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    Documents A-H reveal some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century(1880-1900)saw as threats to their way of life.(a)explain the reasons for agrarian discontent and(b)evaluate the validity of the farmerscomplaints. In the late 1800s‚ many farmers were trapped in a vicious economic cycle. Crops prices began falling and farmers were often forced into mortgaging their farms so they could buy more land and produce more crops to break even. Good farming land was becoming scarce

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    AGRARIAN DISCONTENT DBQ

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    Between 1880-1900‚ farmers believed that the railroad companies were swindling away their profits and that the government favored big business. The farmers had every reason to feel some sort of discontent because of their predicament as well as the fact that the government saw a need for reform which created the notion that problems existed. Farmers were correct in arguing that the United States’ money supply was not what it should be; over 30 years the population nearly double while the money circulation

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    was a nation of farmers. But by the late nineteenth century‚ people were leaving the farm and moving into the city. It was around this time that the farmers saw threats to their way of life. The farmers were being pushed around by the banks‚ railroads companies. They had good reasons for agrarian discontent. The documents show the validity of the farmer’s complaints‚ especially on bank mortgage rates and the gold standard. The Populist Party or People’s party grew from agrarian uprising that rose

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    Agrarian Discontent and the 19th Century America‚ like any other nation‚ has always relied heavily on agriculture. Differing from other nations‚ however‚ is the problems that agriculture has created through America’s short history. It can be argued that the Civil War was started by agriculture; the South developed as an agricultural dependent region‚ while the North developed as a industrial region; creating two distinct‚ almost separate cultures. Some twenty years after the Civil War‚ new problems

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    FC PROJECT- SEM II FARMERS’ SUICIDES AND AGRARIAN DISTRESS 1988: “The peasants have started to flex the political muscles that their economic betterment has given them ... They have acquired the capacity to launch the kind of sustained struggle they have. It is going to be difficult to [...] contain them...because they command the vote banks in the countryside to which every party seeks access...A new specter of peasant power is likely to haunt India in coming years.” Editorial in Times of

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    Farmer Suicides is a burning topic. One state where its incidence has been high and examine the causes and suggest remedies. Situation Analysis: More than 70 % of our population depends on agriculture for its living. However‚ the farmers’ suicide rate in India is much higher than other developing countries. Karnataka is one such state where farm suicides ranges somewhere between 10000 and 14000 annually. The most prominent reasons are the indebtedness over the farmers‚ pressure from landlords

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    Explain how the SRRS was devised and evaluate the use of this technique. (8marks) Holmes and Rahe (1967) developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) which identifies 43 stressful life changes that can contribute to stress-related illness. Each one of the 43 stressful life events was awarded a Life Change Unit depending on how traumatic it was felt to be by a large sample of 400 participants. The highest Life Change Unit is 100‚ being death of a spouse. Participants calculate a total value

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    is an activity of soul [based upon] a rational principle” seeming to say that reason is the most fundamental being of a person. We use reason to dictate every single thing we do. Why did someone eat a banana for a snack? Simply because they were hungry and needed to fill that hunger. Why did someone name a state Georgia? King George was the king of England at the time and the wanted to pay him tribute. There is reason behind everything we do whether the reasoning always makes sense from person to

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    AGRARIAN REVOLUTION *INTRODUCTION: The term Agrarian revolution implies the great changes that took place in Agricultural methods of England during the second half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century. In the course of this revolution: 1. The open field system disappeared 2. The rotation of crops was introduced 3. Scientific methods were applied to Agriculture 4. There was a series of new inventions and discoveries. This

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    Validity For Validity

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    Reliability is general rather than specific But validity is not general but specific. Reliability is necessary for validity because a test with score which fluctuates very much does not test anything. For example if a test of pronunciation measures pronunciation it is a valid test‚ instead of measures grammar and vocabulary. The test yields dependable scores that is if the scores do not fluctuate very much the test is reliable. means the scores obtained by a student will be close to the score she

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