During the Victorian Age, farmers were one of the leading producers of food. ... The most ethical reason that the good was being sold at such a high price was because it was in high demand. ... Since most the lower division of people during this age had to pay such a high price for food to keep their life, they were unable to produce their own grains and soon saw the extinction of their money. Even though it was the Victorian age, a follow up of the elevating Romantic period, parliament officials and the majority of the voters, which depended on the ownership of land, were ones who could af...

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They mostly consist of white middle class homeowners with a median income of $40,683. ... Only 4% of families with children are below poverty in the town of Cumberland and 22% of the population is under the age of eighteen. 5,135 of those children are enrolled in the widely respected public school system which consists of one high school, two middle schools, and five elementary schools. Cumberland High School provides services for approximately 1,398 students and employs 100 teachers. ... Cumberland High School has an impressive graduation rate of 93% in comparison to Rhode Island's r...

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In George Mowry's "Progressivism: Middle-Class Disillusionment" he thinks that the Progressives were middle-aged, economically well off, white men and women. Simply put, most had a college education and were of the "solid middle class". ... The "solid middle class" reformers saw themselves as the only hope for the society. ... The "solid middle class" had the destiny to show the less fortunate they way to salvation and to better opportunities. ... Compared to the big businessmen the small business owners were against the big business reforms to eli...

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Courtly love is known in general as a romantic and glamorous type of love, which was practised by the members of the courts across Europe during the Middle Age. ... Paris, 460-481).Accordingly, the term was an invention of the Victorian time and had not existed in the Middle Age, which leads to the assumption that the concept of courtly love "had very little to do with the reality of ordinary romantic relationships "in the Middle Age (Porter, 9). ... This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world...

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Courtly love is known in general as a romantic and glamorous type of love, which was practised by the members of the courts across Europe during the Middle Age. ... Paris, 460-481).Accordingly, the term was an invention of the Victorian time and had not existed in the Middle Age, which leads to the assumption that the concept of courtly love "had very little to do with the reality of ordinary romantic relationships "in the Middle Age (Porter, 9). ... This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world...

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The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are considered a time of transition entering the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. ... To avoid this overlap, a distribution of students started, according to their level of knowledge, that with the passage of time resulted in the separation of students by age. ... Over time, the faculties of arts were transformed in schools, thus giving rise to the modern high school. ... And in the sixteenth century, together with elementary schools, high schools existed (Latin) and middle schools (schools and gymnasiums), where teaching had a duration of 8-10 years (for ...

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Iranian Educational system The Iranian education system consists of pre-school, primary, middle, and secondary schools. ... Those who pass the exam proceed to middle school. Middle school covers grades 6 to 8 for children from 12 to 14 years old. ... The secondary school covers grades 9 to 12 for children 15-18 years of age. ... Under the new plan, which was approved in 1990, the secondary education cycle is reduced to three years during which students are required to complete 96 units in order to be awarded the high school Diploma. ...

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This disease has left an estimated 13.4 million African children under the age of fifteen without one or both parents. ... Some factors that contribute to the high rate of AIDS include the high rates of rape in many African countries, the low age of sexual initiation among females, and the age difference between young women and their first male sexual partners who a lot of times are middle-aged men seeking virgins as sexual partners protect themselves from AIDS. When the parents die from AIDS the children are left to tend to themselves, even children as young as the age of four. ... In Afri...

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Statistics show that one in seven children are subjected to bullying behavior and that it affects about five million elementary and junior high students. ... For example, the two students who were involved in the Columbine High School shootings were teased with great cruelty on a daily basis. ... The development of bullying behavior starts in elementary school, with the highest frequency occurring in middle school. ... Children identified as bullies are three times more likely to break the law by age 30. ...

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Although the United States is not the only society that places a high regard on being on time, Americans in particular it would seem have been criticized in the past for being a highly time-oriented people, and some other cultures may not place the same level of importance on being punctual as exists in the United States today. ... As Galatzer-Levy and Cohler (1999) point out, "The central importance of being on time to many middle-aged people is manifest in their relations to their adolescent children. ... For instance, Galatzer-Levy and Cohler add that, "The importance of being on time incre...

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Telus is a service business that has the goal of trying to have relationships with investors and with its customers .In order to satisfy the investors, Telus has made its customers totally unsatisfied .Telus employees have not be satisfied either since they are cought in the middle between management and customers .Just this week the investors have been very pleased with the results of Telus down sizing Telus has several bases for demographic segmentation .Firstly Telus appeals first to its customers age by providing high speed internet service in addition to several phone messaging service...

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During the Middle Ages, convictions of witchcraft required little validity; inquisitors carried out convictions according to The Malleus Maleficarum and therefore millions of people, predominantly women, died in executions. ... The Malleus Maleficarum had a very significant effect on the world during the Middle Ages. ... The number of people burned at the stake is extremely high, and evidence reveals the feminine gender the vast majority. ... Speculation exists which states that execution rates range as high as 10,000 woman executions to one man. ...

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Geologists have collected some 35 species of ancient plant life from the Middle Miocene Aldrich Station Formation; a geologic rock unit dated roughly 13 to 12.5 million years old. ... This microscopic single celled plant lived in the rocks of the middle to late Miocene age, roughly 17 to 5 million yeas ago. ... Temperatures today also show much greater extremes that what is referred to as the moderate middle Miocene days; when freezing conditions were extremely rare and summer highs would range around 85 degrees. ...

