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    Natural selection is mainly thought of as being applied to the biological and physical features of organisms during evolution. The traits that help humans survive through different circumstances will continue to be passed to the next generations because through natural selection the fittest survive. Charles Darwin then applies natural selection to morality in societies. I agree that natural selection can also be applied to the moral faculties of humans. A society’s viewpoint on rationality‚ and what

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    Factors that Contributed to expansion? There were reasons for our westward expansion in the 19th century. One reason was our belief in Manifest Destin. Manifest Destiny: Definition The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents Identify the territory of US expansion? ? Gold Rush 1848-49 Facts 1.The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush 2.A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted

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    focusing on what lay beyond the vast oceans. With the discovery of a new world‚ the distant shores soon to be known as America provided both refuge for those seeking religious freedom as well as the potential of a better life. By the time of the late 19th century‚ European explorers had turned their attentions to the interior of Africa. Between both of these vastly different eras‚ explorers had major impacts on the environment and the lives of the inhabitants. America was a land just waiting to be claimed

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    It Emerged in the 19th century when Glasgow was flourishing financially with exceptional economic buoyancy and urban growth in engineering and shipbuilding. While Glasgow was the second city of the British Empire there was a prosperous middle class and a extreme amount of poverty

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    look to all the tired women heading back to the women’s dorm‚ you decide to join them as you need all the rest you can get. Women are always thought of as weaker both in mentality and physicality. The industrial age‚ in America around the early 19th century‚ was a new found way for the rich to make money. The rich founded the factory system and exploited women and children to make tremendous profits. Discrimination of the sexes caused women

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    During the 19th century our governments were running under an organized group called political machines. These political machines had controlled the activity of a political party in the city. These groups had functioned like a pyramid‚ they had a political boss at the top who controlled most activity in the city‚ in the middle of the pyramid was the ward boss who controlled votes‚ and at the bottom of the pyramid‚ the local precinct workers and captains had worked streets to gain votes. The political

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    protestant man of the 19th century who believes in the power of advancement and the future. Although the Yankee was a man of the future‚ he progressed into a man of the past. It was because of the Yankee’s bigoted beliefs that led him to change the regime of the 6th century; consequently until his external downfall‚ at the end of the novel. From the start of his journey‚ the Yankee imagined different ways to change Arthurian Britain into his modern 19th century. In the 6th century‚ the power belonged

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    August 18‚ 1920‚ the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution instilled American women the right to vote”—the first step to acknowledge the civil battle known as woman suffrage (19th amendment). At the time the United States of America was founded‚ women did not possess all of the same civil or humanitarian rights as men‚ including the right to vote. The oppression of women has been prevalent throughout history‚ gaining its original  attention throughout the 18th and 19th century. Addressing the inability

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    Slavery has been around for millennia and had been a plague on the mankind for far too many years until the 19th century. The 19th century was a time of great change politically‚ economically‚ and socially‚ and included the abolition of slavery. The problem with analyzing the abolition of slavery in all of the nations that did at this time is that each is so unique that it is difficult to accurately compare and contrast them because they all had different linguistic‚ cultural‚ and ethnic differences

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    The end of jazz? How and why has jazz declined in popularity in the 21st century? Introduction Jazz is a genre that was born in America during around the early 20th century. It is a combination of music of white European settlers and African music. My project will be based on whether the musical genre‚ jazz‚ is losing popularity and if so‚ exploring the reasons for why this is happening. Referring to my question some people say jazz is “dying”‚ the most common use of the word ‘death’ is the state

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