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    during the 19th Century? The 19th Century was a time of mass change across the European map‚ both industrially and socially. The situation of women differed from country to country‚ yet the emergence of new ideas‚ revolutionaries and socialists allowed women to progress in society. Gaining vital freedoms and responsibilities which they had not experienced in the previous Centuries. However‚ this does not necessarily mean that the status of all women improved in 19th Century society. Social

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    India becoming the commercial and cultural capital of the nation and one of the most populous cities in the world. Although the islands were inhabited by humans since the Stone Age‚ the city was founded by Portuguese and British colonists in the 17th century. The city was named Bombay by the Portuguese and it served as the city’s official name until 1995‚ when it was changed to Mumbai‚ and both names are popularly and commonly used. Its inhabitants are informally known as Bombayites or Mumbaikars.

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    Question #2 pg. 25 The working conditions for women in the late 19th century were exhausting‚ unjust and unacceptable. The working conditions varied depending on the position that each woman held. The managers of these factories expected near perfection from the women in the workplace and they were heavily fined or severely punished for anything they did that the managers did not see fit such as eating‚ talking‚ or singing. The women that worked in the factories during this time period worked

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    Customer expectation in the 21st century has changed radically from what it used to be. The advent of the internet and indeed social media has revolutionized the entire feedback process for organizations. Customers now feel a great sense of empowerment since they can easily take to the internet or any social media platform e.g. twitter‚ facebook to either commend a service/product or to complain about poor service/product. When a company fails to deliver the customer experience a customer expects

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    Entertainment of the 16th and 17th Century: Elizabethan Theater Elizabethan Theater was a main source of entertainment from about 1576 to the late 1640s. The most popular description for this time period’s style of acting is exaggerated‚ actors had to exaggerate their parts for the audience to become attached and interested. There are many different types of plays and arts that influenced the Elizabethan theater’s style. As for its popularity that was mostly due to the Queen who was a big

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    Japanese Isolation Japanese culture from the mid-17th century continuing until the late 19th century experienced immense isolation as a nation induced by the ruling Shogun. This odd choice of action originated from the Portuguese introducing western Christianity to the general population of Japan. Once introduced Christian ideology spread rapidly throughout the country‚ sparking fear into the ruling Shogun concerned with their firm grip over the population. This anxiety led the ruling Shogun to

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    Beauty in the eye of the beholder! Cultures in the 21st century- • African Culture • Maori Culture • Eskimo/Inuit Culture African culture in the 21st century- • In the African culture the ladies wore bright coloured clothes with a piece of patterned fabric wrapped around the head. If they didn’t have a piece of fabric wrapped around their head they had dangling beads around their forehead. • In African culture women were thought to be beautiful if they had the bright colours men thought

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    themselves. Social classes are also very much prominent in the era. These social classes influenced the fashion of the Elizabethan era. This is shown in men’s and women’s clothes‚ shoes‚ hats‚ and accessories in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (Whitmore‚ Deanne) In the 1500’s men’s clothing was generally black in color because it went with everything and was the “in” color. Silk doublets and velvet mantles with slashed and puffed sleeves were what your average man would wear up

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    Women ’s education and potential for learning evolved from the Renaissance to the early 18th century. During the Renaissance‚ the Reformation‚ and the 17th and early 18th centuries‚ women ’s education slowly increased from period to period. The Renaissance was a period in time where women were taught to how to govern a household‚ encouraged to abstain from sexual relations‚ and how to conduct herself in the social class into which her marriage would place her. Women were not supposed to attend

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    The Importance of the 20th Century Literature The dawning of a new century marked a distinct change in the style and subjects of literature. Rural‚ agrarian lifestyles were fast becoming a thing of the past as industrialization made factory work the norm‚ and many people began to feel isolated despite living in big cities. Writers who identified as “modernists” reflected this new sense of isolation and displacement in their works. The entire Western world was also deeply affected by the devastation

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