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    According to‚ "Is There A History of Sexuality?" sex has no history but sexuality does. Sex is natural in order to keep reproducing our species sexual activity has to be performed by a male and a female. Depending on your cultural and religious background it plays a role on individual sexual behavior. Michael Foucault thought of sexuality as‚ “set of effects produced in bodies‚ behaviors‚ and social relations by a certain deployment’ of “a complex political technology.”David M. Halperin author

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    Many factors caused the lead-up to the Civil War. The country’s tension was high before the Civil War began for many different reasons that contributed to the Civil War. The tension was high due to many massacres and laws that even heightened the tensions between the North and the South states. South states believed heavily in slavery and wanted to keep slavery around strongly and firmly since the South depended on slaves to do agricultural work. However‚ the North believed that slavery was bad and

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    Causes of the Civil War

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    What were some of the causes of the Civil War? One thing that caused it was States v.s Federal Rights . Economic and Social issues‚ and the election of Abraham Lincoln. When President Lincoln was elected in 1860‚ south Carolina issued its Declaration of the causes of succession. They believed that Lincoln was against slavery‚ and was in favor of Northern interests. Before Lincoln even became president seven states had already seceded from the union. The states was Florida‚ South Carolina‚ Mississippi

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    The Civil War in America‚ Cause and Consequences The Civil War in the United States of America is one of the most frequently studied wars of any in American History. This terrible war put brothers from the North against brothers from the South and the result was both awful and catastrophic. When counting the dead and wounded on both sides‚ including the destruction of houses‚ farms‚ and the livelihood of people on both sides‚ the Civil War was the most terrible and bloodiest war in American

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    Cadbury

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    grocer’s in the UK in the 1820s by Quaker‚ John Cadbury. The most popular item that he sold was cocoa‚ which made Mr Cadbury make chocolate. The success of this enterprise led John Cadbury and brother‚ called Benjamin‚ to form the Cadbury Brothers business‚ and in the 1850s they were awarded a Royal Warrant as producers for Queen Victoria‚ an accolade that the company still holds for the monarchy today. John Cadbury’s sons Richard and George took over the company in the 1860s‚ and five years later

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    pattern for the operation of society as a whole iii) Manifest functions is the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern iv) Latent functions is the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern b) Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) compared society to the human body. c) Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) expanded our understanding of the concept of social function by pointing out that any social structure probably as many functions‚ some more obvious than others. d) Social

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    Why Was Slavery Important

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    slavery’s abolition. After the war end a new U.S constitution counting each slave as a three-fifths of a person for the purpose of taxation. In 1808 domestic trade flourished and the slavery population in the U.S tripled over the 50 years. In 1860 it reached 4 million with more half in living in the cotton producing of the south. In the south about one-third of the southern population are slaves. Cost of the slaves lived in a farm or small plantations. many people (masters) owned less than

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    important and valuable product of the United States in 1815‚ with an increase in its exports during the two first decades of the nineteenth century. It accounted from 7% volume export to being the most valuable export (E‚ Horton & Oliver Horton‚ 2005). By 1860‚ cotton had become so important for the economy of the United States that by this year‚ exports of this commodity were estimated for 191.81 of the 250.53 million dollars of the total volume exports according to Rand Mcnally and

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    Spanish Empire gave American traders an opportunity they had long sought. Their economic activity prepared the way for military conquest. To the south‚ land for cotton rather than trade or missionary fervor attracted settlers and squatters in the 1820s at the very time that the Tejano population of 2‚000 was adjusting to Mexican independence. On the Pacific‚ a few New England traders carrying sea otter skins to China anchored in the harbors of Spanish California in the early nineteenth century. By

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    Chapter 10 outline America’s Economic Revolution Theme: The market revolution‚ Industrial Revolution‚ and large-scale immigration created tremendous changes within the United States during the early and mid- 19th century. During this time span the same forces behind America’s great industrial growth that created a sense of national unity for some‚ also contributed to the rising sectionalism that peaked in the latter half of the 19th century with the Civil War. I. the American population A. Reasons

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