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    In the early 19th century‚ the slave community‚ in south of America‚ was distributed into large and small plantation areas‚ on which slaves had work from sunrise to midnight in avoidance of beating. However‚ the Northerners sympathized the harsh condition of slaves‚ and fought against their own to abolish the expansion of slavery. In the south‚ the workers within a slave community worked based on either the task system or gang system. Plantation management not only exploited and humiliated the slaves

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    Music was institutionalized in Europe during the 19th Century. Composing followed a scholarly route that lead to very subtle variation in classical music. Cultures outside of Europe produced music in their own unique style that differed from the usual European composition. Western composers began to incorporate music from other cultures to portray nonnative aspects of European society or bring new life into European Music. Ralph Locke’s spectrum of exoticism classifies compositions based on whether

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    In the 19th century a revolutionary concept was introduced to the world: civil disobedience. It was the concept that people could disobey laws and accept their consequences to protest in peace. It may sound counter-intuitive‚ but it drew attention to some of the greatest plights in human history: civil rights for African Americans‚ Indian oppression by the British Empire‚ South African apartheid‚ among many other events. Each of them succeeded in changing the world by fighting with their words‚ their

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    In the 19th century‚ the industrial revolution changed the United States and Western Europe. It led to power-driven machines in the textile industry. This came with the expansion of commercial farming areas to provide raw materials‚ increased wage labor and rapid urbanization. It also changed family life by decreasing family size because were involved in labor force. New England textile firms employed many people including children. Southern New England mills depended on single rural women who came

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    In the late 19th century America went through various transformations‚ with regional changes as well as rural and urban transformations‚ with political movements‚ urbanization‚ labor movements‚ and even Reconstruction and Westward Expansion; these are only a few examples of transformation that America underwent. The Unions victory in the Civil War in 1865 over the Emancipation Proclamation meant that nearly four million slaves gained their freedom‚ leaving the Confederates and southern states upset

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    Wohl (1983) gave a well researched historical account of public health and development in Britain from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century. The devastating poverty and poor physical health of most of the population‚ lucidly described by the author‚ were horrendous. At the beginning of the Victorian period few people were free from disease‚ stench and impure water. The marked socioeconomic differences‚ intolerable living conditions and poor working conditions (although not a

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    The Westward Expansion Impact As the 19th century progresses‚ more and more settlers arrived in the US and the yearn for open space and freedom had grown tremendously. The US had decided to push westwards due to this.Thousands of settlers began to pour into the new land. Through the exciting and promising land acquisitions‚ there was a dark history behind the westward expansion that was never fully acknowledged. Although America had enforced westwards expansion‚ it did not acknowledge the Native

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    BUSINESS ECONOMICS COURSEWORK 2 ADBM Answer 1(a) Demand and supply curves are graphical representations of the relationships between price and quantity. When we know the relationship we can easily find the relationship by easy algebra. General equation a linear (straight-line) demand curve is P = a -bQD  Placing the price on the Y axis and the quantity demanded on the X axis. a=Y intercept; -b=slope Clearly‚ a must be positive‚ and the minus sign on b indicates that quantity demanded

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    adults‚ but how has that changed? Prior to the nineteenth century‚ no specific laws were set in place to

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    Mia D’Angelica Eustice English 3 CPE Period 8 28 March 2024 My Family History The 19th century saw an immense wave of immigration to the United States as millions of people from around the world sought new opportunities. Like many others‚ my ancestors made the difficult decision to flee their homeland in search of a better life. The choice to uproot one’s life in a foreign land is undoubtedly very daunting‚ filled with uncertainty and the potential for triumph and hardship. Not only does their immigration

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