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    Garreau’s Edge City‚ though‚ he asserts that today’s image of cities is essentially still a nineteenth-century one. For while American cities have come a long way since their founding and first construction in the 1600’s‚ much of their layout‚ organization‚ divisions‚ and building types remain somewhat similar to the time of their largest transformations in the late nineteenth‚ early twentieth century. These cities’ forms then were shaped not only by economic and transportation factors‚ but also by social

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    b) The rubric requires an “explicitly stated thesis that addresses all parts of the question.” The prompt here is: Identify the issues raised by the growth of Manchester and analyze the various reactions to those issues over the course of the 19th Century. Here is an organization that tracks the prompt and will lead to a solid thesis: Issues Positive Reactions Negative Reactions 1 (massive growth) 6 (disease‚ bad health‚ bad morals) 8 (short life span) 3 (better lives) 9 (workshop to world)

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    started to show women as powerful characters‚ who can achieve the same ordeals as a male protagonist would in children’s literature. Female representations in literature in the contemporary time period all take on the conceptual male expected roles‚ which consists of attributes and qualities such as being dominant‚ being strong‚ and or intelligent. Children’s literature in present day has changed greatly in order to correctly represent females in today present time‚ where more women are independent

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    the Baroque period‚ people saw the invention of a new music form: the oratorio in the 17th century in Europe. The oratorio has a long and profound history since Italian Renaissance. In this essay‚ I will be answering question number two: Explain briefly the meaning of this musical term oratorio and give an account of the most popular and arguably greatest oratorio of the first half of the eighteenth century. Oratorio Oratorio was born in Italy at about the same time as opera. This word ¡®oratorio¡¯

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    Because of the imbalance of power‚ such negotiations favored employers. Labor unions began to form in the 19th century to help relieve the damaging effects of industrialization on work groups‚ especially the long hours and low pay that factory work entailed. The earliest organizations of workers in the United States appeared in New York City and Philadelphia‚

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    Antonio Barajas History 8b Midterm July 30‚ 2008 19th Century Latin America (Option 3) Latin America in the latter half of the nineteenth century began to experience a number of obstacles pivotal to their identity and crucial to their development. The first significant obstacle came right after the wars for independence‚ a challenge and question over who had really achieved independence. The second obstacle was the political conflict between liberals and conservatives and their ideologies

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    Women as Threats in Medieval Literature Throughout the texts we have read in class‚ including in the ones examined closely in this paper (namely Lanval‚ The Wife’s Lament‚ and Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale) women consistently appear as powerful beings. This introduces a certain amount of threat simply because the woman’s position in medieval society was largely guided by the principles in the Bible – and thus‚ women were treated as “lesser” according to writings that stated that they weren’t

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    During the 19th century‚ many changes/continuities occurred throughout Russia. For example changes in the political‚ social and economic states. These changes impacted Russia in a good or bad‚ for example causing riots and protests in the economy or stabilizing the economy. And some changes were either successful or not. In 1905 the Russian Revolution took over Russia with political riots. The cause of the Russian revolution was the State Duma which was introduced in 1906. The State Duma is

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    the bill of rights the bill of rights was a document stating the rights of the people and the freedoms that they had from the the government it was made in 1689 and was later passed later that year on december 16/1689 and it originated from england because they had a bill of rights to limit the king’s powers over the people and it influenced our bill of rights so the people will have some rights and freedoms and yes it is important because if we didn’t have it we wouldn’t have rights and freedoms

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    Wohl (1983) gave a well researched historical account of public health and development in Britain from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century. The devastating poverty and poor physical health of most of the population‚ lucidly described by the author‚ were horrendous. At the beginning of the Victorian period few people were free from disease‚ stench and impure water. The marked socioeconomic differences‚ intolerable living conditions and poor working conditions (although not a

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