Examples of Ganges Plain in the following topics:
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- Different theories explain the Vedic Period, c. 1200 BCE, when Indo-Aryan
people on the Indian subcontinent migrated to the Ganges Plain.
- Foreigners
from the north are believed to have migrated to India and settled in the Indus
Valley and Ganges Plain from 1800-1500 BCE.
- Vedic
Civilization is believed to have been centered in the northwestern parts of the
Indian subcontinent and spread around 1200 to the Ganges Plain, a 255-million
hectare area (630 million acres) of flat, fertile land named after the Ganges
River and covering most of what is now northern and eastern India, eastern
parts of Pakistan, and most of Bangladesh.
- From approximately 1000-500 BCE, the development of iron axes and
ploughs enabled the Indo-Aryans to settle the thick forests on the western
Ganges Plain.
- The Ganges Plain is supported by the Indus and Ganges river systems.
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- By
1800 BCE, the Indus Valley climate grew cooler and drier, and a tectonic event
may have diverted the Ghaggar Hakra river system toward the Ganges Plain.
- The Harappans may have migrated
toward the Ganges basin in the east, where they established villages
and isolated farms.
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- Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for "protection."
- Gangs may become "disciplined" enough to be considered "organized."
- An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob.
- A distinctive gang culture underpins many, but not all, organized groups; this may develop through recruiting strategies, social learning processes in the corrective system experienced by youth, family, or peer involvement in crime, and the coercive actions of criminal authority figures.
- The term "street gang" is commonly used interchangeably with "youth gang", referring to neighborhood or street-based youth groups that meet "gang" criteria.
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- Great Plains Native Americans are well known for their buffalo hide paintings, quillwork, and elaborate beadwork.
- The people of the Great Plains are the indigenous peoples who live on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America.
- During the Plains Village period (ca. 950-1850 CE), tribes included nomadic peoples, such as the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota Sioux, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and Tonkawa.
- Buffalo hide has many uses in Great Plains art.
- Later, items such as coins and glass beads acquired from trading were incorporated into Plains art.
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- In a conflict subculture, youth learn to form gangs as a way to express frustration about the lack of normative opportunity structures in their neighborhood.
- Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior
- In 1960, Cowan and Ohlin published Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs.
- New initiates into the gang will learn how to engage in conflict or gang activities to express frustrations by watching gang leadership.
- Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior.
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- There were two primary types of labor systems seen on plantations: the gang system and the task system.
- The gang system was the more brutal of the two, forcing the slaves to work until the owner said they were finished and allowing them almost no freedom.
- The gang system was much more efficient because it allowed continuous work at the same pace throughout the day, never letting up or slowing down.
- The task system, on the other hand, was less harsh and allowed the slaves more autonomy than the gang system.
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- Wetherington (2005) argues that the plain folk (of Georgia) supported secession in the name of their families, homes, and notions of white liberty.
- During the war, the established patriarchy continued to control the home front and keep it functioning, even though growing numbers of plain folk joined the new wartime poor.
- That is, plain folk soldiers had their own reasons for fighting, apart from those reasons held by the elite.
- During Reconstruction, plain folk viewed freedmen as the greatest affront and most humiliating symbol of Yankee victory.
- However, some plain folk became Republicans (they were called "scalawags").
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- Known as the "Ohio Gang," President Harding and his political associates
caused financial and political scandals in the 1920s.
- Eventually known
as the "Ohio Gang," the financial and political scandals caused by
these men – in addition to Harding's own personal controversies – severely
damaged Harding's personal reputation and eclipsed his presidential
accomplishments.
- Albert
Fall was a member of the so-called Ohio Gang that also included Attorney
General Harry M.
- In addition to involvement in Teapot Dome, the Ohio Gang was believed to have
been behind recurring acts of cronyism and corruption, including storing bootleg
whisky inside the White House.
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- For example, Sudhir Venkatesh's key informant, JT, was the leader of the street gang Venkatesh was studying.
- As the leader of the gang, JT had a privileged vantage point to see, understand, and explain how the gang worked, as well as to introduce Venkatesh to other members.
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- The "Plain Folk of the Old South" were a middling class of white farmers
who occupied a social rung between rich planters and poor whites.
- The "Plain Folk of the Old South" were white subsistence farmers who
occupied a social rung between rich planters and poor whites in the Southern United
States before the Civil War.
- The major challenge to the view of planter dominance came from historian
Frank Lawrence Owsley's book, Plain Folk of the Old South (1949).
- Plain Folk argued that yeoman farmers played a
significant role in Southern society during this era rather than being
sidelined by a dominant aristocratic planter class.
- The religion, language, and
culture of these common people comprised a democratic "Plain Folk"
society.