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Civil War Introduction How did it happen that the North won the Civil War, notwithstanding the fact that the South had its own powerful advantages? This paper explores that question using chapters 11, 12, 13 and 14 for reference sources. Background on the Southern economy and politics The South greatly expanded its agricultural industry (the plantation system) between 1800 and 1860, and in doing so became "increasingly unlike the North," the author explains in Chapter 11. The "lower South" relied on cotton (short staple cotton) and the market for all that cotton in New England and in Great Britain made many plantation owners wealthy. Because of the skyrocketing cotton industry, more and more slaves were needed to tend those crops, and some 410,000 slaves were moved from the upper South to the lower South. And yet the South depended economically on the North (which had a booming industrial growth period) and the South did not establish many industries besides cotton to beef up its economy (p. 302). Those landowners with hundreds of slaves and huge cotton plantations controlled the politics; hence, a great deal of political power was in the hands of a few wealthy men. Hence, the lack of industrial strength was a Southern weakness, and the existence of a commercial-industrial culture in the North was its strength.

Recently the small Iowa community of Montrose made history when it hired Lee County's first female chief of police, Wilma Smith.

Science fiction is a term that includes a wide array of speculative fiction and not just, as some people believe, space ships and the like. Much science fiction entails social criticism as well, and two examples are…

Without a doubt, one of most influential and complex political issues of the last several decades is that of the feminist movement, or more precisely, the effect that feminism has had on various areas of politics and…

This paper demonstrates how representation of women through media has changed from the 1960s to the present. The paper takes into consideration how the representation depicts patriarchal bias. The research explores various materials including articles from magazines that portray women, as well as books and television shows. It explores the roles of women in the media.

¶ … Social Issue of Body Image from a Feminist Perspective

The Christian Church has always had strict regulations when concerning matters like abortion. Even with the fact that the Christian Bible contains no information about the practice, many Christians have gotten actively engaged in trying to denounce it as being against God's will. Some branches of the Church are, however, hesitantly willing to accept abortion in particular cases because they acknowledge that one can look at the matter from a series of different perspectives. One of the most divisive problems about the relationship between Christianity and abortion relates to how the latter can be associated with the gravest sin when considering things from the religious ideology's point of view: murder.

Comparing Men and Women's Perception of Physical Attraction and Gender

Recently, scholars have focused on the study of gender roles in numerous aspects of contemporary society. Some of this research has concentrated on the way gender roles in leadership and management have changed, some to…

The purpose of this project will be an examination of how culture affects women of Chicana descent and how one's cultural upbringing impacts sexuality and sense of self-worth. Chicana women face unique hardships when it…