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    Between 1820 and 1860 there were a few fundamental differences between the economies of the North and South. How far do you agree? Between 1820 and 1860 there were problems in America that resulted in the civil war in 1861‚ the economy affected the North and South during the civil war‚ and some major differences helped win the civil war. However this does not mean that the economy had many fundamental differences. For example the methods of earning money were different‚ but overall both earned roughly

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    progressive reforms during the period 1890-1915 in the areas of urban life and politics were mixed successes‚ with some reforms working well and others not‚ but were overall largely successful. In urban life‚ the progressives worked hard to improve the conditions for all‚ to better the cities themselves. In politics‚ the progressives (who had felt as though their needs were not being represented) attempted to make the system less corrupt and more fair and equal for all. The less successful reforms in

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    India’s Economics reforms from 1991-2010: Introduction India’s economics reform that started after 1991 ‚ when under the P.V Narshimaha rao government ‚ Manmohan singh was the finance minister at that time ‚ and he was also appointed as the “ finance advisor “. At that time india’s GDP grouth was 3% . after the IMF bail out the bankrupt state. The government P.V narshimha rao and the finance minister started the reform. Rajeev Gandhi started the light reform . by the end of 1990 india

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    Dorothea Dix – was the leader of the penitentiary and asylum reforms as she felt that criminals came from unstable families and wanted to rehabilitate them rather than punish them. She battled against the grant of public mental facilities which eventually won over in majority of the states in 1860. 7.      Andrew Jackson – he was the first American president from the West‚ hero of the Battle of New Orleans‚ expedition against the Seminoles in Florida‚ congressman

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    Jane Addams was one of the most well-respected of the first-generation of college-educated women‚ and decided to give up having a family to dedicate her life to social reform. In 1889‚ Addams‚ who was inspired by English reformers who intentionally lived in lower-class areas‚ and her college friend‚ Ellen Starr‚ moved into a mansion in a Chicago immigrant neighborhood. This house became known as Hull-House‚ which is where

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    Time and movement‚ according to Deleuze‚ are two essential elements of cinema‚ while movement is a measurement of time and indirectly represents time. Cinema before the World War II mainly focused on the movements of characters. Time can be felt only through movement‚ and that is why Deleuze coined the concept “movement-image”. Over centuries time in cinema has gradually broken away from the subordination to movement and begun to stand for itself and provided more possibilities for various movements

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    things was concerned with eradicating the American problems of the breaking of the Sabbath‚ profane language‚ and drinking. Beecher stressed the will of humanity to turn away from sin. He argued that disestablishment would undermine the authority of moral elites such as himself. Men of talent and virtue would be driven from positions of leadership. Similarly‚ he insisted that disestablishment would lead to chaos in political and religious life that would lead to dangerous divisions of society based

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    The economy of India is the eleventh largest economy in the world by nominal GDP[2] and the fourth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).[10]Following strong economic reforms from the socialist inspired economy of a post-independence Indian nation‚ the country began to develop a fast-paced economic growth‚ as free market principles were initiated in 1990 for international competition and foreign investment. India is an emerging economic power with a very large pool of human and natural resources

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    freedom It was simply a low wage job‚ cleaning‚ cooking and beckoning to there owners needs. They owned there own property where there families live and attended the local churches every Sunday. With time they had freedom‚ agreements to be released from indentured servants and free with rights. Indentured servants were quite scarce and expensive and the issue of equal rights presented a major challenge to developing slave states like Virginia. Indentured servants slowly became life long servants‚

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    The Dress Reform Movement of the Mid-Eighteen Hundreds Women’s History in America In the middle of the nineteenth century in the United States‚ there were many movements working to improve society. The temperance movement aimed to remove the use and abuse of alcohol in America. The abolition movement called for the immediate end to slavery. The women’s movement had a mission to change women’s role in society by such means as giving them the right to vote and own their own property. Health reformers

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