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    It Emerged in the 19th century when Glasgow was flourishing financially with exceptional economic buoyancy and urban growth in engineering and shipbuilding. While Glasgow was the second city of the British Empire there was a prosperous middle class and a extreme amount of poverty

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    Slavery has been around for millennia and had been a plague on the mankind for far too many years until the 19th century. The 19th century was a time of great change politically‚ economically‚ and socially‚ and included the abolition of slavery. The problem with analyzing the abolition of slavery in all of the nations that did at this time is that each is so unique that it is difficult to accurately compare and contrast them because they all had different linguistic‚ cultural‚ and ethnic differences

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    Immigrants have been a staple of American society throughout United States History. This is most notably seen during the late 19th century and into the 20th Century. Roughly 15 million immigrant rushed into America during these years and the influx of immigrants helped America create new ideas about the types of people Immigrants might have been. Immigration was not a new concept but the waves of people coming from so many different places was an entirely new thought to the people already living

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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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    The American Dream is the idea that every U.S citizen has equal opportunities to be successful. In the late 19th century and early 20th century immigrants traveled to america just to have the “American Dream”. Immigrants faced gruesome conditions coming to the U.S. and were treated in positive and negative ways. Even though the immigrants were escaping religious‚ racial‚ and political prosecution‚ the price they payed to get to America was gruesome. Most of the immigrants traveled overseas on a

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    supremacy‚ along with racial and religious discrimination towards Muslims‚ Jews‚ Asians‚ and Africans in Western societies. White people have used multiple forms of segregation including the Nuremburg law in Germany during the 1930s-1940s‚ the Jim Crow laws in the southern United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s‚ and Apartheid in South Africa in the mid to late 1900s. The goal of this essay is to identify the reasons for white supremist using discrimination and oppression against Jews‚ Asians

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    focusing on what lay beyond the vast oceans. With the discovery of a new world‚ the distant shores soon to be known as America provided both refuge for those seeking religious freedom as well as the potential of a better life. By the time of the late 19th century‚ European explorers had turned their attentions to the interior of Africa. Between both of these vastly different eras‚ explorers had major impacts on the environment and the lives of the inhabitants. America was a land just waiting to be claimed

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    Did you know that in the 19th century there were many different economies throughout the United States. Also this country had a strong love for their nation also known as Nationalism. Today we will be talking about how Alabama gained territory‚ different Economies around the United states‚ and how Nationalism played a major role in the success of the economy. Alabama gained territory and the population of the state went up in the late 1700´s and the early 1800´s. Many immigrants left the country

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    Juvenile courts were created first on the 19th century. It wasn’t until the 20th century when it was fully developed. There once was times that kids could face the death penalty. Overtime things changed‚ and kids are now not viewed as criminals. They are viewed as delinquents. It is important to treat juveniles as delinquents because that’s what they are. I am currently taking a course in Psychology of Adolescents‚ and I have learned so far kids make mistakes. Do not get me wrong if they murder

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    During the late 19th century and early 20th century‚ there were a lot of changes happening in Europe‚ and many of those changes caused imperialism to rise. The industrial revolution was happening‚ and there many growing cities‚ Charles Darwin published his findings that went against everything that was written in the bible‚ the need for power was increasing‚ and there was a large disconnect between the superior race (white) and the subordinate race (African). All of the new ideas‚ and changes happening

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