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    Women of History Since the beginning of time, girls have had less freedoms, and opportunities than men. There is even culture that restrict a woman 's role, to solely focus on children and housework. For thousands of years, it was believed that girls did not need an education, or to be involved in public matters. Plenty of women through history have twisted the norms, gone against gender roles, and left behind impressive legacies. Weather it be ruling an empire, or actively participating on the

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    wasn’t revolutionized during the industrial revolution. The only constant throughout all the aforementioned advancements is the use of scaffolding, from ancient times where sockets in the walls around the Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, the Berlin Foundry Cup depicts scaffolding in ancient Greece (early 5th century BC), the ancient Egyptians, Nubians and Chinese are also recorded as having used scaffolding-like structures to build tall buildings. Early scaffolding was made of wood and secured

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    It is alarming to know that each year there are over 4,500 scaffold injuries and 65 deaths (Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA], 2016). In addition, there is a high risk for construction workers to be struck from objects falling off scaffolds. With these facts in mind, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission’s (OSHRC) 2013 case of the Secretary of Labor v Performance Contracting, Inc. (PCI) raises questions as to why violations of OSHA’s scaffold standards are sometimes

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    Page – 3 BORE HOLE LOG DATA Name of work : SSI for construction of proposed Landfill at Kankakee, IL AE&T Project # 17652 Bore Hole No.1 Date of boring = 12-5-2012 to 13-5-2014 No.of Disturbed samples =10 nos. Depth of boring = 15.00m No. of Undisturbed samples = 4 nos. R.L. at ground surface = 100.00m(assumed) No. of S.P.T. =10 nos. R.L.at termination depth = 85.00m R.L. of water level =98.70m Sl.No. Description of strata Layer Depth Thickness ‘m’ Sampling

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    Libyan Government Case

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    My team and I are defending the Libyan Government in regards to the acts that happened from the early 1970’s to early 90’s. The Gulf of Sidra is 95 nautical miles in length and 237 nautical miles in width. Each side of the gulf belongs to Libya. The capital of Libya is Tripoli and it is located right along the northwest coast of Libya. On October 10th, 1973, Our leader Muammar Gaddafi, established the “Line of Death”. The Line of Death stretches from the west end to the east end of the gulf. What

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    In Ira Berlin’s book, Many Thousands Gone, the main focus is on the transformations that slavery went through from 1619 to 1800. Also, Ira Berlin investigates the ways that slaves and their owners discussed freedom. Meaning that the slaves actions, no matter how powerful the slave owner was, the actions were not in his power. This makes the history of slavery a time of African American failures and successes in strategies. Ira Berlin focuses on the first two centuries of slavery in America in four

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    That is a great thing about this horrible event(s) in history is that slavery have several viewpoints and different definitions. After reading this I hope you have your own viewpoint and/ or definition of slavery. In this one the explanation of Ira Berlins viewpoint. This article explains how slavery was different everywhere around the

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    Presentation: "The role of African-Americans in the abolition of slavery" According to Ira Berlin's essay "The role of African-Americans in the abolition of slavery," despite the role of slavery in causing the American Civil War, Northerners and Southerners alike did not envision slaves having a viable role in fighting for their freedom. However, as the war progressed, it became increasingly clear that slaves could play a role in the conflict to help the Northern side. The Emancipation Proclamation

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    Emancipation of Slavery Many historians have debated over the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, in addition to arguing over who should receive the credit for the freeing of slaves in the Civil War era. Two historians, James M. McPherson and Ira Berlin, respectfully express their contrasting views over these topics in this assignment. While I absolutely agree that the slaves in the Civil War era played a pivotal role in emancipating themselves and securing their civil liberties, it was unequivocally

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    “Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America” is an essay written by Ira Berlin on the history of North American slavery. His main argument in this essay is that when historians tried to explain about slavery they focused on slavery prior to the Civil War. They ignored the fact that the patterns of slavery changes over time (which is how the essay gets it’s title of time and space); the patterns before the Civil War are very different then the patterns

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