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    From Embodying Ornament to Functional and Aesthetic Space in Early-20th-Century Architecture. "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." Despite the risk of sounding cliché by opening with a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote‚ this is where we shall begin. It is something that relates back to a basic human instinct that is so deeply rooted in our DNA. Why do we yearn so intuitively for ideas that are silly and nonsensical? The answer is balance. Everything in the universe

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    In the 19th century‚ America had a basic economy and small industry. It was also a new country‚ with few customs and traditions. It had not had time to acquire any‚ because it was still so new. America has grown a lot since then‚ and a lot of the steps we have taken to get to today’s bustling economy and immense industry took place in the nineteenth century. Commerce and industry contributed to America’s nineteenth century identity because it provided the framework for a larger economy in the

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    think about the new world‚ they might think why did European sail across the globe to the new world? Why did Chinese‚ for example‚ did not want to sail? The answer to that is Europeans‚ unlike Chinese or any other group of people‚ had two main reasons that made them interested to sail to the new world. Europeans were motivated by their poverty‚ and their motive to convert the world to Christianity. In other words‚ Europeans were motivated by “God‚ gold‚ and glory” (Lesson 1.3). In the new world‚ Europeans

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    What did it mean to be modern in early twentieth century East Asia? In the early 20th century‚ East Asia went through a process of modernisation to cope with the challenges brought by the Western powers. This process of modernisation was characterised by numerous features‚ ranging from military‚ political‚ economic‚ industrial and technological reforms to changes in the legal‚ administration‚ diplomatic as well as education and women. There were long term socio-political and cultural impacts

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    everywhere you turned. The main reason that lynchings were happening were from rapes. Another major event and events that happened that caused a huge decline in the population was all of the mob activities. What would cause such events like these to occur? Why would someone want to do cruel events like raping an innocent women? What would cause someone to do so much as going and causing a mob to happen? Cairo Il used to be a big town that was up and growing.. It used to be a town was a major rail road industry

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    in wagon’s or by horseback which would take hours or even months to get anywhere. This is how life was for American’s in the begin of the Nineteenth Century‚ but by the end of the Nineteenth Century things had changed drastically. The Civil War had finally come to an end‚ and a new era was arriving with promise of a bright future for our nation‚ and it all started with the building of the Rail Road’s. It’s a misconception

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    Both the Black Rights Movement and the Women Rights Movement in America have their roots embedded in the 1800s Abolitionist organizations meaning they had collective members‚ methods‚ and goals. Despite having numerous similarity points‚ the two movements would become fierce rivals in the later stages of the second half of the nineteenth century. This is because throughout the Reconstruction era or rather the Civil War and Antebellum years‚ the two movements cultivated different objectives and methods

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    After Analysis of the poems of William Blake‚ Percy Shelly‚ and William Wordsworth‚ it becomes apparent of the different views the authors have about England in the 19th century. William Blake looks with disdain at the materialism of the churches and political buildings while many live in poverty. William Wordsworth sees the average Englishman as money craving and greedy; to him this greed seems to be the start of spiritual decay that will only get worse as the society progresses economically. Percy

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    Fundamentalism is a religious response to modernity. Although the term is frequently used in a popular context to mean any religious position perceived to be traditional‚ archaic or scripture-bound‚ it has a specific meaning from an historical perspective‚ and a genealogy which has seen the term change from the self-referential description of a particular religious group‚ to a term which may have lost its impact through misplaced‚ and indiscriminate‚ application. Originally used by a specific group

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    They would clean‚ cook‚ and sew everyday. They weren’t paid and it was expected of them. They were almost like slaves. Once they were married they would lose everything. They didn’t have a life that they could control‚ and that’s why things had to change. The nineteenth amendment was such an accomplishment for women because they were treated like slaves and nobodies and people finally recognized them and gave them a voice. Still‚ women were expected to be ladylike. The press would exaggerate and

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