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    policing, There are Compelling reasons why law enforcement leaders believe that time has come to alter the police and practice of their organization. These reasons are rooted in the history of policing and police research during the last quarter of a century in the changing nature of communities, in the shifting characteristics of crime and violence that affect these communities Throughout history individuals have been expected to follow the rules of the majority, the demands to control the behavior

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    Antoinette's story begins when she is a young girl in early nineteenth- century Jamaica. The white daughter of ex-slave owners. Five years have passed since her father, Mr. Cosway, reportedly drunk himself to death. As a young girl, Antoinette lives at Coulibri Estate with her widowed mother, Annette, her sickly younger brother, Pierre.Antoinette spends her days in isolation Discontent, however, is rising among the freed blacks, who protest one night outside the house. Bearing torches, they accidentally

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    Prior to unfolding of the events in the 18th century the interlinkages of increasingly global world, stirred agrarian and rural society's. In particular, the families had begun to produce surplus and buying new commodities, which were hitherto, considered luxuries. This era of industrious revolution laid the foundation for the industrial revolution. The trade in this time to Europe was mainly spices from India, silk and porcelain from China and inspite of silver flowing in from Americas kept the

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    Industrial Revolution is sometimes mistaken for a time of complete revolt and sudden change. As Lindemann mentioned in his book A History of Modern Europe from 1815 to the Present in page 45 “industrial change in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century Europe was not sudden, certainly not in the ways that an earthquake or a political revolution are.” One of the biggest reasons why it took so long was because not all the nations had the political and social organizations required to do so,

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    In 1992, the breakup of the Soviet Union, nationalist struggles in the Balkans, the creation of a European community, the emergence of Japan as an economic giant from the 1970s into the 1990s, and the presence of American culture on a global scale all focused attention on the construction and continuity of national identities. Within Great Britain, the loss of empire and receding Protestantism precipitated the re-emergence of Englishness, Scottishness, and Welshness. Historians of Britain began

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    The Cadburys were an ideal example of how a middle class family could succeed during the industrial revolution. In Western England, the Cadbury family owned a small cloth and dry goods store, which flourished because of the industrial revolution. The Cadbury retail store ran by Richard and Elizabeth Cadbury, benefited greatly from the new sources of supply and expanding demand for cloth. This demand was derived from the industrial revolution making materials readily available to the public. The industrial

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    The idea of governess extended until the nineteenth century. The Victorian women, especially the Bronte sisters, Charlotte and Anne, experienced the occupation of a governess. Their impressions were negative because of the poor condition, bad treatment, and low wage of a governess during the Victorian era. According to Gilbert, Anne endured in the governess’s job for six years while Charlotte shortened it to two years. Charlotte wrote in a letter to her sister Emily, “I can now see more clearly than

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    1776-1815, the beginning of America conscious, political identity, creation of values, philosophies shape the American character. It cannot not be denied that the creation of this nation was brought by a mixture of cultures, but the main characteristic have an ideological foundation of America because the situation of the originals colonists. Gleason points out that American Identity, even started off with British roots “because the great majority of Americans shared language, literature, religion

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    Charles Dickens, a most well-known and loved British author of a large number of works that are now classics, was the foremost writer and public celebrity of the nineteenth century, he used his personal experiences and hard times that he lived through as inspiration to write about his stories. During the time of his career in writing, he wrote the well-known and most loved classics, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities

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    Isaac Oraweme POL 2400 Fall 2015 Northeastern University Prof. Florencia Gabriele 11/21/2015 Classical Liberalism – Through The Ages In order to evaluate both concepts of liberalism, we should take in to consideration their historical contexts. Because every political philosophy is the product of a certain time and circumstance and therefore has its limitation(s). Classical Liberalism, which is also known as traditional liberalism, laissez-faire liberalism, or simply liberalism all over the world

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