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Age-related macular degeneration is the number one cause of vision loss and legal blindness in adults over 60 in the U.S. and it is the fastest-growing form of the several types of macular degeneration. ... Although macular degeneration can occur during middle age, the risk increases as a person gets older. ... Risk factors other than age include smoking, family history, high cholesterol levels and gender. ... Two years ago, the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) researchers showed that you can reduce your risk of advanced age-related macular degeneration by taking high-doses of antioxid...

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Steroids, Illegal or Not, a Quick Fix for Some Athletes Issues of cheating or winning at any cost, are becoming more and more common among athletes of all ages and levels of ability. ... After its initial use in bodybuilding the drug spread like wildfire thought the rest of the sports world, ranging from sports in high school to professional athletes in the Olympic Games. ... It has been estimated that at least 1 in 15 male, high school sports athletes have used steroids, which means more than a half-million high school athletes have used steroids. ... A "NIDA" funded survey of drug abuse...

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English journalist, novelist, famous for his novel VANITY FAIR (1848), a tale of two middle-class London families. ... In Vanity Fair he gave a panoramic picture of high life in England, and created one of the most fascinating immoral female characters, Becky Sharp. ... The snob type, of the man without nobility and fighting hard to conquest if not the title, at least its equivalence, equivalence stated in influence, manners, language, was extremely characteristic for England, after the middle-class revolution, where a rich middle-class, managing the destinies of a country, feels the fascinati...

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The opinions as to the cause of high illiteracy rates amongst children in America are many. ... The importance of electronic technology for success is becoming more evident as students advance from grade school to middle and high school. Many middle and high school curriculums now include coursework that focus specifically on computer applications and programs; and most college coursework now requires the use of at the least a computer or laptop to pass the course. ... Teachers who were originally taught to use traditional teaching styles or who are of a certain age often do not like change an...

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Home and Away is made to appeal to a family audience based on the variety of age groups in the programme. ... This soap opera depicts other family units like Irene Roberts, a middle-aged mother, her adopted sixteen-year-old son Nick Smith who is Jade Sutherland's boyfriend and long time friend Jesse McGregor, former cell mate now personal trainer. Irene is the receptionist at Summerbay High School. ... The content couple Sally Fletcher, Summerbay High history teacher and Flyyn Saunders, doctor at Yabbie Creek Hospital also resides in the bay. ... Home and Away is worth watching overall as...

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The Identification of Birth Order Personality Attributes, views the first born child as the favored birth position followed by the middle, youngest, and only-child positions. ... The favored position, started with first-born middle, youngest, and then only-child positions. ... The middle birth position identified with social able characteristics, thoughtfulness, responsibility, ambition, and independence. ... Subjects were only children aged 13-16 who lived with only one parent whom had no relationship with either sex for the past five years and had no relationship with the other parent. .....

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To make this workshop effective, education on HIV prevention must start at an early age. A sex education program should be applied from elementary school to high school. ... Once entering middle school, there will be an overview of what was learned during middle school (transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases). ... The most important and critical hurdle that will be applied is making condoms obtainable in high school. ...

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The middle child/children is/are speculated to develop these following personality traits: low self-esteem, peacekeeping abilities, independence, as the parents cannot afford to spend a lot of time with the middle child. ... This is because the parents spend even less attention to the youngest child than the middle one, and hence, he/she receives very little discipline, but follows others as the rest of the members of the family boss him/her around. ... Thus, I became a perfectionist in my schoolwork and highly competitive towards my peers in order to gain high grades and my parents approval. ...

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With its temperate climate, touching the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, France stands in the middle of European cultures. France also stands in the middle of the mosaic of European drinking cultures, as a bridge country between the social and cultural habits of Europe. ... There is a strikingly low incidence of coronary heart disease in France, despite an intake of a high-fat diet, which has been attributed to the consumption of wine containing these high levels of polyphenolic compounds, which leads to the theory of the French Paradox. ... Antioxidants from in the red wine were also p...

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Even they lose their jobs, they receive high amount of money which is enough to provide the 16000 people who were suffering from unemployment. The continuation of the impacts of the Great Recession will affect not just the people who are now in prime age, but also the new generation, who will have to work in the future generation. ... According to Pew research, the United States has seen an increasing concentration of wealth to the detriment of the middle class and the poor with the younger generations being especially affected. The middle class dropped from 61% of the population in 1971 to 51...

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1.The Italian Renaissance followed on the heels of the Middle Ages, and was spawned by the birth of the philosophy of humanism, which emphasized the importance of individual achievement in a wide range of fields. ... However, the apex of artistic talent and production came later, during what is known as the High Renaissance, in the form of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michaelangelo, who remain the best known artists of the Renaissance. ...

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Lastly, of those fifty-five percent, some 300,000 to 580,000 die each year due to diseases caused by unhealthy diets and physical inactivity, five times the number of people killed by guns, HIV, and drugs combined (Sason).This is why it is so important to teach children the importance of exercise at an early age. ... In 1991, forty percent of high school students took a daily physical education class; ten years later the proportion dropped to below one-third (Students ). ... The consequences of this burden can be seen in the results of a survey conducted NAPSE, which concludes that "public mi...

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