Civil War and Reconstruction Period The Civil War is recorded as the bitterest war in American history. Many historians have regarded this war as a “brothers’ war” since it involved two states. It has also been termed as “War of Northern Aggression”. Till today, strong feelings about the causes, background, and meaning of the Civil War continue. During the war, more than 600,000 Americans died while another 400,000 suffered serious wounds that have never healed in the minds of many people. By the time the Civil War was ending, the South was left in complete misery. Essentially, the region was in a state of political upheaval, social disorder, and economic instability (American Express, 2004). The strategy of the Union during the war destroyed the economic progress of the South, their plantation, crops, and entire cities. Consequently, the slaves run to the Union for refuge. The inflation becomes severe and many southerners starved to death due to the high cost of living. In the era reconstruction, radical republicans imposed harsher regulations on the southerners. However, President Lincoln made some plans to…

The Post War Period In 1861, the United States experienced the greatest crisis in that time. The crisis was fueled by increased influences of unseen forces which widened the differences between the north and south socially, economically and economically.  While the northern had embraced commerce and industrialization, the south’s investment was mainly in agriculture. Following the election of president Abraham Lincoln of republican party in 1860, 11 southern states seceded from the federal union due to disagreements on the policies enacted by the new president, especially on the issue of slavery (Goodale, 2007). This gave rise to sharp differences and translated into the American civil war, claiming the lives of many Americans. Four years later, the southern and northern states still exhibited significant social and cultural differences. There were significant similarities in the post-civil war era in the southern and northern states.  In both areas, the citizens attempted to rebuild their damaged social and economic systems by the civil war.  The outcomes of the war had been the loss of many lives of many Americans from both sides and paralyzed…

12.3.5  Learning Outcome No 4: Design pavement structure 12.3.5.1           Learning Activities Learning Outcome No 4: Design pavement structure Learning Activities Special Instructions 4.1  Acquire resources in accordance with pavement structure requirements. 4.2  Estimate traffic load as per traffic survey information. 4.3  Determine road/pavement type (rigid and flexible pavement) as per client/developer/financier requirements and nature of the ground.. 4.4  Design pavement structures (sub-grade, sub-base, base, surface) based on traffic engineering analysis outputs and material testing results 4.5  Produce pavement structural drawings as per design outputs 4.6  Develop materials schedules according to design results 4.7  Prepare and present a detailed report and specifications as per the contract document   ·         Case studies Discussions Project Demonstration by trainer Practice by the trainee   .     12.3.5.2           Information Sheet No 12/ Lo 4: Design pavement structure Introduction to learning outcome This learning outcome covers preparation of pavement structural drawings, development of material schedules and preparation and presentation of a detailed report and material specifications.   Definition of key terms Subgrade: The in situ materials or improved ground with imported materials that form the…

Weekly Reflection Paper Take Away From the nursing assignment and theory, I learned the importance of promoting good health among the community and ensuring that the customer needs are satisfied. This is related to Pender’s health promotion model (HPM), which focus on changing unhealthy behaviors and promote healthy ones in order to enhance the health of the patient. Just like the theory and nursing assignments, HPM focuses on improving the health and experience of the patient by satisfying his or her needs. Lesson from Weekly Assignments The interdisciplinary team is essential in ensuring that various activities in healthcare settings are successful. A strong team is made up of members from multiple disciplines, and they can pool their competencies and knowledge and come up with a successful team.  The decision-making process is enhanced when an interdisciplinary team is involved as they provide their insights about various issues before coming up with a common decision. Solving many issues and conflicts in an interdisciplinary team is easy as members have different problem-solving skills. During my clinical, the most outstanding thing is the needs…

