Scottish Immigràtion to Novà Scotià during the 19th Century Scottish immigràtion to Novà Scotià in the nineteenth century is àn àspect of this province's history which hàs been shrouded in myth, symbolism, mistàken identities ànd pride. ... For the historiàn looking bàck àt the settlement of Scottish immigrànts in nineteenth century Novà Scotià, the reàl obstàcle is to move beyond àll the ethnic stereotypes ànd to find the reàl people who càme to màke à new life ànd new living on the shores of this province. ...

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Part I: The Emergence of a Popular Women's Consciousness The great thing was women woke up an in18th century. ... "The emergence of a popular woman's consciousness of difference from, and antagonism to, men, developing through four phases of women's religious activity, from the mid eighteenth century through the late nineteenth century." ... In the latter half of the nineteenth century, although women's religious activity began to beyond the way they used to do, they liked a such young baby who could not be independent from the parent. ... The WCTU played a sig...

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In Search for Independence and Self-Fulfillment In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. ... However, the tensions between old and new, traditional and untraditional, were great during the last years of the nineteenth century and there was a debate among male and female writers and social thinkers as to what the role of women should be. ... She is a typical nineteenth century submissive wife and her "What is one to do?" ... For Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, art is wo...

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Families in the Victorian Age were large, but as the century went on family size began to shrink. ... In the latter half of the century, the industrial age came on full bore and created some very rich people. ... The stresses and strains of the industrial nineteenth century brought about a spiritual and emotional retreat to the soothing comforts of hearth and family and a tendency to escape from the harsher realities. Eighteenth-century sentiment was replaced by nineteenth-century sentimentality, as evoked in the following popular verse: "If I should from this world/Depart you'd have a ...

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The feudal system was still widespread in Europe as late as the seventeenth century, but seriously declined in the eighteenth century, except in Russia. ... This ever increasing exploitation of the serfs reduced them by the end of the seventeenth century and had so impoverished serfs that they were forced to give up many of their former and civil rights. ... In the nineteenth century, serfdom dominated rural Russia. ... Many serfs were treated brutally, especially as the economic condition of the serfs declined in Russia during the seventeenth century. ...

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Jerome in the fourth century and St. ... This ideal, known at The Cult of True Womanhood, was presented to women of the nineteenth century by women's magazines, annuals, and religious literature (Welter 151). ... Postwar economic changes in the late nineteenth century resulted in women beginning to work outside the home in increasing numbers. ... The social, economic and political changes that shook the South at the end of the nineteenth century greatly influenced the lives of its women. ... As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the southern lady, long condemned to life on a pede...

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Another example of these great known works is Lady with the Unicorn, which was produced towards the end of the fifteenth century, in the Loire Vally. ... French tapestries in the eighteenth century were elegant and romantic. ... Traditional European tapestry makers were struggling to exist towards the end of the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century saw mainly commissions for civic buildings, hotels, and art galleries. ... Cotton has been used since the nineteenth century; it is less expensive, and provides a smooth luster, and fidelity of color that compares very favorably to wool. ...

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Not until the spread of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century, has man possessed the ability to adversely alter, on a global scale, the geologic and climatic cycles that have existed for millennia. ... Only now are we beginning to comprehend the long-term effects of more than a century of environmental ignorance, neglect, and apathy. ... We have arrived at the threshold of the 21st century where nothing less than a global call to action is necessary. ...

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During the nineteenth century, England was abundant with great novel writers. ... Once the man who inspired her whole fiction career died, Mary stopped writing books and settled in London where she was buried in 1880 as one of the greatest English writers of the Nineteenth century. ... Her strongest point was novels where she is claimed to be one of the greatest English novelists of the nineteenth century. ...

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A Distorted Soul -----Brief Comments on Mr. Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights" "Wuthering Heights" is a famous works written by one of the greatest British poets and novelists ------ Emily Bronte who exerted her utmost effort to finish this works. It is a Romantic novel, ...

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In the late second century BC, an imperial university was established which trained people for government service. ... During the fifth century, the Yamato emperors began to achieve some unification of the clans. ... During the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, a variety of social and economic causes brought the downfall of the Han dynasty. ... (Wang 57) During the second century, Taoism was recognized as the official religion of China for several brief periods. ... Buddhism filtered into China from India and central Asia from the 1st to the 6th century. ...

