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    Feasting and enjoying food was an important part of the medieval life. During the middle ages foods available changed as shortages occurred. What people could and could not eat depended on their religion. In the medieval times‚ there were different foods and customs for the nobles‚ peasants‚ and for celebrations. Nobles were the richest and lived the most lavish lifestyles of the middle ages. “They made laws for the towns as well as the countryside they controlled” (Dawson 16). The kitchen of the

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    During the 19th century‚ there were open fields filled with plants and animals roaming through them. The plants that grew in the different fields were mushrooms (caused hallucinations)‚ yellow-orange fruits‚ coca leaves (cocaine)‚ poppy plants (opium)‚ and cannabis plants (marijuana); the animals were observed as they roamed the fields and ate from these plants. As the humans watched the animal’s behavior during and after eating the plants‚ they began to wonder as to how and why the animal’s demeanor

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    salting‚ and canning. After many generations have passed and as civilization came and went‚ different cultures developed their own delicacies and native dishes‚ so the diets of each food region were unique and different. During the Middle Age‚ the Silk Road was found. It connected Europe to the Orient‚ and empires traded native dishes and plants such as noodles and tea with one another‚ drastically changing the way people ate. From

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    In a letter to William Lloyd Garrison dated November 24‚ 1863‚ John Greenleaf Whittier comments on his joy over the "prospect of the speedy emancipation of the slaves of the United States". He also declares "I set a higher value on my name as appended to the Antislavery Declaration of 1833 than on the title-page of any book". Whittier‚ a Quaker‚ farmer‚ and poet had long been involved with the abolitionist movement and many times had expressed his opinions on the subject of slavery. In his poem‚

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    Puritanism had a huge impact on the history of America and on religion in the 17th century. Puritanism had originally started as a movement against the church of England during the 16th century. The Puritans escaped religious confines and went to the New World. There they settled mostly in New England. Their beliefs had a big influence on how religion was handled in the colonies. According to history.com it explained how the Puritans came to be colonists in the New World‚ “Under siege from church

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    The 20th century is been called the age of suspicion. Nothing is what it seems‚ it’s about the lack of trust and believes. There are 3 big figures of this century that talk about suspicion‚ Darwin‚ Marx‚ and Freud. The kid is the best portrait of this suspicion‚ cause they don’t know everything and they don’t have full control of the world around them. Dorothea Lange is a famous photographer from the 40’s‚ she went in an intern camp and pictures them. In 17S is peculiar the episode of Rosie washing

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    The labeling of the 20th century as the ‘Age of Anxiety” is created by the common theme of someone using technology to obtain power over the common man. It is the uncertainty of what could happen that drives fear and paranoia as a common bond. In Robbie‚ Mrs. Weston states quite bluntly‚ “I won’t have my daughter entrusted to a machine-and I don’t care how clever it is. It has no soul‚ and no one knows what it may be thinking.” She is uncertain how the metal robot works and this causes her to be

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    Early in the 18th century when women started to make a name for themselves in the mathematical world. Despite it being known that most men were allowed to study and practice mathematics‚ yet “intellectual women were admired by men‚ [and] they were never ridiculed for being intellectual and educated” (Unlu). Because men were more encouraged‚ but a woman of a higher class who possesses a great intellectual mind and has a potential for pursuing mathematics are acknowledged and highly encouraged. Furthermore

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    Throughout the late 20th century there was a boom of liberation. The LGBT community had been established‚ religious diversity was common‚ and women had gained more respect. Everyone was bringing attention to more diverse communities. Speculative fiction describes the fear that society had that could have potentially ruined the beautiful freedom we have to express our opinions‚ beliefs‚ and gender. During the late 1900s speculative fiction displayed the privileges of gender equality and freedom that

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    may harm one under the age of eighteen. During the Industrial Revolution in Europe during the late eighteenth century sparked the rise towards modern laws against child labor. Since ancient time children completed hard jobs with little no pay and before the Industrial Revolution many children were working in sweatshops or other means to help their family earn money. The number of working youth has lowered significantly since then‚ yet there still remains millions of children age five to seventeen in

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