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    The First Industrial Revolution started prior to the 18th century in the 1700’s. The prior events that started up the industrial revolution began with some innovations that were very basic, but are key to the rise of the revolution. These were small hand tools, which had been created to work on houses/barns, live stalk, and so on. The most basic machines were invented in this time too, but giving the time for a revolution to appear through these new ideas that had been created. The first Industrial

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    Voting is a key aspect involved in the function of a democracy in a country, a democracy being a system chosen by the population it governs. Usually the voting population would choose to elect someone as their representative, such as a political party. The victory of the vote usually depends on the majority vote of those participating. In most countries, those under the age of eighteen do not get to vote based on the laws that stand within that population. Suffrage is another word for the ‘right

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    # Media Perception, Blair, Cameron, and their first 100 days. Personal Project Prologue In his second inaugural speech, delivered on the 8th of May, 2015, David Cameron expressed his sentiment of the achievements his government has made in his first term as prime minister. "When I stood here five years ago, our country was in the grip of an economic crisis. Five years on, Britain is so much stronger. But the real opportunities lie ahead.” His achievements may have been remarkable but my question

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    blow against the Federals. He decided to lead his already weary army through a march in a winter night. As they marched through the night, many more of Van Dorn's men fell out of ranks from exhaustion. By the morning of March 7, they had reached Telegraph road, their goal. From this position they could catch the Federals by surprise and force them to surrender (Civil). The Federals, however, had learned of the Confederate's movements from their patrols. On Pea Ridge, they

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    Derrall Pitre English 1002-001X Dr. L. F. Smith 11 Apr. 2016 Historical Content of the “Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is about Louise Mallard’s reaction to her husband’s death and how she changes her feelings through the course of one hour. Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart problems. She is overwhelmed to find out her husband, Brently Mallard, is dead after a railroad accident. She finds out about the railroad accident through a telegram the newspaper office received

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    Journalism has come a long way since its early time, but has remained the same fundamentally. This essay will explain the different types of eras in reporting the news, starting from the colonial era all the way to what is currently called the modern era of reporting. This will also define the terms of the Penny Press, Jazz journalism, Yellow journalism, and Muckraking to its specific era. In 1690, Benjamin Harris published the first American newspaper. Freedom of press wasn’t exactly in style at

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    Drugs In Sports In sports, many of the Olympic winners have been found in taking drugs to gain advantage from other participants with would help them to perform better in their competition. Drugs come in different form, e.g. pills, injection or powder. The participants who take drugs only think that the drugs will only give them positive results, but they don’t think what are the after results and what happened if they got caught. Some athletes don’t even know that they are taking drugs because

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    The American Civil War is the bloodiest battle in history. This war was fought between the North and the South. Ever since the Missouri Compromise of 1820 that’s when the America was divided between the North and the South. The North being free states, which means no slavery. The South being slave starts, which means slavery. The North and the South was divided by 11 states each. Tensions started between the North and the South between both of the Missouri Compromises. One being in 1820. The other

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    Russian Princess Sofka Skipwith, formally Sofka Dolgorouky, was a hero to Polish Jews everywhere during the Holocaust. Although she was a rich and royal princess, she had a heart of pure gold and was full of pure aggression that she put toward her goals. Skipwith was in contact with many people to help her plan help to save the Jews pull through, such as people in France and Japan to help get fake documents for many Jews to get them out of the country. Sofka Skipwith was born in 1907 in St. Petersburg

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    and it allowed them to grieve with the rest of the United States. Another way that wireless affected people was communication. Wireless allowed people to communicate over long distances, so people were able to share information without wires and telegraph stations, and in places that couldn't have wires. This proved itself as very helpful in the case of the

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