚ which led them to have to create the Pinckney’s Treaty. The reason that the were forced to due so was that originally‚ Spain was cutting off the US right to use the Mississippi river and deposit crops in New Orleans. The US was forced to take action‚ which ultimately enabled them to getting access to the Mississippi river and the port to New Orleans was

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    Chinese in the 1800s. These migrants were looking for a peaceful place to live from than China. In China there were conflicts caused by British Opium Wars. While British Colonialism was pushing the Irish population west across the Atlantic‚ it was also pushing the Chinese east across the Pacific. Another reason for this migration was that they were getting away from the chaos of peasant rebellions. Along with all of this‚ there was an economic crisis. Most of those who migrated were men‚ temporarily

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    Abortions have become popular to the industry. About 43% of American women will have one or occasionally more than one abortions during their lifetime. Women’s centers and hospitals perform more than a million abortions per year. Most abortions are done on women under the age of 25. Majority of abortions are done for teenagers. Abortions are obviously in great demand. Most of the causes of abortions for women are due to personal and medical problems‚ and abusive sexual acts (rape pregnancy). The

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    The topic of the abolition of slavery in the 1800s was a big controversial issue‚ there were people supporting slavery and people against it. During the abolition movement there was the formation of several abolition groups with different manners of tackling the task of fighting for the freedom of slaves. There were two distinct categories the groups tactics for accomplishing this task fell under‚ moral persuasion‚ and violence. Two of the abolition groups fell under the moral persuasion category

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    Throughout the 1930’s many people in the United States had to suffer though a Great Depression that caused many Americans to lose many things‚ starting from their jobs to even their own pride in themselves. How ever this was different for the people who lived in the south‚ the southern people were not only just affected by the Great Depression they were also affected by heavy racism and strongly enforced Jim Crow laws. With the enforced Jim Crow laws‚ these laws heavily restricted the life of a colored

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