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Edison Illuminating Company Mr And Mrs
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United States Roosevelt President
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Boxer Rebellion Secret Societies
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Pablo Picasso Picasso Met
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Spanish American War War The United States
1,111 wordsThroughout history, there have been many wars that have been caused by many different reasons. Also, the effects of the wars may greatly impact, good or bad, either side of the fight. One great war in history of the United States was the Spanish-American War of 1898. The Spanish-American War was caused by many things. The war has left a lasting effect of both countries involved, the United States and Spain. Both Spain and the United States were greatly impacted by the war. The Spanish-American W...
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Booker T Washington Du Bois
981 wordsFollowing the smoke of Confederate and Union gunfire emerged the self-reliant and awe-inspiring Booker Taliaferro Washington. As a distinguished black educator, a commanding broker, and an ethical as well as economical constructionist, he stepped up to the podium of civil reform with authority. Life was not easy for young Booker T; from the moment of his delivery on April 5, 1856, he was clamped into bondage. Toiling in the backbreaking salt furnace from the age of ten with his father, whilst pa...
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Political Leaders British Parliament
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American Imperialism Conquering Of The Free World
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Newspaper Reports Forensic Science Techniques
563 wordsThe Ripper murders were conducted against a backdrop of appalling social deprivation and unimaginable poverty amongst the poor of East London. The advent of industrialisation resulted in widespread unemployment and with no social support other than from charities many people could afford neither food nor lodgings for days on end. The employment situation was even worse for women and it is little wonder that many had no alternative but to resort to prostitution as a source of income. The newspape...
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Jane Addams Twentieth Century
1,409 words... the urban poor. His brutal documentation of sweatshops, disease-ridden tenements, and overcrowded schools stirred up public indignation and helped effect significant reform in housing, education, and child-labor laws. Riis lived in poverty in New York City for some time before he found a job with a news bureau in 1873. He became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and the Associated Press in 1877. Horrified by immigrant life, he began a series of exposes on slum conditions on New York...
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Margaret Mead Mental Health
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Booker T Washington Tuskegee Institute
587 wordsBOOKER T. WASHINGTON Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educator of the later 19 th and early 20 th centuries. He also had a major influence on the southern race relations and was the dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Born a slave on a small farm in the Virginia back country, he moved with his family after emancipation to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. After a secondary education at Hampton Institute, he taught...
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Henry Ford Edsel Ford
1,120 wordsHenry Henry Ford HENRY FORD Henry Ford was known for mass producing cars and for the first time the average family had the chance to own one. Henry was born to the name Henry William Ford. His parents William and Mary Litigot Ford were married in 1862 waiting just one year to have Henry as their first born on July 30, 1863 in Springwells Michigan a suburb of Dearborn. His childhood was an average for a farm boy. He went to a couple of different farm schools through out his boyhood. When he was n...
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Nobel Peace Prize Russo Japanese War
1,525 wordsHow Influential Was Theodore Roosevelt In American How Influential Was Theodore Roosevelt In American Politics In The Period 1898 To 1912? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Theodore Roosevelt was the 26 th President of the United States of America. He succeeded McKinley as President, on his assassination in 1901. Roosevelt became? very popular and became famous for tackling business monopolies, initiating the conservation of natural resources, his role in the development of the Panama Canal and his part in th...
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January 1 2000 Y 2 K
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Standard Of Living Relative Poverty
960 wordsCompare and Contrast absolute and relative approaches to the definition and measurement of poverty The term Poverty has many definitions all of which share similar ideas, It is often defined as a state of deprivation relative to those standards of living enjoyed by others within the same society. Terms used to describe poverty may include; Income or consumption poverty, Human under development, Social exclusion, Ill being, Vulnerability, lack of basic needs and relative deprivation. All of the t...
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Solid Waste Didn T
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