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    It is said that after the Civil War‚ America began to industrialize at a rapid rate. The Gilded Age had 8 different characteristics of industrialization: Improved standards of living‚ New Inventions‚Railroads‚ Laissez-faire and free enterprise‚ Urbanization‚ Immigration‚ Labor Unions‚ Indian Removal. After the Gilded Age‚ came the Progressive era‚ the progressive era was the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems of rapid industrialization introduced to America

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    Causes Of The Dark Ages

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    The Dark Ages were good for these three reasons. First‚ the dark ages provided people with creative and useful ideas‚ without the dark ages people wouldn’t have needed these inventions. Second‚ colleges and universities were started during this time period. Third‚ a lot of unique art and music were created during this time. In other people’s perspectives the Dark Ages might have been bad for these two reasons. First‚ there was a lot of torturing and massive amounts of executions. Second‚ the Black

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    Middles Ages to the Enlightenment and the 19th Century There are quite many changes that subsequently took place in the evolution of knowledge in the period of the middle Ages through the Enlightenment and 19th century. The Age of Enlightenment is stated to have been a cultural movement of a breed of intellectuals as from 17th and 18th century through to the 19th century. It is stated to have begun in the European continent spreading later to the American colonies. It is attributed that the purpose

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    Personhood in the Bronze Age

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    How did Bronze Age people conceptualise people and personhood? What are the various ways in which archaeologists have investigated notions of identity and personhood in the Bronze Age? Archaeological prehistoric frameworks were established during the period of antiquarianism and were consolidated by the technological typologies laid out by Thomsen in 1836 (Jones‚ 2008: 4). The concept of the transition from a Neolithic period to a Bronze Age has since been inextricably associated with technological

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    The Church in the Middle Ages Notes secular- not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order. ecclesiastical- relating to the Christian church or clergy imperator Romanorum- Emperor of Rome lingua franca- various languages used as a common language between peoples of diverse speeches Main Idea: The church was a dominant force in the Middle ages due to the disintegration of the Roman Empire and the ability of Christianity to bring people

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    Agony of Old Age

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    AGONY OF OLD AGE Old age is the last phase of life as William Shakespeare has put it‚ “Last scene of all‚ Sans teeth‚ sans eyes‚ sans taste‚ sans everything.” We see in our surroundings‚ these elderly figures that often spend time in tranquility‚ who feel helpless and lonely as they are detached from other strata of society. In old age physical strength deteriorates‚ mental stability diminishes‚ and lack of

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    Stone Age Advancements

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    The stone ages were times of great change. The stone ages were times of the early people known as Paleolithic which means old and Neolithic which means new. These people brought great advancements that changed the way people lived. There were great advancements durind the Old Stone Age. One of their advancements of the Paleolithic people was that they learned how to tame fire‚ one of the most important advancements of the stone ages. Fire was good for hunting by surrounding an animal and used

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    Middle Ages Economy

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    Middle Age Economy The economy mostly seen in the early middle ages was feudalism‚ Europe’s form of government in the Middle Ages‚ was developed in the fifth century to meet the changing needs of the time. It was based heavily on the honor system. The king had overall power‚ then the lord‚ then the vassals‚ or landowners‚ and finally down to the peasants‚ known then as the villeins. The fiefs‚ or estates‚ could be rented out to one vassal who would then rent portions of the

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    Middle Ages Castles

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    Castles of the Middle Ages Castles that were built in the middle ages are not only beautiful and detailed but also took a lot of work before all the tools and machines we use for buildings were created. The European nobility mostly made them and of course the royals would live in such an amazingly structured and fortified building of the middle ages. Some cities used walls to keep their enemies away‚ but the most powerful and efficient ones used beautifully designed castles. They evolved over the

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    old age home

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    Just a few kilometres from the world famous resting place of Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa is a sprawling complex with freshly painted blue and white buildings. Through the years‚ not too many people‚ even in Kolkata‚ had given the campus much regard‚ treating it as just another effort by Christian missionaries to spread the good word. An elderly couple with a sister But on October 11‚ all of that changed and Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity suddenly found itself relegated‚ almost by default

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