Movies are far more visually appealin.Movies are far more visually 3 H. C. Oersted (1820) found that a current-carrying conductor gives rise Joseph Henry (1830) discovered the reverse effect‚ the production of an electric potential Maxwell‚ ( c.1856‚) developed ideas mathematically in his theory of electromagnetic radiation. Birth of Modern Physics ( late 19th cent. ) most of classical physics was complete‚ Wilhelm Roentgen (1895) the discoveries of X rays radioactivity by A
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nation’s political‚ social‚ constitutional and religious institutions. After this period and American independence from Britain‚ north-western Europe supplied over two-thirds of episodic US immigration. In total‚ some 60 million immigrants entered between 1820-2000. Although the USA has managed to integrate its immigrants successfully there exists discrimination and intolerant nativism (discrimination towards newcomers by the existing population). Today the largest minority group is Latino. -> Political-legal
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Ancient‚ medieval and early modern * Hammurabi (died c. 1750 BCE) * Confucius (551-479 BCE) * Socrates (470-399 BCE) * Mozi (470-390 BCE) * Xenophon (427-355 BCE) * Plato (427-347 BCE) * Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BCE) * Aeschines (389-314 BCE) * Aristotle (384-322 BCE) * Mencius (372-289 BCE) * Chanakya (350-283 BCE) * Xun Zi (310-237 BCE) * Thiruvalluvar (c. 200 BCE-c. 30 BCE) * Han Feizi (?-233 BCE) * Cicero (106-43 BCE) * Pliny the Younger (63-113 CE) * Saint
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At the beginning of the 19th century the dominant industry of Ireland was agriculture. Large areas of this land was under the control of landowners living in England. Much of this land was rented to small farmers who‚ because of a lack of capital‚ farmed with antiquated implements and used backward methods. The average wage for farm labourers in Ireland was eight pence a day. This was only a fifth of what could be obtained in the United States and those without land began to seriously consider emigrating
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algebra appointed schoolmaster to the younger children of the family. at age 14 Mill stayed a year in France was engaged in a pen-relationship with Auguste Comte‚ the founder of positivism and sociology‚ since the two were both young men in the early 1820s. married Harriet taylor after 21 years of an intimate relationship between years 1865-1868 Mill served as Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews. he was the godfather to the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Mill died in 1873 of erysipelas in
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Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Richard‚ Jr. narrated an episode in his life in his book‚ ‘Two Years Before the Mask’‚ which depicted the reality of the life of a common sea man. The book showed realistic descriptions of abuses undergone by his fellow sailors which made it an American Classic. The book is a nonfiction narrative that gives readers adventurers journey at sea with clear descriptions of the landscape and strong desires by the author to heal himself by spending his time with
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The 1820’s and 1830’s were times where the Jacksonian Democrats dominated politics in the United States. Jacksonian Democrats saw themselves as guardians of the United States Constitution‚ political democracy‚ individual liberty‚ and equality of economic opportunity. With a few exceptions‚ Jacksonian Democrats did indeed live up to these goals and values. Jacksonian Democrats followed some of the principles of Thomas Jefferson in that they were more interested in commoners and farmers‚ and that they
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sections of America. Southern states wanted new slave territories‚ while the North wanted to contain the spread of slavery. While Western expansion contributed to growing sectional tensions between the North and South from 1800-1820‚ sectionalism intensified significantly from 1820-1850. Since the turn of the nineteenth century‚ Western territorial expansion started to increase a sense of sectionalism throughout America. President Jefferson obtained the Louisiana purchase from Napoleon in 1803‚ gaining
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the novel is racist due to the frequent use of racial slurs and the disrespect and mistreatment of the character Jim who is a runaway slave. Mark Twain ’s famous novel is not a racist text because it is a historical account of the south during the 1840s‚ when racism was commonplace. The book ’s purpose was to emphasize real life and mock the faults in human nature. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ a young boy named Huckleberry Finn runs away from his life and travels down the Mississippi River
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APUSH Women AP essay q-3 1840-1890’s women’s activists in the intellectual‚ social‚ economic‚ and political spheres effectively challenged traditional attitudes about women’s place in society” Asses the validity of this statement. During the Colonial era and the first decades of the United States‚ there have always been women who strove to secure equal rights for themselves and others. Some assumed the business interests of a husband after his death. A few women challenged male domination
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