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    The Era Of Tattoos Summary

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    The Era of Tattoos and Piercings Tattoos are a permanent mark on the body‚ something that I think anyone thinking about getting a tattoo should put some serious thought into. What I’m saying is that I think tattoos should have a deep meaning to the person getting them. In other words don’t think of a tattoos as an accessory‚ think of a tattoo as something that you can never get rid of after you get it. In my view‚ Appleton raised an interesting point in her thesis‚ one that I had never

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    the perfect size for children with small hands and fingers. Unfortunately‚ hands and feet would get caught‚ and children were easily injured. The environment in the factory was unhealthy; sickness from fumes was a norm. Grace Abbot‚ a Progressive Era reformer‚ attempted to pass the first child labor law in 1917 (“Children” 1). Congress struck down this legislation‚

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    The Flying Car Era

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    The Flying Car Era The flying car era will really begin around 2030 with flying drones. Flying drones will be used by FedEx and UPS to deliver packages‚ Pizza Hut to deliver pizzas‚ and Kroger and Safeway to deliver groceries. But beyond that‚ drones will enable homes to be taken off the grid with delivery of water and electricity (changing out batteries for the home)‚ trash and sewage pickup‚ and much more. These too will begin as air-powered vehicles and later convert to frictionless drones.

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    Progressive Era Activities

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    Ryan Feldmann U.S History‚ 1st hour 2/21/2013 Leisure activities of the Progressive/Gilded era During 1894‚ through 1915‚ Americans began to have more leisure time than their predecessors.* The main reason for this was industrial employers decreased working hours‚ and cut the work time on Saturdays in half.* Vacations began to be offered to workers as a gift from their employers‚ although most vacations at this time were unpaid. The workers soon became overworked. During the time of shortened

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    The President of the people is the term coined for President Andrew Jackson in 1828. The changing atmosphere of American political life in the Jacksonian Era was characterized by the expansion of democracy through heightened emphasis on equality in the political process for adult white males‚ the rise of interest group politics and sectional issues‚ a changing style of campaigning‚ and increased voter participation (US: A Narrative History‚ 211). Additionally‚ as a reaction to wars in Latin America

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    Aids and the Reagan Era

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    Aids and the Reagan Era Kiauhna Braddy History 105/Lisa Hawkins March 14‚ 2012 First Reports of AIDS and misconceptions in the United States In early June 1981‚ the first reports of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia discovered among five previously healthy young men in Los Angeles‚ and published in the medical literature. The men were described as homosexuals; all five men had either previous or current infections with a virus and fungus usually seen in cancer

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    Era Of Westward Expansion

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    timid‚ and dependent on their husbands. Many people viewed women as domestic workers caring for their husband and children. Men were supposed to go out and do physical labor all day to provide for their family. During the 1840 to the late 1860s‚ an era of westward expansion took place in the United States. Many families wanted to go west because there were unclaimed land in Oregon. Many families packed their belongings on a covered wagon and followed the dangerous routes and trails to the west. Despite

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    Elizabethian Era Witches

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    Jeffy’s Talk The Elizabethan Belief in Witches During the Elizabethan era people blamed unexplainable events as the work of witches. There were frequent outbreaks of the deadly Black Death (Bubonic Plague) for which there was no cure. The fear and anger about this terrible disease had to be directed at someone - witches were the obvious target. When people died from terrible diseases‚ when animals died‚ when there was a bad harvest‚ or when houses were burnt down in fires - someone had to be

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    Elizabethan Era Flower

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    spelled tuzzy muzzy; tuzzy is an olde English word meaning ’a knot of flowers’‚ and muzzy may have referred to the damp moss which was wrapped around the flower stems to keep them moist. The Elizabethan Tussie Mussie During the English Elizabethan era‚ tussie mussies were frequently exchanged between lovers; many Elizabethan tussie mussies included Thyme (Thymus vulgaris)‚ Marjoram (Origanum marjorana)‚ Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)‚ Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)‚ Chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile)

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    I think that the whole reconstruction era went just the way it was supposed to. Just to think that something so small of a change could have rewritten history for bad or for good. I think that if lincoln could have carried out his plan then we would live in a completley different world then what we do today. I we have had enforced the laws as hard as we could have then the south could might as well of risen back up for another war. And what if we lost this time? We could might as well be living in

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