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    During the 19th century‚ Shamanism was a practice among primitive societies which the diagnosis or treatment was based on trance-like states of the healer or the patient. On the other hand‚ the shaman is a healer whose diagnosis of patients is based at least in part on trances or frequently induced by hallucinogenic drugs. However‚ during the 19th-century drugs were available and grew almost everywhere. Moreover‚ during this era‚ people used natural herbs to cure most everything. Therefore‚ not being

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    The 19th century was a time of great scientific discoveries. Discoveries like germ theory‚ which helped us further understand how certain diseases are caused and how they can be prevented‚ and the invention of the telephone‚ which became the foundation for every day communication all over the world. The realizations made during this period of history have become an integral part of modern society and its comforts. With all that being said‚ most of the Western world is still rooted in bigotry and

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    The 19th century was characterized by sharp contradictions. In many ways it was an age of progress: railways and ships were built‚ great scientific discoveries were made‚ education became more widespread; but al the same time it was an age of profound social unrest‚ because there was too much poverty‚ too much injustice. The growth of scientific inventions mechanized industry and increased wealth‚ but this progress only enriched the few at the expense of the many. Dirty factories‚ long hours of work

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    mental hospital the moment she began to open up. The treatment women has been completely disrespectful and degrading within that field. While women gained suffrage in the late 19th Century‚ it wasn’t until the late 1960s that women’s roles started being questioned on a larger basis. Throughout the first half of the 20th Century‚ women were expected to go straight into work after finishing school‚ and continue just that until they were married. (Text 8) This attitude towards women supported the belief

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    Feminism--United States--History--19th century There has been issue of women’s rights being violated deep in American history and still going on today in America. Deep in America history there was a time when American women did not had the right to keep her possession upon marriage. (By Holton‚ Woody‚ Journal Southern History May‚ 2015 vol.31 Issue 2p 313-340.36p. Database Academic. Search. Premier) There was also a time that women did not have the right to vote in America‚ but these same women were

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    developed a sense for industry which was characteristic of the 19th century. Unlike Europe where the craftsmen guilds long opposed progress in manufacturing‚ America was eager to use new technologies that would save labor‚ which was scarce. Thus the young nation‚ once freed from Colonial restrictions‚ progressed faster than its former mother country and eventually emerged as the foremost industrialized country in the World‚ just a century after its Independence. England had given its American colonies

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    Slavery was a big part of life in the mid-19th century‚ there were senators‚ authors‚ presidential candidates‚ etc.‚ who argued about whether slavery should continue or stop. The American people believed that it was inhumane to treat people in such a manner. In this writing assignment‚ you will recognize these people known as John Calhoun‚ and George Fitzhugh who were all for slavery. Theodore Weld‚ James Birney‚ The Declaration of the American Anti-Slavery Society‚ Henry Thoreau‚ William Garrison

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    Topic: The immigration of East Indian indentured workers to the Caribbean in the 19th century could be regarded as a new system of slavery. Slavery was the initial labour system used by Europeans on their plantations in the Caribbean. It was implemented in the 1600`s‚ the Europeans forcefully took people from the African continent to the Caribbean on various trips. The path in which the slaves were carried between Africa and the Caribbean is known to historians as the Triangular Trade. These Africans

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    America’s sporting culture of the late 19th century and into the early 20th century largely reflected ideals the country enforced during colonial times‚ as the same ruling parties (upper class white males and the newly forming “middle class” white male) were charged with shaping and influencing society. These ideas‚ that enforced white male (unless poor except in certain cases) dominance‚ limited women’s involvement and ranked “others” (blacks‚ immigrants‚ poorer whites) below the upper white class

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    Throughout all of the 19th century‚ European countries were scrambling to obtain more power than each other by taking land‚ especially from Africa and Southeast Asia. These two areas were geographically the most convenient for Europe‚ as well as having incredible amounts of raw materials‚ resources‚ and territory. Assets unavailable in Europe were plentiful in these areas‚ which interested Europeans in the profitable trading opportunities that these supplies presented themselves with. This expansion

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