Reno, many other individuals in high power places also believe that the ever increasing amount of violence in syndication has its effects upon what young people will do. ... Littleton, Colorado was devastated when events in Columbine High School left twenty-three people wounded and fifteen people dead, including the two supposedly "unstable- gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. ... Some controls are being enforced by some libraries, yet not many place it on a high enough level (Carvajal 529-531). ... Most everyone knows of the on-going violence plaguing the Middle-East. ... However, games ce...

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The Black Death was a plague which caused devastating deaths and hugely impacted Middle Ages life in Scotland and in Europe. This plague caused devastating loss of people and of livestock and it reoccurred in four main stages throughout the Middle Ages. ... The plague was highly contagious and had a knock out effect throughout Europe and Scotland, as it was spread through the high concentration of fleas and rats during the Medieval period. ... The Black Death had heavily impacted family life in the Middle Ages. ... All of these points were all contributing parts of the Black Death epidemic whi...

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The Gothic age was a time of overwhelming change in the area of architecture. ... Italian Renaissance writers originally used the word gothic as a derogatory term for all architects and artists in the middle ages, which were compared to the works of the barbarian Goths. ... The aisles were as high as the choir, and some daringly tall windows were possible. ... The one hundred fifty foot high choir of Cologne Cathedral represents Germany's style best. ... Spain was also a little late going into the gothic period mainly because it remained in a state of political disunity throughout the...

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The concept of feudalism has dominated much of the research and study of Europe during the Middle Ages. ... By the High Middle Ages (about 1000 C.E.), much of Europe had developed a variation of this system of feudalism. ...

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The first account of dancing known to man came from the ancient civilizations of the Middle East, India, the Americas, Africa, and Australia. ... During the Middle Ages, which took place in Europe during A.D. 500-1300, the Catholic Church considered dance to be the work of the devil since it was associated with most pagan rituals. ... Haute danse, high dance, was the complete opposite. ... When she reached the age of fourteen, she wedded the duke of Orléans who was later crowned King Henry II of France. ... As the Sun King aged, he grew thicker' and put his performing to a halt. ...

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The medieval times ruled for some nine hundred years, encompassing the Dark Ages and the black plague. Following the ecclesiastically ordered medieval ages, came the bright colorful Renaissance time period. ... The faces are solemn and lack emotion, representing the people of these dark ages. ... Art evolved into great colorful works from the time of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. ... Late style of the Renaissance, called Mannerism, was characterized by sophistication, complexity, and novelty rather than the harmony and clarity of the high renaissance. ...

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"Infants of four and five years of age, many of them girls, pretty and still soft and timid; entrusted with the fulfillment of responsible duties, the very nature of which entails on them the necessary of being the earliest to enter the mine and the latest to leave it" (Sybil). ... Also, a small middle class would only mean an increase in controversies between the poor and the rich based on their rights. Of course, a high growth rate and over urbanization of a population is problem with limited space. ... It came a time where the middle class fled to the inter city away from the fact...

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Subsequent to the Middle Ages, populations in Western Europe began developing technology that enhanced their ability to generate products and which led to significantly higher standards of living than populations elsewhere on the planet. ... As late as the 1880s, however, 2 percent of the population of China consumed more than 24 percent of the national product, a statistic which indicates the high level of poverty endured by the very poor (Jones 4). ... Marriages were delayed, with some never marrying at all, and childbirth took place at later ages. ... There was a good waterway system in the...

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The Napoleonic age was no exception. ... Every appeal court district was to have a lycee (high school), and they were to be completely supported and controlled by the state. ... "The principle of equality of opportunity was honored by the possibility of obtaining scholarships to the lycees; but as late as 1814 there were in France only thirty-six lycees with nine thousand pupils, most of them from middle and upper classes. ...

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At the same time, "some advanced and emerging market states - including key European and Asian allies - will be forced to reexamine longstanding political, social, and cultural precepts as they attempt to overcome the challenges of rapidly aging populations and declining workforce cohorts. ... Upon further research I have found that the US Defense Intelligence Agency further agrees, for their key concerns are that of: a terrorist attack, worsening conditions in the Middle East, dramatic changes on the Korean penninsula, an expanded military conflict between India and Pakastan over Kashmir, con...

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