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    The most important quality of Elizabeth as a queen was her love for the people of her kingdom. Elizabeth made many efforts throughout her reign to demonstrate how much she cared for her subjects‚ including the “progresses‚” or tours of the countryside on horseback‚ that she made at least twenty-five times during her forty-five years as queen (“Elizabeth I”). The act of visiting among her people proved to them how highly she viewed and respected them. She also wanted them to love her‚ saying in a

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    Elizabeth Blackwell

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    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female physician to earn a medical degree in the United States. The book The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician explains all the hardships Elizabeth faced through her journey to become a doctor. Elizabeth was a very strong woman who never gave up. Elizabeth Blackwell is famous for introducing the idea of women working in medicine‚ she grew up in a liberal household‚ was a force to be reckoned with‚ and she impacted how society thought

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    How successful was Elizabeth I in dealing with the foreign policy problems she was faced with in 1558-1603? By 1603‚ Elizabeth was ultimately successful with many of her aims in regard to foreign policy. Despite this‚ the monarch faced various set backs and failures in such affairs. The problems arose as she ruled an isolated protestant kingdom surrounded by catholic superpowers. She managed these difficulties with great pragmatism and opportunism‚ reducing the threat of invasion. Her aggressive

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    Elizabeth Gender

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    Kapur’s 1998 film Elizabeth gives evidence to how composers use language to construct and perform masculine and feminine aspects of identity‚ investigating its contextual foundations by creating voices and characters to challenge language and gender codes. Language used in Elizabeth with double entendre and metaphor‚ combined with the language constraints of the films context‚ allows for the subtle challenging of established gender roles as a part of identity. Kapur also plays with film devices in

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    Why was war inevitable in Europe in the early 20th century? World War 1 was Inevitable in many ways. The key word in this question is "Inevitable’’. My Oxford Dictionary defines Inevitable as unavoidable and unpreventable. Could have World War 1 been avoid? I think not! There wasn’t just one reason as to why World War one happened but a number of things. This is why I agree that World War 1 was Inevitable. The assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the main reasons for the

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    Elizabeth Bishop

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    Elizabeth Bishop There are many fantastic poets out there today and there were many in the past. One of these many great poets is Elizabeth Bishop. She started writing poems in 1946 and stopped in 1979. Her poems were very imaginative yet serious and sophisticated at the same time. Each poet has their own way to write‚ and this is hers. Elizabeth Bishop was born on February 8‚ 1911 in Worcester‚ Massachusetts. Only a few months after Bishop was born‚ her father passed away and because of this

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    Elizabeth Cochran

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    Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born on May 5‚ 1864 in the small Pennsylvanian town of Cochran’s Mills. The town was founded after her father who was the town judge and also a prominent land owner. When Elizabeth was just six years old she lost her father so she pledged that she would go to school to be able to help out with finances because her mom was now a single mother. Her plans were cut short due to her mother moving the family to Pittsburgh and ran a boarding house with her mom. In the early

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    Elizabeth Keckley

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    English 248 12 December 2009 Elizabeth Keckley: Is She a Pioneer of Womanism? Keckley was born a slave in Virginia. She was an excellent seamstress and dressmaker. Using her skill and contacts she bought her freedom in 1855. After she was freed‚ she made her way to Washington‚ D.C. Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907)‚ seamstress and dressmaker to the wives of many political movers and shakers of that day. Her client list included Varina Davis‚ of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and

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    (New) Hammurabi’s code: was it just Hammurabi‚ the king of the small city-state of Babylon‚ ruled for 42 years making 282 laws being written in cuneiform. Together‚ these 282 laws carved onto a large stone‚ make up what has come to be known as Hammurabi’s code. Hammurabi’s code was not just because some of the laws were not only greatly exaggerated towards those accused of crimes‚ but also the consequences of the suggested crimes were unfair and cruel when viewed through the 21st century perspective

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    Elizabeth Loftus

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    learn about males who have contributed to the growth of psychology. Some examples of men we study in beginners psychology are E.G Boring‚ Robert I. Watson and of course Sigmund Freud. There is little mention of females who have contributed to psychology. Why is it that females are not really mentioned in the history of psychology? Females have contributed to the growth of psychology just as men have. A woman that has spent her whole life trying to understand memory is Elizabeth Loftus. We will begin

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