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    Old immigrants, such as the British, are settlers that came to the Americas, mostly from western and northern Europe, mostly from England and English territories. Firstly, old immigration they came to the Americas as families or groups and were literate and skilled. Moreover, old British immigrants came to the Americas for a wide variety of reasons such as political, social, and economic reasonings. The political reasoning would be because they would have freedoms. Socially they would have their…

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    Is Race Still an Issue in America? A Race is defined as a group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution. (thefreedictionary) The word race derived from the late old northern English word “ras” which meant current. The idea of races has existed centuries ago, but it was not obvious until the 19th century in which racial division in America had been systematically made. Social Darwinism was an idea of Darwin 's Theory of…

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    two poems from Rossetti were published in the Athenaeum, an English Literary Magazine published in London from 1828 to 1921. Despite suffering from multiple illness’ in the last couple decades of her life she continued producing work, be that fiction and non-fiction. Even after her death Rossetti still managed to impact modern day authors in Britain. Her work is to have said influenced Elizabeth Jennings…

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    meaning assumedly takes place in the case of each theatre experience, in the actual. Confrontation between a theatre performance and onlooker. (Rozik,E. 2008). Through that time, the theatre of the black is the place to discover talents of people and critics of their abilities to create new genre through lifetime, the theatre as a critical venue for affecting and effecting black cultural politics. Thus the black society controlled theatre to articulate a distinct…

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    Although the phenomenon of Dialect Levelling does not centre its attention on people we can say that it is correlated to the phenomenon of accommodation theory. Dialect Levelling occurs when the differences between regional varieties of two languages over time are reduced. This causes the disappearance of distinctive features while new features that emerge are adopted by speakers over the regional area. So this phenomenon focuses mainly on the variation between two languages of specific areas.…

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    utilitarianism in 1812, as a “defined utility as the aggregate pleasure after deducting suffering of all involved in any action,” or in simpler terms, the most good for the most amount of people, serving to maximize pleasures and/or minimize suffering. How did a moral based principle created by a social reformer, less than a century later, not only root but also advocate for greatest crime against humanity: genocide? Genocide represents an aspect of theoretician murder that is integrated in…

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    Throughout history, the search for the Northwest Passage brought many explorers to the Canadian Arctic. The English seaman, Martin Frobisher, was the first explorer to make this journey. In 1576, he arrived on Baffin Island, part of the modern day territory of Nunavut. After arriving in the arctic, he made contact with a group of Inuit. Due to their isolation, this is one of the first contacts the Inuit had made with outsiders. Of course, as word of the Northwest Passage spread, a large number…

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    engaging things will cause the students to become on excited and take longer to settle down. Another negative, was the distinction between what is appropriate, and what is not. One of the inappropriate pop culture ideas was the Kardashians, who encourage people to be judgemental and are bad role models. Wedding shows on T.V. were also discussed, and how they encourage splurging on weddings or else being shamed. However, the discussion slowly led into another direction, it soon became a positive…

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    someone who greatly propelled theater, and he had many successful plays in this era. Before theaters were built, actors performed plays in certain people’s houses. The plays also made people enjoy life more and some of the plays gave them some laughs. Playwrights, the location of the performances, and the way theater made people feel is what made the theater so entertaining in this time period. Playwrights made theater a quality place to be around. They wrote many great plays that had…

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    John locke There were many philosophers in the 17th century but one, stands out as one of the most Influential of the enlightenment thinkers. His name was John locke, He is one of the great influential minds of the enlightenment period of western civilization. He was also known as the father of liberalism. In adition to being the father of liberalism he was also a co-founder of the social contract theory. The English philosopher and political theorist John Locke born in 1632 and died…

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