There's also an evolution of education, which gives more access to women than ever before. ... A commencement speech he gave two months before his death served as a clarion call, asking students to embrace his influential worldview: "I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.... Depending on the families and their wealth, girls would be allowed to sit in on the lessons. ... Usually they were just taught lessons to be wives, mothers, and housekeepers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Large families are traditional and the elderly/grandparents are taken care of buy their children, or grandchildren until they die. ... Priya lived there first fourteen years of her live before moving to the U.S. ...

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I believe I am on this earth because God died for my sins and created me putting me on this earth. ... As Christians we also believe that when we die we either go to heaven or hell depending on how loyal you have been to what the bible says to do and what God wants us to do. ... I live everyday making sure I am doing what he called to me to do and my choices always are determined by if I think God would want me to do that because I want to someday go to heaven and rejoice with my family members that have passed away before me. ... I believe what is worth dying for is my family and some of my c...

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• Grade Level: High School

A suburbanite's nightmare. This was the Bronx. Adversity can lead to futility, or spawn creativity. As history has always shown, society's oppressed adapt, and make the best out of the worst situations. MCing, Grafitti, D-Jaying, and B-boying, were all created in the Bronx. All of these art forms wo...

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• Grade Level: High School

There appears early, too, a strain of religious interest in showing the lessons of history, religious and ethical. ... In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... Motley, and Francis Parkman were followed by such brilliant and questioning men as Henry Adams. 12 The broader i...

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