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    Beckett University e-Assignment cover sheet Student ID no DATE SENT: Module Tutor Simon Morgan Course BA History Module Code Due Date 18/12/2014 Module Title Society And Culture During the Victorian era‚ the opportunity for leisure within society arose due to a number of factors‚ the key three being the amount of free time the Victorians now had‚ the increased flexibility they now had with their money‚ and the decrease of expense of transport. With

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    Beginning with the Three Eras of American Policing American policing began in the middle 1800’s. Policing began to change America with the first era of policing. There are a total of three eras of policing. Each era of policing changed over time and advanced during each era. The first era is called the political era. It lasted from 1840 to 1930. The second era is called the reform era. The reform era lasted from 1930 to 1970. The last era is called the community-problem solving era. It started in 1970

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    “Did late Victorians think of homosexuality primarily as a crime‚ a disease‚ or something else?” The late Victorian era of the nineteenth century‚ has long been synonymously recognised as highly-repressed and morally obsessive. Yet distinct from all preceding eras‚ there lay a fixation in society in the belief that an individual’s sex and sexuality form the most basic core of their identity and indeed of one’s social or political standing‚ and freedom. Though we can acknowledge that the urbanisation

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    Enlightenment era and the Romantic era was a time of progression. Each time period offered its own views on the natural world and religion. The Enlightenment era also known as the Age of Reason showed that observation‚ empiricism‚ and reason were to be the foundation and the terms to which everything was held to. Whereas‚ the Romantic era took a particular emphasis on the individual and sought to combat classism as well as rebellion against social rules; the enlightenment and romantic era were similar

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    Scientific Management Scientific Management was a new form of management that evolved in the late 1800’s that was based on a number of principles that analyzed the activities of individuals‚ which in turn‚ optimized efficiency and productivity. In this essay I will discuss the major advances that were pioneered by Frederick Winslow Taylor‚ Henry Gantt and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. Frederick Winslow Taylor was thought of as the most influential business guru of the twentieth century. (154) Taylor

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    The Filipinos lived in settlements called barangays before the colonization of the Philippines by the Spaniards. As the unit of government‚ a barangay consisted from 30 to 100 families. It was headed by a datu and was independent from the other groups. (The Tagalog word barangay came from the Malay word balangay‚ a boat that transported them to the islands.) Usually‚ several barangays settled near each other to help one another in case of war or any emergency. The position of datu was passed on

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    History has evolved over the last two centuries. In the introduction to Interpretations of American History edited by Francis G. Couvares‚ et al.‚ he states that the transition of the way history was interpreted has only “linked the past more strongly to the present” (Couvares 1). Before‚ historians –mostly white male- used to report only about “male” topics but since then‚ different issues have transformed the way history used to be. Over the last 400 years‚ the four different stages that have reshaped

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    Classical Period (1750-1820) • the year Bach died • "Classical" - Greek/Roman antiquity -many enduring creation or accomplishment -Any music that’s not jazz‚ folk‚ rap‚ rock‚ pop‚ etc. What Classical really is: •Clarity‚ Purity‚ Logical •Age/Time of enlightenment •Value of Reason; Reason is the best guide to human conduct •People believed in progress •People attacked the privileges of aristocrats and the clergy Master Composers: 1. Franz Joseph Haydn >Father of Symphonies

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    written in the classical era‚ but also famous suits for cellos were written‚ such as Cello Suits by Johann Sebastian Bach. I would like to play the cello in the Classical era because of its rich color‚ deep tones‚ and wide variety of sounds. In the Baroque era‚ Antonio Vivaldi composed at least 25 cello concertos and one of them is Cello Concerto in C Major RV 398. It has three movements in the order of allegro‚ largo‚ allegro (IMSLP). Sonata form did not exist in the Baroque era; however‚ the forms

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    within itself. By listening to a composition from each of what are labeled as the four major eras of music‚ the Baroque‚ Classical‚ Romantic and Contemporary‚ one can hear distinguishing differences between the eras. Despite the fact that each representational sample of each era was no longer than ten minutes‚ there are still very prominent differentiating qualities to each era. Given that the Baroque Era was the earliest period of the orchestra and the time when it was first

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