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    causes of the titanic consumption of these drugs in the 16th and 18th century. The stimulants gained strong believes for medical purposes‚cultural believes and social status. As a result of those causes‚ this stimulants found themselves in abundance in most parts of the world‚basically due to mass-production witch results from world expeditions to technological advances that made

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    caught a lot of attention and inspired lots of films‚ novels and book throughout modern times. The 13 century in the history of psychopathology it’s known by the time when asylums began to emerge. (Roberts‚ A. 1981/Birth of the City London Bedlam) In the above developments there weren’t specific places for the mentally ill‚ because in most cases they were pursued and punished. That’s why in this century another paradigm comes in and changes the way people saw the mentally disable. By this time people

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    In the 18th century‚ the legal framework of the criminal justice treated adults and juveniles in the same way. Children faced quite serious charges in the criminal courts that were not even imposed in some cases over adults. Treating juveniles as adults were problematic in several ways. The absence of proper distinction between offenders using many relevant parameters saw jails teeming with adult and child criminals. Later‚ progressive reforms changed the idea of treating children like adults‚ and

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    It was truly barbaric and constantly controlling a person’s life‚ what they eat‚ sleep or if they were sold or bought‚ was vicious. The slaves were used and thrown away like garbage. As mentioned above‚ following along it was from the Swahilis where it all started and there was wide involvement from the Portuguese and Comoro Archipelago to Lamu Archipelago‚ there can be much forms of struggle discovered. In the early sixteenth century the Swahili’s were widely involved in the slave trading. Most

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    Throughout the nineteenth century three political ideals began influencing states and their  citizens like no other ideals had done before. These ideals were liberalism‚ socialism and‚ the  most important‚ nationalism. Each one possessed its own uniqueness which inspired mass  followings of people that would last thoroughly into the twentieth century. Each one also proved  to form a catalyst for the modernisation of many European countries. However‚ in comparison‚  none of these ideals had the impact that the nationalistic approach had

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    officers‚ crew‚ marines and their families‚ and convicts from Britain to a distant and little known land on the far side of the world. Around the end of the eighteenth century‚ English towns and cities were overflowing with people‚ many of whom could not find work. Stealing and other criminal activities resulted and became a way of life‚ taking the place of work. The British government had no choice but to issue more policemen and tougher penalties; therefore the convicts were transported‚ never to

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    countries and civilizations that have either clashed with each other or been oppressed by another group. Most countries have this kind of story in their history. In United States history the colonists both oppressed and were oppressed by the Native Americans. The Roman Empire oppressed many great places. They waged war across many countries. They even decided to fight far north in what is now known as modern day England. They fought the tribes that resided there‚ however after many months they eventually

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    Following the intellectual movement of the 18th Century American Enlightenment‚ the ideas of “nature” and “will” would dominate the new American way of thought during the early to mid-19th Century American Romanticism mood. Led by the New England Transcendentalist movement‚ reason‚ predominantly imagination‚ intuition‚ whim‚ and instinct‚ would overtake the Lockean five senses way of knowing until the outbreak of the American Civil War. The notions that feelings gave one knowledge and that the

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    The eighteenth century is often referred to as the century of Enlightenment. The ideas of main enlightenment thinkers‚ the philosophes‚ made mark on the century. In Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie‚ the philosophe is described as a man who ‘trampling on prejudice‚ tradition‚ universal consent‚ authority‚ in a word‚ all that enslaves most minds‚ dares to think for himself’ . If the movement’s mother country was France‚ there were philosophes all across Europe. Some of the most famous were Diderot

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    The Medical Catastrophes of the 18th Century Medicinal practices of the 18th century were more likely insufficient than effective in the eradication of ravaging disease. The 18th century was described as an era‚ “...of unreliable and often painful medical treatment”(Johnson) in the establishment of remedies to diseases such as cholera‚ smallpox‚ typhoid and tuberculosis that rid America of much of its population. Although the same ranges of disease affected both whites and slaves‚ the way that the

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