Rhetoric Analysis of “Hidden Intellectualism” By Gerald Graff In his article, Hidden Intellectualism, Graff targets college students to inform them about being street smart rather than book smart. He argues that there is a hidden intellectualism that can be found in our everyday society. Graff gives draws attention to the way people can use intellectualism by using real-life examples of other people. Besides, he argues that people have various types of intellectualism, which they need to incorporate into the school like setting to enjoy it. Additionally, he uses his example of intellect in sports during the adolescent stage. He also uses emotional appeals to the audience to drive his point home. Graff also uses pathos to appeal to the emotional appeal of the audience to make them feel sorrowful and sympathetic about the issue. For instance, his statement, “people would rather be socially accepted than to be known as book smart”. He argues this to prove that students are not intellect anymore in society. As a result, Graff wants the audience to feel anger and resonate with what he thinks…

Christian Hypocrisy Douglass’s narrative paints a compelling picture of what it is to be a slave. He was born a slave on colonel Lloyd plantation, suffers without really knowing it, and only meets his mother shortly before she dies. In his narrative, Douglass experience with the white southerners who are quick in condemning slaves on biblical principles violation but still are twisting the scripture into justifying their shocking nonreligious facts. For example, during his time, a white man by the name Mr. Wilson starts a Sabbath school to teach slaves to read the New Testament. However, this reading group is broken violently with a claim that slaves should not read or learn. Masters used Christianity in another version different from religion as an excuse since they treated slaves with cruelty. This further compromises their ability to discerning right from wrong, encouraging them, sink into more reprehensible depths. For an instant, slaveholders sell their children to slavery and male raping the female slaves. ( JACOBS, H., & TANASKOSKI, V. 2014).  His approach as a political activist is significantly valued as survival…

Imperial China An imperial system of governance is where a country grows stronger by taking over smaller, poorer and weaker countries that have useful natural resources. The Chinese imperial government survived up to the early 1900s, precisely, 1912. Sanft (146) presents that, with the seasonal rise and fall of dynasties, China’s civilization was promoted and prospered in times of truce and then reshaped after rebellions and conquests. According to Sanft (147), the Qin Dynasty was the first dynasty to unite China as a country under an emperor instead of a ruling clan. A government was put in place by the Qin dynasty and was later continued by the Han Dynasty. Qin Shi Huang was the founding emperor in China, and he unified China by conquering other warring states. He also centralized the power of the empire after taking the throne and set up a system of laws that governed the empire (Sanft, 148). There followed several dynasties that unified the country until the Quing Dynasty that collapsed in 1912 to pave the way for the modern Republic of China’s era.…

Violin in an Orchestra  An orchestra is a vast collection of musical instruments of a classical type of music that involves instruments from diverse families such as bowed string instruments including violin, viola, cello, and also brass instruments such as trumpet, horn, and trombones. Instruments such as woodwind, persecution, and electrical instruments are also in the composition of an orchestra. Violin is a bowed string instrument that plays a significant role in an orchestra due to its fantastic melody. . The reason for selecting a violin is because of the outstanding role that it plays in an orchestra. A violin gives one the liberty to play any music. Violin has numerous benefits such as bettering the general mental health of the user, enhancement of attention extend, gaining of social skills including communication skills, an improvement on sensory skills such as touching, hearing, and sight, offers career prospects, reduces anxiety, burns calories when playing, and enhances body posture and promote circulation in the body when playing Violin (Holman, 2017). Another reason for selecting this instrument is because violins carry the melody…

Early Childhood Sexual Victimization and Future Adult sex offending Introduction Every year millions of children across the world fall prey to sexual predators to exploit them for different reasons. Some are tourists who take advantage of their situation while others have well-organized structures where they advertise, recruit, market, and sell children for sex (ILO, n.d.). Child sex trafficking, tourism, marriages, and pornography take place in secret, and the government does not have accurate statistics on the prevalence and places where these crimes occur. Children suffer physical, emotional, and psychological pain and do not receive the necessary support afterwards. The pain they harbor within increases their chances of indulging in similar or other violent crimes (Widom & Massey, 2015). In places where culture allows for child marriage, victims may fail to discern ignominy of the practices, and thus, propagate the tradition. This paper addresses various sexual child offenses, the prevalence, effects of victimization, nexus between childhood victimization and similar future offending, and policy recommendations to solve the problem (Ramirez et al., 2015). Part 1 Forms of Child Sexual Victimization Child Pornography…

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