since we have known about the hazards of lead‚ tens of millions of children have suffered its health effects. Even today there are still at minimum more than four hundred thousand children under the age of six who have too much lead in their blood. Over the past few months‚ concerns about lead paint in children’s toys made by companies such as Mattel‚ Fischer-Price‚ and Hasbro have come up and stores have initiated several recalls of various toys. Lead‚ unfortunately‚ can cause serious health problems
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"No taxation without represntation."It means a government does not have the right to tax a group of people without them being represented in the government.That’s what the colonists said when the british kept on taxing them unfairly.Some these taxes were the Stamp Act‚and Tea Act.The stamp act was put in place in order to pay for the british soldiers being there.The tea act was also put in place to bail out the East India Tea Company‚but ended up taxing the colonists.These are some of things that
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culture was something they did for fun‚ they would get in a lot of battles with the Romans to keep them entertained. This contributed to the fall of Rome because all the extensive military pressure from the barbarian would
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Did the Progressives Fail? Progressivism generated positive results. If one thinks of progressives as one group of people with one clear objective‚ then they succeeded. But‚ consider the word “progressives” as a general term that encompasses these assorted clusters unfairly‚ because it defines these groups as one. The progressives’ diverse and opposing views break up the previously described group into separate sets of individuals trying to achieve the same goals‚ in a different way. Because
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Why did the U.S. become an imperial power? Americans had always sought to expand the size of their nation‚ and throughout the 19th century they extended their control toward the Pacific Ocean. However‚ by the 1880’s‚ many American leaders had become convinced that the United States should join the imperialist powers of Europe and establish colonies overseas. Imperialism‚ the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic‚ political‚ and cultural control over weaker territories‚ was already
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The Shehu was well mindful that he had to influence and educate men and women who would subscribe to his ideas and share his aspirations to produce an ummah that devoted to Islam in order to transform society. As he knew he could not rely on other scholars to achieve his purposes‚ he established his own ‘school’‚ taught his own students and generated his own community of scholars and teachers. It was through his students that he spread his message and the students will formed the inner core of the
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Why did Reconstruction fail? Reconstruction in the United States is historically known as the time in America‚ shortly after the Civil War‚ in which the United States attempted to readdress the inequalities‚ especially of slavery and many other economic‚ social and politically issues including the poor relationship between the North and the South of America. These problems were highly significant in America‚ and a variety of groups in government tried to resolve these problems‚ but this only led
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empires eventually came to an end; in 200 CE‚ The Roman Empire started to decline‚ and about three hundred years later‚ in 476 CE‚ the Western Roman Empire collapsed once and for all. Rome’s political instability and its lack of stable leadership led to other problems‚ such as economic hardship and a severe lack of cohesion‚ all together weakening the Western Roman Empire to a point where it was destined to fall.
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“The size of Europe Population was around eighty million and it decrease to fifty million after the black plague had hit (Ole J. Bendeictow)”. With the black plague taking reducing the population it caused Europe fifty years to recover from their loss. The importance of the Europe’s population decline from the black plague it resulted in a better and cheaper value on the labour. In 1381 it was followed right after that value to increase it caused the peasants to revolt and the farming to change.
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boost‚ Chinggis Khan united his territories. He did not trust the tribal organization‚ so he broke up the tribes and forced men of fighting age to join his new military. The Mongols started there children’s wilderness training‚ and weapons instruction at a young age‚ which is stated in document 3. Breaking up the tribal organization was a great accomplishment because this united the empire‚ helping the Mongols become much stronger than any other early nomadic confederation‚ at that early on time
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