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    peasants. Dublin was also a city where the vast majority lived in miserable destitution. Catherine was in the first group, being in the wealthy society even though she was catholic gave her many influential experiences. Catherine's father was a wealthy tradesman and Catherine learned from his example to respect and help the poor and the oppressed. However when both parents died, she experienced poverty and deprivation.…

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    Shakespeare as many would say is/was one of the world’s greatest play writers in the history of playwriting. To this very day students memorize his many different poems and reinterpret the words of the text he written. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon a town 100 miles NW of London, He was born April 23, 1564 and sadly died on the same day 52 years later. On the contrary to that Shakespeare father John was a man of many jobs; he was into farming, wood trading, tanning,…

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    In The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Wood explains the life of the Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, and shows how he became one of America’s greatest icons. Also, he gives readers a new understanding of the American Revolution and a profound insight into the emergence of America’s ideas itself (16). Wood also examines the events that caused Franklin’s life and views to change not only himself but American Culture (246). Moreover, individuals today do not know where life will lead…

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    Benjamin Franklin and Gilgamesh are two differing leaders with seemingly different leadership qualities. Franklin, known for his intelligence as an author, politician, and inventor, greatly contrasts Gilgamesh’s attributes as a ruling king of Uruk, and a fierce warrior in battle. Though they have their differences in leadership, they are similar in that their leadership still benefits the people. Franklin shows sacrifice while Gilgamesh shows pride, however, both are courageous and have a strong…

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    He was born into a wealthy family, his father was Aronne Lombroso a tradesman and his mother was Zefori. Coming from a long line of Jewish descent Cesare studied literature,linguistics, and archaeology at the Universities of Padua, Vienna, and Paris. While in the midst of his studies, he changed his career path towards medicine…

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    environmental science as I am currently working on, getting a job with the government and trying to do a little good for our environment during my time in this world. Maybe I take the artistic route after college and train to be a tattoo artist or tradesman, but that is the career side of things. I want to find my calling and I hope that I do one day, but that is something that I believe happens naturally, must be recognized and may not even happen at all. Another thing that I have on my moral…

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    Age Of Reason

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    Age of Reason The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, is the name given to the period in Europe and America during the 1700s when mankind was emerging from centuries of ignorance into a new age enlightened by reason, science, and respect for humanity. People of the Enlightenment period were convinced that human reason could discover the natural laws of the universe and determine the natural rights of mankind; thereby continuing progress in knowledge, technical achievement, and moral…

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    Jewish immigrants were therefore concentrated in the two groups of "no occupation" and "skilled laborers", to which belonged more than four-fifths of the total number. Of laborers (including farm laborers), the Jews, on the other hand, had the smallest proportion (except the Scots), 13.7 %. Contrary to all perception, immigrants asking for assistance form the United Hebrew charities in 1886 was approximately 10% of ; afterwards, only, 5%. The History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United…

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    Black Loyalists

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    During the war the slaves were given “half rations and were forced to work most of the week.” Even when most Blacks were skilled at what they did such as carpentry and blacksmithing after the war, “blacks earned as much as half of what a white tradesman could expect…” With the exception of fishing, no matter what the Blacks did, they would always be of lesser value than anybody. Now that the Blacks received their lower pay and worked countless hours a week, many of them could not provide for…

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    In the Northern colonies, also known as the New England colonies, were mainly fisherman and tradesman. They did not have the soil for large cropping profits, so their options were limited to trade of lumber and what they were able to bring in from the ocean. The Northern colonists were very resourceful not only did they established a strong fishing…

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