In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. Etched by conflict with her prime ministers, the birth of nine children, and the early death of her beloved Prince Albert, Victoria's once pretty face became deeply lined and heavily jowled. Represented as a fairytale teenaged queen at her coronation in 1837, she radiated a youthful enthusiasm that corresponded to the optimism of the earlier 1830s. ... The Industrial Revolution shifted power from the landed aristocracy tow...

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Throughout the ages known as the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom modifications of Egyptian life were subtle and noticeable. ... Earlier Pharaohs had already built enormous burial arrangements and it was Imhotep who designed the Step Pyramid, the first building in history made entirely of dressed stone. ... The Old Kingdom was the age of the great pyramids. ... Middle Kingdom The Middle Kingdom is set from 2050-1800 B.C.E, Dynasties twelve and thirteen. ... The Middle Kingdom is also traceable through its rulers. ...

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Vampires: Folklore Throughout the Ages What, exactly, is a vampire? ... The origin and concept of vampires has puzzled historians and folklorists alike for ages. ... With the advent of television shows such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", fictional horror novels including Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys and the series of vampire novels by Anne Rice, and movies such as "Interview with a Vampire" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula", one would believe that vampire appearances are just as common now as they were in the Middle Ages. ... The Middle Ages: Vampire Lore Develops in Europe and Wester...

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The ancient statues and pottery of the Golden Stone Age of Greece were much advanced in spectacular ways. ... His many affairs with mortals are sometimes explained as the wish of the early Greeks to trace their lineage to the father of the gods. ... Examples are Apollo (Metropolitan Museum), an early work; Strangford Apollo from Límnos (British Museum, London), a much later work; and the Anavyssos Kouros (National Museum, Athens). More of the musculature and skeletal structure is visible in this statue than in earlier works. ... Cyclops, giants with one enormous eye in the middle ...

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The Kurds are located in a large area spread across the Middle East that is often referred to as Kurdistan. ... For example in Turkey, it was illegal until the early 1990's to speak Kurdish anywhere except your house, even now it is strictly monitored and not able to be on the news or taught in schools. ...

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Mimicking the scientists" curiosity, philosophers questioned the basic workings of government and society and in doing so gave rise to the Age of Enlightment. ... The middle-class merchants and farmers resisted paying their taxes, while the poor rioted against these landlords and the insufferable high costs of living that they were subject to. ... A Gary Nash study of tax lists showed that by the early 1770's, the top 5% of Boston's taxpayers controlled 49% of the city's taxable assets. ... Rousseau's concept that government contribution could be justified was neglected thr...

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In the sexually repressed age of Queen Victoria, erotic feelings were often disguised. ... The idea of the damnation of the victim was perhaps the most damaging aspect of the curse of vampirism in past ages. ... In earlier centuries, women who had been raped were often punished harshly for having behaved immorally'. ... Unlike much of the early gothic literature, as in Dracula, The Vampire Lestat is related by the vampire himself. ... The gothic arose in direct opposition to conservative values in respect to emotions, and rebel "against a mechanistic or atomistic view of the world an...

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This type of cancer occurs most frequently in middle-aged and older people; almost all patients are forty-five years old or older. ... It develops sores in the middle that do not heal. ... The occurrence of luekoplakia helps catch the cancer and can result in early treatment. ... Electrodessication can be used if it is at an early stage of the cancer. ... It occurs in middle-aged people with skin types I, II and III. ...

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As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). ... The middle class seems more difficult to define. ... The lack of commonality contributes to the instability of the middle class. ... In times of affluence, some members of the middle class acquire savings. ... He is really a good man as breadwinners go, and it is hard luck for him to be propelled into the room now, when if we had brought him in a few minutes earlier or later he might hav...

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Nose piercing was first recorded in the Middle East aproximately 4,000 years ago, it is mentioned in The Bible in Genesis 24:22 Abraham requested his oldest servant to find a wife for his son Isaac, the servant found Rebekah, and one of the gifts he gave her was a "golden earring" the original Hebrew word used was Shanf, which also translates as "nose-ring". This practice is still followed among the nomadic Berber and Beja tribes of Africa, and the Bedouins of the Middle East, the size of the ring denotes the wealth of the family. ... Nose piercing was bought to India in the 16th Century from...

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"His early experiences with small-town life and genteel poverty sensitized him to the problems that he subsequently dramatized in a number of his plays." ... His early dramatic works were historical and romantic plays and also consisted of some verses. ... Ibsen's early plays were wild concentrating on visions both romantic and poetical of the rebel in search of the truth. ... In his final period, Ibsen returned to "the more mystical subjects of his youth, tempered now by the classical restraint of his middle period." ... He dramatized the conflicts that were...

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An equal approach understands that society is, based on social categories such as gender, race, disability, age, social class, sexuality and religion that will impact on our life experiences. ... United Kingdom is a society which is seen to be diverse; therefore one of the government's initiatives is that everyone has a right to be treated equally regardless, of background gender and age. ... The learning outcomes of children from a "Working class" family home and children within a "Middle class" family home, both classes are different from each other, where middle class families focus on...

