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    Philippine and World Events in the years 1800-1861 Significant Events of the 19th Century  The collapse of the Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ Chinese‚     Holy Roman and Mughal empires. Liberalism became the preeminent reform movement in Europe. The 19th century was an era of invention and discovery‚ with significant developments in technological advances of the 20th century. The Industrial Revolution began in Europe. The Victorian era was notorious for the employment of young children in

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    Name: ___________________________________________________ Block: __________ Date: ___­___________ Chapter 11: The Age of Imperialism (1850-1914) Guided Reading Notes Section 1: The Scramble for Africa For each term or name‚ identify/define and explain the significance: Imperialism racism Social Darwinism Berlin Conference Shaka Boer Boer War Answer the following questions: 1. How did the Industrial Revolution lead to European colonization? 2. How did colonization change Africans’

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    is a remarkable representation of musical Romanticism for many reasons. First‚ it is profoundly influenced by literature. The story of the symphony is inspired from multiple literary sources‚ including Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Goethe’s Faust. In contrast to earlier symphonies‚ it follows an extramusical narrative devised by the composer‚ thus making it an early example of program symphony - an orchestral work in the form of a symphony and bearing a descriptive

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    In the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth‚ women became very active in political and social movements. Women played roles that shaped the future of the laws that prohibited women in many ways. Women’s suffrage and women’s role in prohibition are two ways in which women have shaped political and social moments in United States history. Women have never given up on fighting for rights‚ many times with monetary and social consequences for trying to gain rights they felt belonged to them

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    country controlled the MOST land in Africa? France 7. France gained control of all of the following countries in North Africa‚ EXCEPT- Libya 8. Europe wanted access to markets in Asia on the 19th century to cell- products of Europe’s factories 9. The Opium War of 1839-1842 resulted in- opening China for increased trade with Great Britain 10. The nation that became “The Britain of the Orient” late in the 19th century was- Japan 11. The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising in China favoring- the elimination

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    and Treatment Introduction: A Brief History of Heroin Heroin comes from the opium poppy. This plant has been used by a number of various civilizations going back to include ancient civilizations. Opium‚ heroin‚ and morphine are derived from the poppy. Opium had been used by Drs. in the United States for many years prior to the Civil War. When morphine was discovered Drs. switched to using morphine instead of opium for pain‚ mainly because the hypodermic needle had been invented and morphine could

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    shows up throughout the story. This father and son have a dream of building a flying machine. There are really many conflicts in this story. The main ones are Windrider and Moon Shadow trying to build a flying machine‚ Black Dog being addicted to opium‚ and Windrider is try to get the rest of his family to America. Moon Shadow and Windrider are always getting their money stolen by Black Dog. Eventually Moon sends a letter to the Wright brothers and gets a response and a diagram to make a plane and

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    Liesl Greider WHAP Summer Reading Assignment Section II Reading Questions Beer: 1. How is the discovery of beer linked to the growth of the first “civilizations”? Civilizations grew and came about in the first place only because of farming. This created the need for people to stay in villages near their crop to be able to reap its benefits. The crops that were being grown at the time were cereal grains such as wheat and barley. These are main ingredients needed to produce and ferment beer. Therefore

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    despise his very existence. Unintentionally‚ Matt goes through what has been coined as The Heroic Cycle‚ and Nancy Farmer‚ author of The House of the Scorpion visibly depicts our troubled protagonist as a future hero of the deteriorating empire that is Opium. In spite of his sufferings‚ Matteo Alacran defeats all odds once discovering this new world and prevails through the hardships he faces. When Matt unknowingly ventures into the world previously unknown to him‚ he promptly grasps the concept of survival

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    The War on Drugs was proclaimed by the Nixon Administration in the signing of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. It evoked the current era of mandatory minimum sentencing‚ systematic racism‚ and mass incarceration of colored people. While the War on Drugs has certainly sought to eradicate controlled substances and destroy the networks established for their distribution‚ State efforts to control drugs are also a way for dominant groups to express racial power.Despite

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