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    Women in the Post Industrial Society In the 1940s “Anything You Can Do” was a song performed in the popular Broadway musical‚ Annie Get Your Gun. The man and woman‚ who sung the duet‚ try to outshine each other by proclaiming that one does better in each other’s responsibilities. With that being said‚ women were beginning to catch up and exceed their male counterparts in the post industrial society. They began taking opportunities to excel themselves in the workforce‚ education and in their own

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    Faith of a Historian By Samuel Eliot Morison To you‚ fellow members‚ who have honored me by election to your presidency this year‚ I feel that I owe a sort of apologia pro vita mea‚ a statement of the beliefs and principles that have guided my teaching and writing during the thirty-eight years since my first article was published in the American Historical Review. I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. Very early in my professional career I observed a certain frustration in a

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    Japan’s cinema would never be revealed. Techniques from these great directors would have not been discovered or ‘re-invented’ into something more innovative. Director such as Kenji Mizoguchi whom uses both directors’ camera technique mentioned above‚ would not appeared if the war wasn’t there. In 1940‚ Japan joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. This increased conflict with the United States & Great Britain‚ which resulted with a supply cut of oil. Shortage of oil caused Japan to invade other countries

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    For the south it was nearly impossible to win the war . The north had many advantageson the south‚ which created a large difference in the outcome of the Civil War. The North had a bigger population‚ better leadership‚ and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a leader of the union‚ and led them to many great victories with his decision making on generals to lead the Union. The north had many plans to shut down the south‚ though they often took longer than what was expected of them‚ so many of them were

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    Theme - Post war Sri Lanka - Emerging tourism industry Meso Theme - Forecasting Change Situation Analysis Sri Lanka was seen as a low budget tourist attraction. Industry colapsed mainly due to the war conditions through out last 3 decades. Tourists started pouring in to the country after the end of civil war. Major infrastruture development projects are undergoing in the country Government has identified tourism as a main source of foreign income and supporting the industry in a major

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    American Civil War? It is amazing that even today‚ nearly 150 years after the Civil War started‚ there is passionate debate regarding the "cause" of the Civil War. Consider this: It is a fact that when the armies for the North and South were first formed‚ only a small minority of the soldiers on either side would have declared that the reason they joined the army was to fight either "for" or "against" slavery. However‚ equally true is the statement: "Had there been no slavery‚ there would have been

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    The American Civil War and also known as the War Between the States was a war fought from 1861 up to 1865 between the Northern and Southern United States. The war has led to over 618‚000 casualties. There were several reasons to why the Civil War has occurred in the United States. Firstly‚ the Northern and the Southern have different economies. With the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1793‚ cotton became very profitable. This machine reduces the time taken to separate the seeds from the

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    Historians evaluate sources to determine their legitimacy and reliability. Inspecting the domain can assist in determining the source of a given website. The source should always be identified and evaluated before using it when writing. With technology and the internet as advanced as it is today it is very easy to stumble upon misinformation. Opinionated websites‚ for-profit websites‚ and others may provide only one side of a given story or event. An unbiased‚ responsible source is much better to

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    ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● CHAPTER  1-­2 Which  of  the  following  was  NOT  a  development  of  the  maritime  revolution  of  the  fifteenth  century? ○ did  develop:  triangular  Arab  sail‚  astrolabe‚  Caravel‚  compass Where  was  the  first  permanent  settlement  in  the  New  World? ○ St.  Augustine‚  FL Which  of  the  followings  is  NOT  true  about  Native  American  religious  beliefs  at  the  point  of  the  initial  European  contacts? ○ TRUE:  revolved  around  nature

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    “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it”. (Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech on Freedom from Fear) “Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the people” Disraeli Benjamin. However‚ the reality is somewhat different. History has led us to conclusions where those in power dominated over the weaker ones and used their supremacy to carry out immoral actions. Keeping such views

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