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    9/5/10 P.6 Neolithic Revolution The Neolithic revolution is when agriculture started‚ also know as the Agriculture revolution. The men and women transitioned from being a nomadic hunting and gathering society to an agricultural community. This transition started to occur during 10‚000 B.C.E. Before the Neolithic revolutionwomen were more matriarchal‚ during the Neolithic revolution‚ men and women had the same amount of work‚ after the Neolithic revolution‚ men were more patriarchal. Before

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    CIVIL WAR There have been many strong‚ intelligent women throughout our country’s history. Unfortunately‚ many have often gone unnoticed‚ undocumented or their accomplishments often overshadowed by their male counterparts. Some of them were homemakers‚ some were nurses‚ some served as spies‚ soldiers‚ daughters‚ sisters‚ mothers‚ etc. but all of them had one thing in common. They all contributed in the help of shaping our nation‚ and without these women our country would not have been the same. Their

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    The role of a woman The renaissance. A period of prosperity and upmost extravagance where the nobles rule‚ the peasants drool and men achieve greatness. Women‚ on the other hand‚ led an inferior life to men because of their smaller bone structure which was believed that they were weaker and less intelligent than men. Because of this belief‚ they led a hard and exhausting life. In the following paragraphs‚ I shall prove‚ thanks to multiple examples‚ their hard and stressful life as a wife‚ a mother

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    The Texas Revolution happened on account of an advancement of occasions that started some time before the primary shots discharged at the Battle of Gonzales. In the mid year of 1820 a 59 year-old Missourian named Moses Austin approached the Spanish Authorities for an sociable land tract which he needed to use to pull in American Pioneers. To many’s surprise in mid 1821‚ the Spanish government gave him consent to settle 300 families. Spain had invited Americans to assist build up the land and to give

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    How Consciousness Works Consciousness is being aware of what is going on around you and inside you. Many philosophers have struggled to understand consciousness. Now with greater technology in our hands we are able to understand it better. When you dream you are in an altered state of consciousness. Some people try to achieve the state of altered consciousness with drugs or more natural ways like meditation and hypnosis. There are three main types of consciousness. Consciousness as sensory

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    The Industrial Revolution‚ which began in the United Kingdom and spread to the United States and other nations‚ saw advances made in industry and manufacturing. Inevitably‚ the revolution signaled the end of mercantilism in place of capitalism. Although many technological and economic advances were made‚ the revolution also had profound impact on the status of women. Although it allowed women to gain economic independence from their families‚ women had to handle fourteen to sixteen-hour workdays

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    Over the years‚ women have fought for equal positioning in male-dominated societies. Oftentimes throughout this struggle they are overlooked in every facet of life: political agenda‚ idea formulation‚ and even literature. Despite this overall lack of representation‚ in some bright‚ shining moments‚ women have also found themselves as pivotal characters in these arenas. Such is the dichotomy of women’s roles in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather. Though

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    the time were almost always men and thus the female’s roles were never believed to be as important as a man’s. Through three main female characters in Beowulf we can analyze what they contributed to society in the Anglo-Saxon time period. Also‚ because the story of Beowulf is mainly centered around male figures‚ the women in the story portrayed smaller and less important roles. The first woman introduced in the text is Queen Wealhtheow‚ husband of King Hrothgar. In Beowulf her main role was one

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    The early Industrial Revolution had begun in textile production‚ hence women and their labor were deeply involved from the start. At first‚ when spinning was moved into factories and involved large machines‚ men often displaced women. Later unmarried women‚ mostly in the 1820’s‚ became employed in factories‚ where they constituted the majority of workers. Their new jobs‚ however‚ demanded fewer skills tan those they had previously exercised in the home production of textiles. There was thus a certain

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    The role of men and women in the termination of Apartheid is a heavily discussed topic amongst historians and intellects today. Some believe that women had a very similar role to men‚ whereas others believe that in fact the role of women in Apartheid was of no correlation or magnitude to that of men‚ and that the women’s role in the termination of Apartheid was far more significant and effective – in other words‚ completely different to the men’s role. In my opinion‚ I believe too that the women’s

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