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In order to do the Lord's work, in the 19th century, European countries divided African lands amongst themselves, exploited their then still undeveloped resources, and enslaved the African people, thus furthering their own commercial interests and expanding their kingdoms. ... Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" depict the 19th century belief that it is the white man's destiny through God to colonize Africa and other under-developed nations. ... These two publications along with a 20th century African charter demonstrate t...

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In the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century, industry in America was growing at an alarming rate. This growth brought about basic changes in the way things were produced and in the lives of those who produced them. It was the Civil War that first started to change industrial landscape ...

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Around 1400, the first Clavichord was built; however, it was the most popular about 3 centuries later during the music of Bach. ... "Though this instrument originated in Italy, it was perfected by English builders in the late seventeenth century" (Grover). ... During the eighteenth century, a double-escapement was introduced by Sebastien Erard in 1821; this allowed fast repetition to be made. ... As early as the sixteenth century, upright designs were already developed for the harpsichord, but it wasn't until the eighteenth century where many builders, especially in Germany, tired to appl...

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Union Development The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed because of the citywide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. ... A powerful reform called Progressivism swept the country in the early years of the twentieth century. ...

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Setting The action takes place in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century on two Louisiana plantations, one called Valmonde, a family name, and the other called L'Abri (French for shelter). ... Themes Racism and Gender Bias Like many other American men of the mid-nineteenth century South, Armand Aubigny bases the worth of a person primarily on his or her race and gender. ...

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To the Chinese, the absorption of the Red River Delta represented the expansion of a superior civilization over people of a primitive culture, a concept of "manifest destiny- not unlike the westward expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century. ... By the eighteenth century, the state of Champa had completely disappeared. ... A similar situation led to the Vietnamese seizure of the rich Mekong Delta from the declining state of Ankgor in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Founded in the seventh century, Ankgor, later to become Cambodia, was for several years the largest and...

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Women scholars of the Hebrew scriptures did not materialize until the late twentieth century. The famous women's suffrage leader, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others attempted in the nineteenth century to get women commentators to explore and explain a woman's perspective on the Bible. ... Another interpretation that was used against women down through the centuries was that Eve was not created in the divine image but only in man's. ... For many centuries women's appeals for equal rights were denied on grounds women were created only as help mates to males. ... This "So...

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The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. ... In other areas of the Pacific, as well as in Latin America, the growing assertiveness of the United States became more and more evident as the century drew to a close. ... At the end of the twentieth century, the canal was no longer essential to U.S. strategic or economic interests. ... Earlier in the century, however, the canal was regarded as a vital national interest. ...

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"Thus we find Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C.E. in Greece seeking to explain the (supposed) superiority of his own people to the peoples of western Asia by arguing that the barren soils of Greece had forced the Greeks to become tougher and more independent- (Appiah 275). ... Slavery alone could have even triggered several battles among the tribes; this occurrence was seen in the Civil War many centuries following the Anglo-Saxon reign. ... Although these responsibilities may not seem atypical in today's culture, these roles are extraordinary when compared to the subservient role ...

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Unfortunately they failed to recognize a non-materialistic wealth i.e. spiritual, cultural and intellectual the Indians had achieved over centuries. ... Unfortunately they failed to recognize a non-materialistic wealth i.e. spiritual, cultural and intellectual the Indians had achieved over centuries. ... Disease has been the number one killer of the North American Indians from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. ...

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The use of federal funds to preserve historic buildings, transformed a flophouse "the once elegant nineteenth century Planters' Hotel at the corner of Queen and Church streets and the site of the eighteenth-century playhouse "with city funds and $350,000 from the WPA. ...

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Over the history of the world, yoga has evolved from a religious practiced by holy men in India and Asia, to become part of mainstream fitness all over the world. While exploring the evolution of yoga, it is important to keep in mind the true sense of it. Yoga is a form of meditation, with or without movement. Sitting in lotus pose with focus on the breath and quieting of the mind is the essence of yoga. A practice focused on unblocking the chakras can facilitate relief from a long list of physical and emotional ailments, including, but not limited to, stress, hypertension and depression. ...

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It has been suggested, however, that African slaves familiar with marijuana as an intoxicant and medicine brought the seeds with them to Brazil even earlier in the sixteenth century. ... At various times in the nineteenth century, large hemp plantations flourished in Mississippi, Georgia, California, South Carolina, Nebraska, and other states, as well as on Staten Island, New York. ...

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As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time, that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation, but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common lan...

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