people. According to a post of Nardinelli (n.d)‚ there was an argument on the time when living condition were improved. “The pessimists claim no marked improvement in standards of living until the 1840s or 1850s. Most optimists‚ by contrast‚ believe that living standards were rising by the 1810s or 1820s‚ or even earlier.” No matter stance was correct‚ the labourers used to live in low condition. In The Condition of the Working Class in England Engels‚ Friedrich (1892). The Condition
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During the first half of the 19th century‚ women’s roles in society evolved in the areas of occupational‚ moral‚ and social reform. Through efforts such as factory movements‚ social reform‚ and women’s rights‚ their aims were realized and foundations for further reform were established. The occupational standings of women evolved in the first half of the nineteenth century. A new system of recruitment‚ the Lowell-Waltham system‚ emerged in Massachusetts. This new factory system brought in young
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invented in Babylonia‚ then popularized in China‚ the Abacus is an ancient computing device constructed of sliding beads on small wooden rods‚ strung on a wooden frame. You could call the Abacus as the first Calculator. THE MECHANICAL AGE: 1450 – 1840 1. The first Information Explosion. Johann Gutenberg ( Mainz‚ Germany; c.
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Government to establish a colony in Delaware • In 1655‚ the colony was lost to the Dutch. • During the colonial era (1680-1776) most of the immigrants came from Northern Europe. • In the mid-1840s‚ Swedish migration began and continued up to World War I. • During this wave (1820-1890: “old immigration”) immigrants from Germany and Ireland came to the U.S‚ as well as groups‚ from England‚ the Netherlands‚ Spain‚ Italy‚ the Scandinavian countries‚ and Eastern Europe. • In a third
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Chayamon Sanmueang 2750922 chayamon.sanmueang@griffithuni.edu.au The Romantic Imagination (2103 QCM) Semester 2‚ 2012 Convenor – Mr.Stephen Emmerson The role of women in the musical life of the 19th century. Due: 4 October 2012 The 19th century was an era of change. There were lots of progression in technology‚ science‚ and philosophy that gradually turned European society away from the past centuries. Women’s status in the 19th century Europe also changed. Many of the 19th century women
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music. Casper David Friedrich Casper David Friedrich‚ September 5‚ 1774- May 7‚ 1840 was a painter and a draughtsman‚ and painted landscape with silhouetted figures. The Wreck of Hope or The Sea of Ice is an art work created by Casper David Friedrich using oil on canvas in 1823-1824. This artwork depicts a ship wreck in the middle of broken ice-sheets founded by William Edward Parry on an early expedition in 1819-1820(the ship is noticeable from the right). Casper Friedrich painted this image with
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History Of The Piano The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence‚ Italy. When he built his first piano is not entirely clear‚ but Franceso Mannucci wrote in his diary that Cristofori was working on an "arcicembal che fa il piano e il forte" ("harpsichord that plays both softly and loudly") as early as 1698. All of his surviving instruments date from the 1720s. Cristofori built only about 20 pianofortes before he died at age 75 in 1731‚ roughly 21 years after he invented the first
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During the period between 1790 and 1850‚ the United States was rapidly changing. It was now a separate country with its own economy‚ laws‚ and government. The country was learning to live on its own‚ apart from England. There began to appear a rift between North and South. The North believing in the Puritan Merchant role model‚ and the South in the role model of the English Country Squire. The North traded with everyone‚ while the South traded primarily with England. The major crop in the South
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Closely tied to unionization * 1791: Slater’s Mill * Samuel Slater- very successful‚ hired entire families * Families lived in housing owned by factory‚ towns basically run by factory * Factory system and child labor * By 1820‚ ½ nation’s factory workers are children [child labor] * Early beginnings of specialized workers 1800’s * Workers forbidden by law to form unions to increase wages * Still formation of guilds and craft alliances * Laws that
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School System :) Education for all has been one of the grand causes of national progress. Less than a century ago comparatively few of the working folk could read. One of the reasons for the growth of popular education has been the spread of democratic ideas and of the application of industry to science. It began to dawn upon the people how profitable it would be for each inhabitant of a country to be able to communicate with or receive communications from others through ability to read and
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