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    17th Amendment

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    17th Amendment The Seventeenth Amendment made it so there would be two senators from each one of the states‚ voted in by the people. The senators would be given a six year term and have one vote each. They added an article to the amendment so when vacancies happen in the senators seat the state legislation would assign someone until the people voted a senator in. The old way of picking state senators was by state legislatures choice. This way was used to make sure that the federal government

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    Fashion in the early 17th century followed up on the trends from previous centuries. However‚ later on styles began to change fairly and the overall trend through the midcentury targeted softness and comfort to allow for easier movement. People still valued rich materials‚ but they set aside the rigid formality of earlier years. These changes in fashion reflected the rising influence of France‚ with its free sense of style. French King Louis XIV helped make France the leading fashion influence

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    In 17th century England‚ a wide variety of factors transpired to influence normal people to leave their homeland for the new English colonies in America. Some of these factors were “push” factors: negative events that made conditions worse for English citizens and influenced them to look for greener pastures elsewhere. Other factors are known as “pull” factors: positive aspects held by other lands that made them specifically attractive over others. For English citizens in the 17th century‚ the key

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    The principal notion of concluding the decline of the subcontinent based on the decline of Mughal power in the 18th century still exists. The time period after Aurangzeb’s death and before the pre-Colonial regime in the subcontinent encountered various political conflicts and extensive cultural progress. In terms of the political conflicts‚ the Mughals faced a financial crisis which was generally caused by the immense expansion and catalyzed by other events. They also had to deal with the numerous

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    GHULAM QADIR KHASKHELI Training & Development‚ Educational Counselor & Consultant. FLAT# 5- Al-Rehman Towers near old Mehran Press‚ Tando Wali Mohammed –Heerabad‚ HYDERABAD SINDH‚ PAKISTAN. CELL: 92-333-2913489 & 92-333-8020040 E-mail: gqadir915@gmail.com PROFILE: Dedicated Educational leadership & Management Person possesses extensive SIX years professional experience with top educational organizations of country by exercising “TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT‚ SCHOOL SYSEM DEVLOPMENT‚ EDUCATIONAL

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    Chaeronea on English literature might well be made the subject of one of the most interesting chapters in the long story of the debt of moderns to ancients. One of the most kindly and young spirited‚ he is also one of the most versatile of Greek writers‚ and his influence has worked by devious ways to the most varied results. His treatise on the Education of Children had the honour to be early translated into the gravely charming prose of Sir Thomas Elyot‚ and to be published in a black-letter quarto

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    Literature traces the past‚ mimics the present‚ and sometimes‚ it also predicts the future. A piece of literature describes a milieu‚ a collection of it may describe an epoch‚ and the great ones determine what will be. Great as it sounds; literature’s power is still under the control of the human mind. A well written piece might be a trash for someone who doesn’t understand… a piece of literature may have two extremely diverse interpretations… a piece of literature can be a catalyst and at the same time

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    Witchcraft in the 16th and 17th centuries It seems that every hundred years or so a new fear develops. Right now‚ in the 21st century the fear is terrorism and war. In the 20th century it was world expansion and industrialization. Yet all else aside‚ in the 16th and 17th century‚ witches were the ones to fear. In this essay I will discuss the characteristics of an “alleged” witch‚ methods used to insure a person practiced witchcraft‚ and the treatment of the ones accused. Our image of a witch

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    The Scarlet Letter and its Portrayal of 17th Century Colonial Puritanism The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathanial Hawthorne‚ is a novel which epitomizes 17th century Puritanism as well as its social and political implications on the people of Massachusetts Bay. The story exemplifies the contemporary social hypocrisy of the time which was characteristic of New England’s insecurity as a fairly new colony. The Puritans pushed to distance themselves from the corruptions of the Church of England they

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    in Southwest Africa. The ship was seized by British pirates on the high seas‚ not brought to Virginia after a period of time in the Caribbean.” As this was the beginning of slavery‚ it was a practiced thought the American colonies in the 17th and 18th Centuries‚ and slaves helped build the economic foundations of this country. The slaves represented one ethnic group‚ not many‚ as historians first believed. As we

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