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    people took numerous efforts to improve American society. One of the ways they used to make this happen is by Utopian movement. Utopian movement was an effort taken to create a perfect society with people’s idea and opinions. Utopian experiments took place because people found American society in that era was imperfect with inequalities and wanted to make it perfect for everybody to live. Eventually‚ these communities went on to make a tremendous impact on American culture‚ which can be clearly seen even

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    Factory Reform in Britain 1. Reform of the early factories and mines in Britain was considered necessary for many reasons. Firstly‚ in Britain‚ the mistreatment of women particularly in factories helped reform to start taking place. Women (and children) were used for fundamental jobs in textiles factories which involved manoeuvring into places that men could not manoeuvre into. Women often had to work very close to running machines‚ and since there were no machine monitors at this time‚ several

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    The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s changed American society forever. The Civil Rights movement started in the mid-1950s. The goal was to give African Americans the same rights that whites in the country took for granted. They were tired of being treated as second class citizens. In the 60s the movement finally started to achieve its goals both in judicial and legislative victories against discrimination. The activists focused on Southern racial discrimination‚ the Jim Crow system and

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    DISTINCTION BETWEEN BRITISH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH ON THE ASPECT OF SOUND SYSTEM Abstract In this paper‚ distincion between British English and American English on the phonetic aspect will be discussed. The whole paper is going to be devided into several parts‚ in the first part various of English accents and the outline of the differences between these two variants of English will be introduced in biref ; In the second part‚ the representative of British English – Recerved pronunciation

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    The Differences of education between China and America I want to describe the major differences between Chinese and American education. It includes four aspects. Introduce “Harvard girl” 刘亦婷 1 Goals of education First of all‚ Chinese support all-rounder education.  The education’s goal is for making their living‚ for honor. They think that their children who were in very young can not lose in starting line. Hence‚ when children should be spoiled‚ children would have been forced to learn piano

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    Major Turning Points in U.S. History (1492-1820) Throughout documented United States history‚ immense changes in social‚ political‚ and economic establishments have been brought about by perplexing people or conditions. Often‚ these changes mark a turning point in the progress of civilization as new ideas are formed‚ new governments raised‚ or new discoveries put to use in the interest of progress. Whether these pivotal moments in history may be triggered due to a single nonconforming individual

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    another stereotype where African Americans are believed to be more violent and more often criminals. This relation between African Americans and crime has been around since slavery‚ as it was used as a justification for the slavery system. By implying that African Americans were more likely to be violent and dangerous‚ slavery became more accepted. After slavery was abolished‚ the stereotype continued to be enforced through segregation and Jim Crow laws. African Americans were arrested for smaller things

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    The Relations between Native Americans and Colonists There are many reasons Native Americans and European Colonists did not have a good relationship. The reason for conflict between Colonist and Indians was due to the Colonists insatiable greed for power and land. Some of the reasons not only included physical mistreatment but also an ethical mistreatment of the Native Americans. European Colonists not only brought with them many different diseases that would later aid in the genocide of many

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    ECCO Women’s Expectations of Reform‚ 1870s-1920. Introduction: In the 19th century it was expected for women and children to work as man. The nation’s crises constrained industrial wages and produced high levels of unemployment. Women and child factory worker chose to work 10 hours a day. The outcome was the Knights of Labor where practically anybody could work. Expectations: In 19th century‚ women and children expected a high percentage of the work force in some industries and receive

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    A: Hello everyone! Have you ever tried when typing a definitely correct word in Microsoft‚ but it says your word is wrong? Do you know why? It is because of the difference between British and American English. B: To begin with‚ let’s talk about history. In the past‚ the religions of the British & American were different. Christians(that is the Puritans) were persecuted by the other people. So some of them grouped together & went to America because they wanted to leave England. C: They

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