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- 3031: Europe 1600-1900
- ... a woman place was that of a mother, a wife, or a daughter. Later in the 17th century and into the early 18th all these previous notions or beliefs would be altered somehow. The Scientific revolution in europe brought people to realize under the guidance of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo that the world was not a still planet orbited by other "perfect" orbs or the sun, but instead it along with ...
- 3032: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... girls (Wilson, 693). Not many people approved of what she did for blacks, but that didn t keep her from doing what she wanted to do. She also resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because the organization refused to allow black singer Marian Anderson to perform in their concert hall. Eleanor had made sacrifices like this to help Negroes get the rights she thought they deserved, and she ...
- 3033: England
- ... population is because they have about 47,505,000 people living there. The numbers speak for themselves. Most of England s population is descendants of the original inhabitants. There are Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Scandinavians, Norman French, Scots, Welsh, and Irish. Now commonwealth immigrants are coming from southern Asia. Since there are so many different kinds of people there has been a lot of fighting between them. England s economy is very ...
- 3034: Egypt 2
- ... used dialect is that of Cairos. The Bedouin dialect is different from the settled residents of the Nile Valley. Some people in desert villages even speak Berber. Many educated Egyptians also speak English or French in addition to Arabic. Egyptian city life is much different than its village life. City residents deal with normal city problems such as housing shortages and traffic. Most of city residents live in poverty, although ...
- 3035: Effectiveness Of The Articles
- ... Articles of Confederation. John Jay (Secretary of Foreign Affairs and great international negotiator), expresses this discontent of the people through a letter of concern to George Washington. He foreshadowed some sort of revolt, crisis, or revolution and expressed his feeling of uneasiness and the need for change. Shays rebellion turned out to be a milestone because it set a need for a new national government, the revolt was against the ...
- 3036: Education History
- ... contributed to the educational problems of today, such as the issue over prayer and bible readings in public schools. Nevertheless, sectarian control over public education was broken by the provision for religious freedom. The Industrial Revolution began in Europe and spread to America a few decades later. One effect of the change from an agricultural to an industrial economy was the demand for schools to train students for the workforce. Vocational ...
- 3037: Effective Reading Comprehensio
- ... in one study that their incentive to read increases and they read more carefully (Sullivan, 1998). There are two sides to the issue of using computers in schools. On the flip side of the "computer revolution" in our schools are those who feel that, although computers can be useful tools, they are not the end in themselves (Ravich, 1998). The author of a recent article in Time magazine stated that students ...
- 3038: Early Colonies
- ... almost immediately Quakers came from all over (not just from England). Due to the immigration of Quakers from other countries, cultural diversity and differences in ethnicity were present. The main cultures that inhabited Pennsylvania were French, English, Dutch, and German. Government was also important in the founding of English colonies in the New World. With each colony, the government and idea of democracy progressed. With a weak and unpredictable government first ...
- 3039: Email What Is It Good For
- ... parents. Not to embarrass them or anything but they are the most narrow minded people I have ever come into contact with, they bring out everything that is wrong with the so-called the "Digital Revolution". I just spend a page describing what's good about E-mail, now I must tell you the bad. People like my parents have this preset image in their minds that E-mail is too ...
- 3040: English Only
- ... World War I, bilingual education was common in areas where nonanglophone groups enjoyed political clout. During the 19th century, state laws, constitutions, and legislative proceedings appeared in languages as diverse as Welsh, Czech, Norwegian, Spanish, French, and of course, German. At other times, Americans have imposed restrictive language policies. California rewrote its state constitution in 1879 to eliminate Spanish language rights. In 1897, Pennsylvania made English proficiency a condition of employment ...
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