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    a massive increase in airport security measures‚ and the whole world has been affected because there are so many rules and regulations in terms of what we are and are not allowed to take on board with us. For example‚ no more than 100mL of liquid is allowed on your person when you fly‚ because the airlines are so suspicious of everyone boarding their aircrafts that they enforce dozens of rules upon the passengers. This change has had positive and negative consequences‚ because although we now feel

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    some things have drastically changed for the better‚ things have stayed the same or things have gotten worse. But that is a matter of opinion. What is your opinion on these things? Do you think things have gotten better‚ stayed the same or gotten worse? Mark Twain wrote a book called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and it showed how society was back then and the struggles people went through. American society has changed since 1840 and as time passed our society has gotten way worse by the acts

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    Literature in America has vastly changed throughout history. The beginning of the evolution of literature started in colonial times when the english came to America. If a person of a different ethnicity founded America‚ how different would literature be today? American literature began with the writings of Native Americans. There was no written literature in the Indian culture‚ mainly because of how many different groups and tribes there were speaking different laguages. Because of the 500 different

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    American Equality has really changed throughout the years. People used to be very rude to people of the opposite race or if they looked different. It is not as bad now as it used to be but you still see people getting made fun of. It is sad when people get bullied over something they did not get to choose. American Equality is how everyone is treated‚ everyone should be treated equally‚ but clearly not everyone is. American Equality is slowly getting better but it used to be very bad. In the

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    exploration revolutionized the world and everything changed. The United States was founded because of the age of exploration and the European Explorers affected our future as a country. New crops were discovered and made available to the wealthy Europeans. The explorers found a whole society full of indigenous people and converted most to Christianity. They also introduced new technologies that were foreign to the natives. Europeans explorers changed the culture of the indigenous people by converting

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    Analyze the ways in which technology‚ government policy‚ and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period of 1865-1900. in your answer‚ evaluate farmers’ response. The period of 1865-1900 was one of the most crucial times in American history. It was a time period‚ in which America was mending‚ repairing‚ improving‚ reshaping‚ and reconstructing its society‚ economy‚ culture‚ and policies. Basically it was changing everything it stood for. This continual change can be seen in the

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    The American Fur Company and John Jacob Astor I. Introduction "Power tends to corrupt‚ and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton). John Jacob Astor was a man that had absolute power during his era and used his power and wealth to benefit himself and not the "social fabric of society". Astor lived during the time of a post-revolutionary America which allowed him to build a monopolist empire with little restraint from government or society. Starting out in American as a young German

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    identity. These changes revolved around the imperialistic and expansionists ideas by Roosevelt and Taft. However not only was the nation advancing into a world power but drastic social changes were happening within the country. World War I had changed American society through the creation of feminist suffrage organizations‚ evolutions in the labor force‚ and the surge of immigrants. Society was affected by women’s support and opposing of the war. Organizations such as the Woman’s Peace Party

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    In the past 20 years that skateboarding has been around‚ it has changed in a great manner than when it started. Skateboarding has influenced people worldwide‚ from continent to continent. And over the years it has been able to be influence people of all different types of race that has cause people to connect and come together and play a sport they love. “Skateboarding was a way for surfers to keep active when waves were flat so a group of surfers in California invented the skateboard” (Brooke‚

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    How Has American Business Changed In the Last 50 Years? In the last fifty years America has encountered more changes than ever before. The prosperity of our county driven by American consumerism has enabled businesses and individuals to branch out beyond the corporate‚ business as usual‚ models. Consequently‚ individual creativity sparked the entrepreneurial drive that facilitated the technical revolution of the 1970’s and beyond. Sure some could argue that the industrial revolution of the

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