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Loftus, (1993) suggested that early childhood memories are greatly influenced by one's amassed, family knowledge. ... This study has been cited as showing evidence for adult memory for events that occurred at the age of two, which is earlier than previous studies suggested. ... This could have contributed to the early age at which events were remembered. ... Some early theories proposed that the failure to remember anything before the age of three was due to an immature nervous system and subsequently, the underdeveloped hippocampus. ... Procedural learning and conditioned learning emerge...

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Loftus, (1993) suggested that early childhood memories are greatly influenced by one's amassed, family knowledge. ... This study has been cited as showing evidence for adult memory for events that occurred at the age of two, which is earlier than previous studies suggested. ... This could have contributed to the early age at which events were remembered. ... Some early theories proposed that the failure to remember anything before the age of three was due to an immature nervous system and subsequently, the underdeveloped hippocampus. ... Procedural learning and conditioned learning emerge...

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Their reputation was that of a respectable, middle-class family. ... They, accordingly, provided to him at a very early age a correct, traditional education. ... From the Latin version of his name, Rembrandt composed the monogram "RHL" that he later used in signing some of his early works. ... Rembrandt's early portraits are often very close in style to the work of Cornelis van der Voort and of Thomas de Keyzer. ... Following Lastman's and Lievens' advice, Rembrandt returned to Leyden when he was not yet twenty years of age to establish himself independently as an artist of no...

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Early anthropologists used ethnography to find out about societies different from their own, such as small "endangered" tribes in far off lands. ... However a researcher could take the middle ground and hold on to the importance of providing a detailed description from first hand experience spent with the students whilst still giving the ethnography a theoretical background on which to develop. ... Personal details about the researcher could be given, including social background, age, ethnicity and education. ... The researcher would need to be able to blend into the background and woul...

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As it was stated earlier, children may begin to be disruptive and cause problems like fighting, vandalism, and other difficult behaviors. ... The sleeper effect most often affects them in late adolescence or early adulthood. ... The Journal of Marriage and The Family says that they encounter the sleeper affect in their late adolescence or early adulthood when they enter their first serious relationship, some of the outcomes of the sleeper include: Depression, sorrow, neediness, a preoccupation with thoughts that their romantic partners are unfaithful. ... The child's age is also an import...

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By the end of the Ice Age, most of these large animals had become extinct. ... The Ice Age, which began about one and a half million years ago, is also called the Pleistocene Epoch. ... The ice sheets, called the Laurentide and the Cordilleran glaciers stretched southward to the middle of the continent, covering most of what is now Canada and the area in the Pacific Northwest from Alaska to Tacoma. On the eastern half of the continent, the ice covered the area to about the middle of where New York is today. ... The climatic change brought about the end of the Ice Age. ...

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It is noteworthy that the time of William Shakespeare was the playwright of the early Renaissance and he was born in the sixteenth century and died in the early seventeenth century and mentions where great importance, the wars that were raised in Back then, the highlight in science, politics, religion, culture and natural disasters. ... Note that Renaissance ideals and values ​​could not come completely detached from the medieval heritage that preceded it, however, the concepts underlying this style architecture is built on the conscious and effective breakdown of the artistic production...

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Basic aspects of the brain's visual capacity have been shown to be innate, such as a newborn baby's ability to recognize the structure of a face, but most are learned during the visual stimulation received during early development" (Haughton 230). History of culture were not as globalized in the early age as they are now and it was creating a specific culture and definition of what truly is beautiful at the specific culture. ... In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korh...

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Some of the oldest and greatest films produced were the silent films from the early 20th century. ... Many early silent films were dramas, romances, slapstick, or comedies. Early masters of cinema during the silent years included Cecil B. ... Their distinctive style helped them excel in the movie-making business during the early 1920's. ... The 1930's and 1940's have been described as "The Golden Age of Motion Pictures". ...

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DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. DARE's origins can be traced to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and a chief of police who helped create a drug education and prevention program he believed was effective. ... Ruth Rich who worked in the early 1980s as a curriculum specialist with the Los Angeles Unified School District. ...

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Recently there have not been as many people getting married at an early age, they are waiting until they are older to get married and are having fewer children once married. ... Working class and middle class are two ways that people characterize themselves in the UK. ... On the other hand, middle class families normally consist of college-educated adults that have white-collar jobs. Most of the middle class families own their own houses in the suburbs close to the city (Ember, 2001, p.2337-2338). ... They are required to stay in school from age five till they reach sixteen years of age....

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Children are the most affected by all the problems poverty may cause, and are more likely to live in poverty compared to the other American age groups. ... There are statistics that show ten to twenty-six percent of homeless preschool aged children had mental illnesses that required medical attention (Bassuk et al, 2014). ... According to APA, children living in poverty are at a greater risk of developing emotional problems compared to children living in the middle or high classes (2015). ... A child living in poverty is under a lot of stress at that age, and that causes him or her to act out...

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What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? ... The explosion of Austrian power in Italy was the main problem which discouraged an early unification of Italy. ... This was of no less significant a factor which discourage early unification. ...

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