By the turn of the 20th century mass transit had coalesced around electric power for street railways‚ subways‚ elevated railways and for interurban railways of around one-hundred miles or less. Animal and cable traction systems had already undergone mass conversions to electricity or been abandoned altogether where the financial investment was proving unworthy. Steam powered locomotives drove long distance railroads; by 1890 there was in excess of 130‚000 miles of mainline track in service. In the
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Humanity is‚ as a species‚ inherently curious. This curiosity‚ together with an increasingly developed brain‚ has allowed us to create and use tools‚ control fire and organise ourselves into societies. Humanity’s mastery of these techniques meant that individuals in these societies could dedicate some of their time to longer term planning‚ rather than being forced to spend most of it in activities directly related to their immediate survival‚ such as hunting. The emergence of societies was only possible
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Winston Churchill’s speech‚ tilted the “Iron Curtain Speech‚” was given on March 5th‚ 1946 and expressed the need for the prevention of another war. Churchill first begins with talking about Russia‚ and about how the Soviet Union has influenced some very major European cities or capitals. Cities such as Vienna‚ Budapest‚ Bucharest‚ Warsaw‚ Prague‚ Berlin‚ Belgrade‚ and Sofia are know to be apart of the “Soviet sphere” which was a title given to them by Winston Churchill himself due to the major influence
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Many people watch the Snickers Diva commercial and think its funny‚ but people may not understand the true ideology behind the commercial. The commercial has a purpose behind it. It targets all men when it states‚ “You’re not you when you’re hungry.” It sends a message to men telling them that in order to be a man‚ they must satisfy their large appetites. To do that‚ they should eat a snickers‚ a man’s food. In Susan Bordo’s article‚ “Hunger as Ideology” she talks about how society views the appetite
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Is No Child Left Behind Broken? Liberty University Abstract This paper includes a reference list of literature relating to the research question “Has reading and math scores improved since No Child Left Behind Act has been in place”? In studying the literature it seems to suggest that the NCLB Act is broken and has not done what it was designed to do. Questions have been raised such as has there been no affect in the reading and math scores on the CRCT since NCLB has been implemented back
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at the end of a meal‚ it is a sign that you have pleased him. If he turns to you in the night‚ you must give yourself to him‚ in the hopes that you will bear him a son… If your husband asks you to wash his feet‚ you must do as he says‚ then put a bit of the water in your mouth… This has always been our fate. Simply to endure is to triumph.” (McCormick 15-16) Inequality; a very simple word
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“How is suspense created in The Turn of the Screw?” The Turn of the Screw is a very suggestive and highly ambiguous story. Its suspense and horror is generated primarily by what is not said and what isn’t shown. Because of the vague and very mysterious story‚ the viewer is compelled to fill in the blanks from his/her own personal fears. The audience ultimately conjures up a more horrifying set of images and circumstances. The story is set in the 1840’s‚ in a country home in Essex‚ England
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Turn the Other Cheek Sunday in the Park is a short story by Bel Kaufmann and was written in 1985. The story is about a family enjoying a Sunday in the park but suddenly another boy throws sand at the families 3-year-old. The family tries to stop the other boy but his father encourages him to continue and now there is a conflict between the two fathers. The family father is called Morton and is a middle-aged man. He is an upper-middle-class educated man and works as a university teacher.
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The article “No Rich Child Left Behind” written by Sean Reardon‚ focuses on the education gap between students of low and high-income families. Throughout the article‚ Reardon informs his audience on many studies he has conducted and read about that prove the following to be true: the rich children perform better in school‚ on average‚ than children from middle-class or poor families‚ high-income students are more likely to be enrolled in a highly selective college or university and graduate‚ the
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from you. 3 You run away from the man. Behind you‚ you can
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