many chances for improvements in technology‚ but some of the new technology that was developed was in military technology. Many of the new developments involved taking previous technology and developing it for the military. An example would be lights used in lighthouses. The lights were originally used to warn ships of the land and with technology developments they were used to spot soldiers from the fortresses. Although‚ the Union and Confederate Armies took previous technology and formed it to their
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During the 19th century the role of women was a silent one‚ opposite to the lives of the bold bourgeoisie male flâneur. One of the ways women could obtain a form of independence was through one of the world’s oldest professions‚ prostitution. The wave of modernity brought on an abundance of prostitution in Paris‚ thus the theme of the brothels‚ and sex workers became a prominent subject in art. For many Modernist artists the depiction of the prostitution was a means for shining a light to the sexual
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responsibilities these women had to learn and fulfill‚ education was not one of them. Women were not permitted to be educated in fear that knowledge would be harmful for their minds. Writings from two eighteenth-century reformers validate the significance in education for woman. The eighteenth-century documents of Benjamin Rush‚ a physician and educator‚ and Judith Sargent Murray’s‚ a women’s rights activist‚ make evident the importance of female education‚ and defined the influence an educated woman has
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What are the main functions of parliament and how do MP’s check the executives? This essay will talk about what are the main functions of parliament and how do MP’s check the executives. Parliament’s the source of constitutional legitimacy in Britain. Parliament has four main functions: Formation of government Representation Legalisation Scrutiny The British Parliament is a bicameral (e.g. two chamber) legislature consisting of the elected House of Commons‚ the Monarch
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The Catholic Church during the 15th century was loosing power and respect. Many people wanted to keep that power and would do whatever it took to accomplish that goal. However‚ some churchgoers did not believe extreme measures would need to be taken in order to regain the Church’s reputation and respect it had. The idea of indulgences came to John Tetzel’s mind‚ which ended up becoming the new way for people to be forgiven by God. Indulgences were only one piece of paper‚ and in some people’s eyes
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The Catholic Church during the early 16th Century was rooted throughout Europe. The Church influenced every country and its respective monarchs through the Church’s wealth and power. The Catholic Church placed a tight hold on the general populace with individuals who went against the Church being branded as heretics and excommunicated. The wealth and power of the Church eventually caused the quality of the clergy to deteriorate. Priests became corrupt and subjected to their physical desires. They
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of history. In the first decade of the twentieth century‚ a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer War and before my own birth‚ the white-skinned peoples of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against dark-skinned peoples of their own land. The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest‚ most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Now‚ in the last decade of the twentieth century‚ and my own eighth decade as a man‚ that system
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validate a Reading Test in English (RTE) for Grade VI pupils in Bayambang District I using the results of the oral Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) as a basis. More specifically‚ it sought to determine: a) the reading level of grade VI pupils as shown by the results of the oral Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) Test‚ b) skills and specific areas of reading comprehension identified by Grade VI teachers that are to be included in the proposed Reading Test in English (RTE)‚ and conformity of
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During the 20th century‚ the element radium was used for commercial purposes and medicinal. While radium had some positive effects in both these areas‚ many people failed to see that radium actually had deadly capabilities. One example of the deadliness? Of radium in human life was with an energy drink called Radithor. The drink had radium dissolved in the solution. The owners of the company preached the benefits of the drink and that it could possibly increase sexual desire. In this way‚ many people
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During the 19th century‚ hundreds of thousands of people moved to the United States. A large chunk of these people came from Ireland. The biggest motivations for the Irish people to immigrate were a major food shortage in Ireland‚ railroad advertisements‚ and urbanization in the U.S. In Ireland‚ the primary food source was the potato. Conveniently‚ a disease started to spread around Ireland that killed most of their potatoes. This disease caused a huge famine that killed a large amount of the Irish
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